Mugs & Muffins

I hope y'all are having a wonderful Saturday. It is really cold here right now, but suppose to warm up to 70 by later in the afternoon! Mitch worked yesterday and is at work again today, so I have been trying to get some stuff done around the house. This week I have been able to work at home, but come Monday I won't have the luxury anymore :) So I am trying to prepare myself for my first full week of work!

This morning, I was suppose to teach tennis, but our church has a women's ministry called Mugs & Muffins and women of the church come together and bring their own mug and enjoy coffee, muffins, and each others company. Then after everyones done eating, we have a speaker. I have heard a lot about this particular speaker from friends and I have been following her story for a while now on her blog, so I really wanted to go and hear her speak. 

Since I have been reading her blog, I know her story, but I had never read her book, which goes into more detail. I knew I didn't have time to read it before, but after I heard her speak today, I am going to get it this afternoon! I don't want to go into detail on her whole story, because we would be here forever, but if you have never heard about it, it is a blessing! Here is the promo for when she came to speak... It will give you a little taste of what we experienced today...

Mugs & Muffins- Angie Smith

I honestly didn't think I would get a lot out of it because I am not a mom yet, but it touched me in so many ways, I am still in shock. I honestly couldn't imagine being there and being pregnant or a mom. By following along with her blog, I felt I knew a lot about what she was going to talk about, but she went so much deeper than she talks about on her blog/book. She would even say a lot, I don't mention this on my blog, or I haven't ever told this story before, because they are just to hard to talk about. 

You could tell she is a woman of God and even though I am not a mom yet, she spoke straight to me and challenged me in so many ways. 

Most of you that know me... know I am not an emotional person. I have always had my friends give me a hard time because I never cry when I hear sad stories, etc. I can honestly say I have never cried in a movie or a book in my life. Well today was different ha! Before she spoke all the ladies would talk about how they have tried to prepare themselves and bought their tissues and stuff like that, but I honestly thought it wouldn't have that kind of impact on me... I mean I have never cried in this type of situation before... but just being their with her in a small atmosphere hearing her talk about her life and share her story, I can say I was moved and yes I did cry!

She read Psalm 116 and even though I have read it before, I look at it totally different now, along with a lot of other things! I am sorry I just rambled on about this, but this morning was such a blessing and I wanted to share it with you! If you ever get the chance to hear her speak, go!! But at least read her book, I promise you will be blessed... and keep a box of tissue near by... I can promise you WILL need them! 

Have a wonderful Saturday!! 

Friends, work and HOGS Basketball!!

Happy Wednesday!! I hope y'all are having a great week! This week was my first week of work and it is going wonderful, but more on that later.

This past weekend, we had a lot of fun! We had a very relaxing weekend since it was my last weekend before work. Mitch worked on Saturday, and I had my tennis class in the morning.
Later that day I went shopping. I have always liked dressing up, so I have a good amount of professional clothes for work, but there is something about starting a new job with new clothes!

I also made a little trip to Bath and Body Works! They just put all their new spring scents out so I had to get some soaps and of course candles!
When Mitch got home, we relaxed and caught up on all out tv shows.

Sunday, was a really good day! We went to church and also sunday school! We went to the newly married sunday school class when we first moved here, but thought we might look around at different sunday schools/bible studies. We hadn't found anything and just when Mitch and I were talking about trying it again, we had a friend tell us to come back! So we thought we would try it again and we loved it. We now know more people in the class too. I am really excited to be a part of a good bible study and I am so happy I am finally meeting some people!
After church, we were asked to go to lunch with Ana and Nathan, another couple from our sunday school class. We went to Dink's BBQ and Mitch and I both enjoyed going out with another couple! It was a lot of fun!
After lunch, w spent the majority of our afternoon watching movies and taking a nap. It was raining and overcast, so we couldn't pass up a good nap!
Later that night, we went over to our friends, Jenna and Byran's house for dinner! She made spinach artichoke mac and cheese and it was sooo good! They also had another couple over, Richard and Sam, that just recently got married and are new to the area. After dinner, the boys played video games and us girls sat around and talked! It is so nice to finally be meeting some girls my age! I really enjoyed it! Later that night we played monopoly, which was a lot of fun, but lasted 3 hours!!

Jenna also made mini peanut butter pies for all of us! They were so cute and not to mention delicious!!

Mitch and I both really enjoyed hanging out with other married couples and we look forward to hanging out with them more!

Well Monday was my first day of work!! I had to be there at 7, so it is a very early morning, but I was excited! I spend a lot of the morning learning about the care they provide, such as information on the spine... I have learned more about the spine in a couple hours than in my whole life ha! It was so interesting and they also showed me all the phases of degeneration and how to read it on the x-rays. It is pretty cool and I am really interested in it! It is cool to work with people who have such a passion for what they do.
There wasn't a lot for me to do Monday, so I spend a lot of time filling out paper work, and they are big on every member of the team knowing the patients. So I spend the day getting to know all the patients that came in. A lot of them are kids, so it was a lot of fun! They have so many patients and see sooo many of them in one day, so it is going to take me awhile to remember who they are. Just on Monday, in about a 4 hour period, they saw over 100 patients. It is crazy!
The doctors went on vacation, so the office is closed all this week. I went in for a few hours yesterday, just to get some little things done, but I get to work form home the rest of the week... which is so nice!!
So come Monday, I guess I will officially start!
Some more exciting news about my job is that in March, they are flying me to Denver for a 3 day marketing conference!! I am really excited about this!

Tuesday night, Mitch had another church league b-ball game, which was very interesting! Our team only had the minimum of 5 players and only 2 fans Ha! The other team was huge and literally I think brought their whole church.

 And yes, they were completely covered in blue body paint... it was a little ridiculous! 

And yes, they had a coach and all... they were pretty intense, but they funny thing was our boys beat them!! It was a fun game to watch!

Probably the most exciting news of the night... the HOGS beat Kentucky!! We were given two tickets to the Arkansas vs. Kentucky basketball game tonight and we had nothing else to do, so we thought we would go. We have been keeping up with Arkansas basketball and they are doing horrible this year! We were not expecting to even hang with them, much less win! It was such a fun game and the atmosphere in the arena was crazy!! It was such a close game the whole time and it even went into overtime! I was doing so good this past month on not biting my fingernails, and well now they are all gone. Ha! 

 HOGS win by one!!! 

This is me when we got home from the game!! I was so excited they won!! We are hoping to go to more games this season! 

More exciting news tonight... Mitch's valentines present finally came in!!! It actually came yesterday, but we were not home when it was delivered, so I had to go to the post office today and pick it up.

The first thing he did when we got home was put it on.. and he still has it on!

To say that Mitch was excited would be an understatement! 

Mitch is off tomorrow and I am excited to spend the day with him! We have been busy lately, so  am hoping to just stay in and relax before I officially start work next week! 

Have a wonderful rest of the week and a great weekend!! 

Quick update and EXCITING news!!!

Happy Friday!! I hope y'all have enjoyed your week! Mitch and I have had an exciting couple of days! 

Over the past month, I have been interviewing for a marketing position at a chiropractors office and I was officially offered the job yesterday!!!! 

I have been looking for a job for several months now and have been through so many interviews and nothing seemed to be working out. Out of all the jobs I interviewed for, I think there was maybe one I was excited about. It has been so hard to find a job that I know I will really love. I am fortunate enough that I didn't have to take the first job that came along. I know some people probably thought I was crazy not taking certain opportunities (even I thought that at times), but I just knew God had the perfect job out there for me. 

Over the past few months, I have learned a lot, especially patience, and I had to fully rely on God. Moving here was a little hard, but I am so thankful I have had these months to settle in and I had to learn that I was to wait on God's timing for the job. Looking back now it all makes sense and it's just another reminder that He had a plan all along.

So more about my new job... I will be the marketing coordinator for Generations Chiropractic and Wellness Center. It is a small family practice, which I really like! The doctors are husband and wife and really young. They also have a patient education coordinator and a receptionist, but thats it. 

I had to go through a pretty intense interview process... I interviewed with them four times and one was a working interview. I actually had to go out and meet with clients for half a day. I was nervous going into the working interview, but I thought it was a great idea for not only them to be able to find out who is good at the job, but for me to see if I enjoyed it.

Not only do they do chiropractic care, but they specialize in wellness and healthy lifestyle. One of the doctors specializes in pediatrics and pregnancy, and the other in wellness. They do nutrition plans for their clients, along with exercise programs. It is a lot more than just back adjustments. I am a very active person and love healthy/organic foods, which they are very focused on, so I feel like I will fit right in! 

I start Monday and am so excited to get started! I haven't officially been told my hours. The office has weird hours.. they open at 7 and don't leave until 7, and work half days on Wednesday's and they are closed fridays!! I will be working different hours, but I think I will really like not being on a 8-5 schedule every week!! 

So that's about all that as being going on around here. We went out to celebrate yesterday at Red Lobster... Yum!!! Were were going to go play golf, but my allergies have been horrible, so Mitch went and I just stayed home. I am so excited the course is back open and I am sure we will be going out very soon :)

Today Mitch worked, so I just hung around the house, but it was so beautiful I spent a lot of the day outside. I went on a run and was able to wear shorts and a tank top! It was perfect! I think I am going to have to switch out my closets to my spring clothes and sandals very soon!!! I also made a trip to wal-mart and I was so excited when I saw the girl scouts selling COOKIES!! I love girl scout cookies, so I had to get some! When Mitch got home he said he had a surprise for me and he had bought girl scout cookies as well Ha! These are our favorite kinds!

Tonight we cooked a pork tenderloin and biscuits. And while I am talking about food... I have a website to share. It is one of my favorite websites and I always forget to post it. It has such good recipes and I love trying new things from it. I got the biscuit recipe that I made for dinner tonight from it. They were homemade cream biscuits, and they turned out delicious.

They also made a bunch, so I was able to put them in the freezer and I can just pop them in the oven whenever we want! 

Here's the website... Smitten Kitchen I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! 

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and enjoy this beautiful weather!!