Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from the Porter's!!!

 I hope you all had a WONDERFUL Christmas and that it was full of family, fun, love, laughter, games, food and some presents like ours was!

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a GOODNIGHT!!!!

First Things First

So, I've been absolutely terrible at updating on here, but I found this on my sister, Krystal's blog - It's Krystal...with a K and decided it would be fun to do!! 

1.  First thing you do when you wake up in the morning...check my phone

2.  First thing you reach for when you open the fridge...usually the milk for cereal

3.  First things you do when you go to the gym...go to a class (Zumba, Step, Body Pump or Pilates)

4.  First thing you do when you get home from work...feed my cats

5.  First car...Honda Accord

6.  First car accident/traffic violation...a speeding ticket at 22 when I was on my way home to pick out my new kitten, that hates me now and lives with my parents

7.  First thing you wanted to be when you grew up...well when I was 5, I said I wanted to be a cow, but once I realized that was ridiculous, I decided I wanted to be a teacher

8.  First choice beverage...water

9.  First choice breakfast...pancakes

10.  First choice dessert...iced sugar cookies

11.  First song that comes to mind...not sure what it's called, but it's by Ke$ha and goes, "I hear your heeeaaarrrrttt beat to the beat of the drums..."

12.  First major purpose...to be the favorite child. #accomplished (hahahahah kidding, sisters!!!)

13.  First job...I did do a little bit of babysitting, but I would call my first job being a realtor's assistant

14.  First time you flew on a plane...Summer of 2005 flew to Puerto Rico to go on a cruise

Let's Re-Arrange

So Friday evening the hubs went home to his parent's house to go deer hunting with his dad for the weekend. I had been off that day and cleaned up and organized the guest bedroom, so that night I decided it was time to rearrange our bedroom. Last weekend we got a new little cube-shelf-table-thing with fabric drawers so Ty had some more room for socks and stuff because his dresser is full of t-shirts and shorts. I figured it would be the perfect size to sit our TV on as well. Wellll, it worked, but I didn't realize how heavy that TV was and just didn't feel that comfortable with it sitting on there. So I decided to switch our dressers and move the TV to Ty's dresser since there wasn't anything on it anyway (except for a laundry basket with his clean socks and clothes after he doesn't feel like folding up and putting in the drawers. So rearranging it was!!! 

This was not long after I had started. I sent this picture to Ty and said "Guess what I'm doing??" 

While in the process of cleaning out my jewelry box, I found this note that my sister Krystal left for me my junior year of high school when she left for her freshman year at college. I remember finding it in my backpack or book in my Pre-Calculus class. I cried reading it then and I cried reading it Friday night. We had a blast together that summer and even more fun the 2 years that we got to spend together at Murray State when I decided to go there! I hate that she lives so far away, but what can you do? It just makes me enjoy the time that we do get to spend together when she comes into town! But anyway, we're getting emotional and off track. :) Love you sister!

Anyway....finally a few hours later after cleaning, de-cluttering, organizing and even cleaning out from under the bed (YIKES!!) I was done. I did a little video and sent that to Ty. He loved it!!! and was very proud of me for moving the furniture myself. Those suckers were pretty heavy! So Saturday I took some pics. I wish I had before pictures, but I don't...so, here's the after!

This is as you're walking into the room...

That's my dresser with the mirror...Ty's used to be there, so I just swapped them.

And this is Ty's dresser, where mine used to be.

And this is the shelf/table thing that the TV was on. I like it like this much better. And now we have somewhere to put our unity candle from our wedding and a pic from the wedding. I think my bouquet would look GREAT there too...so mom, I might be getting that from you next time I'm there. ;)

And here's a close up of the table. I think it looks adorable!!! :)

So that's our new set-up in our bedroom. I think it looks pretty good. :)

RaZzLe DaZzLe!!

Soooo...I'm a terrible nail biter. Have been for as long as I can remember. But this past year, I've got through some phases where I haven't bitten my nails and they've gotten decently long. And right now is one of those phases. 

I tried the Nutra Nail Gel Perfect on Sunday and I liked it. 

The color didn't turn out like it did on the box (SHOCKING!!) and it already started peeling off today, so I decided to go ahead and take it off and just get some other fall color.

So, after work today I ran to Ulta and found this cute little festive fall/holiday polish combo from Essie and I had to try it. It was a little pricey, $16.00. Hey, I'm frugal, don't judge. But since I had a $3.50 off coupon, I decided to splurge. 

Along with some "It's a 10" leave in spray because that stuff is amazeballs!

So, after I got home from Zumba and ate a very nutritious dinner of Monkey Bread...I know, so bad, don't judge! haha I took off the Gel Polish and started with the Essie Razzle Dazzle Manicure. I love it!! I'm not the best fingernail painter, you know, since I've been a nail biter for a majority of my life, but I think it looks pretty good! You all like?? :)

My Best Friend's Wedding!

WARNING!!!! This post is going to be a MAJOR picture overload! 

This past weekend one of my very best friends, Danielle, got married to the most incredible man! I am so, so, SO happy for her and Jeremiah! They are both wonderful people and deserve all the happiness in the world. I was honored to be a part of their BIG day!! Here are some pics from their perfect day!

All TWELVE of the Bridesmaids and two flowergirls

Here comes the bride...

She was absolutely GORGEOUS!

Their first kiss as husband and wife (sorry, I can't get this centered for some reason)

Me, Todd & Krystal on our way out after the ceremony.

Stephanie and I on the limo/party bus.

Self photo!! Love these girls!

Here we go!!! Me, Krystal, Becca and the beautiful bride, Danielle!!

Amanda and Sarah

SISTER!!!!!!

AWWW, so sweet! Love them!

My sister and I entering the reception the only way we know how to...cheering! haha

Krystal and I at the reception.

Danielle and Jeremiah Stansfield!

Love this couple too! Todd and Becca Jo!

Cutting and tasting the cake.

First dance as husband and wife. Adorable!

How cute are they?!?!

Papa Joe and his baby girl!

Krystal's ready for the bouquet toss! Of course. ;)

And she caught it! After a little fight with our other sister, Michelle, though. haha

Murray State folks! And Jeremiah. :)

JOHN SPINNER!! We've missed this guy!

A few of the MSU girls - Krystal, Me, Danielle, Becca & Johnna

My Annabell!

Two little poopies. :)

Now three little poopies. :)

Danielle and Ty

The hubs and I. I LOVE this picture of us! :)

Then we ended the night with a muscle picture! haha We did this at our friend Bridget's wedding a few years ago, so we decided we needed to recreate it at her wedding as well. :)

Love this girl so much and am so blessed to call her one of my best friends!! Not sure what I would do without her. I was honored to have her stand up next to me when I got married and was so happy that I got to return the favor for her. It was an awesome day and I wish her and Jeremiah the most wonderful life together!!! LOVE you poopie!!!

Outfit Friday Link Up

I decided to link up with Rachel from Suburban Strut for Outfit Friday Link Up. 

She usually tries to blog all of her outfits from the week, but I didn't really have that many cute outfits this week, so I decided I would just do today's outfit, because it was Pinterest inspired and I thought decently trendy and cute. :)

This is the Pinterest outfit (with the teeny, tiny, skinny, long-legged girl):

And this is my early-fall-not-yet-quite-cold-enough-for-boots-so-I'm-rockin'-flats version :) :

(Please ignore the fact that this is in my nasty work bathroom)

Be sure to link up with Rachel too and show us your style!! 

Happy Weekend!

A Challenge

So, I'm officially crazy, but I decided to join Melissa from The View From Five Two and do a 100-day Burpee Challenge with her. 

You can read about it here. 

If you don't want to read about it, I'll give you a quick run down. She does Crossfit where she lives and last Saturday, September 22nd, they started a 100-day Burpee Challenge where on Day 1 you do 1 burpee, Day 2 you do 2, Day 3 you do 3, and so on until you do 100 on December 31st. 

Yes, ONE HUNDRED BURPEES!!! 


OMG! I think I might die in the process, but I'm going to give it my all and try to do it. I'm a little behind since I didn't hear about this until today, so I did days 1-5 tonight to get caught up. (And let me tell you doing 15 consecutively wasn't easy...oh man what am I getting myself in to????)

So who wants to join me?!?! It'll be SOOOOOO fun. haha well maybe not fun, but I'm sure it will totally be worth it! 

It's time to get back to this! Or better yet...even better than this. :) Whoop Whoop!!!!

Happy Burpee's ya'll! ;)