Birthday Weekend Recap!

Happy Monday & August 1st! Wow...where has this year gone?! I can not believe football season is here, the holidays are just around the corner, one of my best friends is very close to having her first baby, school starts and hopefully some cooler weather in the next couple of months (I live in Houston..wishful thinking)! This year has flown by.

Well, this weekend I turned 29. Whohoo! It was such a fun weekend! Friday night hubby and I went with his brother, Andrew and his GF, Hannah and my old roomies Hayden & Brendan to see Katy Perry in concert. SHE WAS AAAAAWESOME!!!!!! She changed costumes at least 10 times, has tons of dancers and acrobats and did some really cool "extras". Here are a few pictures. ( They are kinda grainy...something was up with my little point & shoot that night )






Saturday morning I skipped my run with my group (bad Leslie...I made it up on Sunday though! ) and Chris took me to my favorite brunch place in Houston- Backstreet Cafe. And he gave me my gift!! Ta-da....

It is a Nikkor 55-300 lens and I am OBSESSED with it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It goes to my Nikon D60 I have. I have desperately wanted a new lens for awhile now so I am really excited about this! He definitely won "Husband of the Year" award for this one :)
Saturday night my parents came to our house and we went to dinner at Brenner's on the Bayou. Love this restaurant! It is right on the Bayou and so beautiful. You do not even feel like you are in Houston when you are here. It was such a fun day :)

Yesterday we went up to Lake Conroe and took the boat out for a few hours, just the 2of us, but it was SO hot we just could not stay out there very long. I got a really bad headache from the heat...it was miserable. And last night I ran 3 miserable miles and grilled shrimp for dinner.

It was a fun and relaxing weekend that went way too fast...
Hope you all had a great weekend!!

4TH OF JULY FUN!

4th of July weekend is always so much fun. To me it means a 3 day weekend, being on a boat on the lake, fireworks, lots of yummy, Summer food, desserts and drinks, wearing a lot of red, white & blue and celebrating our country! I had full intentions of baking some fun desserts for our trip to the lake this weekend and even doing some crafty projects but did any of those things happen? Nope. So, I am going to live vicariously thru all of these fun pictures I found of all sorts of fun 4th of July ideas...










Hope you all have a fun & safe weekend!!

What I am loving today...

It's that day of the week again...



I am loving that we get to spend the 4th of July weekend on the lake! The lake is one of our favorite places to be, but since the Spring/Summer has been so busy this year we have not gotten to spend any time there. We have this lake house rented for the weekend with 2 other couples...that means- lots of grilling and eating outside, being on the boat all day, laying out, fire pits, fun summer dinks ( vodka injected capri-suns...yep, you read that right and they are amazing ), and fun times with friends. 2 PM on Friday can not get here fast enough!





I am loving the exciting news I got at work today!! I got a RAISE!! Praise the Lord! I love my job :)

I am loving that in 8 days we will be on the beaches of North Carolina staying at this amazing house with family! We only get to go for a few days because I am out of vacation days for the year but I can't wait to be on the beach, see my brother, sis-n-law and sweet little nephew and spend time with family!


I am loving this season's "So You Think You Can Dance" I am rooting for Caitlynn Lawson...I LOVE LOVE LOVE her and hope she wins! The duet she did with Mitchell last week to Adele's "Turning Tables" was one of the most amazing performances I have ever seen. I love that it is on Wednesday AND Thursday nights. WHOHOO!



That is all for today! Hope yall are having a great week!