Friday Favorites

Oh, TGIF! This has been a busy, busy week of packing, selling, and trying to get organized for our big move back to the states! It's such an exciting time, but it is also incredibly stressful! We are making good progress though, and thankfully it looks like Johnathon won't be going to Honolulu for knee surgery next week, which really takes that extra level of craziness off of our whole situation! Since it's Friday, and we are going to be taking a break from all our packing this weekend to celebrate our friend Angela's birthday, and I get to perform in our long anticipated Hula show!! EEEEKKK I'M NERVOUS! But more on that in a bit, because it's time for me to link up with Andrea, Erika, and Narci for some Friday Favorites!

ONE

I never got around to recapping my Mother's Day, and I couldn't not share the sweet photo collage Johnathon made me for Mother's Day! I may or may not have casually reminded Johnathon that there wasn't a lot of fanfare surrounding Mother's Day in our house last year because...as he so earnestly told me..."But you're not my mom??!" Well, I gently informed him that I was Hadley's mom, and Mother's Day now applies to me too! :) I am happy to report that Mother's Day was celebrated with enthusiasm this year, and my day started off with a sweet card from Johnathon/Hadley and this awesome picture collage was waiting for me on the table! We spent that afternoon packing, but finished off the day with me putting my feet up while Johnathon made me this awesome Orange Chicken recipe that tasted just like Panda Express! (Don't judge...we don't have fast food here, and it's what I was craving!) A thoughtful gift to remind me of Hadley, and a day were I didn't have to cook is a perfect Mother's Day in my book!

TWO

Cecil & Lou Hot Pink Embroidered "Fiesta" dress

About five minutes after I found out that we were moving back to Texas, I set out to find Hadley a fiesta/Mexican mumu dress to wear when it is super hot this summer! Fortunately, last week was Cinco de Mayo so I had several options to pick from. I ended up going with this dress from Cecil & Lou and I can't wait for Hadley to rock this all summer long! 

THREE

I was so excited about moving back to Texas, that I spent the first weekend packing with a level of enthusiasm and intensity the likes of which my husband and most of the human race has never seen. I felt like if I could get everything packed right away then somehow that would get us home faster. Then I started getting to all the little crap that you have no idea what to do with, where it came from, or whether it has some sort of sentimental value to it or is worthless junk. That's pretty much where I'm at right now, and I still have more to go! So for now let me leave you with some e-cards that pretty much sum up my feelings on moving and packing...

THREE

Even though I am so excited to be moving back to Texas, I am really trying to soak up these last couple of weeks in our little island paradise, and to not take any of it for granted. Johnathon had to take a helicopter to work the other week, and took some really cool pictures of the islands in our atoll! It will be hard to ever find a place as naturally pretty as this...

  

FOUR

PB teen- Emily and Merritt bed of roses duvet cover

To say I am excited to find a house and start nesting would be a huge understatement. I have been waiting for this for so long, and I'm so excited to find our home and settle down! I have a pretty good idea of how I want our new house to look, but obviously I'm waiting to pick out specifics until we find a house, and I get to know the space. I have one room, however, that I can picture perfectly in my mind, and that is Hadley's room. I can see the exact color scheme, bedding...everything and I can't wait to get to decorating!  

Land of Nod Black Stripe Teepee

   

I Am His sign- House of Belonging

FIVE

Tomorrow is our big hula show that we have been preparing and practicing for MONTHS for!!! I am so excited, but the build up to this show has been so intense that I am starting to get super nervous! I'm also right in the front, and have this weird complex about what my face looks like when I dance! I'm worried I'm going to be focusing too much on toning down my axe murderer smile that I do when I get nervous, and not enough on my dance moves! I'm just ready for the show to be done and behind me! Wish me luck! 

Hope everyone has a great weekend!! xoxo