FRIDAY FAVORITES....BYE AUGUST AND HELLO GIVEAWAY

How in the world can It be the last Friday in August! A month from today we close our pool and that makes me kind of sad.  However, September welcomes my favorite 4 months of the year and I look forward to all the decorating I’ll be doing, holiday shopping and pumpkin treat eating! Bring on crisp air, coziness and football where it’s available I guess, Covid is wreaking a little bit of havoc on Fall already.

1. GIVEAWAY

Care Packages 4 Everyone!

SOOO Good you guys, please enter, so easy!! These are great care packages!

This could not be a better giveaway for me to be offering! You know I love to send care packages! To college boys, to friends and family, always shipped with love! Carepackages4everyone is offering a fabulous giveaway to all my readers today! They have so many good ones and college care packages too which I’m sure are especially needed right now. 

Basically, just follow them on INSTAGRAM @carepackages4everyone and comment Here on the Blog, which one of ALL their wonderful Care Packages is your favorite from their Website: carepackages.com! 
Remember when I sent the Pumpkin Spice Care Package?? Good Luck friends! What a FUN PRIZE! Must be in the US to win! 

Here are a couple of my Favorites: 
Giveaway Open until 8/30 Midnight!

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A Little Nutty Care Package

2. Snaps from Kansas

Hopefully most of you saw all the fun I had in Salina Kansas while Mr. Nine was working and our evenings together! The boutique shopping was out of this world spectacular and I made some new friends with the ladies who own the stores! So much fun and the town of Salina offered way more than I thought it was going to! I'll show ya the cute outfits I wore in the evenings next Wednesday.

The most beautiful Home Decor Store I've ever been in...

Penny Lane!

Mmm afternoon 

Pistachio Toasted Marshmallow Latte and Toasted Ravioli snd Italian for dinner! 

The lovely store friends of mine, a Pink Drink Cocktail, not SB and in heaven, pumpkin ice cream with cinnamon ice cream on the bottom! 

Gretchen of Sanity Boutique in the bottom left, which I link below, and I really hit it off, can't wait to see her when we go back.

3. Favorite Kansas Purchases 

Instead of my weeks attire, I decided to show you some of my favorite purchases for my trip to Kansas. Shopping got a little bit out of hand so thank goodness we had room in the car to bring it all back. There were so many cute things, I literally could’ve bought 10 times this much but I want Mr. Nine to take me again, LOL!

Shop SANITY's Website HERE

Shop Bling Glamour's Website HERE
BOOTS...my Fav from Nordstrom Sale HERE

4. KIZIK and Camo

When I shared these new Madrid step in sneakers in blush pink on Instagram last week, you all loved them! And this detachable pink hooded Camo jacket from the #NSale. I think it’s safe to say I LOVE them both! Perfect Fall outfit! 

BUY JACKET HERE// SHOES HERE

5.Misc. Fun

POST OF WEEK ~ 
4 Cute Sweaters for Fall

MY FLOWERS
A few more poise pics..

Coleus and Cherryburst Verbena

Elfin Impatiens in "Lipstick"

Geraniums in Medium Crimson & Crown of Pharaoh Grass

MELLOW YELLOW

Summer may be fading, but I’m gonna take this adorable off the shoulder yellow top right in the Fall! Next week, I’m doing a Target Haul on my Instagram stories with some lovely ladies and you can bet, this top will be included! 

BUY TOP HERE // SHORTS HERE

MEMES

Bha ha ha

AND for FUN

Gonna Hold onto a little Summer on my Float with a Pineapple Popsicle!

Hope it's a weekend 
sweet as a pineapple!!!!

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xoxo

3 THINGS ~ MAY

Eek, this one has me so excited because I feel like it’s the kick off to summer. My dear and precious friend, Laura Horton from the Horton Family Blog has come up with the best me questions for her 3 Things, Write with Me series!

1. If April Showers bring May Flowers, what 3 kinds of flowers are you planting this Spring?
If you know me at all, you know I am totally crazy about my posies and inherited my green thumb from my sweet mom. You know I go to at least half a dozen greenhouses every year and plant many varieties of flowers. My Ultimate favorite every single year are Bubble Gum Petunias. They get huge, spread out fabulously, you do not have to dead them in the pink shade is absolutely amazing!

Here are some of mine from last year by the pool, I had some in the ground and in Pots, it was still early I the year and they got much bigger.

Here they are at our old house in railing boxes and pots. Our old neighbors just texted me the other day and said how much they miss looking over at the beautiful bubblegum petunias. 

 Here is mom and I in a town about an hour and a half south of us that have the biggest bubblegum petunias we’ve ever seen. This is just one pot of about 200 that the town plants every year.

I also love geraniums and last year I got a beautiful red and pink shade to go in one of the window boxes on our pool shed. This year I got a couple dozen of that variety to plant in various places. They are called Calliope medium Crimson flame.

Another favorite is Verbena, they get huge and do so good. I got several varieties this year and these are some of mine from last year at their peak. I love hibiscus too

I love hibiscus too! 

And Ferns and Sweet Potato Vine too...

These are Mom's Impaitents, still going mid-September last year! 

2. Cinco de Mayo. End of the School Year. A Long Memorial Weekend. How are you celebrating the kick off to Summer?

While we celebrate and love all of these, the best way for us to kick off summer is Memorial Day weekend. Usually, Mr. Nine and I do this alone because it often falls around our anniversary and we always go to either a beer and brats festival in Michigan or sometimes we take a long weekend in Chicago. This year, we will most likely just be hanging by the pool with the boys as we have our last one graduating this year. That will be a true kick off as we will have no more in regular school but Eek, three in college in the fall!

Michigan Beer and Brat Festival  

LOVE hanging with my guys poolside

3. What 3 qualities make a great mom? Or show us a picture of you and your mom and tell us why she is so special to you.

It is no secret how wonderful my mom is. In fact, I just mentioned her on Friday and have often shared her and talked about her on the blog. She is just the cutest and most beautiful inside and out! Her beauty, grace and precious heart touch everything she does and everyone she knows. She loves her family so much and does whatever she can to help us when in need. She is fun and spunky and loves life! A big part of the woman and mother I am today is because of her and the values and love she has instilled in me. I am the luckiest girl to call her mom and I don’t know what I would do without her!

1974..look how beautiful mom's hair was.

1990....look how BIG with our hair was, lol.

Yep, we like to toast once again. 

Yesterday, before Brunch

And because my sweet photog is a son of mine and loving the dress and sneakers look..always...Took these on the windiest day yet this Spring..may have lost my hat a couple times, lol! LOVE this Blooming Jelly line!

BUY DRESS HERE // HAT HERE & HERE // SHOES HERE & HERE

A very Happy Week to you all!

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xoxo