Author: courtnayreese

  • What a lesson!

    We have summer series on Wednesday nights and various speakers come in and speak. Steve Bailey, last night, gave us such a good one, I wanted to share! Let’s love each other more! Let’s be more forgiving. Let’s be kind. Let’s be patient(I’m workin’ on this one all the time). I know it’s hard, but

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  • Seafood Salad

    Y’all! This salad is out of this world delish. I found it over at Macy Blackwell IG. Y’all need to go check it out. The veggies, crab and shrimp and then the dressing…yum yum. We had a fellowship at the church building tonight and I made it again BUT, I had used some of all

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  • What I wore today

    Man alive is it hot here today and will be the rest of the week. Oh well, it’s part of it. Anyway, here’s to everyone having a fantastic week. Smile more, talk more, listen more, laugh more, just be happy…as I tell my boys all the time, YOU control YOU, don’t let anyone else! I

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  • The final day!

    Well, we knew it had to come to a close. We have had the best time. We have been somewhat unplugged (for us). We have slowed down. We have eaten some fantastic food. We’ve done some shoppin’. We have just enjoyed each other. Our trek home had to start early because the boys are at

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  • Day 5-My big day!

    How in the world can I already be 50 years old? I really don’t feel it. Anyway, it was such a fun day. Tried to be cutsie stylin’ today since it was gonna be in the 90s. We had made a plan to get up and just go the other direction and see what we

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  • Day 4- Smithville and surrounding areas

    I have a handful of movies that I could just watch over and over. One of those being Hope Floats. When planning this trip I saw that Smithville was not that far away and so I knew we had to stop by. Boy, once again, I am so glad we did. The cutest place and

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  • Day 3-low key

    Today, we had time to just chill and do whatever. We started our day at worship. We looked up a local church in LaGrange and low and behold we know the preacher and his family. Well, they were out of town but our friend, Vivian was there watching her grandboys. It was so good to

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  • Day 2-Pasadena and Houston

    We started our morning visiting this cute little coffee shop in Round Top, Mill Street Cafe. It was the cutest little cozy place with delish coffee and zucchini bread. Junk Hippy was in Pasadena on Saturday, so we drove down to see the goods. We walked out not needing very much but we did enjoy

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  • The past few days…

    have been ones for the record books. The Hubs wanted to take me somewhere for me turning 50. I didn’t want to go anywhere, I mean, my mom had already offered to take me somewhere and I told her the same thing. I am good. No need to make a fuss. Well, I caved…kinda’. He

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  • What I wore today

    This top is Free Assembly. I love how colorful it is. It fits perfectly too. The skirt and sandals I have had since who knows when. I paired it with jewels from the style queens themselves, Rita and Ellie.

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