cinema suites

Last night M and I went and saw the last Harry Potter movie (only because I was out of town when it came out, or we would have been at the midnight showing!) at AMC's new Cinema Suites. The AMC near us expanded last year to add new additions called Fork & Screen, which is like Studio Movie Grill or Movie Tavern where you can eat a meal while you watch the movie, and the Cinema Suites. Basically you sit in huge, amazingly comfortable recliners while you eat and watch the movie! It was so awesome, I never want to see a movie in the regular part of the theatre again!

We had already eaten dinner, so I can't say whether the food was good or not. They did bring us complimentary chocolate covered popcorn, a warm towel when the movie was almost over, and we got Ghirardelli mints as we left! And the best part, it's was only $12 per ticket, so not even $3 more than the regular theatre!!

Here's us before the movie, M wouldn't let me ask the waiter to take our picture together haha


 

(I don't know why my hair looks gray in this picture?)

We will definitely be back soon!

moving update

After a very stressful week, we finally have an apartment!!

I worried all weekend about how much it was going to cost and then we finally decided to go ahead and go for it, and by they had already leased the one we wanted! So then we were going to be stuck paying even more for someplace we liked less and I was back to stressing out!

A year is a really long time to commit, especially when our lives will likely be changing so much in the next year. Lord willing, M will be graduating and starting at the police academy in May. That means for almost five months he will be commuting pretty far, so I want us to at least like where we live if it's going to be so much trouble.

So we decided we should just pay even more on top of what the second choice would have been and get a bigger floorplan at our first choice! Of course I realize it worked out for the best now! (Though I'm still trying not to be anxious about the price!)

So here's some pictures of our new apartments from their website...



Ours will be the same as this model except we won't have wood floors in the living/dining area, only the kitchen.





We move in September 17th! I can't wait!

garage finds

So a little backstory is necessary...

My mom passed away suddenly and completely unexpectedly a little over a year and a half ago. Since I was so unprepared for something like this, I had no idea how much there would be to take care of after such a thing and how to do it all. I'm so blessed to have the most amazing brother-in-law who flew here from Florida for two weeks and helped me with all the things like funeral arrangements and packing up my mom's entire home. I didn't have time to go through everything, nor did I want to at the time, but since she was renting a house we had to get it all moved out as quickly as possible. She was blessed to have so many amazing friends, and people who barely knew her but had been touched by her life, who came and packed everything up for me, and moved it all across the metroplex in whatever trucks and trailers they could find. We stored all of her things in a garage at the apartment I lived in at the time, and it mostly sat untouched for a year until I moved and had movers bring it all to a new apartment garage (at M's apartment).

Finally, now that M and I are moving, I am starting to go through all of the boxes and sort through stuff. Sorry, this wasn't meant to be a sad post, I just wanted to share some of the things that I found! I'm happy that I will be able to incorporate my momma's things into M and I's new home :)

Lots of kitchen gadgets! I'm lucky to have a momma who loved all things for the kitchen (especially pampered chef!). This is just half a box worth.

Oil and vinegar containers that I turned into dish soap and hand soap dispensers! I saw a similar idea at a friend's house and thought it was so neat! Not only does it look way better than plastic bottles, you only get a small amount at a time so it wastes less.

I also found this hilarious note that I wrote to the tooth fairy when I was little. I think it's so sweet my momma kept it and it brightened my mood to find it while going through boxes :) My favorite part is "if you're not so busy..." haha!

I'm finally back!

Yikes sorry I've been terrible at blogging! Last week I was still pretty unhappy all week to be home from Florida, and really sad it will be another three months until I see my sister. I know I'll get super busy between now and then with school and other things though and it should go by quickly!

On Friday M and I went to the wedding of one of his fraternity brothers. It was really fun but I think that it made me realize I want a smaller wedding than I used to think haha.

While frantically shopping for my dress last minute (as in two hours before we needed to leave for the wedding), I discovered the wonders of the J. Crew and Banana Republic factory stores! We have an outlet mall near us (but an indoor one, more like a regular mall with outlet stores/other various attractions) and I have probably been there a million times and had never been in either one. My dress is from Banana Republic and was $25 marked down from $130! Both stores had so much cute and cheap stuff, I think I'll be returning for my fall wardrobe :)

Saturday M and I went apartment shopping! This was the surprise I was referring to in the previous post :) We found an apartment that we love (across the street from where he lives now) and have since gone back and forth on whether it's the right idea based on money reasons (on my part, my salary will be cut in half when school starts next month!). I think today I have finally decided we should do it and I will be able to make it work based on some news about my financial aid! I am so excited, we will probably sign the lease this week :) (Though we're signing the lease soon, we won't be moving in until mid/late September.) I am just praying everything works out money-wise and that everything that needs to fall together perfectly to make my life easier will do so!
(I'll post some pictures when it is for sure!)

After apartment shopping we went to dinner with M's parents and then back to their house to play some volleyball in the pool. I'm not the most athletic so I think my team was at a disadvantage, but it was really fun! I didn't take any pictures though :(
(I think I remind myself every day to be better at this!)

Yesterday M worked while I sat at home and crunched numbers and stressed about the apartment haha, and then we headed to a friends house to swim and grill hamburgers. The only picture I got...

Haha I had a tiny bit of meat left over so I made M a mini burger! I thought it looked so cute so I had to take a picture :)

Since M is finally on his way home from work, I'm off to warm up the dinner M's parents made for us so we can eat and watch last night's Trueblood! Have a good week :)

I'm back from Florida! I had so much fun spending time with my sister and playing with my nieces and nephew. I was really sad all day yesterday to be home :(
I was happy to see M of course but I just miss my sister so much already!!
More posts coming later this week, I have some news to share :)



(old picture obviously!)

oh happy day!

Linking up at Happy Home today with what's making me happy on this Friday!

Next week C and his family are going to the beach so I have the week off! I can't wait to get off at 5:30 and not have to work for nine whole days!!

Even more exciting, I'll be spending my week with these little loves!

My nieces and nephew :) I leave this weekend to spend the week with my sister in Ft. Lauderdale and I can't wait!

fourth of july weekend

I was so happy to have three days off work this past weekend and to not be going anywhere! We've had so much fun the past couple of weekends in Florida and at Lake Texoma, but I was so tired and ready to relax! That's exactly what I did all day Saturday and Sunday :)

On Monday M and I spent our day like this :)

After hanging out at the pool all day, we had Texas Roadhouse for dinner, yum.

We didn't go see any fireworks, but we did have fun with some sparklers at home!

haha we had so much fun taking these! It takes a lot of patience to make it work and we needed to be somewhere darker so we didn't look so ghostly.

Tuesday was my best friend's birthday so we went to On the Border for dinner and out for drinks afterwards! (She's the one in the flowery dress!)

(don't mind my eye looking crazy, it's the automatic red eye fix on iphoto and I'm too lazy to go fix it! haha)

I'm so excited the weekend is already almost here! Love four day weeks :)

friday randoms

Yay it's Friday! This post shall be super random and segue-less, as a warning. (I had to look up the proper spelling of segue, I don't think I've ever seen that word written. Not spelled like the two-wheeled things mall cops ride around on apparently haha.)

Blogger is not my friend right now. I know that changing my template before has not deleted all the blogs from the "blogs I read" widget so why are they gone this time?! I guess this is a lesson to actually press follow instead of just adding them to that list...

Also I am not happy with my plain layout like I thought I would be, unfortunately. Operation convince M to reteach me how to use Dreamweaver commences this weekend :)
A few things on Pinterest I am loving this week...

I made all these collages on picnik.com and it took like 10 minutes total! (I might be the last person realizing how awesome and easy picnik is.)

I am finally recieving a lot of correspondence from the nursing program with everything I need to get ready before school starts in August! Unfortunately they aren't telling us what books we need until we go to orientation the week before school starts! Everyone is annoyed because we all want to order our books online and try to get the best prices, since it's like over $1000 in books.

I also got some bad news regarding scrubs this week. Unfortunately they aren't going to let me wear the super cute ones I bought in May because they are considered "fashion" scrubs and we are only allowed to wear the plainest, most awkward fitting kind. Since I bought them so long ago, I can't return them either :(

This morning I had to go get some vaccinations for school and now my arm is swelled up like half a baseball size... Nursing school preparations are wearing on me this week haha. But I am still so happy and excited to be in a program, so that makes it not so bad!

I 'm so excited for the three day weekend! And I'm not even babysitting at all this weekend (not including tonight lol). And we aren't going out of town! I'm so happy to get to relax for three whole days :)