One thing I have grown to appreciate and love is a Green Thumb.  Why?? Because I surely don’t have one!  I’ve tried to grow some plants and fruits in window plants that I assume are suppose to be easy… and they have died or just never even grew.  I love visiting my parents house mainly because of the backyard garden they built this past year!  I enjoy taking my morning coffee out there and walking around looking at the fruits and vegetables and watching the goldfish in the pond.  My Nanny had a wonderful Green Thumb!  Her garden was considered a national wildlife refuge and I’m almost positive that my dad got that niche handed down to him because he has built a wonderful garden!

Plum Tomatoes

This pond was passed down from my grandparents! I love that we are finally using it!

Melons growing in their hangers

A-frame for the melons

Strawberries

Cappie loves being outside in the summer heat!

Are you blessed with a Green Thumb?  What have you had growing in your garden this summer?

Good morning my sweet sweet friends!  I’ve been lacking greatly in the blogging department.  I’m not exactly sorry about it, but I am sad about it.  I do miss y’all dearly and I enjoyed taking some time yesterday to read a few blog posts and make a few comments.  The truth of the matter is: I don’t function very well when I’m not stable.  Right now, my life is NOT stable.  It’s a struggle for me to keep everything in line.  I don’t have a legitimate living space, I just moved everything back to my parents house for the time being, I’m living out of a suitcase for the next 2 weeks, sleeping on my sister’s couch and a friend’s couch.  I just don’t feel “stable”.  It interferes with healthy eating habits and workouts too.  Then there is blogging… oh how I’ve missed consistently blogging over the past few weeks, but I just don’t find the time to sit down and bang out a good post or read through my millions of unread bloglovin posts (seriously… it’s ridiculous how far behind I am!)  All of that to say… my life is an unstable mess haha.  I’m ok with it though, it’s a challenge and it’s out of my comfort zone, so I’m assuming God is trying to teach me something here.  I know my patience is being tested during this job search and that’s frustrating, but I’m continuing to trust.

Everything will be OKAY.

These next 2 weeks will be bitter sweet.  I have 2 weeks left as an AmeriCorps VISTA and my time here has been painful, yet rewarding.  I’m excited about entering a new chapter in my life and putting this chapter behind me, but I’ll miss the sweet friends I’ve made and I’m a little stressed over what job I’ll get or if I’ll even get one.  We are celebrating with 10 Days of VISTA and I’ll have a huge re-cap post at the end about everything we did.  Basically, we took all of our favorite things from the past year and combined them into our last 2 weeks of work and call it the “10 Days of VISTA”.  It’s a lot of fun y’all!  Yesterday we wen’t to City Bagel and had “fake icecream” (That’s what Lacy calls it, she’s bitter about it for some reason, but it’s FroYo for all you fans out there!)  We also dressed professionally.  The next days have so many fun activities involved, I just might explode!

I have quite a few posts that I need to write out, I may get those written tonight during “Blog night!”.  I need to re-cap my friends wedding I was in 2 weekends ago, it was a blast and they had a wonderful photo booth and I got some great pictures!

I’m starting to get really excited about moving to Jackson.  I have so many great ideas for living in a bigger city and I can’t wait to put those in place and see things happen.  Of course, I’ll share those with you when they do, right now they’re really just dreams and I need to find the support system to make it happen, so if you want to send up a prayer for these cool things I’m dreaming up in this little world of mine, I’d love it!

I’m considering learning HTML code and stuff so I can start designing my own blog.  I absolutely freakin’ adore my blog design, but I feel bad when I want to make changes that I can’t make myself and I have to contact my designer all the time.  I love her and she did a fantastic job, I just hate bugging her about it and she has a lot of great and happy changes going on in her life (she just had a baby!).  It could possibly turn into a mini-business also?  I don’t know, it’s just an idea.  We shall see!

Don’t forget to link-up with us for Home Town Hop next Tuesday (one week away!).  I still haven’t decided what I’m going to write about, but I’m sure I’ll come up with something super great!  I’ll also be posting matches for the Bloggers Helping Bloggers on Thursday!  I was a little sad to not see as many people sign up, but I understand that different things work for different people and so I can’t be too sad about it.  I’m really excited about the girls I have signed up for the month of August!  If you missed sign up and are still interested, I haven’t made the matches yet, so you can e-mail me to request to be a part of this month!

Hope y’all have a wonderful Tuesday.  I’m going to use a giftcard I received from a blog giveaway to treat myself to some Starbucks since I feel crazy from my lack of stability right now! #treatyoself

1. Christmas Day

Atlanta, it was snowing and beautiful, Christmas trees in Centennial Park!

Sweet little muffin cozied up in a Christmas blanky!

Sibling Picture with sweet Cappie dressed as Santa!

I wake up super early and get gifts! 🙂

Love it for the food… OF COURSE!

And I usually like running a race the morning of to justify all the food

4. Any Day I’m at Disney

Cirque Du Soleil is the greatest show!!

My two best buds from Disney!

My first visitor when I lived there, enjoying Epcot! 🙂

Celebrated this today!  And it was beautiful, my friends…. just beautiful!

Did you enjoy a Free Tea Today!? I did… although, just like usual, I failed at blogging duties and didn’t get a picture!