What's Up Wednesday | September

Well, Hello lovelies! I had no intentions of going so long without blogging, but life happens, right? Last time I wrote, we were in the very early stages of moving. We spent the entire summer looking for a house, trying to decide whether to rent or buy, and moving from south Texas back to west Texas. It was a beautiful chaotic mess but that's the glamorous life of a football coach for ya! :) I didn't even know if I wanted to start blogging again, but to be honest, I really enjoy it. 5 followers or 1,000 followers, to me it's my own little escape, something I can do to share thoughts, feelings, or updates! So, in trying to play catch up, I decided no post would be better than linking up with Shay, Sheaffer and Mel for a What's Up Wednesday post!

1. What we're eating this week:

 Let me just explain something first.. we moved to a small town. Tiny. We have a small (and I mean teeny tiny) Walmart and a local grocery that has all necessities but not a lot of variety so I have to go to San Angelo or Abilene (40 min drive) to get groceries. Joys! We were out of town over the weekend so I went shopping on Monday night which meant drive thru Rosas for dinner. If you're from west Texas, you understand. Here is our weekly menu (there's a Mix and Match Mama recipe on there, too):

2. What I'm reminiscing about:

Our old houses. I have a love/hate relationship with the fact that we will move around a lot. Each house we've lived in were made our home for that period of time and each hold their own memories. The plus side to living in multiple houses is that when we do get settled for a longer period of time I will know EXACTLY what I want my house to be like. So far I have a list of things I love and hate about the way each house was built. :)

3. What I'm loving:

I recently bought a ton of new fall clothes; some have made it and some have not.  Here's some of my favorites of what has!

Toms Booties

Altar'd State Plaid Dress | Infinity Scarf

4. What we've been up to:

 Football, Football, Football and settling into our new home. Brylee's bedroom and our dining room are the only rooms that are finished, and I say finished very loosely. Things are put up on the walls and everything is where it belongs, but painting definitely needs to be done.

5. What I'm dreading:

 We have a ton of updates we want to do to our new home but first thing on our priority list I'm sooooo dreading. PAINT. WOOD. PANELING. It exhausts me just thinking about it. We could take it down but there isn't sheetrock behind it so a painting project would turn into so much more and since we know this isn't our 'forever home', we don't want to spend that money on it. These pictures were taken before we moved in, but as you can see.. wood paneling everywhere! It'll be a project that's for sure.

6. What I'm working on:

My best friends baby shower and Brylee's 3rd birthday party! The shower is in November and Brylee's birthday is mid-December but I wanted to get ahead of myself so when these next few holiday's come up, I can completely enjoy them without having to worry about completing anything else. Hallelujah! I'm doing a Gingerbread House theme for Brylee's birthday and Rachel is doing a Tribal them with those colors in the nursery. I'm in love with both.

7. What I'm excited about:

Getting my new Keuirg! Unfortunately mine broke during the move and I've reverted to an 'original' coffee pot. However, this is headed my way. I don't know if I'm more excited about the fact that it's bigger than my old one or that its white! I'm in love.

8. What I'm watching/reading:

 Watching: Dancing With The Stars, The Voice, and Football, lots of football! I wanted so badly to watch Grandfathered last night but forgot to set my DVR! Dang! Maybe next week.

Reading: I'm in the middle of reading Someone Like You and when I'm finished with that one, The Nightingale should have arrived at my front door. :)

9. What I'm listening to:

Rod Stewart on Pandora. My mom will be so proud when she reads this. :) Hi mom.

10. What I'm wearing:

Currently, my VS jammies. These to be exact.

11. What I'm doing this weekend:

Well, I just got word today that Tate is off for the weekend so we are leaving for Dallas Friday night and going to the State Fair on Saturday. We don't really have any other plans while we're there and sometimes that makes for the best time. I can't wait. Brylee will love it.

12. What I'm looking forward to next month:

All the fall things! And yes, I was singing it like Blink-182's All the Small Things in my head. :)

13. What else is new:

When we first found out we were moving, it was decided I would go back to work. I had been staying home with Brylee for almost a year and wasn't sure how the transition would be for me, not her. She is very social and loves to be around other kids so I just knew she'd love 'school'. SHE HATES IT! Well, hold on, she doesn't hate the school, the kids, the teachers, etc, but she hates me dropping her off. I can stop by randomly during the day and she has the best attitude. When I pick her up she tells me she had a good day playing and having sleepovers (nap time, ha!), but dropping her off, whew, that's hard on both of us. She just cries and cries, tells me she wants to stay home with me, and one day even asked me why I didn't love her to stay home. broke. my. heart. She's too young to understand why she has to go to school and I pray and pray that it gets easier on her. We're going on 6 weeks, y'all. This was on her first day and she was so excited, until I dropped her off.

14. What is my favorite Halloween tradition:

Well, we don't have one yet! We've only had 3 Halloweens with Brylee, each year being in a different place. I'd like to start some kind of a tradition with her, though. Maybe a spooky dinner before trick or treating. We'll see.

And Wednesday, that's whats up! Hopefully there won't be another long blogging break after this.

Have a great day friends.  

Leah