Football Season Is BACK : Fantasy Football

Good Morning!

Football Season is Back!

Are You Ready For Some FOOTBALL?!

My husband decided he wanted to get into the sport more since I am a fan so we are playing Fantasy Football!

Which we had talked about it while we were eating at Buffalo Wild Wings and they were showing one of the NFL games and I didn't really push the subject... cause well he's not really a fan.

A week later, next thing I know is he looks at me and says, "Umm Hey, when is our draft?" 

Like whoa!

Come to find out he had been researching players and such.... He was ready!

I jumped right up and got it all set up... contacted our friends and we got the draft a rolling...

I found out he has been listening to me when we have watched games and I have talked about different players.

He was picking them for his team!

I had the best time during the draft because he got so nervous and kept saying....

"What do I do?"

 "Who should I pick next?"

Have to say I'm pretty Lucky and pretty proud of him!

We actually play against each other for week 1!!

Here's how our teams look:

My Team is named : Reed Between The Lines

Here are the starters:

QB: Tom Brady - NE

RB: Rob Kelly - WAS

RB: Dalvin Cook - MIN

WR: A.J. Green - CIN

WR: Larry Fitzgerald - ARI

TE: Martellus Bennett - GB

W/R Terrelle Pryor - WAS 

K: Mason Crosby - GB

DEF: Chiefs

My Husband's Team is : Show Me The TD's

Here are the starters:

QB: Aaron Rodgers- GB

RB: Jonathan Stewart - CAR

RB: Devonta Freeman - ATL

WR: Pierre Garcon - SF

WR: T.Y. Hilton - IND

TE: Jordan Reed - WAS

W/R Lamar Miller - HOU

K: Matt Bryant - ATL

DEF: Falcons

How do you think we will do?

Who do you think will win this week?

I will let you know how Week 1 results play out!

I'm excited!

Whoot Whoot!

<3 Ashley

Kissing My 20's Good Bye : I did it!

Hey!

Good Morning!

How is everyone doing today?

I am so excited to share this with you!

I saw this and always said to myself that when I turned 30 I was going to do this myself. 

Well I did!

Ladies and Gentlemen...

I did an Adult Cake Smash!

Happy 30th Birthday to myself!

Now this wasn't your typical Adult Cake Smash... I let the Fur Babies join in on the fun as well!

Plus, I didn't get as messy as I should have... I mean eww...

That's when I thought," What have I gotten myself into?"

It was such a fun experience! 

Just to be silly for a moment and enjoy life!

I'm sure people are going to look at these pictures and be like why? 

Honestly, I didn't want to tell anyone I was doing them just for that reason but afterwards well... yeah I did it. 

You have to have fun in life and this was so much fun and I mean we did get our family picture taken but the Fur babies and I had a blast eating cake!

I am so Thankful that our family friend Sarah was able to make this dream come true for me!

Doing this helped me get over the meltdown of turning 30!

It's really just a number and I should be grateful I am still alive to be silly!

Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Let me know what you think?

Would You do a cake smash?

We also took some Family pictures as well and They were so good I had to share them with you as well! 

 Of course, I had to get her to take our pictures in our Redskin Jerseys! 

Think someone found out he's not really the Favorite......


Hope you enjoyed all of the pictures!

If you would like to see more of Sarah's work she has a website : Sarah Elizabeth Photography

She definitely doesn't disappoint and honestly I don't think I have ever taken pictures and loved every single one of them but with her I have!

Thank you for checking out my post!

Hope you have an awesome day!

<3 Ashley

New year is upon us

Hi!

Hello!

How are you?!!

Can you believe we are about to start a new year?!

Where did this one go?

Do you make resolutions? I kinda do but it's more like Goals to accomplish during the year!

My Goals For 2017!!!

Here We Go:

1. Lose 20 pounds
2. Tone up
3. Cook new things
4. Try a Kick Boxing class
5. Post 20 posts in a month, every month on here.
6. Go on another cruise
7. Level up in Younique
8. Do more adventures with my Mom
9. Go to the shoot range and take a class
10. Team up with another Blogger.

Now, of course I am going to say Lose weight and be fit..... I want to continue this the whole year... I'm going to be turning 30! I want to look fantastic! 30 is just a number! I want to feel that way when the time comes!

I'd like to get to where I get 10,000 steps on my Fitbit at least once a week!!! 

Now I do want to start cooking different things... I know sounds like it kinda defeats the purpose but for most of the days and night I hope to be sticking with Weight Watchers and doing Zumba like it's going out of style!

Just saw at my favorite outdoor mall that they do a Cooking class. Which you end up cooking your dinner during this class! 

Try a kick boxing class! Looks like fun and would be nice to Punch something and not get in trouble, since punching people if frowned upon. 

Have at least 20 posts a month on here! Considering there are 28,30,or 31 days in a month... I think I could do this.... I'd love to get more followers! I see people reading my posts but feels like I am talking to myself sometimes!

Go on another cruise! Yes! I would love to see The Virgin Islands...  That's our next want to spot to travel to! 

I want to have more dates with my Mom... I would love to go do more with her. Even if it is cook her dinner or something!

Level up in Younique! I would love to start selling more and level up. I have a lot of work to do to get that done. I need to take more PICTURES! I need to do more VIDEOS.  I feel like with getting healthy again I'll have the motivation to look good and feel good all working for me. 

Team up with more Bloggers to guest blog or do a fun post featuring both of us! Yes! I would love to work with another Blogger. Fashion...Makeup...TV Show...anything! I would love to share the styles or opinions of others and have a kick butt post because of it!

Sounds like an exciting year!

If you are a blogger and are interested in teaming up..... Please please please Contact me!!! I would love it!

What are your goals for 2017? 

Share them with us!

Hope you all have a wonderful and safe NEW YEAR!

Happy 2017!!!

Can't wait to see what the new year brings and work hard to get these goals accomplished!

<3 Ashley

Aunt Status = Best Status

My Oh My! That was such an eventful weekend! Our niece planned a whole weekend for us! Audrey was even included in the plans! 

-Pie face-
-Headbandz-

-Crayon Pumpkin-

-Movies-

-Pigs in a blanket-

-Walking Audrey around the outdoor mall-

-Pumpkin Patch-

-Sleeping in the floor on the coolest bed ever!- 

She had planned that she would be dropped off and her and I would take Audrey to the mall to walk around and get her a special cookie!  Then she would spend the night with us!

The girl is a home body and doesn't spend the night many places... so hearing that she wanted to stay with us... I was for sure up for the challenge and going to make sure she had the best time ever!

Which she had spent the night with one of the grandmas the night before! 

I think bets were made on how long she was going to really stay! 

Shocking to all she stayed the entire night and she never once asked about her Grandma ( My mother in law) that she lives with! 

BAM! BEST AUNT EVER!!!

How did I do it you ask?

Well we took Audrey to the mall and walked around for about an hour, she  got a ghost cookie to enjoy. 

On our way home, we went through the drive thru of her favorite places. Got some lunch cause my girl was "starving!" 

We ate our lunch and then had to run out the store and grab some stuff for our activity had planned plus we needed dinner and breakfast stuff.

Once we got home and put all the groceries away, We were ready for our next activity which was melting crayons on a pumpkin!

Totally took longer then expected but my girl was all about it! Wondering which color would "win the race" she was saying.... Of course being able to run around the yard with Audrey was a plus too!

It got dark on us so we went in and played Headbandz... Not fully to the rules... but it was fun and she totally was guessing crazy things? Like wait a minute are you listening to the clues at all?

Like the best one she had..... Swing... I said, " You have on in your Back yard in the grass
She asked, " do I make noise?"
I said, " Yes sometimes you squeak!"

Her reply, " Poop!" 

-_-

Really?!

Kids....

After that, We made our dinner Pigs in a blanket and tater tots!

Then it was PJ time and making our sleeping spot!

My plan was to sleep in the living room on our air mattress because she wanted Audrey to sleep with us... YAY!

Well, The box for the Air Mattress was in the closet... but NO AIR MATTRESS!!!

Still don't know where that is!

So I grabbed every blanket we had on the house that wasn't on the bed in my bed room and laid them on the floor! Which she proceeded to tell me was the best bed  EVER! My back the next morning didn't agree.... ugh I'm old now!

Now that everything was ready we had one more exciting thing to do and that was to play the PIE GAME! 

Talk about nerves! Making the game click was such a scary thing! Who was going to wear the whip cream?!

Which once she took her turn and it hit her I thought she was going to be done with the game but no she wanted me to wear the whip cream haha 

We played enough for her and I both to get hit with the whip cream twice!

We wiped off our faces really good and washed off the game then we got all tucked in. 

2 movies later she was fast asleep and I drifted off to the snoring of her and Audrey!

Audrey woke her and I up at 9 the next morning and Kris fixed us breakfast before we went to the pumpkin patch with her friend and Grandma ( My mother in law) 

I'm super sleepy today and hope I will make it through work as I have yawned typing this post!

As rough as I feel today, I wouldn't change it for the world because her staying with me was so much fun and I am so proud of myself that I was able to keep her entertained and no tears occurred except from the laughter we had all day and night! 

I love that girl!

Hope yall have an AWESOME day! Hope yall enjoyed this post!

<3 Ashley

Training to be a Champion....

Last Night was Clyde's first training class. He already knew the commands we went over last night and it was more for the Trainer to get to know him.

 Right off she said he's such a good boy he just doesn't have that much self confidence. He doesn't know him role in your house and then when he is scared not to tell him "it's ok" because that is telling him that there is something to be scared of... Which worked out... there were Balloons by the training area and he freaked at first but once we said, " You're good." He didn't pay attention to them anymore! We may try this with the ceiling fan!

He really surprised me with being so welcoming to everyone. Not saying I was waiting for him to attack or anything but he has been so skittish to so much that in a way I kinda saw a happy dog.  

The trainer said that she can tell Kris is his favorite. Which was so funny because when Clyde is nervous he will go straight to Kris and keep rubbing up against him. He doesn't want Kris to go far. 

Not only did Clyde make me proud but Kris really did too... Dogs are not his thing. We have 2 now though. He has totally become such an awesome helper with them and seeing him asking questions and doing the training last night with Clyde, was really such an awesome thing to see.  Both my boys have come a long way. 

I can't wait to see the results at the end of this class. Hope you all stay along for this little adventure!

Have a wonderful day!

<3 Ashley

 &

Clyde

My Heart Melts....

Last night, there was a magic moment that made me tear up and be so happy at the same time. 

 Having two dogs has been a big adjustment for all of us. Audrey isn't my only care anymore and it's not terrible by no means but it does take more time and I have all the faith in the world. 

My world does revolve around them as it does anyone else. I believe Audrey and Clyde are my best friends... my kids... my family members... I would love to have them in my wedding and they to stay with us forever. I love them! 

I think Clyde has been amazing and has changed so much since day one when we brought him home. He is a big boy and scared of a lot. the first day it took Kris and I 30 mins to get him to come in our house. He had never been around other dogs so Audrey was good smelling to him and he had to show his "man hood" to her several times. 

Now, he hardly does any of that. Not to Audrey or to me. He is calm and looks so happy.  It took him a while to eat in front of us or even take a treat from us. I give treats for good behavior... because I can...Training.... you name it.  Clyde also hasn't shown much interest in toys. He will watch Audrey chase the ball and run with her but then turn around and want me to pet him. He has sniffed the toys to see what she's messing with but then just walks away.

Well last night I heard Audrey growling an awful lot so I went to go make sure she wasn't being mean and there wasn't a fight about the break out. 

Audrey and Clyde were playing with one of the rope toys. Clyde had a toy in his mouth! Clyde was playing with a toy! I couldn't believe it!  

What a great Fur Mama moment for me!

I am so beyond Thankful that we have dogs!

I love them so much!

Please feel free to share you Fur baby!

Hope you all have a great day!

<3 Ashley

Kris is 30!

So to me this is taking a walk down memory lane since this happened in June but to you this party just happened!!!!

This was Kris' 30th Birthday party! He had no clue and actually moped around acting like no one wanted to celebrate his Birthday. I have given him a T-shirt so he was being a little mean that that was ALL I got him... Little did he know....

I already had decorations and food hiding in my trunk! His party was a hit. 80's music played.. He had a Guitar Hero cake made thanks to my mama's cake baking skills. I iced cupcakes and made PAC Man ghosts on them! Everything was perfect! He also got to crack open a piñata that was stuffed with candy....little bottles of alcohol.... Condoms....and pregnancy tests!!! That was hilarious to see the facial expressions of everyone! As soon as he showed up we sprayed him with Silly string and shouted,"SURPRISE!!!!"

I would totally do that party all over again! I was so happy and proud and to see him having an awesome time was the best!!!

This was his costume a few years ago so I had to let it be a part of the decor!!!

Kris loved Guitar Hero.... So why not have a cake that fit the theme 

This was such a funny idea!

I was quite proud of my Pac Man Ghosts!!!

Gotta Dress the part!

The very happy couple! 

<3

So Much Fun!

Making Coronaritas for Kris....

The next day we all met back over to the party to clean up and have a day by the lake...... The birthday boy was missing... So I'd say mission accomplished!!!

15 in 15

Hello! So I always feel like January is prep month for getting your goals to start! I love my life and everyone in it so it's hard to think of more things I want but, I feel like you always need to challenge yourself to be stronger and not slack off because you will miss things.  So last year I had 14 goals in 2014 this year is 15 goals in 2015.

Go on another Cruise
Drink more water
Try a yoga class
Read at least 4 books this year
Wear my hair curled or waved more
Have friends over more
Teach Audrey a trick
Try a new recipe each month
Keep blog up to date better
Do more with my family
Throw Kris a huge 30th Birthday party
Teach my self the Fake ID country line dance
Do Zumba at least twice a week
Experience something new that's out of the normal for me.
Live each day to the fullest

There you have it... my goals for 2015....we shall see how this works!

<3 Ashley

I'm going out with my boots on....

Hey so I have some plans and posts ready to publish but I need to take pictures and add them and well it hasn't happened so I am sorry I haven't blogged this week but I have to tell you about my night! Last night was so much fun! I went to Uptown Alley and Wednesday nights are Country night! They play nothing but Country music and have free line dance lessons! I have never done country line dancing before and let me tell you I LOVE IT! I was totally nervous to try it but I was so excited to. I now know what I am going to be doing every Wednesday night! Now, I totally need to get some Country Fashion in my life! Just for the Wednesday nights!

We learned 4 dances and I can only do one at the moment for you and it was to Trace Adkins song Ala-freakin-bama! the second dance wasn't too hard but the last 2... um yeah my feet were going one way and I was going another!

I do have some Cowboy boots and those might get worn out with all the dancing I will be doing!

Grab a pair of Cowboy boots for yourself and try something new!

<3 Ashley

Quotes that make you think.....

Hello everyone! Good morning! Hope you all slept well and are feeling refreshed for this new day! I am having a tough time remembering it's Wednesday and  Thursday.... this week is moving slow... Everything is fine but just feels like it is taking forever....

I saw some pretty cool quotes yesterday! Which I love reading or seeing new quotes because to me they are in a way like art they speak to you one way but to another they say something totally different. Also, they are like a song, they put how you are feeling into words.

 Here are the quotes made me think a little bit....

This quote is awesome to me because the days gets hard sometime and yet if it didn't life would be really boring. Sometimes you have to take a deep breathe, put that Supergirl or Superman cape on save the world, and sit back and see how far you have come! 

How cool is this quote! I love it! To me it is saying, it's going to be just fine taking new chances/ going different places that you can still be yourself/ wear the same outfit.

How do the quotes speak  to you? Comment your thoughts below. I am very interested in hearing your thoughts or feelings about them! 

Hope you all have a wonderful day! Maybe these quotes can help you get through your day! Remember Always wear your smile it's the best accessory you can wear plus life is short  so show off those teeth while you still have them!!!

<3 Ashley

Tea Party for 80...

Hello! Happy Saturday to you! Hope you all have enjoyed your day! I got a 2 hour massage at Massage Envy felt amazing! I added the aroma therapy to it with the smell of Rosemary and Mint.... Fabulous! Although when I got home, Kris told me I smelled like a grandpa.... Boys.... Anyway, I wanted to tell you and show you how the tea party for Deema turned out yesterday!!!! 

My mom out did herself like always everything was just beautiful! the colors of the day were lime green and pink. I ended up matching the decor :) My mom, sister, and I wore maxi dresses and our big sun hats. Deema was so thrilled to have "her girls" together for a little lunch for her. 

Even Deema wore a fancy hat....

The menu consisted of..... Sweet Tea, ham biscuts, watermelon, and two different kinds of pasta salad. 

Sugar also attended she is Bichon that will be 16 the end of this month

I wore a maxi dress and hat from Walmart, a bubble necklace from Rue 21, and a belt from Avon

I liked wearing the hat so much I kept it on after lunch while I soaked up the sun!

 Yesterday was such a sweet treat for all of us and I am so glad I got to be a part of it. My week off with my family was wonderful! I think now I am ready to start counting down for the cruise!

<3 Ashley

Good morning! Happy Friday!

Good morning! Happy Friday! I have had such a wonderful week off of work! I miss my kids but I have been able to relax and enjoy some things I have been missing in my life! I mostly laid out by my parents pool and soaked up the sun! felt so good! I also transformed our bedroom from feeling like we are sleeping in the wilderness to now comfy-happy sleeping. As well as made a new collage frame....which I love!!!

Last night, I made Kris watch Can't Buy Me Love since it was now on Netflix and it is my mom's all time favorite movie!  The movie is from 1987 ( great year) Patrick Dempsey starred in it. If you haven't watched it you totally should! 

It was funny to see the fashion from back then that is coming back in style now a days. Like I am waiting on what they call a "Fishing shirt" which is a long sleeve button up shirt that is monogrammed on the back to wear as a bathing suit cover up and yet... Cindy Mansini had on a button up shirt herself as a cover up...

I hope you all had a wonderful week! Today, is going to be another fun day for me! We are throwing my Deema a tea party birthday party she is going to be 80 years old on Monday! we ware wearing our big hats and dresses and then having a pool day! I am hoping to take lots of pictures because I can't wait to see how beautiful my mom has everything prepared and plus I can't wait to wear my big hat and dress! :) I feel as if I will be looking like I am from the Hamptons today! Let me get my princess wave ready! 

Have an awesome day and check back tomorrow for the pictures of today!

<3 Ashley