Superbowl Weekend Recap

Pretty low key weekend over in our neck of the woods, just the way we like it. 

Friday, we said goodbye to our house guest :-( My gal pal, Caitlin, who had been living with us for the past month. We were sad to see her leave. She was so easy to have in our home. The doggies are gonna miss her too....bigtime. 

Kev worked from home friday and I had the day off. We spent the majority of the day in sweat pants and took it easy. Friday night we were glued to the television and finished season 2 of Breaking Bad. 

Saturday:

Top Left: took myself and my little 20% off coupon to Ulta for a mini shopping trip. picked up some bronzer, lip gloss, lip stick, blush and highlighter. 

Top Right: Saturday nigh - Kev and I headed to Cincy for dinner with friends before the Superbowl service at church 

Middle Left: Dinner with one of favorite NKY families at P.F. Chang's in Rookwood 

Middle Right: look at these cute boys, both were fighting over who got to sit by me at dinner. soooo sweet!!! 

Bottom Left:  We love this crazy thing called church :-) Our church has a big Superbowl of Preaching every year where the lead pastors go head to head in a preaching competition that was complete with pre-game tailgating, a halftime show, commercials and commentary. It's a big event with our church with over 20,000 people expected at our three locations (soon to be 4 locations and possibly a 5th!) 

Bottom Right: More pics from Superbowl of Preaching at church. It was our first time attending and it did not disappoint. We had so much fun. Kev and I are blessed to be hooked up with such an awesome church so early on in relocating to NKY. 

Sunday:

We may have slept till 10:00am...which is so not like us...but hey, that is what weekends are for. 

We made a big breakfast including pancakes, eggs, and turkey bacon and hung out around the house waiting for Super Bowl time. 

There may have been a little Breaking Bad watching.....

There may have also been some girl scout cookie eating......

And there may have been some wedding album completing....#itsabouttimeididit

Kev and I had our own little Super Bowl party of two, plus the doggies. We both made a couple of appetizers and were so excited for the game....major let down for us. We were so ready for a Peyton Manning show....and it never came. So instead, we enjoyed our BBQ chicken pizza, deviled eggs, spinach artichoke dip and caprese skewers. 

And of course they didn't play my favorite commercial until the last two minutes of the game. Budweiser stole my heart again...

That's our weekend in a nutshell. Thank goodness Monday is over :-) 

too blessed to be stressed

Happy Sunday! I hope everyone had an enjoyable weekend.

We took it easy Friday night and ran some errands. I stocked up at Lowe's for painting next weekend with my parents. We got several samples for the two rooms we are tackling this weekend and plan on making the final decision on color by mid week.

Saturday, I worked the majority of the day and we hosted Kevin Rex's nephew Dustin for the night.
We took him to a local pizza place in Lexington called Pazzo's. It's an eclectic campus pizza pub with speciality pizzas and sub sandwiches. The "Funky Chicken" pizza is my fave. It is a combination of  garlic ranch sauce, mozzarella cheese, grilled chicken, red onions and tomato. Delicious! I definitely over indulged myself and didn't feel a bit bad about it. Isn't that what weekends are for?

                                               
After Pazzo's we went and watched the Hangover 2 at the Movie Tavern. We were running a little late and ended up with front row seats to the show. Swell! Although my neck was a little sore this morning, the movie was funny and didn't disappoint. 

                                                
I caught up on sleep Saturday night and woke up Sunday morning rested for church. I woke up in a funk about my hair, closet, makeup, etc; such superficial and small things in this scheme of life. I started hitting the Internet and found my "wish lists" growing with every click of the mouse. It was one of those days where I couldn't find anything to wear and no matter how much time I spent on my hair, it just wasn't doing anything for me. Needless to say, I was being a little "fussy" as Kev likes to refer to it as. Anywho, on with the day.

We heard an amazing message today about walking in other's people's shoes that ended in a special prayer for the people of Joplin, Missisouri.

Our church has many ties to Joplin. In fact, our pastor and several other leaders in the church have family in Joplin. The pastor went on to tell stories about the tornadoes and some of the people who are currently experiencing devastating hardships. He mentioned a 21 year young girl who had contracted a skin infection from all the debris and recently underwent surgery for amputations of both arms and both legs. He also discussed a story about a woman and man who were in a meat locker when the tornado struck their restaurant. The woman was holding onto her husband and an anchor within the meat locker to keep them from being pulled into the destructive tornado. The woman was holding on so hard to save their lives that she broke her ankles and both wrists. The winds were too much and the husband had to eventually let go. His last words "Read Psalms 91." Our pastor also discussed the thousands of students that are now without schools and an education system for the fall. All I could do was weep.

The message this morning was the gut check that I needed. I am so blessed and to have one second of "woe is me" over superficial things was simply unacceptable. There are thousands of people without homes and loved ones whose needs are far beyond mine. Life is good and God is good and sometimes we need to take a step back and appreciate our blessings.

Our church is sending gift cards to Joplin. They currently have too many supplies and have nowhere to store most of them. They have asked we send gift cards to the local business that are still standing. If you want to get involved you can go here. We are also going to send over 10,000 pairs of shoes to Joplin in the next several weeks. That information is also available on the website if you feel your are being called to make a difference in Joplin. Even the small things can help.

The take away message for me and I hope for you is that no matter what challenges, stresses or obstacles you are faced with, there is always someone out there who could be struggling with more. We all need to count our blessings and realize what we DO have and not what we DONT have.

I hope everyone has a great week and takes the time to remember those less fortunate than most of us. 

This is how I am spending the rest of my day....

they were all three snoozin away...bailey woke up just as I snapped the pic

and i wouldn't have it any other way :)