What I’m Loving Wednesday

January 12, 2011 By ashleylately 16 Comments

It’s Wednesday!

Here’s what I’m loving this week!

I’m loving that we have Monday off work for MLK day! Who doesn’t love a short week?

I’m loving this sweater I got from American Eagle over the weekend!

I don’t really shop in American Eagle anymore, but stopped in on Saturday to look, and found this, and I just love it! So cute and comfy!

I know this is really coming a week early, but I’m loving that I get to put my contacts back in hopefully next Thursday! I don’t think I’ve mentioned this on here, but my eyes got bad again, so I went back to my eye doc last week, and he told me no contacts for TWO WEEKS! I was done with that after about three days, so I cannot wait until next Thursday!

I’m loving all of my sweet blog and Twitter friends! You guys are just awesome!

And, I’m loving this song. Surprise! It’s not country this week! :)

What are you loving this week? Link up your loves with Jamie!

A Little Vlog…

January 11, 2011 By ashleylately 6 Comments

Hey y’all! So, I watched Jessica’s cute dialect vlog the other night, and I just loooved it so I had to do one of my own. Ok, so I’m supposed to read off this list of words and the answer the questions. Here are the words…

Aunt, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught

And the questions…

What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
What is the bug that when you touch it, it curls into a ball?
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
What do you call gym shoes?
What do you say to address a group of people?
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
What do you call your grandparents?
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
What is the thing you change the TV channel with?

Now, here’s my vlog! I don’t know what’s wrong with my computer camera, but my words definitely don’t match my mouth. Also, it too SIX tries to get this thing done! Ugh, not a great bloggin’ day.

Please, y’all, you should definitely join in! If you do one, let me know so I can come watch yours.

Hope you’ve all had a great Monday!

Weekend Recap

January 10, 2011 By ashleylately 7 Comments

Hello dears!

I hope all of you had a great weekend! Mine was pretty calm. If you follow me on Twitter, you probably already know this, but for those that don’t, my awesome Saturday with Neely was unfortunately cancelled due to this…

*Photos found here*

Stinks a lot, but we’ve rescheduled for a couple of weeks. Can’t wait, Neely!

On Saturday, I laid in bed watching season 4 of Grey’s Anatomy, then went to the mall for a bit before having dinner with my adoptive family and snuggling with their sweet kitties!

Today was church and then lunch with my adoptive family. We spent the afternoon at church for the start of Leadership Training for Christ. I’m helping with 3rd & 4th grade drama again, as well as 3rd-8th grade bible quiz. Should be fun! Here is last year’s recap!

I hope you all had a great weekend!

Fun Friday!

January 7, 2011 By ashleylately 6 Comments

It’s Friday, y’all!

You know what that means!

But first, a big Happy Birthday to my bestie Teddie!

Love you, and I hope you have a great day!

Ok, on to Fun Friday.

The absolute best part of my week was a surprise visit at the office from Tracy!! I haven’t seen her since before Christmas and her sweet babies were born. It was SO great to see her!

The thing I’m most excited about this weekend is…um…do I even need to say it?

Just in case you haven’t been over here at Ashley’s Carnival Ride or stopped by Chronicles of Neely the last few days, Neely and I are meeting IN REAL LIFE tomorrow and are spending the day playing in Dallas! Neely is one of my bloggy besties, and this is the first time I’ve met a blogger in person. I’m ridiculously excited, but a bit nervous. What if she doesn’t like me in real life? Yikes!

I hope you lovelies have a great weekend! And don’t worry, there will definitely be a blog post coming next week about Saturday…unless Neely doesn’t like me. Then I may disappear from Blogland forever! :)

Happy Friday, y’all!

What I’m Loving Wednesday

January 5, 2011 By ashleylately 13 Comments

Happy Wednesday!

Here’s what I’m loving this week!

I’m loving that I didn’t have to work on Monday! I got to spend the day with my sweet adoptive sister! We ate lunch at Chili’s, watched a movie, and played Kinect. So much fun!

I didn’t take any pictures :( This is the most recent picture of us, and it’s like 3 years old.

I’m loving this movie!

If you haven’t seen it yet, you definitely should!

I’m loving my new scarf from Jessica!

I think it has become my new favorite accessory!

I’m loving this song by The Band Perry.

So pretty!

And, I’m LOOOOOOVING that I get to see Neely on Saturday!

Sorry y’all, but I imagine you’re probably gonna have to hear about it for quite awhile! :)

Neely, I can’t wait!

What are you loving this week? Link up your loves with Jamie!

It’s Official!

January 4, 2011 By ashleylately 12 Comments

January 8th:

I’m ecstatic!

New Year’s Fun!

January 4, 2011 By ashleylately 7 Comments

New Year’s Day, I only had to work a 1/2 day. I seriously seriously considered staying home that night, watching a movie or two, then going to bed at like 10. Teddie and Joyce talked me out of it, so I ended up going to two parties Friday night.

The first party was hosted by two of the people from my bible study group from college. Several other people from bible study were there too. I hadn’t seen any of them in a really long time, so it was really great to see them! I didn’t take ANY pictures there! Don’t know what I was thinking!

The girls watched Alice in Wonderland while the guys played games. We left around 11 and headed to my adoptive family’s house. Joyce had entirely too much fun playing with my new camera.

Me and Teddie!

Joyce told me to open my eyes bigger…don’t think this is what she meant.

She started playing with the setting on the camera that automatically takes a picture when it catches a smile. It all went downhill from there.

I don’t know where the camera thought the smile was in this picture.

Finally, a decent picture!

I should’ve taken this next picture at the beginning of the night instead of seven hours later, but here is my new year’s eve outfit! I posted several pictures on Twitter asking for help choosing an outfit, and this one was the overwhelming favorite! Thanks to all of you who helped me!

I ended up staying the night at Teddie’s in-laws’ house. We stayed up waaaaaaaay too late watching movies.

Saturday night, the Sooners played in the Fiesta Bowl. Of course I had to watch that game! Colby and I went out to our adoptive family’s house to watch with them and a family from church.

Our super awesome cake!

Joycie and me!

Joyce and Reagan

Colby was in such a weird mood. I think the next few pictures are pretty self-explanatory.

He tried to look so innocent, like it was all her fault and he was just standing there minding his own business.

I know I blog and tweet way too often about Joyce’s kitties, but they are just too sweet! In the middle of all of the craziness of the game, they fell asleep. Together. In the middle of the room.