Good Morning! Who’s excited for Friday? This girl right here!
I am spending the day with a very good friend of mine, Nichole. Earlier this week, she messaged me saying she was going to steal me for a girl’s day I can’t wait to just hang, grab some yummy food and chat the afternoon away. Oh yeah, today is also my birthday!
I guess that’s a valid excuse to do everything I just mentioned on a week day. All while quite possibly drinking a mimosa or two. Because I now officially only have one more year until the big 3-0. Yowza.
In usual Friday fashion, here is a fresh bash of Friday Favorites coming at ya. Don’t forget to tell me about what have been loving this week in the comments section and bloggers, link on up too!
Friday Favorites #34: Week of 4/25
• customized Pistons Dancer tumbler
Scott teamed up with a very talented friend of ours over at Tervis to custom design some special memorabilia cups for me and a handful of my close friends I shared the court with this season.
He gave them to us at our last home game of the season and it is a gift I will cherish for decades to come. I really don’t even think I’ll use it… ever.
It’ll go right next to my years of framed posters, cards, and calendars that will be on display somewhere in our home someday.
Thank you so much, Rusty!
• (cheap + cute!) Amazon phone case
You will probably come to find out that I am a phone case junkie. Unless I find a good one I am in love with that lasts a while, I change them up quite often and have learned that Amazon has a stellar and very reasonably priced collection.
It took a few weeks to get here, but I got this vintage floral with gold studs case for under $3!
• Al Fresco chicken sausage + meatballs
As someone who rarely buys and eats beef or red meat, I appreciate all kinds of creative lighter meats to substitute in our meals at home.
Lately, I have been turning to Al Fresco chicken sausage and tried their chicken meatballs for the first time the other night.
While heating them up on the stove top, I also sauteed red onion, tomato, and green pepper to add to the marinara sauce.
I then added the softened vegetables and “meatballs” along with a generous sprinkle of red pepper flakes and oregano for extra flavoring.
I served my special sauce atop veggie noodles (<- also a common go-to) and practically licked the plate clean.
chicken meatballs = definite win!
• Pandora bracelet
I have always secretly wanted my very own Pandora bracelet. I have seen them on almost every woman’s wrist I know at one point or another, and because of that never thought to ask for one.
After going in on one with my sister to purchase for my mother a few years ago, I fell for the concept and adorable way to collect personalized charms. That’s when I knew I wanted one of my own.
I received this beautiful double leather bracelet and charms as a birthday present from my best friend, Alex!
I love how it wraps around my wrist and also that it is more casual than the silver bands and bangles. I LOVE it and can’t wait to collect my own set of meaningful charms over the years. (Thank you so much, friend!)
• laughing out loud at silly things
Like this…
or this…
(Really though. I died. How true is that?!)
• Pure Leaf iced tea
The obsession started with a single serving bottle at a gas station. Since then, Scott and I have continuously been stocking our fridge with Pure Leaf Iced Tea.
Pictured is the Raspberry flavor, but I like the Unsweeted just as much. YUM!
• Google knows it’s my birthday
Crazy right?
Woot!
Your Turn
Happy Friday! 😀
![[in our elementary school era] 🚌😭
Skyler did great walking into KINDERGARTEN with a big smile on his face this morning. I, however, was a bit of a mess on our walk home. 🥹
It’s wild how fast these 5 years with him have gone … 7 since we moved to NYC and into our apartment, dreaming of the day our kids would someday go to the *awesome* school right down our block. 🏫
That day is today, and I still don’t believe it — feeling allll of the emotions and thanking God for placing us here and for being able to trust His timing through the journey. 🫶🏼 #hbshinnyc
SO proud of you, SK - you are going to rock your first year at your “big boy school” - WE LOVE YOU !! 🩵👑](https://lifeinleggings.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
Happy Birthday!!! I adore that Pandora bracelet! And I like the violin and the soda cup- took me second but I got it!! LOL!!
Happy Birthday, gorgeous girl!! I love your bracelet – so pretty! 🙂
Happy Birthday! I love my Pandora bracelet too! It’s such a nice way to mark special occasions. Mine is the silver one, but I love the leather wrap around. Maybe when I fill up the silver, I should just start another! 😉
Happy Birthday! I didn’t know Pandora had that kind of bracelet. I thought they only had bangles. Thanks for sharing.
Happy Birthday! Thanks for the Amazon suggestion. I just googled it and I found some really cute cases for $2! Have a great weekend 🙂
Those tervis cups are adorable! What a perfect gift idea. I really like the leather bracelet. I have never been a big fan of the silver but the leather one is much more my style.
Happy Birthdayyyyyy! That cup is so awesome! I also didn’t know that Al Fresco made meatballs! I will have to check them out!
Happpppy birthday!!!! Enjoy your day! 😀
Happy birthday girl!!!!! Have a beautiful day and a beautiful weekend, after all it’s your bitrthday weekend 😛
PS enjoy some dessert
Happy birthday!! Looks like an awesome week!! 🙂
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! I hope you have so much fun (and find someone else wearing the same dress again haha). Thank you hosting the link up as always! Those memes are crrrracking me up–the look on the dog’s face is so classic. Pitiful lab face!
Love that Tervis tumbler! Have a very happy birthday!
I hope you have a fabulous birthday! 🙂
Happy birthday!! That phone case is so cute! Love the gold studs!
Stop it right now with that Tervis glass. What a great gift idea! Definitely something you will cherish forever!
Happy Birthday, I hope you have a fabulous day!
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!!! I hope it is a great one 🙂
Happy Birthday !!
I totally didn’t get that violin straw joke at first, maybe because I used to play haha but that is hilaruous!
I hope you have a wonderful birthday.
First of all, that tumbler is amazing. Dave and I brought all our Tervis Tumblers out to California and a lot of people here hadn’t seen them before. They are a hit.
Second of all, I too, love the al fresco chicken sausage and have put it in pasta before.
Enjoy your weekend! 🙂
Happy Birthday, girlie!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! I hope Scott will use that tumbler everyday to showcase his beauty of a wife!!!
Those pictures, OMG, I die!! The dog. Too cute!!
Thanks for the tip about the iPhone cases on Amazon. I need to spend $10 more to get free shipping, so I think it’s safe to say that you know what i’ll be adding to my cart now to get to that!!
Happy Birthday Pretty Lady! Hope it’s an amazing weekend of celebrating for you!
I love Pure Leaf Iced Tea too! One of the best bottled iced teas I’ve ever had!
Happy Birthday! Have an amazing day! 🙂
LOVE the tumbler and phone case! I got a Pandora bracelet from my in-laws for Christmas and was iffy about it at first (shhh), but I think it’s great now. I have a silver band, but now I want the one you have instead, haha. And Happy Birthday! Hope you have a fab day and wonderful weekend 🙂 P.S. I love this series, so I may link up next week!
First, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! Your birthday is “the perfect date” (<—–please tell me you get the movie reference!?!?)! I would be sooooo excited to have my face on a Tervis cup, amazing! Oh and I had NO idea that Pandora had a leather option, I am DEFINITELY going to look into that now that I know!
Happy Birthday love! Have a beautiful day! Haha I love the tumbler! 😛
Happy Birthday Heather! Hope you have a wonderful day!! xoxo
We have matching Pandora bracelets! I have the leather double wrap one as well, in grey! And the teal + green charm you have? I bought it for myself when I was in Florida visiting my mom. I LOVE mine so so much! Happy Belated Birthday!
A friend of mine recently told me about your blog when I asked for some new blog suggestions, and I’m so glad she did! A family memeber recently passed away and in the past the women in the family have gotten a piece of keepsake jewelry to remember our loved ones by. We were at a loss for something meaningful to get in honor of my aunt, and when I came across this post a Pandora charm seemed like a great idea! My mom and I went to the store in Soho (NYC) on Saturday. We got 4 apple charms (my aunt who passed was a passionate teacher), one for each of us and 1 to give to each of my aunt’s daughter in laws. I got the leather bracelet you have and my mom got a silver bracelet. We will let the other two girls choose their own bracelets for style and size reasons. I’m excited to add to it for milestones in the future. Thanks for sharing!
Oh my goodness! I’m so sorry to hear about your loss. A pandora bracelet and charm is a great way to symbolize your love for your loved one. Prayers are going to you! And welcome to the blog! 🙂