these are a few of my favorite things

Paula Dean's Pecan Pie candle from Wal-Mart.. it's a perfect fall candle and smells up the room in no time! You need to get one!


"Just for one" peas and corn in a basil butter sauce.. they are delish! And only 80 calories


I can't get enough tomatoes these days! And I love this cute red bowl I found at the thrift store on base in Wichita Falls.


Every night before I go to bed I have a cup of hot tea.. it's so yummy and relaxing!


SKYPE! We have a 9:00 date every night on the webcam. I took this picture of Scott last night.. he has these different things he can put on the screen like hats, glasses, facial hair.. it's hilarious! I feel boring though because I don't have all the fun gadgets so I just sit there and laugh at him.

wichita weekend #1

I made the trip to Wichita Falls Friday after work. I got off work 3 hours earlier than planned and I was sooo excited! I was out of town by 2:30 and made it to Wichita Falls right at 7:30. It rained on me a few times, but for the most part the drive was great. Today on my way back the weather was gorgeous and I made it back in just a little over 4 hours. I only stopped once and the traffic wasn't bad at all. We had a wonderful weekend and it was so good to be with my hubby. We relaxed, ate alot, drove around and explored to city some, Scott showed me around base, we shopped a little and watched football. A perfect weekend. :)


This is Pioneer Diner, we passed by it while driving through downtown and thought it looked cool (we actually though it looked like a place you'd see on Diners, Drive ins and Dives) so we went there for lunch on Saturday.

I'm happy :) It was delicious! They had a huge menu-Scott had a cheeseburger and onion rings and I had beef and chicken enchiladas.


YUM-O!

This is a pretty lame picture-not much to choose from for a good background in a little hotel room. But this is us before dinner Saturday night. We went to a place called McBride's Steakhouse. It was VERY good. We'll for sure be going back there and to Pioneer's.

TOLD YA SO! Here we are at Pioneer's again! There's three of them in Wichita Falls that we know of. We tried out one of the other ones for breakfast Sunday morning. And we were not disappointed.


Scott played "Love me tender" and sang to me. I was embarrassed and he was cracking me up. We were impressed with the little jukebox things at each table. Pretty cool!

"you gotta learn to reduce reuse recycle"-jack johnson

It's been one week and one day without my best friend. It hasn't been too bad but it's only the beginning. I've held up very well and actually have surprised myself. I feel safe at night with our alarm system installed and I've been sleeping great except for waking up in the middle of the night a few times but I usually go right back to sleep. I talk to him several times a day so that helps and I'm going to see him this weekend! :) I can't wait to get there!

Sometime in this past week I decided to start recycling. One reason is because I have to take out the trash now and I realize how much we are throwing away. Also, because about a month ago I saw these pictures on my cousin, Jennifer's facebook of her little girl Katy recycling. I thought if a two year old is doing it, I need to be doing it! Texarkana use to have the big orange bins you put out with the trash cans to recycle but I don't ever see them anymore. I guess I'll just take my stuff to the bin at the school. Maybe Texarkana isn't "green"??? Here's Katy recycling and my bags that I'm seperating everything into, too.









Look what I had when I got home from work Thursday. God gave me a rose! I never water this or do anything to the flower bed that Scott has told me is mine to take care of and roses keep popping up!

shop-therapy

So, Scott left Monday about 11 am. He made it to Wichita Falls safe and sound and is trying to get adjusted to his new life for the next three months. He said today went good but he just really hopes this time flies by.. he's already ready to get home. He said he misses me already.. :) :( So sweet!

Before he left on Monday he told me to go buy myself a few things. He knows how to make me happy! Little did he know I was already planning on doing just that. But it made me not feel guilty about going since he told me to! I racked up on some good dress pants for work at JC Penney. They fit really cute. A Black pair, black tweed pair and some that are like brown and cream. I found a picture on their site for the black pairs. They were only $15 and the brown $20!




Mom and I went shopping for Bunco gifts at Kirkland's, Hobby Lobby, Pier 1 and B Jaxx. I did suprisingly good. They had tons of fall stuff which is mine and Mom's favorite!!! I'm dying to go to Canton but that means giving up a weekend that I already have scheduled to go to see Scott, so that's not happening.

Hope everyone has a good (short!) week! :)

date night ;)

We went to Zapata's tonight.. YUM-O! We split chicken fajitas and each had three margaritas.. =D We had a great time and while we were there we ran into one of our good friend's mother's. (Josh Thane, that we just went to dinner with last weekend at Joe's) His mom was picking up a to-go order but decided to stay and have a drink with us. She is so so sweet and hilarious! When we asked for our check to pay for our meal, the meal was paid for.. by Mary Jane. She is too sweet to do that and did not need to do that for us. She's just too sweet. We decided on our way home we would stop by the liquor store and get something. Now here I sit on the computer and Scott glued to the TV... ahh football! :) Here's some pictures of us we snapped after dinner.