The Shafferland Shuffle

* Last Sunday, we wrapped up our time at the marriage conference, with an amazing worship service. I still can't get over how much I loved that! We came home and settled into real life again, which included a trip to the grocery store. We actually love grocery shopping together so much that we both hate going alone. It's more fun together! When we came home, we hung up our latest Pinterest inspired thing...a wire wall basket to hold fruit!

* Monday morning, both of us noticed as we drove to work that seemingly all of the sudden - it's light out when we leave for work! That must have happened underneath all the overcast yuck of last week. OH how I love leaving for work in something other than pitch black. Isn't this GORGEOUS???

That night we took our little road trip in Old Trusty to pick up our new-to-us elliptical from our friends Jon and Julie!

* And Tuesday I got to USE our new-to-us elliptical for the first time. It runs like a dream and is such a sweet machine in comparison to the one I used to have {that died an ugly death ever so randomly one day}. Love the opportunity to work out at home doing something OTHER than a DVD.

* Wednesday night I tried on my wedding dress just to make sure we were okay before the reception. MAMA!!! That sucker was WAY tighter than it was on our wedding day. Want to know how amused I was? You can guess. So I'm on a strict salad diet until the reception...but I so loved seeing the dress again - and my VEIL!!!

* Thursday morning I drove straight to the BP for my salad. I know - weird, right? They make THE BEST salads there. For just over $5.00, I got a salad that I will get 3 meals out of...and it has broccoli, cauliflower, cucumbers, radishes, onion, celery, tomatoes, carrots, cheese, and meat. That is not a bad gig!!! At least it makes the thing flavorful.

* Friday morning, my one-hour commute turned into a two-hour commute, thankyouverymuchwintrymix!!! I was thankful I left home 2 hours early so I wasn't late...but getting up at 4:30 for work STINKS!! Friday night, Ryan and I went to Chili's for dinner, along with a couple of his friends that I'd never really gotten to know before. We had a great time - and I was a good, good girl and ate from the good-for-you menu!

* Saturday, Ryan had to work most of the day, so I stayed home {and in bed a good chunk of the morning, but don't tell} and scrapbooked...and worked on reception stuff...and watched almost all of season 2 of Downton Abbey. GASP!

Then, once Ryan got home, we scrapped our initial plans of cleaning and instead went to IHOP for dinner {where I ate from the good menu AGAIN!} and on our grocery shopping date and then we came home and just relaxed on the couch to watch a movie and eat popcorn. We sorely needed a "nothing" night and I'm so glad we took one!