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Snow December 4th in NC!?!

Yes, you read that right. I was shocked last Friday to read on twitter first then weather bug that they were calling for a 30% chance of snow for Saturday 12/4 in NC. We didn’t believe it. I didn’t do the NC thing & stock up on bread & milk {we had both already}.

Our Saturday plans were to get our tree & decorate it & the rest of the house. We were being lazy & watching gameday & football Saturday morning. Moe being lazy {aka normal}.


Next thing I knew it was around 1p and we noticed it was spittin’ snow! I was so excited! I went up to the attic & got down the decorations. Vacuumed the house. I was about the jump in the shower when Jason yelled that it was really snowing & even better, sticking a little to the deck, bushes & grass! I took these photos with my phone so they’re pretty grainy but you can see it.


I jumped in the shower & then we headed out to get the tree from Lowes close by just in case the snow was sticking on the roads. Lowes looked like a winter wonderland! I found one tree thought it looked good but then realized it was too skinny. So we went back through the snowy trees and found a more full one. I love it!


Once we got the tree home, the snow had fallen off but it was a little too wet to decorate. We decorated the rest of the house and I did the owl tree. We waited until Sunday afternoon to decorate the tree & it looks awesome I must say. I’ll post photos of decorations later this week.

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Thanksgiving weekend pups

I was going to add these photos from last weekend to one of the posts below, but then I thought they were cute enough for a post of their own! Enjoy! Bocce, the white Bichon, is my grandparents very spoiled only child. Quinn {named after Quinn in Glee} is a French Bulldog that belongs to my brother & his fiance. Quinn is used to being around other dogs & lives with two cats.

Quinn likes to sit on my dad’s lap. Then Bocce would get jealous/curious & jump up. Quinn would be like ok cool. Bocce would then freak out & bark/growl. Trying to take these photos was difficult! You can tell Quinn’s pretty laid back but my dad was having to hold Bocce! And both were getting distracted!


Bocce & Pawpaw’s usual rutine includes a lot of naps in the below chair. Bocce finally realized it was ok for Quinn to join them, but only if Quinn stayed on Pawpaw’s legs down.


Bocce loves drinking the condensation off bottles. When Dad finished his beer, he held it out to Bocce who {with help from Dad} proceeded to hold it in his paws & “drink” it! LOL!

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New Boots! and other Black Friday deals

Husband’s playing a video game & my blogging Monday made him “die”. So I’m blogging from my phone for now. Excuse errors. I’ll go back tomorrow & fix as well as add photos.

After our successful midnight shopping, we were up again by 815a Friday morning. I grabbed a Diet Coke and a few pumpkin cookies before getting in the SUV w/ Mom & Nana to be at Victoria’s Ragpatch by 9a. We arrived at 9:02a so we missed standing in line but arrived in time to get a coupon each for 50% off any one regular price item! Almost the entire OIB store was 75% off clothes (including Lilly!) and 50% off accessories. We all scored OkaB’s for $7 (Mom & Nana got a few for themselves & I bought some for gifts for my aunts). I also bought a pair of Lilly linen pants for $22, a Lilly koozie, guest towels & coasters. I used my 50% off coupon on one of the brand new resort line peach chic polos. I love those buttons & can’t wait til its warm enough to wear.

After Vicki’s, we headed to Belk’s. We bought my grandfather loungewear, some jewelry for ourselves (like $17 for supposed to be real black & white pearl necklace/bracelet/earring set) & I found some tall flat dark brown boots that I loved! Only problem, didn’t have them in my size. A helpful salesperson discovered they had 4 at my home mall Belk & a super helpful Raleigh Belk employee let me purchase them over the phone & she found coupons to make them an even better price~ orginally $89 bought for $48!! I wore them today with brown leggings & took a self pic to show yall.
We went back home for lunch then back out to go to surf shop for my brother as well as pick up all the pandora jewelry {the saleslady there had wrapped them individually then held them for us}. We bought fresh off the boat grouper to have for dinner. We topped with blackening seasoning then baked and served with broccoli casserole & leftover sweet potato casserole.


Saturday we mostly chilled. Mom & I took a good walk on the beach. We celebrated Mom’s birthday {which was Sunday} and {very early} mine after lunch. Lowes Food cake was delicious! And we both opened some fun gifts! I received a purple v-neck from Loft, an orange sweater dress {that will look awesome w/ my boots!}, Lilly Christmas ornaments from my brother, & grandparents & parents put money towards my Nikon Christmas camera.


The girls went for mani/pedis early Sat afternoon. I chose RED opi polish anticipating it lookin’ great cheering on NCSU at the ACC championship 12/4. Sadly, the NCSU/MD did not go the way we hoped. Towards the end of the game we left & went to see the end of the OIB floatilla. The boats looked great & helped get me really in the festive Christmas mood.

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Cyber Monday Shopping

In case you didn’t know by now… I love shopping. Even more, I love deals! Today was no different.

I follow Hannah {aka Peggy Ann Design} on twitter & I was so sad this morning when I saw that I’d missed out on her great deals over the weekend. But luckily for me & two of my friends {for Christmas!}, she was still doing 20% off today & free shipping! So I might have bought a few things, but I’m not posting what I purchased in case they check ou t the blog between now & Christmas!

I’ve been eying JPK handbags for a while now. Three of my good friends have them in various colors. I was hugging on one at Belk Friday & again Sunday, but not hugging on the $165 price. So I thought I’d check online today to see if they were on sale online anywhere. I was in luck! I found the bag in Vermeille {a raspberry red, I hope!} at Nordstrom for $81.90! Amy at work said it was too good of a deal to miss! So happy birthday to me {a little early} from the husband! I can’t wait until it’s at my doorstep!

I then went to Crate & Barrel during my long lunch to get a few gifts with the 15% off coupon. I shopped for my mom who’s work isn’t near C&B. Santa’s bringing Steven & Beth something drinky fun! I also got Nana, Mom & Beth little somethings.

Mom used a Kohl’s coupon she had to get my Dad his Christmas gift from us tonight. {he might find this, so not giving anything else away!}

I’m trying to find brown leggings to go with my new flat tall brown boots, I looked at Old Navy Sunday and was told they are sold out. I bought black ones from there a couple weeks ago & love them. Old Navy is sold out online too. I checked Macy’s & Gap & Belk today and didn’t find what I was looking for. Mom found some at Kohl’s tonight so I might be going there tomorrow.

With all that, I think I’m done except for a few things for Mom’s parents, picking up a few gift cards & figuring out & buying Jason’s gift. Not too bad right? Anyone else get any deals?

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Stepping out Saturday {only 2 days late}

I was in Charlotte this past weekend visiting my grandparents. My grandfather had to have another surgery, but he’s recovering very well. He was able to go back to the rehabilitation center while I was there. Then he walked &/or I rolled my grandmother around so we could all hang out.

Beth hasn’t been in town or has been super busy the last couple times I was there. Luckily for me, she was around this weekend! I was originally just planning to hang out/have dinner then head back to my grandparents’ condo, but after the fabulous NCSU win versus UNC, I was in a celebrating mood & crashed on her couch.


A group from her building as well as our sorority sister Kim & her husband joined us at Molly’s uptown then we headed to Stike City {yes, it’s a bar & a upscale bowling alley}. I was pretty tired by 1130p {I’m getting old & not used to going out lifestyle!}. We left Strike City and after a stop for Kim & Jeff & Beth & Kevin at Five Guys {I did enjoy a few fries!}, we all crashed at Beth & Kevins’s condos. 715a arrived really early, but I had so much fun! Thanks B! Hope to see you soon.

So much fun catching up & drinking a little with these two ladies! As for what I wore… I found the Lilly top 70% off at Belk Friday night. I waivered at first & had them hold it, but I’d been loving that print all fall, especially in that top. Since I missed the Fall Warehouse Sale, I was needing some new Lilly in my life, so I went back & bought it. 🙂
After finding the cute navy sweater at the Loft for $25, I knew I’d found the perfect outfit. Jeans… my new standard, GAP long & lean. Shoes… Target leopard print {cuter than they are comfortable}.
Topped it off with a $10 gold necklace also on sale at Belk!