Weekend Update:)

First thing's first here ...  can we all acknowledge the fact that I have krept up to  600 Followers
over the weekend? Woohooo! So excited!  Thanks to everyone and welcome to all my new followers :) So glad you are here!!  Weekend Update Time!

We had a busy, packed weekend, that's for sure!

Just call me Picaso ... 

My girlfriends and I had planned on going this weekend to a painting class at Painting with a Twist

 for ...

wait for it ... 

Paint Your Pet Night!!

You know if it involves Frankie I am automatically signed up haha. 

We emailed a picture of our pet earlier in the week and they sketched it on the canvas 

This is the pic I emailed of my sweet angel 

I had so much fun painting!! 

My friends, Kim and Kelly, painting their furbabies also :) 

And look how he turned out .. pretty good for my first time if I do say so myself ;) 

Kind of blurry, but all of us with our masterpieces!

My pics side by side ... 
 And currently it is sitting in the middle of our Dining Room table until I have it framed and hang it up somewhere (or give it to Chris for Valentine's Day if he is extra good this week hahahaha)

SO fun! 

If you have one near you I would def recommend grabbing some girlfriends and going! 

We will for sure be going back another time! 

New Listing

I listed a great house this weekend ... and hired a professional photographer for the first time to take pics of the house and boy oh boy what a difference it made! I will never take pics again  ... my sellers now have an even better advantage over their competition and future sellers have another reason to list with me :)

Check out the pic!

Those are just a few of the pics, but how great did they turn out? Love them! 

Taking more tomorrow for another new listing ;)

If you are looking for a new home in Lexington, KY and want info on the above house click HERE!

 Chris took Ella and Ava to our church's Father/Daughter dance this weekend and they had an awesome time!! I will post pics on that tomorrow because I haven't uploaded them yet, but here is a sneak peak ha 

They are adorable and the girls looked so beautiful! <3 

I am so glad they got to go and celebrate their relationship with their Daddy. 

They say the most important relationship a female will ever has is the one she has with her father as a child. They are lucky to have an amazing father like Chris ;) 

Hope everyone had a fantastic weekend!!

It's almost Valentine's Day! 

What is everyone doing?

Sunshine Award!

I was so happy today when I got an email from Melanie over at Sarcasm & Curls that I was nominated for the Blogging Sunshine Award! I didn't know what it was, just knew it sounded like fun and I was excited! Haha! Thank you so much lady! Love you and your blog!! XO! 

For those of you not following Melanie,  let me tell you a few reasons why I love her ... and you will too! 1. She is hysterical, period. 2. She is on the gif bandwagon and they are absolutely the funniest things ever 3. She loves Pretty Little Liars (so that is an automatic given on the friendship level ha) 4. Her dog Mia, and Frankie, are long lost BFF's 

Mia (left) ... Frankie (right) 

What is it with Yorkies and their curled up/cuddle position haha .. love it! 

Okay, onto the award ... 

Rules:

If nominated for this award, you must include a link in your blog to the person/blog that nominated you. You must also answer some questions about yourself, nominate fellow bloggers, link their blogs in your post, and inform them that they have been nominated.

Questions:

Who is your favorite philosopher: 

Umm... no idea. That is really a hard one. 

What is your favorite number? 

4. And I have no idea why, lol 

What is your favorite animal? 

Dogs and Turtles ... I like dogs as pets mostly and turtles are kind of something that started as an inside joke between Chris and I, snapping turtles to be exact, and then just stuck and now everyone always sends me turtle stuff, we get a turtle figure every time we go out of town lol and the kids always draw me turtles ... it's cute ;) 

What are your Facebook and Twitter? 

Facebook is HERE

Twitter I am not on .. I know, I know ... but I am on Pinterest you can follow me HERE 

What is your favorite time of the day? 

Probably at the end of the day when I can come home and hang out, relax, and watch my shows and snuggle with Chris and Frankie :) 

hahahaha this makes me laugh. both of them, knocked out. ridic. ;) 

What is your favorite holiday? 

Easter.

What is your favorite physical activity? 

Probably walking hahaha briskly walking, outside, while talking to a friend and chatting so it goes by quickly. Kidding (kinda) ... my other physical activity is Barre classes. I love them. 

What is your favorite non-alcoholic drink? 

Sweet Tea or Water. 

What is your favorite flower? 

Hydrangeas and Peonies

(which is some of what we are using in our wedding!) 

What is your passion? 

Real Estate. 

I know some people will be like, oh whatever, that's her job, she just wants her clients to read that haha but it is really true. I love real estate and building/design. I truly have a passion for it and am so blessed I get to wake up every day and do a job I love.  

I am nominating the following lovely ladies for this award also: 

Jill @ Bluegrass Belle ... 

(She is funny, has good style and NEEDS A BUTTON and this will make her make one ha!)

Lea Liz @ The Roland's  ....

 (I just won her giveaway, her blog is adorable & so are her boys!)

Maegan @ Waltz With Us  ... 

(She is pregnant w/ TWINS, blogging about her life & babies, love her!!)

 Go follow their blogs and let's pass on the Sunshine Award! 

In other news, 

my "5 Things" Post yesterday was fun and some other pretty ladies decided to join in on the fun! Go meet Shay and Jenn and learn more about them and their cute blogs!!

That's all for now!

Ready for the weekend, 

February 1st and Brittany WHO?

Happy Friday Lovely Ladies (and gents ha)

I swear yesterday and today I worked 11 hour days both days, so exhausted!
I didn't even know today was Friday until around 10am today! All my days have just run together this week!

With it being February 1st ... before I get started with today's post I wanted to share something I saw on Pinterest that Chris and I actually did for the kids last year ...

I think I shared this last year ... but starting on the first day of February and going until Valentine's Day, I had cut out all different color hearts on just card stock paper from Hobby Lobby, and each day we wrote each of the kids a little note or kind words, and taped it to their bedroom door! Some days Chris wrote one, some days I wrote them ... we took turns and wrote individual things we love about the kids. They loved reading them :) and we loved writing them.

So thought I would pass along for ya'll also!

Don't have kids? 

Do some for your husband, or boyfriend!!! 

Who am I kidding, I would do them for Frankie if he could read ha

Love his sweet face <3

Ok, so last night was the FIFTH TIME that someone said I look like an actress that I had never even heard of before who I have now of course googled and looked at all her pictures. 

Have you heard of Brittany Snow?

Last week when I was at TJ Maxx I was checking out and these people were staring at me majorly ... to the point I was like do I have something on my face? Did I accidentally knock something over? Are they readers of the blog and think I look familiar? Or the worst ... did I sell them a house and forget who they are (my worst nightmare ha)???? No .. the answer was none of those. As I walk out the door they come up to me and say "Are you an actress?" to which I am trying to not laugh in their face, because let's face it, an actress I am most definitely not ha. I of course said no, and they said "We thought you were Brittany Snow, the actress!" 

I was so busy I didn't even think twice about it. Just smiled and said "Oh ok thank you I guess!" lol ???

A couple more people mentioned it and I ignored it. 

Yesterday I was getting my hair done and another sweet girl said it as soon as I walked in ... "You look just like Brittany Snow, oh my gosh!" ... 

Then last night, I put a pic on Instgram and someone said it AGAIN! 

So enough is enough...

Ok ya'll ... so who the H is Brittany Snow? 

She is 26 years old (I am 3 years her elder ha) ... 5'4" ... I am 5'3" on a good day lol ... 

She's been in several movies, sadly to say none of which I think I have seen but I am not a huge movie guru so that doens't mean a thing! 

What do you think?

I mean I guess I can kinda see a resemblance ... ha when I look at our pictures side by side of course.

Chris says he kinda sees it...

Kelly, my BFF,

says she sees it a little but not really hahaha... she is just so sweet she says she sees more Blake Lively which I think is the most hysterical thing I have ever heard ... love you Kel lol ;) <3 

Anywho,

I will take it as a compliment because regardless of if little miss Brittany and I look alike, I do think she is gorgeous and hope to look as pretty as she does! :) True story. 

That's all I've got for today friends! 

Busy day again tomorrow but hoping to finish a little early so I can get some things done around our house. 

This 9 degree weather, I told you it was coming :(  is really cramping my style ... showing houses in the freezing cold is no fun, take my word for it! 

Have a great weekend!!

XO,

TGIS!

You have NO idea how happy I am that it is Saturday!

I have had a crazy busy week, and today I purposely scheduled nothing so I could relax, enjoy some time with Chris and the kids, clean my house, do laundry, get a spray tan and my nails done ha, and just play catch up on my personal life!

This will be a random tid bit of fun pics and events from the week :)

I cleaned out my office and desk and added some cuteness:

 New Lamp, TJ Maxx $39, steal!!! :)

New Chairs ... also TJ Maxx find .. $89 each! Aren't they so cute? They're comfy too! I am adding a little table in the middle but waiting on my mom to make the burlap table cover :) Can't wait! 

School was called off on Friday because we literally got a centimeter of snow lol so Ella and Ava learned real world skills and went to work with me! 

They were stuffin' envelopes, printing return address labels, returning text messages haha you name it, they were doing it! Such good little helpers!

Frankie went and got his hair did and now he is even handsomer (is that a word?) than before!

I found two wedding hair styles I like ... 

Chris wants me to wear my hair down and wavy like normal, but I want to add a little something to it, I like Jess's hair do above, kind of teased up a little, I think that would like pretty with my veil. What do ya'll think? 

Then I love this Carrie "do" below for bridesmaids ... 

Side swept is my fave ... it would be so pretty! 

That's pretty much all on the wedding front I have right now ha. 

Last night we went to Chris's nephew's 1st Birthday Party! 

He was so cute as always! And a very neat cake eater too! He didn't make a huge mess like normal 1 yr olds lol ... he kept wanting to feed it to everyone else :) So precious!

We enjoyed some yummy chili for dinner! 

How cute is this sign Lisa made? 

She and her house are straight out of Pottery Barn and Pinterest ... the cutest you have ever seen! 

I got to play with Jack, my favorite ;)
I mean he is literally a baby model ... he needs to be picked up from Crewcuts!

How cute is he? 

Adorable. 

I will leave you with this ... 

I saw this a while ago and loved it, then couldn't find it ... and then this week I saw it on Emily Maynard's Facebook! Love her. And love this. I am printing it and putting it in my Bible so I won't lose it again!

Happy Saturday!

I am off to clean and run errands :) 

Wedding, Work and Realty TV ha

Hola Chicas!  So today I had a really good TV update post planned ...
there is SO much going on I have THREE of our TV's being held hostage by DVR because of all of these shows on right now ....

Pretty Little Liars
(Holy Toby! What is happening?)
 Kourtney & Kim take Miami 
 Real Housewives of Beverly Hills AND Atlanta 
(Kenya is cray-cray can we all agree on that?)
Private Practice
Honey Boo Boo 
(don't judge, it's comedy at it's finest!)
The Good Wife 
Grey's Anatomy
Nashville
and ...
Duck Dynasty
(yes, I let Chris watch this one show on "my" dvr TV haha I am a good fiance!)

There are sooo many more I am just drawing a blank ... 

Anyway, I wanted to do a TV catch up post but honestly there have been too many more important things going on in this crazy life of mine, so I thought I would share those instead ;)

In no particular order ... 

We finalized Bridesmaids Dresses!!

Whitney, Kim, Chrissy & Emily 
(Missing Kelly!:( She couldn't go. And Ella and Ava too!) 

We had a girl's day and went back up to Bridal and Formal in Cincinnati, OH to finalize and purchase the dresses and I am SO excited because everyone is going to look perfect and so pretty! Each of my friends are wearing the same brand dress (Waters) but in different styles and  3 different colors ... kind of a blush/light pink, a champagne and a stone color which is like grey kind of.  They are all gorgeous!!!! Can't wait to show everyone!

I also tried on my dress again and they had a smaller sample size this time so it fit a little better and I LOVED it so much more than I even did the first time when I bought it!!! Ahhhhh!!! It's so pretty!!!!!!

I am loving this makeup ... on one of my fave PLL ladies ... 

How do you feel about that for my wedding makeup?

I love it! Looks so natural but stunning! 

Do you know about custom stamps? Or have I been under a rock?

I came across an advertisement in a Shutterfly magazine I got in the mail about ordering custom photo stamps from Stamps.com and I thought to myself "hmmm.... now that's amazing!" 

So of course I got online instantly and ordered some for our Save the Date's that are going out this week ... and we finally got them in the mail and they are EVEN MORE AMAZING in person!!!

Are you dying?

How cute are those? 

Ahhh I just love them! They are my new favorite thing! 

They are BIG too! Like over twice the size of a regular ugly stamp ha. Love them!! 

It was super easy too, you basically just upload a picture and Ta-da! 

View the wesbite and order some HERE

Lastly on the wedding front, I ordered Frankie's tux ... 

Brace yourself .... 

Precious!
He will be so handsome I can not even stand it!!
So excited!

Speaking of Frankie, 
and my never ending, ever growing, sometimes crazy, love for him ....
Look what I saw today and couldn't help but LOL ....

Bahahahahaha
So true! I love it.
I literally laugh out loud every time I read it ha!

In Real Estate News .... 
Yours truly has been quite the little Realtor lately ;)

Lexington Herald Leader's "Realtor of the Week" in last Sunday's paper!

So awesome, loved it, and so did everyone else! My Fbook and phone were blowing up with messages! :)

Then .... 

Double spot ad in Skirt! Magazine 
in the Fabulous Faces of Real Estate in Lexington, KY article! 

I can't wait for this year! My business is growing more and more every day!
I just know we are going to kill it this year!
If you're in or around Lexington please remember me when you know someone looking to buy or sell!
And if you're not in Lexington, that's ok too ... I can refer you to a great Realtor in your area!
I have Realtor friends in a lot of other states that would love to help :)
Buying or Selling a home is a BIG deal ... don't go at it alone, work with a professional!
After all, I always tell people, if you were having trouble with a tooth you would go to the dentist and let the professional work on it, not try to work on it yourself ha!  So the same should be true with your home, which is the single biggest purchase in your life!

Pinterest Snack ... 

If you haven't seen these on Pinterest or tried them yet then you need to.

I made them for a lunch at my office and literally they are delish!

And soooo easy! Takes like 15 min total. So yummy. 

Perfect for Valentine's Day school treats too! 

Lastly, 

a Birthday Shout Out! 

Happy Birthday Leslie!!

Leslie is my brother's girlfriend, and also my assistant :) And she just had a birthday over the weekend so I wanted to give her another little bday wish just because I love her ha :) Glad you had a good birthday! XO!

Well I think that's it for now ... 

I have listed 3 new houses this past week so going to post some cute house pics soon. 

And of course more wedding updates as they come ... I am trying to keep some things a surprise but it's so dang hard! I am already dying to show Chris my dress... but don't worry, I'm not! He will have to wait ha! 

XO,