what saturdays are made for

Other than relaxing, sleeping, working on the house, and having a ball o' fun.

Sun in your eyes Jeffy?

Sadly we lost in literally the last 14 seconds of the game. It was one of the most heartbreaking games to date. They played so dang hard and then in the last few seconds just couldn't keep it. Rough stuff. However, I. STILL. BELIEVE.

Watch out West Virginia and Iowa State. We are coming for YOU!

husband's wedding gift

I have got to say that a wedding present may have been one of the most stressful presents to date.

However, for some reason when I thought of it I just knew that it was perfect and I looked no more unlike my usual ehh there has to be something better thoughts.

I have no idea what to get him. No idea. Not even one. Everything for a guy was so boring to me. I didn't want to just do something to do something. I wanted it to mean something to him. I also knew everything he seems to like is about 5 million bazillion dollars, so I had to get creative.

Somehow. Someway. Maybe it was God himsef. But somehow I thought of an idea. Like, by myself. I didn't even need pinterest. It was almost a world record breaking moment for myself.

My thoughts? Well...a custom baseball bat of course.

Oh my word. Husband loves baseball. The Yankee Spankees to be exact. What better thing to get a husband who loves baseball and his wife (I will answer that for him ;)) other than an engraved baseball bat?!

Seemed like a good idea to me.

So that is what I did. I got online and purchased that baby before I could say "keep looking". I was so pleased with my purchased and was absolutely giddy when it came.

I also found a baseball with bible verses to go with it and gave myself a little pat on the back. Sadly, I got too excited and gave it to him at the rehearsal dinner and got zero pictures. Even so, I loved it. He loved it. And it is sporting a new home in his office.

So if your (future) husband loves baseball and you can't think of a dang present for the LIFE of you. I'd recommend it. Plus, never goes out of style ;)

weekend visitors

This weekend we had the pleasure of actually staying home for the weekend.

No driving. No hotels. Just relaxing, enjoying the weather and our company. 

My family decided to come up and hang out for the weekend. They hadn't seen our house since before August and they were due for a visit to the S household. A blast in a glass is definitely what it was.

I never knew how much I'd love having a home and how much I would love having house guests until well...now. We spent Friday cleaning the crib and had a little dinner with my brother who came up as well.

* photos courteous of ol' iphone*

Chef Jeff came out in full force and seriously cooked the entire day on Saturday. Breakfast galore with bacon-eggs-toast, and lunch-three different flavors of wings, and dinner-pork loin-fried potatoes-asparagus. 

We spent the first part of the day working on my "office" and Dad & I (more so Dad) knocked out the hardwood floor. In love with it and thankful for his sweet skills and help! The rest of the day mom, Patrick, and I ventured off to the shopping world. I vote they just move here.

The KU vs OU game was the part of our day I will just try to forget because we got killed. No, massacred. So we started drinking to forget how sad the game was becoming.

And we ended the night with a spades beat down by Jeff and myself. {sorry dad and pat}

Somewhere in there Jeff and I totally passed out and woke up to an empty basement. Boy we sure know how to hang these days {not}. 

I seriously wish there were more weekends like this because I flipping loved it. It was nice to share our home and all we have started here. I can't wait to see everything progress in our casa and have hopefully many more visitors.

Come back annnnnnnnytime :)

christmas card must

Okay so I am kind of obsessed with Christmas cards.

Actually, I'm just obsessed with Christmas. But the cards are so fun and I love sending them out every year to friends and family. This year is the most exciting yet because we are actually MARRIED. So now it's not all like oh hey I'm in a Christmas card with my boyfriend...fiance...whatever.

It's official. 

Anyway. I saw this deal on plumdistrict.com and thought I'd share since of course I bought it in two seconds. I am sucker for deals and a sucker for Christmas = win win and win.

Okay I bought two.

They are offering $16 to get $40 worth of Christmas cards. I looked on the site and the cards are mostly about $.69. And people they are ADORABLE! Here are a few.

Plus, they are having 20% their cards TODAY only. Whhhhhhat?! Two sales? I just died.

Just thought I'd let you know. Take it or leave it.

If you take it here is how you do it.

• join plumdistrict.com if you haven't
• click on explore your district and find the one that says $20 for $40 worth of holiday cards (there are two for holiday cards but this one seemed like the better deal since the cards were a lot cheaper)
• click on make it mine and put in celebrate20 to get your 20% off.
• So you get 40 bucks worth of stuff for only $16

You can get more bang for your buck too because the other site is having %20 off this week only.

thank you

Thank you for helping me realize that I am, in fact, not entirely crazy.

That all the feelings brewing inside of me are pretty normal.

Thank you from the very bottom on my little soul. All of your comments made me smile a big smile of relief.

To me, this is what makes blogging so entirely awesome. Getting to share feelings, experiences, and moments with other that we each can relate to. To help each other. To celebrate the good. And to help each other grow from the bad.

It's a pretty cool thing if you ask me.

It's weird how people you've never met {as crazy as it sounds} can really do work on your heart and mind.

So thanks for being the vanilla to my coffee.

Times about 50!

This is kinda of much, but THANK YOU for making me smile.

tell me it's normal

Okay so I'm going to be real up and honest about some things going down in my life lately.

Most of the time I post about all the good and awesome times that happen on a day to day basis as life as a newlywed and pretend "grown-up". I use grown up very loosely.  It lifts me up to see those moments and relive them through this blog. Heck, this is even why I created it. So I could remember it all.

And all includes the ugly. The not so happy moments. Because that folks, is what makes me....me. The shits and giggles. All included in the Molly package.

So today I'm just going to say...I'm effing exhausted. Worn OUT. and I don't even have kids or a dog - holy cow how do y'all DO IT?!

Straight up feeling worthless. I feel like half the time teaching I don't even know if what I'm saying is staying in their minds. I feel like I can't fit anything into the day and somehow the day ends and I'm just frustrated at myself and wondering why I suck so much that I can't just get my plans done exactly ONE TIME.

I know I'm not the only one, but boy does it feel like it sometimes. Like a little lost Nemo at sea. Struggling to get...somewhere. I just fear that I will fail my kids. That is my biggest fear. I just want to be that one person who they say believed in them. Who shaped them. I am just so tired of working so hard to do the things that in the long run...just aren't as important. 

Also? I come home dead. Straight up dead. I feel like a crappy wife who just lays around because I can't even barely keep my eyes open sometimes. This is my own fault. Only mine. But I hate the feeling. I thank the Lord for a patient and loving husband. Seriously.

Okay now I'm annoyed of my complaining self. But I'm human and I'm feeling like crapola at the moment. So here I am. At my (not so) finest. But this is real. And this is life. 

This will probably get deleted but I needed a breather. I was tired of complaining so much to the same people. I know they are just as annoyed of it as I am of saying it myself. 

It's never too early.....

To decorate for Fall.

OR.

Dream of Christmas.

Never.Ever.Ever

show and tell

  1. If you could relive any memory in your life, tell us what it would be, and what/if anything you would change about it?
Our wedding day. Cliche and maybe expected. Whatever. I want to relieve the day because seriously it goes by so fast I could barely remember all the people who were even there. You are so caught up in everything that you want a redo to just go through it in slow motion. To remember each and every single little beautiful detail. I can't wait to get our pictures back so I can relive it. I wouldn't change one damn thing about that memory. And day. It was perfect. Everything was perfect. Yes, there were small glitches. But it was absolutely perfect to me. 

2. If you could be any celebrity or well-known person, show us who you would be.

3. If you won the lottery, tell us would take the lump sum or take the money overtime, would you continue working or quit right away, would you reveal who you are, and what are some of the first things you would spend with your money?


I've actually thought about this before. I would not take the lump sum.  Or maybe I would. You bet your buttons I would draw some interest on that bad boy. I would not quit my job. The first thing I'd do with my moolah after investing it is give it away. Heck yeah. I've always wanted to just pop into random stores and start handing out dollar dollar bills to people who needed it. You know how pumped that would make you (and them)? Oh man. Then I'd buy our families whatever they wanted, a dog, a boat, a camper, and a SWEET log cabin. Heck, maybe even our own lake. That'd be sweet.

This sucks, now I want to win the lottery.

4. If you could live anywhere, show us where it would be and tell us why.

Colorado. Overlooking the lake. Boom and Boom. 

5. If you could have one magic power, what would be and what would you do with it?

I have always been bad at these questions. Maybe to make people "good". To take out the crazy evil and just bring out the good. This nutso world would be much better that way. I wouldn't mind the magic power of eating without getting fat though. I'd be down for that too.

hey husband

I'm going to brag on you for just a second, so don't be getting all big headed now.

You should know a few things.

You should know that I love being married to you. We just well, make sense. Team Stevenson for life!

Your cooking is out of this world. I don't know what crack you add while I'm not looking, but it is money. Every single time. And that traeger? I'll give you credit, solid purchase. (even though a dog would totally be a better one ;))

I appreciate (more than you know) how much you work your arse off every day. Hard. For us. For you. For our family. Your effort never goes unnoticed. 

I think the yard loves you as much as you love it. It's your baby and I think y'all are getting along real nicely. It makes me smile to see you out there working on the house/yard and so proud of it and your work. Because I am sitting back being proud of YOU.

I'm just so happy. Even when I am so exhausted I barely want to talk, I am happy. I have you. I have the best partner/husband/teammate/etc I could ask for. Yaaaa buddy.

And maybe someday my clothes and hair won't be all over the house. Doubtful, but we shall see :)

I love you and happy slappy TWO months of sharing the same last name.

I love you more than buffalo sauce!

xoxo,

Your wife

wedding pictures (take one)

If I haven't said it before, I will say it again.

My best friend takes bomb diggity pictures. She has a crazy eye for it and is one of the most talented gals I know. She was also the one who happened to take our engagement pictures.

More importantly than her crazy awesome talent, it always means 500x more when she takes our pictures because well...it's her. And I will always know when I see those pictures who took them. My homegirl herself. The one who has stuck by my side since kindergarten.

And that to me? Is as special as the pictures.

So since I haven't gotten our wedding photos back from the photographer, I thought I'd share a few she took that day. All while STILL being a bridesmaid. Have I mentioned she rocks?

Crazy to see pictures and relive the day. Crazy crazy. How fast it flies.

I miss it.

I need to remind myself to not make this face again. 

Cannot leave out the thumb. Just not natural. 

Haha. Me & the photographer Morgan herself. In our true colors. Shit I love her.

Morgana, Mo Lafo, "LYLAS"....you my friend, rock my socks off.