Insta Friday {photo fun}

Today is FRIDAY! 

Linking up with liferearranged again this week! 

Honestly, this has been a crazy week, with school starting and my dad visited last weekend 

which also kept us pretty busy! Only a few pictures from my phone this week!

Last week E and I met my sister for lunch halfway between her place and mine (about an hour drive).

Aunt B brought Little E a mini-pillow pet...Jolly Jr ( I think I mentioned this last week). 

Here she is all snuggled up with Jolly during nap time...so sweet.

I received these super cute rain boots as a Christmas gift from my other sister. 

It has been surprisingly rainy ever since---yay! 

I must admit that walking all the way across campus in a downpour can actually be fun...yes, I said FUN

when you're wearing the right stuff. I found my self thinking "OH, there's a puddle I can walk through".

Haha! Sounds silly, but with my boots and umbrella, I enjoyed the 10 minute walk in the rain :)

I've heard it said 100+ times, but it really is the simple things in life.

We're on a pretty strict cash budget now (a New Year's goal) so when I saw these flowers at 

the grocery store, I didn't think I could "splurge" on them. 

I had just enough cash for my groceries, but decided to get these anyway (I could space 99cents right?).

When the total came up, I had 25cents more than the total of the groceries + the flowers! Yeah! 

It was PERFECT, and they really bring a special dose of cheer to our house on these gloomy, rainy, cold days. 

This weekend is looking like a pretty busy, but fun one! 

Mike is working a little voluntary overtime and I have a baby shower to attend tomorrow morning. 

Sunday is church and vegetable soup day! 

I'm looking forward to a relaxing time with my family in the midst of our other activities. 

Happy Weekending!