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Friday Confessions

This Friday is an extra special one. Not only is it Friday, but it's the Friday before a three day weekend! I can hear the hallelujah chorus from here! Let's keep it nice and easy on the blog today and do some confessing.

I confess... Parker and I played hide and seek with the Jenny pup Tuesday night and were totally entertained by it. I know, we are those people. She seemed to really get it. Parker would hide, I would look at her and say "Where's Dad?!", and she would run through the house and sniff around until she spotted him. She got so excited when she found him! When we switched roles and I hid, Parker asked Jenny "Where's Mom?!" and she looked at him with utter indifference as if to say "Good riddance- just me and you now Pa!". Rude.

I confess... Parker was gone all last weekend for a cross country flight. He returned and told me he had a present for me. I got excited for about 5 seconds and then realized who I was dealing with. When he took out my present, my suspicions were confirmed. My present was a bag of dirty laundry from the three day period. So romantic, that one.

I confess... Wide Open Country wrote an article called 15 of the Most Unique College Football Traditions and used a picture of Parker and I for the Texas A&M page. #15MinutesofFame

I confess... "y'all" is a part of my daily vocabulary. When you're from Texas, this is absolutely an acceptable word to use as often as you wish. However, I think I am supposed to keep the "y'alls" in check in the business world. I have a terrible habit of calling groups of people "y'all" on business calls. Oopsies.

I confess... I am so glad I don't have a way to know how much time I spend watching Netflix. I am currently binge watching Pretty Little Liars and straight up loving it.

I confess... Parker and I had a movie night in and watched The Sixth Sense. He hadn't seen it since he was a kid and I had avoided seeing it up until this point because I heard it was scary (big ol' wimp, party of one). I was a little jumpy but man it was good!

Happy Labor Day weekend!

House Tour: Guest Bathroom Blessings Wall

As some of you have read, Parker and I bought our first home back in June. Being home owners is so much fun! This is our sixth home in four years (thanks, Navy!), but it's the first one we have actually owned vice rented. We have absolutely loved making it our own and coming up with fun house projects to pass the time!

We have taken the decorating thing slowly because we want to make sure we really love each thing we add to our home. In previous homes we've rented, I've always thrown all decorating together in a weekend and called it done. Since this is actually our home and we will be living here for the foreseeable future, I want to take my time. Instead of doing a house tour, or even an entire room tour, I want to show segments of our home that we have put together. This little section is called "Bless Your Guests".

I wanted to do a mini gallery wall for the guest bathroom with inspirational quotes and scripture. I am of the opinion that bathroom decor should be subtle because, well, it's a bathroom. This is not necessarily the room I would choose to plaster family pictures all over, but I love the idea of uplifting and inspirational messages that our guests can look at while they're getting ready in the morning.

I already had a couple of these items and scoured Hobby Lobby for the rest. It's simple, but I really love how it turned out! As silly as it may sound, I really hope these little quotes and verses bring smiles to our guests' faces and remind them of God's love for them.