My First Giveaway....

I am not sure about you ladies, but once I finish using my Chi I was always scrambling for something to rest it on so it wouldn't burn anything or leave a mark on the countertop. I typically would lay it on a towel..not the best idea, but it worked. It always seemed I would be using it and then needed to pack it up for a trip..hence the towel.  Well a few months ago I stumbled across this lovely item. Who knew that someone had made such an item?!? And quite honestly I LOVE IT! It is so nice to not have to scramble for something or worry about burning a whole in something in my suitcase. So ladies the rules are simple to win your very own Chi Cover.

The Rules for My First Giveaway Are.....

1. Become a follower of this blog

2. Leave a comment

3. Mention this giveaway in one of your blog posts.

Seems pretty easy to me. So if you do one of the abovementioned rules, you will be entered once, if you do all 3 you will be entered 3 times.

I will announce the winner next Monday October 5th..as we are moving this upcoming weekend into our new house and will have limited time on the computer!

Thanks for playing.

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Fall is in the Air!

I was so pleased today to walk out of my room at school and feel a nice breeze..such a dramatic change from the HEAT yesterday!!! Jonathan and I have been tying up all the loose ends this week with the upcoming closing of our first home. We have called everyone and set up all the accounts that we need as far as we know. We have some great friends that have offered to help us move and paint this weekend and we are very lucky to have such amazing friends to offer up their free time to us. We will be thanking them of course with a home cooked meal once we are in the house! Both sets of parents are coming over on Friday to kickstart the weekend. Pizza, drinks, music and painting..it is always fun when the six of us get together. The dads have informed us that they will be "in charge" of the food on Friday and supervising the rest of us! I told my dad that he does not have to paint, but that if he happens to help me remove some shelves in one of the rooms that a small prize might be in it for him. Needless to say we feel blessed to have such great parents and friends. Tomorrow we are doing our final walkthrough and then we are heading over to Home Depot to buy the supplies for the weekend. Thursday we close at 4 and then will head over to the house to start taping and hopefully finish since there will be 3 of us there! We shall see. I am going to close this post with the quote my mom has said to me at least 5 times in the past two weeks:

"Rome was not built in a day Megan."

This is very true mom and luckily we have the entire month of October to move into our house!

That's all for now..heading over to the mall while JJ is playing softball..shhh don't tell!

Stay Tuned..

Later this week I will be doing a giveaway..I can't take the credit. After enjoying a great lunch with Meredith and Carson, she texted me later on telling me I should do a giveaway with an item I gave her. Needless to say the thought never crossed me mind, but I am excited about this opportunity. So later tonight or tomorrow I will post the details. I am hoping to also post the incredible design Ashley Brooke came up with for Jonathan and I. 

Keeping it short for now the hubs has a pretty bad knot in his neck, so I need to be paying attention to him!

Sorry I have been MIA from the blogworld..we are down to one laptop at the moment, so blogging has taken a back seat to setting up the electricity, water and so forth for the house. We are set to close Thursday afternoon and get the keys Friday morning!! Pics to come once it is a done deal!

Hope everyone enjoyed their weekends..I know I did..gotta love a 3 day weekend.

Terrific Tuesdays...

More like snoriffic tuesdays. Each week at my school a different group of kids does the morning annoucements and I love to here what the come up with for each day such as Fabulous Friday, Marvelous Mondays..and so forth. Well today, tomorrow and thursday I have full-day inservices for the district..hence the SNOREffic tuesday!!! Serioulsy they could cut half of the breaks and hour and half long lunches and actually start on time and we could get it done in one max of two days...See the thing is I LOVE MY JOB! Have I mentioned that before??? I love that I am making a difference in these kiddos lives everyday..it's quite rewarding.

So here is what I will be daydreaming of for the next two days...

T-Minus 15 Days...ahhh can't wait!

This is Why I Love Fall....

The reasons why:

Jackets, jackets and jackets! Since i am in Texas this doesn't allow me to justify buying several jackets..but I do love them!

Love this one from Francesca's

One of my favorite jackets! It was a steal from Forever21 last fall.

Got to break in my camel long coat in Chicago last November..

I also LOVE scarves, boots, sweater and FOOTBALL. It was a great Monday Night in the Lenz House..the Colts won again..2-0 BABY!

PS I am addicted to Starbucks Hot Chocolate come winter..ask anyone.

Here is What My Weekend Looked Like...

We be packin!

Our 20 boxes so far.....

Our garage sale pile!

We packed, packed, and packed some more!! We are up to eyes in boxes at this point. Sadly we have some more packing to do, but are all out of boxes. I am making some stops tomorrow to pick up some more..oh joy!! I did however returning al the extra wedding gifts today! Thanks Jenn for helping me out on that one. Now I have more money to spend at Bed Bath & Beyond than I know what to do with..new pillows are calling our names as well as some other items..We can't wait to go on some shopping sprees once we move! Jonathan has been quite a helper...he is keeping me grounded thankfully!

Hope everyone had a great weekend!!

Are You Ready For Some Football????

My husband is a sports enthusiast. He loves almost all sports..golf, football, baseball, basketball, and tennis. He is apart of three fantasy football leagues this year, so you are catching my drift.... Luckily I LOVE sports too, so it all works out. I scream and yell at the TV as much as he does! We have spent all day today packing and watching football and I wouldn't have changed a second of it. His beloved Michigan Wolverines won today..whew! My Vols lost..but they didn't get blown out so that was a HUGE plus! And now we are watching the Horns play Tech...all I can say is Hook'em Horns!! I am a fan orange..can you tell??? Since I brought up the color orange..Nordstorm has Tory Burch Reva Jellies in orange and yellow on sale for about 50 bucks! So if you are in the need of some now is the time to buy them!

Must get back to the hubs..hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!