Monday, Monday, Monday!

Why o why do you always seem to sneak up on me?
I understand that you have to come after Sunday, but every Monday morning I seem to be asking myself, why?
I think part of this might be from the fact that Alex is off on Mondays...

Anywho!
How was everyone's weekend?

I have to say that this is the first weekend in a LONG time that I didn't feel like it went by in a flash!

Last week my girlfriend Amanda got some bad news, so to cheer her up her sister (Sarah) & I took her out for the day on Saturday.
We started with brunch at the wonderful Tower Cafe!
Let me just say that it was delicious!!

Sadly, this is the only picture I took ALL weekend!!

Then, our plan was to go to the river, but we ended up just going to the pool at Sarahs apartment!

Saturday night I spent at home with my love watching.... wait for it.... NASCAR!
**SIDENOTE: Not sure that I have told you all about my love for NASCAR.... I think this deserves its own post!!**

Sunday Alex had to work (the joys of working at a hospital, it NEVER closes!)... I am lucky in this, since I work in outpatient, my job is Monday - Friday!! :)
Anyway, since he had to work, I spent Sunday running errands, cleaning the house, doing laundry, you get the point!
We decided to have a little bar-b-que on Sunday evening with my sister & her husband & a few friends... The weather was so nice here all weekend & it was the perfect way to end the weekend!!

Now, if the next FIVE days could just get outta the way, we have a busy weekend (that I have been looking forward to) to get started!!!

XOXO

                     ~ Ashley

Monday Mornings

Who ever decided that we should work 5 days a week and only get 2 days off is CRAZY!!!

Clearly I do not like this idea!!
This Monday morning has already been a rough one for me...

• I woke up late! 
• Left my phone at home! {Lucky me Alex is off today & is going to bring it to me}
• My work computer decided it wanted to be like one of its ancient relatives & be slow as a dinosaur this morning!

I really am hoping this day gets better at some point!!

Anywho...

What happened around here this weekend?
All sorts of FUN!

Alex was gone clampin (no thats not a misspelled word, more on this another time) again this weekend... So what do us girls do when the boys are gone for 3 days? We have a girls night!!

To start the weekend off right, I only worked a half day on Friday (WOO-HOO), went home to clean the house, give the dogs a bath, get ready for the girls to come over!

Roulette discovered (after 1.5 years) that there is a window above the sink! 

Crazy dog!

After finally getting everything ready I realized that we were going to be having a liquid diet that night!

There really was food in there too!

If you cant tell there are 6 bottles of wine, who knows how many beers, and in the top corner 3 bottles of moonshine!

***If you guys havent tried that Redds Apple Beer, YOU NEED TO!!!***

And, now this is where I tell you that there are absolutely NO pictures of the decor or us having fun! I know I'm awful at this picture taking thing... Its something that Im working on!

Saturday was spent relaxing... I mean what else was I supposed to do?!? 

My house was clean, laundry was done, dogs had gotten baths... So I headed to the backyard to get some sun!!

Obviously Roulette needed to join in!

*Drink recipe*

Smirnoff Whipped Cream Vodka
+
Orange Cream soda
+
Ice
=
DELICIOUS summer drink!!

Saturday night was spent watching all the girly movies that I had been wanting to watch, but Alex didn't!! 

I must say I was VERY disappointed with Magic Mike...

Sunday Alex came home, we ran some errands & then were lazy and caught up on things that were recorded on the DVR!

Oh I almost forgot!

It took me 20 minutes (and I was on the website at exactly 10am when they went on sale) but I got us Kid Rock tickets for this July!

This show is going to be amazing, I hope! 

Plus ALL tickets, no matter where the seat, are $20!! 

Who could pass that up?? Not me!!

How was your weekend??

XOXO

                      ~ Ashley

TV Tuesday... Country Style

Yesterday was a very happy day around here...

Yesterday, I opened up blogger and had a HUGE surprise waiting for me...

I have my VERY FIRST FOLLOWER!!!!

HUGE shout out to Ashley over at Social Graces! You have no idea how much that little '1' up there means to me!

Now I have another little confession for you all...

I have a secret celebrity husband. I share this man with not only his wife, but thousands of other women around the world (ok maybe just nation, but you get the point)! 

So, when said person was hosting the ACM's this past Sunday, I was in heaven!

Oh, by the way if you haven't figured out who it is yet...

LUKE BRYAN!

Let me just say, his acceptance speech was perfect. What true emotion!

Moving right along now...

Luke & Blake hosting the ACM Awards was adorable. They were awesome together!

Some other key points of the night:

• King George... LOVED the fact that everyone stood during his entire performance! #60for60 if anybody deserves something like this it is him! Oh, and talk about watching history, his performance with Garth... amazing!
• Carrie... She was gorgeous as always. Her performance of Two Black Cadillacs, perfect!
• Florida Georgia Line winning New Artist of the Year! I heard on the radio yesterday, that last year they were at home eating pizza, watching the ACM's on TV.
• Finally seeing Eric Church without his signature sunglasses & hat, although he did put them back on when he accepted his award
• Jake Owen's plaid tux... I mean come on, who else could have pulled that off?
• Finally, as if George & Garth were not enough... The amazing Stevie Wonder performed not once but twice!

All the performances got me soo excited for all the concerts this summer! 

Have a great Tuesday!!

XOXO

                        ~Ashley

Oh Monday!

Happy Monday!

Who says that?!? 

Trust me I am nowhere near as chipper as that sounded!

Let me just start by saying my weekend FLEW by!

I love & hate weekends like that...

You know, the ones that are jam packed full of fun and relaxing,

and then before you know it its Sunday night and you realize you have to go to work the next day!

Heres a recap of our weekend:

 Friday was my sisters birthday... here she is with her presents sent from Utah!

Friday night we went to Red Robin for her birthday dinner.

Now some of you may be wondering 'why would you go to Red Robin' 

(trust me I was too)

Well, the answer is that there were 13 of us, and children were involved, 

so this seemed like the easiest most kid friendly environment.

Well, my sister told me to be at the resturant at 7pm

When Alex & I got there, most of her party was already there, but because when she called at 6:30

to do call ahead seating, the staff told her not to worry since they were not busy! 

PLEASE, its a Friday night at 6:30 you are gonna get busy!

Anyway, since our party was so large we had to wait over an hour to get a table...

This whole little story leads me to the next picture up there :)

By the time we got seated I needed a drink,

I decided to do something different & ordered some thing new called the Electric Watermelon...

It was NOT good!

I know, I usually don't like the new drinks that I try, and I should just stick with what I know!

And this is how Saturday morning was spent!

As if I didn't get enough of cleaning last weekend!

Since Alex was home this weekend, I made him help me move the couches

so that I could get all parts of the living room clean.

Please lets not talk about the 1970's wood wall in the picture, 

its awful, I know, but we rent!

(also not pictured is the really ugly floor to celine drapes on the window)

Moving right along...

Alex needed to go to Fry's on Saturday & I couldn't resist taking a picture of this TV!

Who could resist this face?!? 

'You talkin to mee??'

I felt the need to document the fact that I went to Sam's Club,

by myself, with only two things on my list & ONLY bought those two things!!

And, finally, how I spent my Sunday evening...

How was your weekend??

Only 4 more days until Friday!!!

Have a GREAT day...

XOXO 

                         ~ Ashley

Dear Friday

Dear Friday...

Thank you sooo much for finally getting here! Is it just me or has this week crawled by at a snails pace?!? 

Dear Apple Macbook...

I cannot express how happy I am that you are now in my life... I didn't realize just how much I would love you until you came into my life!!

Dear Commuters in the Greater Sacramento area...
Can we please learn to drive a tad bit better? And on that note can we please all agree not to freak out next time it rains & drive just like any other day? K? Thanks!

Dear Fur Babies...
Can you please let your mom & dad sleep in this weekend? (I don't know about you guys out there, but my babies can't seem to understand that the weekend means we can sleep longer!)

Dear Food Truck Mania...
Last night was awesome! Great food and people! I, of course, forgot to take any pictures of this event... So you will just have to wait until next month, sorry...

and finally...

Dear Monday...
Can you figure out a way to rearrange your schedule so that we get more than 2 days off? Thanks!

Until next time!!

XOXO
~Ashley

One of Those Days!!

Well, it has definitely been one of those days!

You know what Im talking about...

One of those days that starts all wrong,

One of those days that makes you want to go back to bed and start again!

One of those days that you cant wait to be over!

Let me 'splain how my day started...

I had EVERY intention of getting to work early today (so I could leave a little early), but my sleep had other plans for me!

My normal 20 minute commute then took me 1 hour and 15 minutes (if your on the ball you know that this made me late for work)

You see here in Sacramento, when water falls from the sky, people suddenly don't know how to operate a vehicle anymore...
 

 

One: The view from my side mirror; Two: The line of cars waiting to merge onto the freeway with us; Three: My TOP speed!!!

The only thing that made this commute bearable was this:

If you havent heard this version yet, you need to!

(I may be a little biased since these are 2 of my favorite performers!)

Oh, and maybe the satisfaction that most of the people on the freeway with me are going to be late for work as well! (That was mean I know!) 

Any way! The good news about today is that tomorrow is Friday (See Im trying to find something positive about today) and tomorrow is my sweet sisters birthday!

Another good thing about today is that tonight is Food Truck Mania night! More on this in another post...

Plus... Alex is off this weekend and for once in a loooonnnggg time we don't have ANY plans!

Well that is all for today...

XOXO

                         ~ Ashley

TV Tuesday

Happy Tuesday! We are one day closer to Friday!!

Nothing exciting going on around here... Today I thought that we could discuss some TV...

Alex & I DVR almost all of the shows we watch, a lot of this has to do with the fact that we are too busy to actually sit in front of the TV every night to watch all the shows we like & my dislike for most commercials . Some of our favorites include NCIS (original & LA), 2 Broke Girls, Whitney, Duck Dynasty (you get the point)...

And then there are the shows that I record and watch all by myself...

I know Im not the only one who watches this! This show tugs at all my want to be country girl (but living in a city) heart strings! 

If you are not watching this show you should be! NOW!

I love this show, but Alex has grown tired of it and has stopped watching it with me.

I understand, he likes to know that a show will continue, but this show seems to have the same story line in every episode! I am still holding out hope for it!

I love the pace of this show. I love Olivias character.

I love that the first lady has FINALLY told the president off!

Sorry if you haven't watched the latest episode...

This is my some-what guilty pleasure.

This show is at the end of its second season, but a few weeks ago I was sick & spent the day catching up on Netflix!

First off who doesn't love Rachel Bilson? She is adorable!

I love the big city girl in small town Alabama!

Now this show just started about a month ago... 

I recorded the first few shows & Alex didn't want to watch.

So this past weekend, while Alex was out of town I decided to finally watch it.

The first episode pulled me in & I couldn't stop watching,

Unfortunately, I didn't set up the DVR to record all of the episodes so....

I spent Sunday morning finishing up my laundry & watching the last 4 episodes on Hulu!

So, what shows do you watch??

xoxox

~Ashley  

Things Im LOVING

Well hello! I know its been a while. Im not sure where my head is with this blogging thing. I really like to read everybody else's blogs but not sure if Im up for doing my own! This post is just going to be something light, so with that being said, here are some things that Im loving right now...

These 2 candles from Bath & Body Works... LOVE!

I personally stocked up on them since the sale (2 for $22) was ending soon, plus anybody that shops at BBW knows that this is what you do when the 3 wick candles are on sale!

I CANT wait for the weather to get warmer so that I can wear these shorts that I just picked up from Khols. 

These 3 fur babies! (L-R: Leia, Yoda & Roulette)

Alex was out of town on Saturday & then had to work on Sunday, so we spent the weekend at home!

Finally...

What I have been in L-O-V-E with for the last week...

My new Apple Macbook Pro! 

Let me tell you, I never thought that I would switch from a PC to a Mac.

I grew up with PC's but have always lusted after the Mac's whenever I was in in the store.

I found out that my job offers this program where you can purchase a computer (or tablet) and the money is deducted from my paycheck for 1 year.

Of course I jumped on it because for a low $90 per check I have a new computer (and some software that I wanted) with no interest charges!

I had already started to save for one but now I have my computer (much faster that if I had waited until I saved up all the money).

Since Im new to the Mac world (not apple - I have had an iphone for years & last year Alex bought me an iPad) any good suggestions for apps?