Lately

Matt was out of town at the end of this past week at his annual sales meeting. And my parents and Poppy Bill came to visit this weekend. They arrived pretty late, so I made the most of my free time and gave in to my need to go ahead and pull out my fall decorations. Seeing pumpkins around my house makes me pretty happy!

Saturday was a shopping day for us. We ordered invitations, browsed some of our favorite stores, and got a ton of fall decor/important wedding things at Hobby Lobby. It was a cool, rainy day and I LOVED every minute of it!

We ate at Granddaddy's for dinner.

Then settled in to watch the Georgia game. Go Dawgs!

Sunday brought FALL weather which I adore! We had such a good day!

We sat outside on our back porch until late last night and I burned my first fall candle of the season.

Today was a happy day as well. I got a sweet surprise from my husband this afternoon. I have been looking for this book everywhere, and have heard such great reviews about it. I was pretty shocked that he remembered. It made my day!

Bible study also started back tonight. It is always a blessing. I am actually doing Beth Moore's Wising Up for the second time. I can already tell you that I am getting something new and fresh out of it. I am a lot different than I was just 2 and 1/2 years ago when I did it the first time around. I have a whole new perspective now. I'm loving learning about wisdom. It is my 8th Monday night study with this group, and the ladies in the group are a huge blessing to me.

I hope that everyone is having a great Monday. Christy Nockles tweeted this a few weeks ago and it encouraged me so I have to share. I definitely had a super start to my week.

"Monday: another opportunity to celebrate the finished work of Jesus, to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, the glorious in the mundane."