Happy Friday!

I hope you've had a great week!  Mine has been pretty good here's a few of the highlights for my high five for Friday!  

1.  Check out those tomatoes!  We have so many from the garden we're giving them away.  Mmmm they are yummy!

2.  I think I've finally made friends with that cat that has decided to live here.  I named her Shade and he kitten Smoke.  They are too cute!  However, they are not very tame, but I'm winning them over.  Shade lets me pet her without growling at me anymore.  I didn't know cats growl, but it turns out they do.  She's apparently also been making friends with Sue Bea my car.  I found these this morning.  

3.  I learned how to cross stitch on Sunday and I finished my little penguin guy last night.  I think he's cute.  

4.  Did some chemistry this week.  The experiments aren't really making any sense at the moment but I had a color change so I took a picture! 

5. Last but most definitely not least tonight I get to hang out with my BFFL!  Yay!  Yeah we're cool!

Happy Friday!

I hope you're having a great Friday!  This week has been a bit stressful, but with all good things.  So here's my High Five for Friday!
1.  This week was the last week of me teaching Chem 1203 lab!  Yay!  I had a great bunch of students, but that lab is not my favorite.  We celebrated today by having cupcakes.  Yes, I am the TA that brought my students cupcakes.  Hey I really just wanted an excuse to buy cupcakes from my bestfriend's bakery, Sweetcakes :)
2.  I gave my demo lecture for a teaching position this week!  It could have gone better, but I'm glad it's over and I didn't do too terrible! I'm ready to get better and start teaching my own lecture section in the fall!
3.  I learned how to use the grill!  Oh yes!
4.  I've made some super awesome crafting projects for my new vanity.  The are the best kind of craft projects one's that include glitter!
5.  Speaking of glitter, I personalized my garden hoe so that no one could confuse it for there.  I did paint glitter all over it.  Just because gardening is outside doesn't mean it doesn't need glitter.
I'm looking forward to this weekend!  Hope you have a great one!

Friday at last!

I love Friday!  This week has been kind of crazy!  Crazy is a great way!
First, Saturday my bestest friend in the whole wide world got married!
Crazy!
I kind of can't believe she finally got married and now she's Mrs. Smith!  The wedding was perfect!  I am so blessed to have such a wonderful, amazing, truly great best friend, and get to stand right beside her as she married Brad.
So amazing!
This is a picture of my hair for the day (not a great one but better than the others I took).  I did it myself and I have to say I was impressed.  I watch a tutorial from The Small Things blog and I practiced a few times before the wedding.  I love Kate's blog, you can find the tutorial here.

I've been thinking of re-purposing by desk into something I might actually use.  Clearly I don't do any work at it now since it's just piled up with lots and lots of stuff (okay junk).  So I want to make it a vanity.  I'm really excited about this idea.  I'll post again once I've finished it.  

This week I ate some of the first tomatoes out of the garden.  I'm pretty sure there is NOTHING better than a tomato right out of the garden.  Our plants are full of tomatoes, so even though these were the first they won't be the last.  Me and my dad also planted our plot the church that we're growing for the Cooperative Christian Ministries.  While I excited about the garden at the house, I'm even more excited about this because we're going to give the vegetables we grow there to people who really need it.  How great is that!  

Rachel made these cute "redneck" wine glasses for the bridal party at the wedding.  I've been using my ever since.  I'm totally in love with it.  This is my cherry coke slushy. 

Normally I've been posting my new shoes here and they are normally super high heels, but this week I got some desperatly needed new rainbows.  My old ones were about to fall apart.  I really like there because of the braided strap.  Also, there's my new tattoo!  I'm in love with it.  

Hope you had a great week as well!  Happy weekend!

High Five for Friday!

1. Got the invite to the best friends wedding! It's amazing! Rachel is the best! And Brad too!

2. Wednesday we had rain which was great! We really needed it. And it gave me the chance to use my cute umbrella and rainboots.

3. I do love a poof!

4. Me and my dad got the garden planted this week. We planted watermelon radishes, basil, arugula, peppers, and tomatoes so far.

5. New shoes! I love them.

Lovely Springtime

This spring I think I've gotten some really great shots of flowers.  My personal favorite are the ones I took in Asheville over Easter of red dogwood trees.  Before this year I didn't know there was such a thing as a red dogwood tree.  I thought there were just white ones and pink ones.  When we were driving to Asheville I kept noticing Dogwood trees that were so hot pink and I couldn't figure why the pink Dogwoods in Asheville were so much brighter and gorgeous than the ones at home.  Later my Mamaw Banks told me the really bright pink ones are red dogwood trees.  So here are a few of my favorites.  

Fork and a sign

I missed yesterday's post but here's a fork

A sign


























A sign of spring! These are in my yard and are totally beautiful! I'm really excited about these tulips because we have a few but they never bloom :(. A couples of weekends ago we found some tulips and the little daffodil on sale at Wal Mart and of course I had to have them. Hopefully they will do well in this part of the yard. At least they are pretty now.
Oh I also got my birchbox yesterday and it was packed with some awesome stuff (like usual) like this fancy glitter nail polish. I love love love how shiny it is.

Something you wore and window

I got a little behind in the March photo a day.  I'm apparently no good at doing these kinds of things on a daily basis.  So here's two day's photos.
Something I wore (Wednesday)

Dirt.  I planted about 80 gladiolus so I had to dig a lot of holes! It was pretty hard but I think it will be well worth this summer when I have tons of gladiolus in the yard.  They are my favorite flowers ever!

Window (Today)
Today was windows down kind of weather.

While me and my dad were planting some more today (7 lily plants, 4 new azaleas bushes, 6 cabbage plants, and 9 califlower plants) I broke through some serious roots with my shovel and I was greatly impressed by it :)

Springtime trees

Lately everyday when I go to school I drive by these trees that are beautifully in bloom.  I just wanted to share a picture that I took of them one day.  I love these pink trees they always seem to brighten my day.  

Day 9. A photo of something from a distance

 Day 9.  A photo of something from a distance.  Fall leaves from a far.  All our leaves, here at home, aren't changing except at the very tops of the trees.  Which are far away.

This weekend my dad finally pickled the jalapenos from our garden.  He's been talking about it FOREVER.  So today was the day!  Here's the cans before.  He ended up having too much so he had to go buy more jars again.  This happened when he and my mom canned chow chow this summer too.  

 

They look really pretty because some of the pepper green and some were red.  

 I did some crafts this weekend to decorate for halloween.  I made a small pumpkin quite special yesterday afternoon with jewels!  I love it!

 I also started (still not finished) a sign for the door for Halloween.  End the end it will say boo.  For some reason I set them this way when I sprayed them with gloss.  Then I realized it and made it say boo instead, but I had already taken the pictures.