Hey y’all!  Let’s do some catching up since I haven’t blogged in over a week! {yikes}

LABOR DAY WEEKEND

Nick and I went to Florida again to help his brother & sister-in-law move into their new house!  It turned into quite an adventure of a weekend though when Nick’s dad ended up in the hospital.  Thankfully, the doctors/nurses took great care of him and worked hard to get him out as soon as possible so we could all drive back to Mississippi.  He’s doing good (per my latest update), but has some health issues to take care of now that we’re back home.  Prayers would be greatly appreciated!  Nick and I decided to stick around a little later than anticipated so we could drive back with them in case something happened.  That left me behind for the rest of the week which is why I didn’t get much blogging done.  Even though it was an up & down kind of weekend, we made the most of it and thoroughly enjoyed some quality family time!  Nick and I still managed a very short trip down to Disney World once everything settled.  It was good to see my friend David and we visited Hollywood Studios, Epcot, and Magic Kingdom while we were there.  I’m pretty sure I had more than my fair share of Starbucks throughout the trip and managed to take zero pictures.  Oh well, there will definitely be a next time!  Nick and I will probably be back down in October for the birth of his nephew – now that will be a short trip because I don’t think we’re taking off or missing school for it, so we’ll be down Friday night and back up Sunday night, but it will be well worth it to experience the joy that his brother & sister-in-law have been praying about for the past few years!  We won’t get much baby time, but we want to be there for any errand running necessary while the parents & grandmothers soak it all in!  **Don’t worry about the Starbucks, Trey!  I’ll have us both well caffeinated!**

ROAD TRIP

It’s no surprise to any of you who have been reading for… well a minute (see above) that Nick and I are no strangers to traveling and road trips.  We love them!  I kind of think they’re our “thing”!  Well folks, we’re about to embark on the ultimate road trip and I could NOT be more excited!!

4 Days.

16 States.

5 Friends.

1 Wedding.

45 Hours on the Road.

It all started with a wedding invitation… from my sweet, amazing, wonderful blog friend & Bliss Co-host, Meg!  I was originally going to fly out there because there was no way I was taking the Alero up to Massachusetts!  I went back and forth on the decision because it was going to be a costly short trip and I’d only be in town for a day and a half, plus I didn’t want to go by myself so Nick would have had to pay for a flight as well.  Then my Alero broke.  Then I was practically forced to get a new car.  Well, because of our love to travel & road trip, we decided that a Prius would be a good investment for me since it gets 50mpg!  Then the debate was whether or not we should spend the money driving up there when I ended up with so many unexpected expenses in August.  I felt so torn between what we should do, but we ultimately decided that the trip was not in our best interest…. then…. THEN…. I filled out the RSVP card with a big fat NO and a sad face, then sent a picture of the saddest note I’ve ever had to send to Nick and expressed my deepest sadness about not going and well…. we went back to the drawing board to really figure out if we could make this work.  We realized that we could visit a lot of people on our way up and back down, with us splitting all costs, it really won’t be that much money in the end for an epic road trip such as this!  We’ll get to see my best friend Lacy in Virginia and shower & stay with her, we’ll get to have Breakfast with our friends, Adam & Tiffany who recently moved to New Jersey, and we’ll get to have lunch in D.C. with one of Nick’s good friends from high school who recently got engaged and we’re excited about meeting her fiance!

It boiled down to this…. we purchased this car for road trips and we finally had the opportunity and availability to make one heck of a road trip up the East Coast and we can manage it within our budget, so we’ll be off next Thursday to Virginia for our first pit stop!  I’ll be heavily documenting the entire thing and hope to have some pointers for you wanna-be road trippers out there!  I’m so excited about this new adventure, it’s something we’ve never done before, but I have no doubt that it’s going to be an awesome good time!  I’m so stoked to see my sweet friend Meg and to also meet another blog friend (she no longer blogs though), Amanda!

WORK UPDATE

I mentioned in my last post that I passed my Series 6 test for Investments, but now it’s on to my Series 63 test.  I scheduled the test for Friday, September 26th at 3:30pm.  Prayers are greatly appreciated!  I shouldn’t have any tests for a couple of months after this one.  We have a new girl working in our office, so I’m spending a good bit of time training her, but I love management & I love working with people!  This also gives me the opportunity to learn even more because if I don’t know the answer, I want to find it out so I’ll know for future use as well.   I really do love who I work with and where I work, which is such a huge blessing!

LIFE UPDATE

I completed the 28 Day Challenge and loved just about every minute of it.  I thought it would change the way I lived, but sure enough… I’ve reverted back to some old ways.   There were so many things that I missed while on the challenge that it was difficult to resist once the challenge was over.  I think I got it out of my system though and I’m slowly finding my balance.  I haven’t been working out as much lately either, but I’m finally on track for this week.  I went to the gym last night and then today I attended my favorite HIIT class – which… holy moly!  I’m going to be sore tomorrow!  I’m not a fan when she decides to take us across the room and that’s practically what we did for the entire 30 minutes!  Tomorrow morning, I’m joining a running group and depending on how that goes, I may be taking a rest day on Thursday, but I have a Kickboxing class planned for Friday!  This week has proven to be a good one and I’m excited about what else I have planned.

So tell me….

• What’s the biggest road trip you’ve been on?
• What’s going on in your life?  Share some posts from the past week because I haven’t done any blog reading either!
• How are your eating habits & workouts going?