Happy Valentine's Day, Lovelies!

With my first valentine's day as a married woman I am celebrating the love of my life, Adam.

He's my adventure, everyday I fall more and more in love with him and who he is a person. He balances me, he puts me into check when I've lost my ever lovin' mind, he makes me feel beautiful and special. 

I love you, my love!

{A few cute children's quotes about love:}

"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth"

-Billy, Age 4

"Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boys puts of shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other."

 -Karl, Age 5

"Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss."

-Emily, Age 8

Tired Tush Tuesday

A quick post before I fall asleep to a movie....
There's been a task at work which I have taken hold of and as of today completed with great diligence. It was a job that hadn't truly been done in two years which a couple of co-workers of mine and I finally finished. {It only took us two weeks....why did it take that long before?} All I can say is I'm glad it's done, at least until the PT's dishcharge their charts and then it begins again. Please ignore my lack of details, if I gave them to you you might be bored.
After work I made a couple of trips around town and arrived home in time for hubby to walk in from class. I miss him so much during the day, he's my biggest supporter and friend not to mention amazing husband! 
We decided it was time for the gym and headed to the U of M campus for some elliptical lovin' time. I climbed, I swooshed, I climbed some more... What is the actual move you make on an elliptical anyway? I digress- my tush is now in healing mode as I think level 6 of resistance in the last few minutes killed me. I sounded like an 80 year old woman as I crawled in bed and had to reach for a pillow on the floor, "Oooohpss that involves abs! Holy man my butt can't do that move anymore!". If you inserted a groan or two in your head as you read that then you heard me.  I'm a sad excuse for an athlete but at least I gave it a try, right?
I'm under the covers now with wet hair and about to pop in 'Jane Austen's Book Club'... goodnight :)

Sleep well lovelies, sweet dreams!

xoxo .betsydavis

{Photo Credit: Definitely Golden}

Obsessed with black and white stripes from bathrooms to skirts, I'm in love.

 

{Le Fashion Image}

 

{Anthropologie}

Hello hello and a happy Monday to you!
After a fun weekend in Nashville with our families we are now back in Memphis just in time for a little snowstorm that hit us this morning.
Saturday morning my mom and I were able to get our nails done together which we had never done before. In fact this was my mom's first time to have hers professionally done and they look so good! My feet were in desperate need and that poor guy who took care of me deserved every bit of that tip. All of my toes are a sweet light pink shade in honor of valentine's day. {Aren't you just so excited for Sunday?} We spent our time between both families watching movies, going shopping, church and lunch at Red Lobster. Such a nice gesture for Adam's parents to take all of us out! We left Franklin early as we wanted to make it home before the Super Bowl started so that we'd still have somewhat of a weekend at home before the work/school week started.

{Side note: Adam's from Louisiana leaving us to cheer for the Saints of course! Who dat!} 

Much to our surprise we woke up this morning to a text from Adam's friend Zach stating that the snowbird called for snow and school was cancelled for him. I scoffed at the text "knowing" my work wouldn't close for anything as we have many patients to attend to yet after texts between a few girls from work were exchanged and a call to the boss we were told to enjoy the snow and not come in. Thank goodness, we would have had to leave at 7 normally but instead I laid my head back down on the pillow.

Excited to have the day off I lazed around on the couch watching the morning tv shows and quickly jumped off the ole tush to clean clean clean. Adam had to pick up his friend from the airport who attended the super bowl and didn't know if he could take him all the way to his apartment and might have to have him stay at our house.  

Wipe the sink down. Wipe the kitchen counters. Make the bed. Assemble all the dirty clothes from the luggage and stuff in the washer. Stuff Stuff stuff....you know they'll fit!

Having been pretty low key all day I'm itching to get out again but the forecast calls for another 3"-6" of snow overnight. I'm sure cabin fever will kick in if work isn't open tomorrow but all is well because we have Mad Men Season 1 to catch up on. Yay!

Long entry coming to an end promeese.

Love you all, I hope you have a lovely evening!

xoxo .betsydavis

{Photo credit: Love is A Big Funny Word}

To be a little french girl....I have a feeling her life was much more imaginable than my own at three.

She's the cutest though, isn't she?

Once upon a time... from Capucha on Vimeo.

Can you believe it? We've reached the sweetest month of all, February and nothing could be sweeter than pastels and flowers. ...and maybe even a cupcake or two :)

The rainy weather has put a damper on my day despite my getting all chores done I have felt pretty blah. Maybe I should shave my legs or paint my nails, that always gets me feeling girly since I'm home alone.  In fact reason being, Adam is out for the evening at Rhodes for a seminar on Brown v. Board of Education. Seeing as we live in Memphis which has such a large civil rights background it seems quite apropos. Anywho he's there until 9 and I'm watching The Deep End.

I bought a large sketchbook last night at a local art store for allll of my magazine clippings from Elle to Lucky & Saveur to House Beautiful. Since I was 11 I've been obsessed with magazines- the glossy photos, the tips and tricks with abounding inspiration, I just can't get enough! Needless to say I've accumulated quite a few {ahem...hundreds} of those lovely periodicals and felt I should break them down to their finest pieces according to what I like and chuck the rest. For now I have two separate books to hold my wonderful torn out pages and feel quite liberated to be truthful. If I get a chance in the near future I'll post the progress.

Tomorrow Adam and I leave for Nashville to celebrate Daniel, Adam's brother, on his 18th birthday. His brother will be taking the ACT and working most of the time leaving us to get our tires rotated, an oil change and my muuuuch needed 6 month long awaited pedicure. Come to me soft feet! Hello there buffed heels and goodbye calluses. Eeep I'm elated!

Have a lovely Thursday night, I wish you the happiest of dreams.

xoxo .betsydavis

 

  

  

  

  

{kids sledding down the lawn of a local high school}

{Our window covered in ice} 

{Our windshield}

 

{Every branch and limb encased in ice}

 

{Sidewalks covered in thick ice}

After spending most of the weekend inside due to the snow storm I have to say I'm glad that the ice has melted.
We woke up Saturday morning both having cabin fever and wanting to get out of the house.
Initially we thought to take the car out but as you can see above our windows were covered with a thick layer of ice topped by a couple of inches of snow. There wasn't any kind of defrosting that could get our car on the road. Still itching to do something we decided to start walking and ended up a few miles down the road at Barnes and Noble to look at magazines, a burrito at Taco Bell and a warm chai for the walk back home.
As you can see in the last photo the sidewalks didn't give way to any traction and Adam slipped a lot because of his shoes but no scrapes or bruises.
The rest of the weekened we didn't do much as church was canceled. I took the opportunity to clean every inch of the house because a plumber was coming today and Directv as well.
Alrighty off for the night, I hope you have a wonderful Monday evening!
xoxo .betsydavis