Hello Monday

 

Happy Monday and happy December, friends! Before I get started, I posted my Share 4 Somethings post late Saturday because it slipped my mind. It's there now if you shared a post and would like to link up; I'm leaving it open for about a week. I hope you had a great weekend! I can't wait to hear from you at the end of today's post. I'm linking up with Holly and Sarah for today's blog post. I'll jump in since I'm recapping last week from Tuesday.

I met Mom on Tuesday for some much needed girl time. Unfortunately, I didn't last long because I felt terrible. We went to Ulta, then had lunch at Newk's, and I ended the day with my favorite thing:

...by getting a much needed pedicure. I came home and took some medicine and took a nap. I woke up and struggled with a sinus headache that whole day, sadly. Chris came over when he got off work; I had plans to attend our town's tree lighting service, but I went to Marilyn's house instead at the last minute. We snacked and watched Dancing with the Stars; and be "we" snacked, I mean I ate an entire bag of Buckey's Beaver Nuggets. I wish I was kidding. 

I did things around my house for a while on Wednesday, then I took lunch to Chris while he was at work since he was having a terrible day. That was fun! I loved seeing where he worked, and we just sat in my car and ate together. I ran errands after that, then came home before going out to his area for dinner and a movie. 

Thanksgiving day arrived early for me! I showered and dressed in this outfit above, and wore my pumpkin sweater one last time for this year. 

We had a delicious lunch at Mom's and Bill's; Chris and Drew met here at my house, then we caravanned to Mom's. It was cold! I love a cold holiday. We came home around three and tried watching a Christmas movie, but we took an epic nap instead. Chris and I met Kendra for a movie; we saw Wicked! It was amazing. 

We both sobbed in this movie, and I do mean sobbed. Have you seen these? 

Friday was another easy morning at home for me; I did laundry and cleaned a little and left around noon to spend the day with Chris. I did the same thing Saturday, so consider that your spoiler alert. 

I watched this adorable movie first!

I situated my new tree collar around my tree; isn't she pretty? 

I got cozied up for the long day and drove to him. We explored the town of New Albany while we were together and ended with an early dinner at a Mexican restaurant. Saturday was more of the same!

 

Ever since he's been in this area, he's been trying to find an old drag strip that used to be in Blue Mountain. He thought it had been bulldozed and covered up, but he just found it last week since the trees are bare now. We climbed through a fence and went exploring. How cool is this? I love things that are no longer, or that have been abandoned. I wish I'd grabbed that old impact wrench, now that I'm looking at these pictures again. We had so much fun doing this and we walked the strip. 

After that we drove around and explored some more of his area since we had the whole day, and I eventually left him at three to head back home for a night out with Marilyn! 

The pictures are out of order, but it was cold and rainy, so I went with this outfit because of that. I wish I could say we loved the play &Juliet at The Orpheum, but it wasn't our favorite. We actually left during intermission! I've never done that, but we decided to call it a night and Google the ending. (I just did that and looked it up on Wikipedia, and I am so glad we left!)

Church came early Sunday morning! I was on the praise team, so I was there by eight. I went to lunch with Mom and Bill after church, and Chris met us there. We came to my house after church and washed our vehicles in the freezing cold weather. We had to thaw out after! We got iced coffee, then came back here to watch a movie. After that we left and went on what was a first of many Christmas lights date nights. Here are the pictures: 

I love my little Hallmark town! Chris left after this, and then Marilyn came over! 

Chloe was glad to see her. 

I was glad to see her again, too. 

What did you do that you loved this week? I'd love to hear from you! Thanks for reading my blog, friends. Love to all!