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Food Survey

Breakfast
Favorite cereal as a child? Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Confession: when mom would buy it on rare occasions I would literally eat it for breakfast and lunch.

Coffee or Tea? With milk or without? I like both, I guess I prefer coffee though. I take it with creamer, no sugar or sugar substitutes though. I can drink it black but I choose not to be that hardcore.

The one food you eat most often at breakfast: J makes me an egg with cheese on my whole grain English Muffins, yummm!

Lunch

Sandwiches are usually considered lunch food. If you had to choose from a grilled cheese sandwich or a peanut butter and jelly, which would you pick? I love me some PB&J’s especially with my Nanny’s homemade blackberry jam, yum!

You can only put four ingredients in your salad (not including greens); what do you throw in the mix? Additionally, which greens and dressing do you pick?
Base: Ice burg Lettuce
Ingredients: Croutons, Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Red Onion
Dressing: Ranch (such a fatty)

One food you cannot live without at lunch: Umm there isn’t really anything I can’t live without at lunch. 

Dinner

It's the end of the day. You're tired, hungry, and your fridge is empty. If fast food (from a chain) is your only option, where do you go and what do you order? Chick Fil A, I’m super partial since I worked there in High School though. So healthy choice? Chargrilled Chicken Wrap with Spicy dressing. Unhealthy choice? Number 1 with no pickle

TV/Computer on or off while you are eating? It’s on, that’s how J prefers it. We will usually watch something off of the DVR. That’s something that I would really like to change once we have children in a few year but we’ll see.  

The one food you eat most often at dinner. Chicken in some form. Since my Dad doesn’t eat Red Meat that’s the thing that I grew up knowing how to cook the best.
Dessert

Choose between two American desserts: cheesecake or apple pie. I prefer Apple Pie fresh out of the oven with some crunchy topping on it!

Choose between two foreign desserts: tiramisu (Italy) or flan (Spain). Well, I would have to say Tiramisu since the taste and texture of Flan is literally repulsive…

Ice cream: cone or cup. I love cones! In the words of Sarah C. my friend from work, ‘Gotta have the crunch.’

Andddd I'm back

My oh my how long it's been since I've posted! I've been gone for a bit but I'm hoping to keep up the blog this time. So, updates on life since last year but first things first...

Happy birthday to the sweetest husband I know, the one and only Jeremy Reynolds! You make our (Buddy & I) lives so wonderful and you bless me each as my husband, I'm so proud to be your wife :)

1.) Jeremy and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary back in May by going to Las Vegas with Jake and Stacey! Great time no $$ big wins but I did not adjust well to the lack of humidity or the time change, sigh... guess I'm just a southern lady to the core with no hopes of ever living elsewhere. It's hard to believe that we already been married a year and half, time slows down for no one as you get older.

2.) I was asked to be Cecilia Brooke Hamilton's godmother/mentor! She's so cute and little, I can't wait to see how she grows over the next few months. (PS I'm currently growing my hair out as well, we'll see how long I let it get)

3.)  I got the iPhone 4, no judgements on the lateness of me getting one or the fact that the iPhone 5 just came out... I'm not rich :)

4.) Buddy turned 2 in September, can't believe we've almost had him for two years at Thanksgiving

 

5.) We joined an eGroup (small group) at our church and we love it! We're currently going thru the series Greater and God is really using it to reveal a lot in our relationship with each other and with Him.

 Sometimes life just gets in the way the busier it gets and I think that's why I haven't really posted much in the past year. Another major thing that stopped my writing was my grandmother passing away on October 28 last year. I literally can't describe why it made me stop writing/blogging but I definitely know it was a huge factor in it. I never thought that I could miss some one so much until she went to meet Jesus. Miranda Lambert said it best: '...I miss you.  They say I'll be okay,  But I'm not going to ever get over you..." The good news is that I'm back and it feels good to blog again, I think I just finally got my blogging mojo back though! 

Until next time... Go tigers :)

Slacker

I'm sorry for my absence, there is no excuse honestly... sighhhh.... here's yet another quick update on The Reynolds and fingers crossed this will be the last one as I will get back to regular postage!

1.)  It's October already? This year is flying by!
2.) My husband turned 26, love my old man :) he wanted to keep it low key this year so we had dinner at the house and watched a movie.
3.) Buddy Dog became mischievous one night while we were gone...and J left him out again one after this devastation and he ripped it up even more. We love him of course but not trust him right now to stay out of his kennel when we aren't home... poor guy.

4.) While Buddy Dog did destroy the couch, we still had couch time a few days later when J went to bed a little early. He looks very great danesque doesn't he?

5.) My sweet Grandmother is continuing to progress towards meeting Jesus which I'm sad and glad for all at once. Please pray that when she does go it's painless and hopefully in her sleep.
6.) Clemson is still undefeated! Holla... :)
7.) J bought me mums for the house and I finished my fall wreath! I need to take a picture...
8.) J installed our glass door and it looks amazing and lets so much more light into the house when we're home!

For now that is all. I'll post more pictures later!

Busy!

I'm back! I can't believe it's been over a week since I've posted. We've been busy is an understatement... so updates of note:

1. My Grandmother is getting worse by the day and I'm hoping it won't be long now til she gets to meet Jesus, I've been to see her twice this week. She's sleeping a lot. Please pray for her!
2. Work has gotten super busy and when I've come home I haven't wanted to be on the computer at all. Praise the Lord tomorrow is Friday!
3. My doctor's appointment today seemed to go well. The therapy treatment should help, fingers crossed no surgery!
4. Buddy almost ate J's birthday present that came in the mail today. It seems he's still not old enough for us to leave him out in the house while we're gone.
5. Speaking of birthday presents... I ended up telling J I bought him tickets to the ACC championship in December.. I'm so bad with surprises, it's weakness. It's usually why I wait til the last minute to buy something so I won't end up getting so excited and telling him.
6. We tailgated last weekend in Clemson and watched as they beat Florida State. We had a blast with Boone and Nic! J found a new tailgating game online called Hammerscholgen which was a huge hit with anyone who saw us playing it :)
7. We're going to Scarowinds tomorrow night with my family minus my Mom. She scares easily. Super pumped to hang out/spend time with the siblings and Dad!
8. I'm taking my MIL and Grandmother in law to see my Grandma on Saturday morning. Grandma Reynolds is going to play some hymns for Grandma :) and then we're going to Trader Jo's, I've never been so it's going to be fun. Glad to spend some time with them, with the new job it seems I don't get to do it enough with any of our family members. J is heading to Columbia for the USC game with some his friends.
9. Sunday we went to the Panther's game courtesy of a contractor J works with. I was so excited since I've never been and have always wanted to go! It poured but we stayed dry and watch the whole game.

Sha, sha, shake it...

 

I bought this cute little number off of Amazon for $4 plus shipping. I’m going to keep it on our sofa table in the living room for a mail holder since we don’t currently have a place for mail and it gets tossed around quite a bit. 

I made bacon burgers last night for dinner and we watched Thor, really healthy I know I know. Thor was FANTASTIC! Our Monday was pretty slow, BUT I came home and J had bought me a surprise! During the day I asked for a hint and he replied with, “You’ve said you wanted one of these.” I was lost until I got home and saw...

...a Shake Weight in the living room!!!!!!!!

And no, you may not judge my desire for one or the fact that I own one like Sarah B. from work did earlier today. “You really wanted one of those? Why don’t you use regular weights?” Oh Sarah, I’m hoping to show you up :) Well, I used it this morning and followed the DVD, guess we’ll see what happens over the next few weeks!

The way you look tonight

Rachel and Brandon’s wedding was beautiful! Congrats you two, I can’t wait to see what happens in the years to come…. Maybe some babies?! (Side note: I know I was in my sister in laws wedding in August and never posted any pictures but no pictures have appeared on Facebook for me to post, I’m hoping she’ll post some soon!)

I’m so glad that I got to be a part of their special day and while I’m sad to see them leave Charlotte for good, I’m kind of jealous that they’re going to Seattle to live.

Before I met J, I never had any intentions of living anywhere near where I grew up. I wanted to stay in Greenville or move to GA and go to grad school and then move to some big city and be a graphic designer. That seems like a lifetime ago to me sometimes when in reality it was only 3 years ago. Yes, I still want to go to Grad school but I think that’s a dream I’m probably never going to be able to fulfill due to the fact that school is expensive and we’re still suffering from my undergrad expenses…

While Grad school may never happen, I really don’t think I want to live the rest of our lives here in Rock Hill. My opinion on the subject changes on a weekly basis I think. Sometimes I can’t imagine living or being anywhere else and other days I want to go somewhere new, just J and I to start a life all on own. Who knows what in store, all I know is that this is the plan I think God always had for me--- to meet J and move here and get married. I’ve had a lot of amazing opportunities here, so I shouldn’t complain. I can’t wait to see what other adventures he has for us!

Few things to note from the weekend:
1.) I splintered my cell phone screen, again.
2.) I’m ready for my hair to be dark again. I’m over being somewhat blonde.
3.) Clemson won and ended Auburn’s 16 game winning streak, GO TIGERS!
4.) We watched Eat, Pray, Love this weekend… my opinion is still pending. It was good from the whole, let’s find myself stand point and not take on the persona of the current guy I’m seeing but bad from the whole guru Hinduism thing as well as leaving her husband simply because she didn’t want to be married anymore.
5.) I’m thoroughly enjoying the colder weather (except in a strapless, tea length dress on Sat night…) and I’m sad that it’s supposed to be hot again this weekend.

Today is Thursday and as the trend with the past few Thursdays, I’m drawing a blank for what to blog about. I need to come up with a topic for Thursdays, any thoughts? Anything you followers want to hear about? Your input would be lovely :)

A few things I am certain of today: 

1.) I need a beer maybe two or three.

2.) Work was a massive pain the side today and I’m ready for the weekend.   

3.) I love my husband more than he’ll ever know, he’s so encouraging! 

4.) I saw my Grandma today; it wasn’t a good day for her. I’m going to miss her when she’s gone… probably the hardest thing I’m ever going to experience in my life is losing her. 

5.) I can’t wait to see Rachel Steele get married on Saturday!