Five on Friday - House Improvements

Linking up with April, Christina and others today for Five on Friday!

ONE - on Monday I pulled up to la casa and saw this.  I was shocked at how large it was.  It was the line for the backflow preventer that will serve our new irrigation system.  We were hesitant to spend $10,000 or more on a well and never hit water...the guy two doors down spent $14,000 and still didn't hit water.  Yeah so public water with a new meter it is.  

TWO - Mills was less than pleased at the people in his front yard and decided to make himself right at home.  By all means Mr. Mills!

THREE - my friend Lisa and I had a spur of the moment run up to HomeGoods on Tuesday night.  She lives in the neighborhood so it was easy.  It kinda feels like I live in my own (with Kevin) sorority house sometimes because we just decide randomly to do something and I'll zip over to a neighbors house in my pajamas haha.  I like living amongst friends!

David Yurman randomly this week...second from right necklace..yes!

FOUR - cruised up to wild and wonderful West Virginia this week to check on a project I have going on.

Very muddy site.  Glad I was prepared!

FIVE - I arrived back home yesterday to find the irrigation guys packing up.  We have irrigation now!  Next step - our landscaping guy will be back tomorrow or Saturday to aerate and plant A LOT of grass!  I want it to look like our across the street neighbor's yard.  Isn't it gorgeous?!  I always apologize to her that they have to look at our yard haha!

Happy Weekend to yall!

Bedroom is painted!

Before

After.  We painted the walls SW Passive, ceiling is ceiling white and the trim is Creamy high gloss.  And my oh my is it a change. 

Before - old lady pink walls AND ceiling.  Nasty white trim that was 15 years of dirty.  

Now we need to get a new fan which Kevin and I think will really change it and do something about our bedding.  Not sure if it goes or not but need a new pillow out front at least.  

No cords!

Before... We've lived with patchwork of figuring out colors for two years.  Kevin told me I wasn't allowed to buy another sample haha!

After

Big change right?!  And our first "cool" color in the house.  All other walls are SW Jersey Cream which is very easy to decorate with but still has a lil pep to it.  

Would Like List

I think I've mentioned on here that I keep a "would like" list on my phone so that basically eliminates impulse buying.  And when Kevin starts asking 2 months before my birthday what I want, I have some options to send to him.  So here we go...

Kate Spade Cherry Lane Tenley Crossbody Bag

Always love a Nordstrom gift card.  Who wouldn't?!  Makeup, heels, wraps, jewelry, clothes, purses, I love this place.

Outrageous Yachts coffee table book from Amazon.  I've seen this in person and it's awesome.

Great Houses of the South is another coffee table book I'd like one day but after Outrageous Yachts.  Have I mentioned how much I like Amazon Prime lately?

New car comes a new key chain.  Mine is looking rough.  Smathers and Branson Starfish.

Smathers and Branson Retriever

My Abas wallet has seen better days.  I've had it for 10 years.  I'd love a new wallet but it's not completely necessary yet.  And I like bright color wallets so I can find them in my purse.  KS Cobble Hill Lacey Zip Around Wallet

And y'all know I love some J. Crew for work clothes especially.  

So there you have it.  What's on your wish list? 

Weekend - Fish Camp, Wedding

Friday - I finally got my car. The Greenville, SC dealership brought it to me. Kevin's car has been booted out of the garage.  The jeep and my car have priority. For some reason Kevin talked all weekend about building a two car garage...!

We went to the fish camp with Kevin's parents, brother and niece. Then tcby!

One bow girl!

Saturday - flywheel and I cleaned.  Whoa.  I'm trying to get better at cleaning in between Rosa coming, which PS is still the best money we spend all month.  I really loved her after 4 hours of cleaning on Saturday.

Turkey, avocado and Munster on sourdough. With kosher pickle. 

Saturday night we went to Elevation church for this...

Then to SAMs which most of you have already seen the joke I played on Kevin!

Sunday - Rob and Kristin's wedding at Unknown brewery.  We weren't invited to the church because it wasn't big enough but we headed to the 7pm reception.   To each their own.

He is one of Kevin's old bank buddies. 

Us with Davidson and Gina. She and I had fun together chatting the entire time. 

Bank guys 

Great weekend. How was yours?!

Five on Friday

Excited to join Five on Friday with April, Christina, Darci and Natasha!  They are doing a big ole giveaway so hop over to their blogs to find out about it!

I'm currently up at the crack of dawn because I'm so excited.  I'm finally getting a car today.  

One - new light post. Can't remember if I shared this or not. 

Two - the County came and made the tap on the water line for our new irrigation meter.  We are getting closer to green grass like our across the street neighbors. 

Three - our next door neighbors lil boy loves Mills. I got home early from the airport one day and he came over for 20 minutes. Not sure who loved it more - Mills or Luka!  

Four - I was in Dallas Monday and Tuesday this week.  Lindsey and I did flywheel with our favorite instructor, Thomas!  I also had lunch with some of Kevin's family. 

Five - I finished a building in Virginia on Wednesday and took a ride up there to do a final walk through with our tenant. 

Five point five - I went to Kansas City for the day yesterday to have a pre-construction meeting for a new project I have starting.  I like it!

Hope you all have a nice weekend.  We have a wedding!  Are you surprised ha?!  

Wedding at CCC

We were fortunate to be included in a gorgeous wedding last Saturday evening.  My bossman's daughter got married at Myers Park Presbyterian followed by a gorgeous reception at Charlotte Country Club.  

David Chadwick who is a minister at Forest Hill in Charlotte officiated most of the ceremony.  He was outstanding.  One thing he did was ask all of the married couples in the crowd to hold hands and recite the vows back to each other.  No one did it out loud but it was special to hear the happy couple take their vows and us all reminisce.  Another thing he mentioned is that marriage is a bond and one that is never broken.  He said if he has a couple come in to his office and say they're thinking about a divorce and they mention feelings or circumstances, he says that those are no reason for a divorce.  Feelings or circumstances have nothing to do with marriage.  I thought that was interesting and true.

Anyway back to the wedding... 

The cake was HUGE.  These pictures don't do it justice but it was so pretty.

This arrangement was humongo as well.  

She was stunning.

The band was Jessie's Girls out of Atlanta.  There were at least 15 of them that rotated on and off.

They are the cutest couple.  She's been working in the office the past year or two and I've really enjoyed becoming friends with her.  She's so sweet.

This was actually her third outfit.  She put on a white party dress midway through the reception then this was her exit outfit.  Amazing right?!  I love his face in this picture!

And they're off to the Four Seasons in Maui!  She didn't know where they were going until the day before!  So fun!  As you know I'm a bit partial to honeymoons in Maui! ;)

Congratulations you two!