Typical evening in the Vaughan household

Nice relaxing night so far. Dinner is prepped. I'm making lemon pepper pork chops, ranch & Herb potato wedges and Italian green beans. Our kitchen is smelling pretty fantastic if I do say so myself =D. Hubs is playing Flappy Bird so I'm taking some time to write another blog post.

Pinterest is one of those websites I can spend hours on if I'm not careful.  I'm not the craftiest person, nor are all of my crafts professional looking. But they make me happy and Will likes the personal touch of our decor. =)

Christmas was the easiest to find ideas but here's all of my crafts/homemade decor products so far =).

These are two things I put together today. I really like the subway art, glitter and pink if you couldn't tell =)).

Hope you guys have a great night!! =) <3 p="">

Enjoying the sunshine

Today is a scheduled mental health day. Since November, almost all of my days have been jammed. Packing, driving cross-country, normal holiday activities, everything associated with a new house and place, unpacking,organizing, etc. So today, I put life on pause.

I slept in. Read the paper while I drank my coffee instead of just downing it. Watched Dr.Phil, one of my few TV guilty pleasures. Started putting together my husbands birthday present, he turns 24 on Friday =). I got him a Kingsford grill with a grill lighter, charcoal, grilling set, cleaning kit & cover. Hopefully he loves it =).

Now I'm enjoying our backyard and the fresh breeze with our dog, LuLu.

Isn't the view breath-taking?

Hope everyone is having a good week!!

Greetings from Georgia!!!!! ❤️

Major life changes since I've written last.  The huge one being we no longer live in Texas!!!! Will's orders for Benning finally went through with no more complications! =D

Will's going away party. We didn't leave behind friends, but friends who became family.

Our stuff getting ready for the big move

Kinda bittersweet leaving our first home as a married couple.

The place of our new adventures

Our new house is love. 

First snowfall

Housewarming presents =D

LuLu loves the snow too.

Couldn't be more happier. ❤️

Blogging so Randa doesn't disown me

Not much has been happening here. The weather hasn't been the greatest and I'm coming down with something. So lots of Netflix and reading time since the apartment is still clean..amazing how that happens when it's just me here ;). Yesterday was a day from Hades if there ever was one though. The past few days I noticed a rattle when I drove my car, not a good sign (and further proof Murphy's Law is real) so I took it to Firestone since I knew I needed two new tires anyways. Turns out, my shocks and struts were bad. Now, normally this is just wear and tear maintenance but before we went to Florida in December, we had those replaced. And thanks to my handy dandy app, I had proof. So it all got fixed (labor included, yay!) and when I first bought new tires for the feisty Fusion, I had bought the lifetime alignment. So I didn't have to drop $150 on that like I was worried I was going to.
My Gamma just bought me some books for my Nook and I read two out of the three she got me. Anyone remember the Sweet Valley twins? I bought a few of the adult ones and they are just as addicting. 6 hours later and there's no more rattle so I can drive safely again, which is really good because I currently have Snapshot from Progressive plugged in ( anything to save money). I had leftover homemade stir-fry for dinner and I rewatched last week's episode of Hollywood Game Night.


Moral of this post is, try to buy warranties if you can. Had I not, yesterday's ordeal would have cost us over a grand =(.

Friday Night Fun/Slow Saturday

I can joke about my ultra lame Friday night alone. But I'm actually quite pleased with my productivity. I mentioned earlier this week I wanted to put all th recipes we've tried into a cookbook format (with plastic covers to protect it from cooking incidents). Last night I finally started this project. So far I've only been able to write out 20 recipes before my carpal tunnel made me stop. But here's what it looks like so far :

Btw- NSYNC Pandora station is my jam. There was quite a few times I wrote out song lyrics instead of the directions lol. I really want to go to Hobby Lobby and get some cuisine inspired stickers to jazz up the notebook, but for now it'll do =D.


To reward myself, and because my wrist has declared war on me, it's a day of Investigation Discovery on Netflix cuddled up with my puppy.

Enjoy your weekend everyone! ❤

Dear Friday

Two of my favorite blogs, Miranda Mae and penguinspastapolkadots.blogspot.com do this thing on Friday (normally) where they address things. So here goes my first attempt =).

Dear Chipotle, you are so easy to crave. Multiple people mentioned you so I had to get some of your deliciousness in my tummy. Thank you for your steak burritos.

Dear Netflix, thank you for being a source of entertainment during this rainy week which has completely stopped all plans for productivity.

Dear comfy fuzzy pajama pants from Walmart, you have been keeping me warm and not judging me for not wearing real clothes. You're the best.

Dear technology, thank you from the bottom of my heart for keeping me connected with my husband despite him being in the middle of who knows where. SnapChats like this make my day:

Dear Patriot Apartments, you're an amazing place to live. Appreciate you for lowering(!!!!!!!) our rent and not raising it when I renewed our lease yesterday. Add in the fact you let residents borrow movies & give us a bag of popcorn when we do, you're awesome. We lucked out with this place being the first home.

Dear El Paso, normally I hate you. You're overcrowded and the majority of your population is RUDE. However, the weather we had this week has me slightly in love with you. Keep up the good work 915.

Dear Hollywood Game Night, kudos on being an amazing new show. And having Matthew Morrison on last night made it even better. Jane Lynch, you're a fabulous host!

Dear Disney, release Little Mermaid from the vault sooner, pleaseeeee?!! I'm seriously obsessed with Ariel and time is dragging until October 3rd.

Dear Twitter, I love you. You keep me in touch with friends, other military significant others and blogger friends. All while making me think I'm kinda cool.

Dear weekend, seeing you makes me realize its almost one week down and another week closer to seeing Will. ❤

Currently Obsessing

Over four things in particular.


First, mason jars are my thing. They make everything taste better. And lately, it's been super hot in Texas and I tend to get dehydrated easily. So I've been slicing lemons up to add to pitchers of water, and lately, it's all I drink.

It's so cute!! And yummy =)


This morning, I contacted our leasing office about renewing our lease and got amazing news. Instead of going up $50 a month like it has in previous years....it went DOWN $50. Combined with our insurance dropping $20 a month, we decided to 'splurge' on new sheets. And I'm pretty pleased with what I bought. (And they got Will's approval also)

Lastly, I normally stick to one accent nail when I do give myself a manicure, but I was bored and had too many colors to choose from, so I ended up with this 

Forgive the polish on my fingers. Wine + polish doesn't always mix lmao.

Lastly, I don't have a photo yet. But I pin so many recipes on Pinterest, I lose some of them in the masses. So if I try a recipe and we like it, I'm going to add it to the book I'm making. Binder: $0.92 cents. Paper :$0.17 cents.  Plastic covers:$1.75. Super cheap and easy. 

Hope y'all are having a wonderful Wednesday!!

Top Ten Tuesday

My topic of choice for this Tuesday is TV shows. I'm going to do two lists. One for shows still on air and another list for the shows discontinued too soon.



Now

• Big Bang Theory
• Dance Moms
• Catfish
• Bachelorette
• Modern Family
• Revenge
• Once Upon a Time
• Grey's Anatomy
• Pretty Little Liars
• Glee (RIP Cory Monteith)

Honorable mention: Hell's Kitchen

Back Then

• FRIENDS
• Boy Meets World
• Full House
• Fresh Prince of Bel Air
• 7th Heaven
• Saved by the Bell
• Lizzie McQuire
• One Tree Hill
• Gilmore Girls
• Friday Night Lights

Honorable mention: Gossip Girl. (Guilty pleasure) Army Wives (original cast)

What's some of your favorite shows, past or present?

Weekend Shenanigans

Kept seeing a few blogs I follow link up to http://www.samisshenanigans.com/ so today is my first time =).


Still can't believe it's Monday. I wanted this weekend to drag but instead, it flew by. So this morning I said good-bye to Will...for I'm not sure how long. So hopefully more summer cleaning and this blog will keep me occupied. And when it doesn't, wine and Netflix always work.




Friday night I made a dinner of spaghetti, garlic butter crescent rolls and fudge walnut brownies.

 We watched some Netflix and played NCAA 14 on the PS3. As usual, he was the FSU Seminoles and I was the Florida Gators (I won but I'm still not entirely sure he doesn't do that on purpose).


Saturday we got up early (huge shocker) and got dressed to go out on a day date. We're pretty fortunate  financially  to be able to do this on a normal routine. Helps keep the romance alive, doing new things, surprises, dressing up, etc. Will is generally a huge romantic so that works in his favor ;). I've been wanting BJ's Brewhouse, specifically their orange cream soda and their bruschetta. Sad day. They were out of the cream soda so we both got root beer. I ordered the grilled chicken club with a side salad and Will got the fish & chips, which was incredible!! I've slowly been trying to try new foods. I'm typically the person who orders the same thing every time we go somewhere but I'm trying =). After our yummy lunch, we finally went and watched Despicable Me 2. Oh my goodness, it was so adorable. I want a minion. Badly. After the movie ended, we both had a sweet tooth so we grabbed some doughnuts from Krispy Kreme and went grocery shopping at Target. Target is my weakness. I always end up leaving with more than I went for, and me having the debit card doesn't help matters. I console myself with: " I save 5% and every purchase helps a local school." Except my impulse grabs end up costing me more than my savings lol.  On the way home, we decided to swing by our RedBox location. Ended up getting Spring Breakers. We both 'wtf'ed the entire movie. Thankfully it was a free rental.

Sunday, I helped Will pack. And I made him some snacks to take with him. Afterwards, we just kinda lounged around. Will watched sports and I read last month's Cosmo. Went to RedBox to return Spring Breakers and ended up getting The Call. Good movie, made me cry and the ending was weird prettty much sums it up, lol. The day went by much faster than I had anticipated. We went to sleep early since he had to be up at his company at the break of dawn for formation.

Not too pleased about being up at 2:45 lol. 

I'm linking up to 

Have a great Monday!!

❤-L

Lots of jumbled thoughts

It's finally Friday. The hubs worked late so I planned a date night in. Sketti, slightly homemade garlic butter crescent rolls and fudge walnut brownies. Needless to say, our apartment smelled amazing and Will was ecstatic about the special meal.


My best friend arrived home safely after her trip visiting family and I'm so thankful for that =).

I made a decision tonight I'm slightly uneasy about. I let two people sorta back in my life and I'm hoping it works out. I don't need any added unnecessary stress right now. But the circumstances are difficult to say the least.


I have a new friend- Brittany from http://brittscozycorner.blogspot.ca/. Thanks again for the follow- looking forward to many more blog readings =).

One of my biggest pet peeves is people who constantly cancel plans without a reason. In the past two weeks we've wasted time, money and effort that could've been used elsewhere. So no more of that.

It's almost midnight and cuddles with Will and LuLu are calling my name. I hope everyone has an amazing weekend.


❤-L

I really hate the 'D' word

Last night....didn't exactly go the way I planned. See, Will comes home with the news instead of moving to Georgia soon, we may be going through deployment number 2 soon. Lets just say my world stopped. At first, I just asked the usual questions,'When and where.' I was in extreme shock. You can try to prepare yourself all you want, but once you get the news, it sucks. And I know with Will being an active duty soldier, this was gonna happen. But still, ugh.  As soon as Will went to bed, the news broadcasted and confirmed my fears. It's really happening. And that's when I lost it. =(

All I can do is pray. I know Will has the want to serve his country. I'm so proud of him for that. But I need my husband to grow old with me. But I know God has His hand in all of this. I take great comfort in that. And until he gets official orders, whether they're PCS or deployment, I'm going to make every second I have with him count. ❤

Pasta Salad and Philip Wesley

My musical taste is quite like my blogging style, it goes from one extreme to the other. My favorite Pandora channels are : Christian contemporary, traditional country, 90's Pop, Glee cast, Puddle of Mudd and Faded(rap). Typically just listen to it for the music, especially during one of my cleaning fits lol. And I love cooking to the classical new age station. Which is what I'm doing now. Blogging in between dinner prep and listening to Philip Wesley. 

His music is so hauntingly beautiful. I cannot get enough. 

I'm making a prepare ahead dinner tonight, since my scheduled maintenance hasn't arrived and I don't want to wait all day and dinner not be ready. So, shrimp pasta salad it is. I love this meal. I add black olives and tomatoes to ours. =).

I also randomly decided I want Jell-O so we're trying the fruit punch tonight. Hopefully it's good =).

My Life in Pictures

This is my husband, William Michael. I adore him. We've been together for 5 years now ❤. He's a soldier in the US Army and one of the best things to ever happen to me. 

These three girls pictured are among my best friends. We're not as close as we once was, but I still love them with all of my heart. ❤

This is my Momma and Gamma. I adore them. They gave me anything I could've wanted or needed while teaching me valuable life lessons. ❤

Our fur baby LuLu. . She's a pampered pooch. 

Our nephew Hunter. He never fails to put a smile on my face.

My gorgeous rings.