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Currently...

Monday, March 30, 2015

Today I am linking up with Becky From Choose happy for her Currently linkup! 

Enjoying.... I am currently enjoying my newly painted bathroom and front door! The bathroom is a mint green color (which Brenden hates), and we painted the dark brown door and door trim white! I am so happy that we are finally able to take the time and start painting our house! We moved in the week of Thanksgiving and with all of the holidays we wanted to hold of and start working on the house after all the madness settled down! Well that time has finally come and I am LOVING the work that we have done so far! Also with the front door it was dark brown and we painted it white, we wanted to change all the doors and the baseboards in the house to white to brighten up the house so we are starting to slowly get everything done. 



Watching.... Tonight I am watching the season finale of The Walking Dead! I have tried to stay off of social media all last night and tonight so I won't accidently see any spoilers about what happened. I can't believe that this season is over. 

Decorating.... The whole house! We are trying to get our man cave/ basement decorated, we want it to me a military/ U.S.A. theme. I still haven't found anything to really go in there yet. The ceiling was painted two different colors (I honestly think that the previous owner thought they used the same paint but it wasn't). So we painted it white and the dark brown paneling and walls all a light cream/tan color.





Wanting.... THE BEACH! We leave for Florida on Thursday and I cannot wait! It really needs to hurry up! I have no clothes to bring with me so tonight we are going shopping! YAY!





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Diets Suck!

Friday, March 27, 2015

Well first off diets suck! Which I think a good amount of people will agree with me on that! However I did lose 9 pounds in 4 days and that my friends make the whole dieting thing a little better!
How I've done it so far was that I did the Military Diet for three days and now since thats done I am just eating a lot smaller portions and mostly fresh and healthy foods. I try to stay away from frozen/ pre packaged foods. I honestly already feel so much better and have way more energy!

I haven't had the chance to start working out but my goal is to either go to the gym (which I hate doing) or workout at home. A few days ago I purchased an exercise ball and I wanted to try a few at home workouts that I saw on Pinterest.... I'll post them below incase anyone else is interested in them.




That is just a few of my at home workout pins that I have on my Fit and Healthy board. Hope this helps give anyone ideas of things to do at home because if your like me after work you do not feel like going to the gym! 

Is anyone doing anything fun this weekend? I'm not! I am just relaxing at home and being lazy since brenden is at the range all weekend. Hope y'all have a great weekend!

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Wedding Planning Monday

Monday, March 23, 2015

Well since I've actually accomplished a few more things on the wedding to-do list I figured I'd brag since I'm finally able to cross a few things off my list! (About time... I know, I know).

- Yesterday we picked our venue (finally)! It will be at the Wyndham Grand. It has windows along the whole outside wall with such a gorgeous view of a park and the rivers! Our wedding is this December so the park will have white lights on all of the trees! I am so excited to have that view from our reception, it truly is one of a kind!

It's the big gold hotel in the middle.




- Our wedding package comes with a wedding cake from a local bakery, I have not had a chance to meet with them yet but I have a few ideas in mind for our cake. I honestly would like to do one of the foam cakes ( where the cake is foam and they decorate it so you would never know it is not real, but the top keepsake layer is real and a piece of a different layer is real so you can still have the traditional "cutting the cake") but I would like to do the foam cake because I have some individual cakes in mind for our guests.

Has anyone heard of these "foam" cakes before?

These are the cake ideas that I love and the bottom middle 
one is the individual ones I love for our guests.

- Paid and ordered my wedding dress. It won't come in until October. I absolutely love my dress but I do have a story about it. The first day that my family and I went wedding dress shopping my sister picked a dress out for me that was on the mannequin in the front of the store, I refused to try it on for a few reasons, 1) my sister picked it out and we have totally different tastes in everything! 2) it looked ball gown-ish and super poofy! (I DID NOT want poofy!!!) So I did not try it on but the next time I went to look at dresses with  my mom she said "oh just try it on! Since you hate it and refuse to try it on I bet that will be your dress!"..... Well, she was right! When I had it on I fell in love! That is the only dress that I did not question or want to try any other dress on after it!





- I picked out bridesmaid dresses and they will be light gray and my sister's (matron of honour) dress will be a dark red. We are having the place I bought my dress from make them because we want them to look similar to the dress below but that dress does not come in any other color but that blue. (We have seven bridesmaids so we had to find a dress that everyone liked and fit their bodies comfortably)



- Also we just received all of our engagement pictures so we have picked out a few save the date postcards from Shutterfly that we love, so that is the next thing on my to-do list is to preview and order them. We have decided to do post cards due to the expenses of having to purchase envelopes for all of them (we have 450+ people we are inviting, so no thats not how many save the dates I would need but still I will need a decent amount!)


So far that is all that I have done... I have a few more things lined up that I will hopefully be able to cross off my list here soon but may I add that the things I have done now were not done two weeks ago! Geez I still have a lot more to do any have to get it all done for December!! Wish me luck! 


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Starting To Paint! Woohoo!!

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Today we have a friend painting our living room, entry way, office and upstairs hallway, a light gray, while we are at work! Woohoo!! :) Brenden and I really wanted to paint the house on our own but with us working from 8am-5pm (but we never really get done and get home until 8 or 9 normally) and we work Monday through Saturday so the only day we would be able to paint is Sunday and we cannot get a whole house painted in just one day a week, that would take forever!! So we keep getting updated pictures of how the painting is going so I figured I would share them with you until I show you the finished rooms!

Hallway

Office

Entryway/ living room 




Entryway

After the painting is done in these four rooms we are going to paint the master bedroom and bathroom a teal color, paint the door molding, paint or get new doors for the rooms in the upstairs hallway, tear out the carpet and stain and finish the hardwood floors (that are underneath the carpet) a dark brown. Then we want to get new baseboards.

So we have a lot to do still but we are so excited to finally be able to get things done now that the holidays are over and the weather is getting better!
 
Oh! I forgot to mention, the 5 gallon bucket of gray paint we used only cost $6 and some change because Brenden and I had a few gift cards from Christmas that we didn't use yet! That truly made the paint sooo much better! Haha. (Also if your wondering why I purchased so much paint that is because we think we are going to paint most of the upstairs with that color gray and we figured we would have to do multiple coats, however right now it looks good with just one coat of paint?!)

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Catch Up Post- Stuffed Banana Peppers

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

I have been so busy with work and the house I haven't had time to post anything! :(  So I figured I'd post a recipe!

I made home made stuffed banana peppers last week and they were so good but very hot! I made five total and we could only eat one each! But here's a quick and shortened version of how I made them: 

-Pre heat the oven to 425degrees. 

-5 banana peppers (you can use as many peppers as you want), cut the tops off and used a spoon to get the seeds out. 


- 1pound of hot sausage ground up, not in the casing. 

- stuff the banana peppers with the sausage (I found it easier to cut a small line down the pepper so I could put the meat into it with less hassle).

-Place stuffed peppers in a oven safe dish.

- Add as much spaghetti sauce as you would like (i use traditional Ragu and I put a little under the peppers and enough on top to cover the peppers completely). 



-Cover with aluminum foil and place into the oven for 45 minutes (cooking time varies due to how soft you want your peppers to be, I like mine super tender so i normally take them out, sprinkle grated Parmesan cheese over them and cook them for another 5 minutes). 

***please note that when handling the hot sausage and peppers when preparing you might want to wear gloves due to them being hot***


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I am an addict.

Saturday, March 14, 2015

I went to class, participated and did all my homework that was required, and got good grades. I didn't show my struggles or anxiety with the class. I tried to be as "normal" as I could be. I didn't want anyone to see the pain, sickness, and fear in my eyes. But...


I am an addict. 

I went to work and gave it my all, not letting MY problems get in the way. I answered phones and greeted customers cheerfully, ran the business as best as I could when the owners were away. But...

I am an addict. 

I went to family functions and friends houses smiling, like I was the happiest person there, trying not to lead on that I was depressed, anxious, and mad at myself and the world. Mad because...

I am an addict. 

Then, I started going to class struggling to focus and not be sick so I could go and get high as soon as we were dismissed. Many times I decided that getting high was better than even going to class at all.  I chose these things all because...

I am an addict. 

I went to work not being able to function without getting high first. Everything I did at work was either incomplete or wrong. When I "thought" I did it all correctly. All of this happened because...

I am an addict. 

My family and friends would invite me to come over and I would never show because the "boy" was more important. I missed holidays, birthdays and any gathering including weekly family dinners. If I did attend Im sure they wish I hadn't because I wouldn't be able to stay awake or keep my eyes open, couldn't carry a conversation and I would leave as soon as I got the change. Stressed from having to act like I wasn't high and having to hide my tracks on my arms. I disappointed everyone, including myself because...

I am an addict. 

I dropped out of college, stopped showing up to work, and left my family and friends always wondering where I was because I was never around until I needed something, mainly money. I never thought anything was wrong, all because...

I am an addict. 

I got arrested because of my love affair with "boy" and I unwillingly went to rehab. Determined to still continue my love affair until I wanted to be done, not when someone else told me I had to be; because...

I am an addict. 

My love/ hate relationship with "boy" came to an end when I one day woke up in rehab and realized how great I felt and that was all because I was sober. I graduated rehab, got my job back, fell in love with an amazing man and I couldn't be happier! Life will always be a struggle and there will never be a time that I can completely let my guard down. There will be moments that I am happy, sad, confused, stressed, or just bored and I will want "boy" again. But that will always be an ongoing battle that I am willing to fight so I can remain sober. But that is never going to change that,

I am (and ALWAYS WILL BE) an addict.


-Courtney 

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February 2015 Insta-Recap!

Monday, March 2, 2015




Hey ya'll I am going to do a recap of the month with my instagram photos! If your not following me on Instagram, now ya should. ;) Haha! Anyways here are some photos and some comments about them!

Enjoy!
Our engagement photo shoot was February 1st and he sent us one picture later that night!




Both of these were taken at the Garth Brooks concert on February 5th. We had so much fun! We were afraid our seats weren't going to be that great but they ended up being just fine!


Selfie time! ;)
On February 10th Brenden surprised me with Sleeping With Sirens and Pierce The Veil concert tickets (for an early Valentines Day gift) and it really was an amazing night.



Valentines Day flowers from my daddy! (Brenden knows not to get me flowers because its a tradition that my dad does).


Being silly at JoAnn Fabrics on February 16th.


And again at Hobby Lobby



We got a couple more of our engagement pictures on the 25th. Also we got a like to the website that has more of our pictures on it! Here's the link!


When I walked into the living room I saw Brenden and Maci taking a nap and I had to take a picture of it! It looks like shes holding him! 

We got to spend the day with my cousins Saturday and Brenden got to hold Nina for the first time! He was a little nervous at first but then he was comfortable with her.

Okay this one's kinda cheating because I posted it today but I had my St. Patty's day stuff up since February 14th just didn't take pictures of it until now... 


How was your February?

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