C & C

Gooooood Afternoon Lovelies!!!
(so I know this is a little late for coffee for some, so you can always switch to a cocktail if need be! ;)

It's time for our weekly C & C sesh! (Coffee & Catch up, if you are new here)

Grab that coffee/cocktail and let's see what you need to be updated on since last week:

• Last week I told you that I was planning a super CUTE date. Well it didn't happen. 😢 Not because of anything bad, but there were a couple reasons. 1 - I was NOT feeling great. (TMI for those who don't like too many intimate details) I had HORRIFIC cramps and the thought of doing a date and being in pain when I was sooooooo super duper excited about that date wasn't appealing at ALL. 2 - This reason actually made the whole cancellation WORTH it. So I'm higher risk with the whole COVID-19 and my daughter was back from NAU but was at her dad's and started feeling terrible. She wanted to come see me but knew she couldn't if she did in fact have corona. She ended up getting tested but results would take anywhere from a day to 10 days. Well evidently she found out the next day that she was all good. She reached out to Estrada to plan on surprising me the day I planned our date for. Once I woke up and didn't feel good he was in the clear with the date being done, but then I started coming up with other ideas. LOL Maybe we should do a day picnic etc. I was enjoying a glass of wine on the balcony when all of a sudden in the doorway was HAYLEY!!!! My reaction was priceless! I tried to get her TIKTOK video that she made documenting her arrival to load here, but the service struggle right now is REAL! Anyway, I was soooo surprised and it was a LEGIT amazing surprise.  

• Ok so I finally put my wine drinking skills to a good PRACTICAL use!!! 😉 I started working on a couple wedding crafts with wine bottles to use as possible centerpieces. I had seen some adorable rose gold painted wine bottles with simple flowers in them. What better time than QUARANTINE time to start trying some ideas out. First part of the plan was to get the labels off of the bottles so I soaked them in a mixture of dish detergent, distilled vinegar, & baking soda ALL day. The labels came off pretty easy, all I had to do was take a brillo pad to the bottle lightly after the label was off. I have a couple other shades of paint that I'm waiting on. I'm doing a mix of shades so they aren't all exactly the same. For the first go they turned out pretty good. I'm in LOVE with the clear crystal bottles with twinkle lights!!!

 Soaking the bottles to remove the labels.

My absolute FAVE bottles!!!

All ready to craft.

Sample of one of the painted bottles.

The crystal bottles look AMAZING with twinkle lights in them! I am going to be drinking LOTS of this wine the rest of this year! ;)

• We will be celebrating "PROM" this weekend at our house (virtually of course). Saturday was supposed to be prom for our kiddos, so he blasted it all over social media to dress up and share their "prom" pics to our school social media. Needless to say, um, you know this girl LOVES an excuse to dress up, so our little family is ALL in! Hayley and her boyfriend are even joining in on the FUN!!! Pics to come on this SUPER CUTE event! 

• It's also "Birthday" weekend although my birthday isn't until Tuesday. Having all my loves with me will make it the BEST birthday EVER! I typically start counting down my birthday at the 1st of the MONTH.....but I haven't been that into this year. LOL  I do really LOVE birthdays, maybe quarantine is making it feel weird. 

• On Sunday we went out for a family day by the water to a spot we found when we were out exploring one day. The weather was perfect and it's a super CUTE hidden spot so we were there all alone! (social distancing peeps!) Here are a few of my FAVE pics from the day:

That's all for this week. I will TRY super hard to get this out
in the morning next week so you can for REAL have coffee time!
I feel like I was helping you out with cocktail time though, so you are WELCOME!
Stay healthy and stay home loves!

Coffee & Catch Up aka C & C

Gooooood Morning loves!!

So Wednesday is going to be our new official Coffee Date day. 

In the past I did Coffee Talk, but just like the rest of my life that too is getting 

refreshed with a new look. 

So without further delay here are my updates on this past week:

• All the new balcony furniture came in and I am in LOVE. We decided to get a high bar top table & chairs because our views are AMAZING and if you are sitting low you don't get to enjoy them as much.  I added the outdoor moroccan gray rug. It's reversible and will definitely hold up in the rain because it's a vinyl type material which makes it really easy to clean. SCORE!  The last piece I added was the super cute white "rattan" chair. I put that in quotes because it's not really rattan material. It looks like it but it is also a vinyl type of material which should hold up to our hot summers and monsoon season, but I will definitely keep you posted on how it does this first summer.  (I'm working on adding the links to each of the pieces in case you are interested in checking them out for your space, but for some reason they aren't working. 😕 Ugh. It's probably a user issue....imagine, but as soon as I get them working I will update this post with them)

• While we are all living the Quarantine Life, I figured this is a good time for me to start crafting for the wedding and do some trial and error projects. ;)  I ordered some greenery, vases and spray paint so I'm super excited for those to get delivered. I have been removing labels from all my empty wine bottles in preparation. I know, I know, you are SHOCKED that I would have A LOT of wine bottles, but hellooooooooo quarantine life is helping my projects get complete even faster! I'll post what projects I work on as I start them. Fingers crossed they turn out good. 

• Speaking of the wedding....this WIND has been a MAJOR issue. So we can't nail down a definite date yet because we are watching what the evenings look like this whole month. Wind up here at our house is a serious thing. Um, no bride or anyone who likes their hair to look good will enjoy a super windy wedding day. Now obvs I can't predict what it will be like next year on any certain day, but we have been watching the patterns. It typically is windy during the late mornings into the afternoon and then by evening it dies down. Now if that's the case, we would be GOLDEN because we are planning an outdoor sunset wedding. We initially wanted March and I guess we could do the very end of March and just hope for the best but now we are thinking possibly April or June. May is out because High School life in May is pure CRAZY MADNESS. Anyone who has lived in Southern AZ for a long period of time and has any advice and/or insight to this windy weather, I would LOVE to hear from you!

• Brooke Burke Body Update:  2 Weeks In! Unless I'm delusional I think I am seeing results!!! ;)  I have NEVER owned a scale because honestly my clothes tell me anything and EVERYTHING I need to know. Last weekend I had a couple outfit choices out and the one in particular I hadn't worn in a while because it just wasn't fitting quite "right". 😏 I put that baby on last weekend and it fit PERFECTLY!!!! I was so excited! I'm definitely trimming up and toning which is all that I wanted so I'm over the moon happy with this new workout program that I decided on a whim to do!

• I'm working on a SUPER cute and FUN date night this weekend!!! It's top secret right now, but I'll definitely let you know all about it next week. I'm in the planning stages as we speak, so hopefully it turns out how I envision. 

I think that about covers all my hot topics for this last week.

 I do need to share 

the LEGIT super creative Easter Brunch my love did for us. 

Maybe that will pop up on here tomorrow. 💖

Stay Healthy and stay home my loves.