The Friday Five

1. Over the last few weeks I have been whittling down my friends list on Facebook to almost half of what it was before.  I had about 1000 friends on my personal FB page.  Crazy, right!? I still had people on there that I had met one time at a college party my sophomore year at Auburn.  While I am sure they were and are perfectly nice people, I didn't really want to share my life with them.  No offense.  Facebook has a bad habit of making people think they are friends with a thousand people when in reality they are just stalking a thousand people...just sayin...

2. As a child, I loved going to see the Ringling Bros circus.  I actually hated and feared parts of it like the cannons because of how loud and jarring they are...but I fell in love with the huge and majestic elephants.  It wasn't until later in life I learned about the long history of their mistreatment in circus shows.  So I had told myself I would not support Ringling Bros Circus, or any circus, If I could help it. Not until they removed elephants from their act...well that day has come as they have decided to retire them a year and a half early!!  Looking forward to supporting Ringling Bros in the future.

3. I made four new recipes this week, all of which were outstanding and will be on our family's regular meal rotations:

I made Slow Cooker Sloppy Joes using deer meat and they were outstanding.  So good I forgot to take a picture of them.  Bubba ate three sliders in one sitting they were so good.  

Bulletproof Coffee

Greek Lemon Chicken Soup

Chicken Fried Rice

I took a tip from Jenn over at Little Baby Garvin who cooks a bunch of chicken breasts in the crock-pot on Sunday then shreds and freezes them in meal portions so she can get one out as she needs it for each meal.  This worked like a boss for us!  I put 6 large chicken breasts in a slow cooker with a box of chicken broth and a bunch of garlic powder and cooked on high for 3 hours.  I then shredded the chicken and put them in ziploc bags to freeze.  I had enough for meals all week.  I saved the stock I cooked them in and reused it in our Greek Lemon Chicken Soup and it was perfect.

4. Last Friday the wonderful Hubs delivered flowers to me, at work, for an early Valentine's gift.  Not only did he bring me flowers, but he arranged the flowers himself!  Hubs is truly one of the greatest men on earth.

5. Today I am going to see the bestie in Auburn! I will get to love on her sweet son who is about 9 months old.  I am looking forward to seeing their new home as well as getting to traipse around Auburn again.  Planned stops: Chicken Salad Chick!  Meanwhile Bubba and the Hubs are going camping with their besties.

Happy Friday, y'all!  We are so close to being done with February!  Ready to be back in the spring and summer months!  I leave you with a picture of our handsome Bubba.

Linking up with some of my favorite friday blogs!!

Karli /  Jennie / Andrea / Tif / April

Living Area Style

Since moving into our new home, I have had a hard time to committing to decor.  We did not own our previous home so there was only so much we could do to the house without sinking our money into it.  We just made do with the existing look of the house.  Now we have a clean, fresh slate and we own our home.

So what is my style?  Well, after thinking about it for a while I was surprised to see how masculine many of my favorite styles are considering my love of make-up, beauty products and a good pedicure.  I do not like glittery, pink, glam or brand new looking items.  I have found that while our home was built in the last ten years, my style is rooted in more vintage and aged looks.  I have found that I gravitate to light and warm colors such as browns and creams and I have a deep appreciation for reclaimed wood.

F A R M H O U S E
I love painted and distressed furniture along with, galvanized metal accents, mason jars and farm animals.

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E Q U E S T R I A N

Growing up in Kentucky means I grew up around this style.  It is simply classic.  From plaid to polished silver to worn leather and lawn jockeys.  Reminds me of my classy, bluegrass home.

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IN D U S T R I A L

Hubs and I both love the combination of wood and metal as well utilitarian pieces of furniture.

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Our couches, while fabric, have a worn leather look to them and are accented with nail head trim.  l.  Our floors are have an aged farmhouse look to them that I absolutely love.  Getting the floors redone before we moved in was the smartest thing we have done.  It really sets the tone for the house. No we just need to focus on decorating and making it more homey.

We have extremely large wall spaces to fill...Here are some pictures I took during the move in, and shortly after, I'll be honest...we still have nothing on the walls...

I would love to hear some ideas as to how in the world we can fill up some of our ginormous wall spaces while keeping a classy look with some of my go to styles.  I can talk about what my style is all day long...but actually executing the style in my home has been a bit challenging.