The REAL Countdown Begins - 100!!

I cannot believe that all of a sudden there are only 100 days until I am Mrs. Sarah Lawhorn!!! (It feels crazy to even type that!!) But yes, I will have to change all of my forms of identification, my bank statements, magazine subscriptions (except for Real Simple, which I had sent to Jason's house before we even got engaged.. hmm.. maybe I was expecting it..), my email addresses, my business cards, and my signature.

All you married ladies, did it take a while before you just wrote your new name without thinking? Because I can already tell, I'm a creature of habit and it'll be hard not to jot down my normal signature. But maybe I'll just be so excited that I'll carefully draw out the perfect cursive "L" and make it all beautiful every time... :) Tee hee. Okay moving on.

Calling all camp girls -

Remember our "chant" (that was waaaaay better than the guys...)?? Well, I was just reminded of it from this.

Man, I love camp memories.

Sooooon to be...

You may not be able to see it here, but LOOK - I'm "Sarah soon-to-be-Lawhorn"!!!!!

Thanks, Em, for making my day.

Blogs I Stalk... other than the obvious

I thought I would give you a short list of blogs/websites that I stalk regularly (other than the obvious shown in my "fave bloggies") :

This Young House - 20-somethings redoing their house - we fit right in
Nesting Place - all things decorating, on a budget
Sunset - another decorating ideas site.. see a theme here?
My Life in a Boys World - Stephanie's blog
Buttoned Up - organizing website :)
Resolved2Worship - random blog I found, and I LOOOVE it - 6 kids and she's pregnant and she re-did her kitchen with like NO money. Gotta love it.
Ducks in a Row - another random one, about family and getting organized, etc.
ShopSmart Magazine - Consumer Reports puts this out
HGTV - anything in the decorating or organizing section... I seriously can't get enough.

That's all for now! Now go have fun.

Where's Waldo? - Bedding Edition

**UPDATE** I found it!! And honestly I don't even know how. But it's called Nautica Southgate Herringbone and I just may very well order it today. ......And then figure out how to return the other one......

A quick story and a plea for help.

Two weeks ago (or more) I found a bed set I was in love with from JCPenney and it was ON SAAAAALE. Okay? On sale. Love sales. Gotta get things on sale. And not just "on sale" - CLOSEOUT. So since we couldn't agree on anything at Bed Bath & Beyond, the discussion ended with "You get whatever makes you happy, babe." which basically means "I know I'm not going to win on this, I don't love what you picked, but go for it anyway."

So I took his "advice" and went ahead and bought the set.

Fast forward to yesterday when we were waltzing through BB&B when we walked past the bedding section:
"You better not even look," said Jason.
S: "Oh I know, it's not like I'm gonna find anyth--... oh poop."
J: "What?"
S: "Nothing. I didn't see anything. Nothing at all."
J: "Did you find one you like?"
S: "Maaaaybe..."
J: "Is it that one over there in the middle on the bottom?"
S: "Uh, YEEEEAH. Do you like it too?"
J: "Yeah, I really do."
S: "Well dang!"

(Okay, enough with the dialogue.) So we're looking around everywhere to find that one set, which of course we can't find and there's NO ONE around to ask.

So here's my plea for help: I took a picture of the picture in BB&B and I know it's a Nautica set, BUT... we have no idea what it's called or anything. I've done some research but still can't find it.

Can you find it?!?!?

The Fastest Kitchen Remodel

Okay so Sunday afternoon, right before meeting Brandon and Meagan for dinner (they're engaged!!) I told Jason what an eyesore the stupid scalloped wood piece is above the kitchen sink. So he said, fine, I'll do something about it and started to rip it off to which, of course, I said "WAAAAAIT!!!!!! ........let me take a picture for my blog first."

Yeesh. He's gotta marry me too. :)

Anyway, here's the before:

(Please ignore the horrible lighting from my phone camera...)

And the after!!:


Okay, nothing too amazingly glorious, but I really felt like we did a house project! In 2 seconds!! Before we ever get anywhere with the kitchen, I am sure that I will tell you "what we're going to do" 100 times. And each time it will be different and in the the end it will be different than that! It's just how I roll.

TODAY my thoughts are: We're going to change the hardware (this is a GIVEN and will NEVER change) and possibly paint the countertops. Jason's mom found a great article on hgtv about painting countertops so we figure we might as well try, it can't get any worse, and if it's terrible, we're planning to replace them anyway. But if it's NOT.. then we'll save ourselves some money until we're ready to go all out. :)


Public Service Announcement: My goal (since we are officially at 103 days until THE DAY) is to blog every other day, so like 50 posts between now and the wedding. I'm gonna be honest, I don't think I can do it, but SURELY to goodness I can have SOMETHING to write about every other day!! This has been a public service announcement.

Whooo Dolly!

Saturday morning. Well, afternoon. I get up. Put on my orange. Get ready for the Orange & White game at UT.

30-45 minutes later, Jason is driving and says, "Do you really want to go to the game?" "YES!" "Oh, well, I was thinking, maybe, we could go to DollyWood instead?"

WHOOOO DOLLY!! Of course I wanna go!!

So yes, we went to DollyWood!

Here's proof #1: the DollyWood sign behind that gazebo thingy.


We drove around in the antique cars!! (It looks like we're going super fast, but I think my camera phone just blurred..)


My chauffeur.


On the ferris wheel!!! YAY!! It was actually super fast!

At the top!!

We rode the Tennessee Tornado too! AHHH!!! And I kept my eyes open the whole time!!! We rode a bunch more, but my poor Fancy's neck has been killing him, so we had to cut back on the coasters pretty quick. All in all, it was a FANTASTIC day! We could have gone back for free on Sunday using our Saturday tickets but we knew we needed to head back. In a little over 3 months, though, we can go places and actually STAY TOGETHER!! WHOO HOO! Yay marriage!