Songs for your Saturday

I heard this song on Pandora and wanted to share it. It's a very heartfelt song about an unnoticed girl who when is noticed, is made fun of. It's written by the singer based on personal experiences. Let's make sure to notice those who may be invisible to others...

Marie Digby - Miss Invisible

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This next song is so powerful, the first time I heard it, I got goosebumps. I love Adele's voice and passion behind her words. I also love the chorus added on the radio/Pandora version of this song.

Adele - Take it All

PS- don't you love how drastically different her speaking and singing voices are?! I always get a kick out of it!

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Here's a incredibly heartfelt version of How Great Art Thou I've been loving for a few months now! Brought me to tears. If you haven't seen it yet, you should check it out.

Carrie Underwood - How Great Art Thou

We've got lots of packing going on here this weekend (with some necessary breaks for football - go Nebraska!!). Hope your weekend is great!

Fall Temps

As fall begins tomorrow (happy fall, ya'll!), I thought we'd compare the Minnesota temps and the Texas temps for the next 10 days according to The Weather Channel, also to see what Nick should expect when he gets up there next week (I know, I'm freaking out a bit that it's NEXT WEEK!)....

Minnesota...

Texas...

Looks like I can enjoy the pool a bit longer here, yesss! I need all the vitamin D I can get before going back into hibernation (a.k.a. "up north") don'tcha know ;)

Here are some photos from our walk earlier this week...

We're really going to miss this walk - it's SO beautiful and serene which is more difficult to find in the middle of the city. It actually reminds me of walks we went on living in Minnesota.

Soaking up the warm Texas sun while we have it... (in between packing all of our stuff that is!).

Cool Treats on Hot Days

I never posted about this great shaved ice we had a few weeks ago. After hitting an all time record of 70 days of temps over 100 degrees (whew!), we needed a cool treat. We had been talking about snow cones (larger ice pieces) vs. shaved ice (smaller ice pieces) at work and it had me thinking about cool sweet shaved ice for days. Nick, my wonderful husband ;), took me to get some a few Saturdays ago and it was awesome. So good and definitely hit the spot. 

I had to try the cream you can add now that I had heard about and it was such a good addition! Have you tried adding cream to your shaved ice?

 My hurricane with cream

 Nick's Tiger's Blood

 

Today, my parents were lovely enough to bring up some boxes from their recent move so we can continue packing this place up getting ready to move. We went to lunch at Corner Bakery (similar to Panera) and had dessert at Yogurt Zone. It's where you can add your own yogurt of many available flavors and any toppings too. It's weighed and you pay per ounce.

 Nick's (on the left) has cake batter, vanilla, and cookies and cream yogurt with oreos and heath bar on top. Mine has Bavarian chocolate and coconut yogurt with oreos, almond pieces, yogurt chips, dark chocolate chips, and coconut flakes on top. Oh my gosh, it was so good :) We'll definitely miss that place!

 It was also nice to enjoy the nice weather while we can with mom and dad. This weekend's highs have been in the low 90's still - not fall yet here! Sounds like the Midwest has been having more fall-like cool temps, so we've got to soak up the rest of these summer days while they're here!