Picnic Day!

Yesterday was my day off, so my good friend Allie and her puppy Brady came up for the day! We decided it would be the perfect opportunity to have a picnic so I could use my picnic backpack from Jon and Steph's Giveaway!!

Here's the pack, all loaded up, complete with my ducky blanket to sit on :)

I decided I would ride my bike and meet Allie at the park, so I got to use the sweet side strap on the backpack, it even had a spot for my iPhone!

We got to the park and set up our spot!

Allie and Brady

Brady :)

Josh met up with us after his summer school class got out. Can you tell how much he wants a dog? He was SO happy!

Then we went back to our place and let Brady run around our backyard (which we are slowly nursing back to health from the previous tenants).

Josh turned the sprinkler on and Brady was running through it and getting all hyper

It was really good to see Allie, because I haven't seen her since Graduation in May, and to see her little pup! After she left Josh asked if we could go look at puppies tomorrow, I felt so mean when I said no haha.

-Katie

Blog Awards!!

Yay for blog awards! Yesterday my great bloggy friend Ivy over at Little Woman, Little Home gave me two blog awards!!

The first one is, "It's a Major Award!"

The Rules for this award are to Name 10 things you love and pass it on! I'd like to follow in Ivy's footsteps and write 10 things I love about Christmas!

1. Making WAY too many Christmas Cookies with my Mom :) We always have cookies until like April haha
2. Decorating the Christmas Tree. This is probably my FAVORITE part about Christmas time, I love driving all over town to the different tree lots to pick out a tree, and then coming home to decorate it!
3. Christmas Music! I love it so much I listen to it all year round haha (but I know I'm not the only one, ahem... Erin and Jennifer....)
4. Visiting with Family, this is the one time of the year where everyone somehow manages to get together and I just love it
5. The local soft rock station turns into a 24/7 Christmas Music Station, I know -AMAZING!
6. On Christmas Morning we open our stockings and presents, even our dogs have stockings haha
7. The smell of the Christmas Tree
8. Going out to look at Christmas lights on houses, and how everywhere you go there is Christmas cheer!
9. Shopping for Presents! I hate the crowds, but I love picking out gifts for people and wrapping them up
10. Christmas Movies! Charlie Brown's Christmas and A Christmas Story are a few of my favorites

This Award I MUST pass on to my two Christmas Loving Blog Friends:

Jennifer over at Crazy Shenanigan's
and
Erin at A Tiger's Tale

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Next is the "Official Seal of Awesome" Award!

What can I say, Ivy has good taste! haha. This one states I only need to pass it on to some fellow bloggers, so here we go!

Mary Ellen over at Mare's Mind
and
Lindsey at Life As Lindsey

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Happy Monday! Today is my day off so I'm heading to the park on a picnic lunch with my friend Allie to try out my new picnic backpack from Jon and Steph!!!

-Katie