Weekending in Jacksonville, FL

We took a quick trip down to Jacksonville, FL this weekend to see the Jacksonville University-Stetson game.

 Their marching band was so small! It was cool to see the color guard using rifles. I made rifle squad my freshman year of high school (only freshman to make it!) and have always enjoyed seeing color guards use them.

 My kids, Mom and me heading out after the game... next stop:

 We have a Krispy Kreme in Charleston but it is 30 minutes from my house so I was super excited to find one right outside the gates of the university.

Sunday morning, I woke up around 2:30 and was peeing blood so I drove myself to the ER closest to my Mom's house. It is brand new so I was one of two people in the entire ER.

 I was in and out and back to my Mom's by 4:30 am. I slept in until 11 or so and then got the kids packed up and headed back to South Carolina. I was surprised that traffic wasn't crazy since I-95 is still shut down for about 20 miles near I-26. We passed over the Edisto River which is about 6 feet over the flood plain but hasn't made it over the bridge and roadway. It was sad to see so many homes surrounded by water.  Please continue to pray for those dealing with flood damage!

Linking up with Ashley and Biana today :)

The Weekend

This weekend was all about football.

My son's flag football game was Saturday morning. They played so well but lost 6-0.

Saturday evening, we surprised my son with tickets to the Charleston Southern @ Citadel game. He had no clue, even when we were parking, where we were... The look on his face when he realized what was going on was priceless.

Though it rained a little bit, and the Citadel lost, it was still a lot of fun.

After the game, we came home and made California Churro Bites. Has anyone tried these? I always long for the churros we'd buy at Disneyland years ago so to find some little churros (at Walmart) that were super easy to make (5 minutes in the oven and then roll them in the sugar mix): I was one happy girl.

On Sunday, my son was sick so we spent the day watching football while he slept.

 How sweet is Bailey guarding him?! Awww!!

 I also went through my giant stack of magazines so I can send them all to my stepmom. I came across this ad with Jillian Michaels... so obsessed with her hair! I think I'm in a need of a change soon!!

How was your weekend?! Do anything fun?

Linking up with the fabulous Biana.

five on friday

1. Charleston Blog Society Meet-up

 Last night we had a Pinterest Potluck for the Charleston Blog Society. Gillian and our gracious host, Hannah, gave us great tips (ummm, I never knew there was a whole analytics area I could access). Hopefully Meg will post her recipe soon for the amazing pumpkin, chocolate chip, coconut, Rice Krispies and oatmeal cookies she brought.

2. Upward Flag Football

 I am co-coaching a peewee flag football team this fall. It is an Upward program which is faith based so every couple of weeks kids get a new Bible verse to memorize and we do a quick devotional at the end of practice. We had our first game last Saturday. One of the mom's actually got a picture of me, which was super exciting because I'm usually the one taking pictures and never in them!

3. Charleston skies

 It's kind of hard to see but rainbows and Starbucks make me happy!

 This was the sky after the rainbow... even more beautiful in person.

4. Dog Mom Life

 Not a flattering picture buuut I was laughing so hard at Bailey trying to steal my Hot Pocket in the school pick-up line. I fought for years against getting a dog because I just didn't want to deal with dog poop in the yard and dog hair all over my house but I love this dog so much....she is the sweetest girl :)

5. Pumpkin Spice 

I am all about trying all this new pumpkin spice stuff. These pumpkin spice English muffins from Thomas are super tasty.  I'm also loving the Chobani Flip's Pumpkin Harvest Crisp. I have only found it at Target and the last time I went it was all sold out!

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Are there any new pumpkin spice things you have tried that I need to know about?!

Hope y'all have a great weekend!