5 on Friday

It's Friday! Its supposed to be 80 here today and well this week managed to turn out alright! Like...

1. March Madness - This is the first year in forever I am not a basketball widow. Yup! Nope man has deserted me for Vegas to watch copious hours of basketball in a smoky casino sports book with his BFF. Nope, I filled out my bracket, by myself, (not that Ohio St. or Cincinnati did me much help) and I don't plan on watching one solitary moment of basketball!

2. I came home to these babies on my doorstep! Made my little heart so happy. What is better than flowers? Flowers from one of your BOFF!

 3. Lattes, when I can make them from the comfort of the Keurig in our office kitchen.... I love the Gevalia mocha lattes!

ignore that my mousepad is nasty we had a coffee incident

4. SPRING! As in its finally looking like its lovely face will stay for more than 24 hours! Rain, shine, as long as its above 32!

5. Food! Yup, its amazing. This is perhaps the first time since hmm 2006 that I have just not worried so much about food. Yes, I watch what I eat, and only indulge when it matters, but I do not count every calorie, look at every fat gram, weigh myself 3-4 times a day, and oh I eat! Like 6 times a day. Its freeing to not see food as the enemy anymore! I let myself splurge every once and while, don't shame run 4 miles when I eat bread or dessert.... Who knew life could be so good and I would actually look better than I did 10 pounds ago!

Hello Spring

Yup, today is the first day of Spring and the International Day of Happiness. I know that many of you have not seen or felt a sign of spring, but I shall send some your way if I can! For us Texans, well spring is normally a short-lived season in which we see er, perhaps a month of nice, manageable temperatures before summer hits and then the other season known as extreme-summer. But today, I shall celebrate spring!

Its also, the day of happiness. I know its been rather grim around these parts so today I promise to share some happiness in my life. First of all, in less than a month this lady is getting married! Oh and did I mention that I will be there?!? Yup, flight booked, hotel booked, bags, well not packed, but ready!! And... on top of that, I get to finally meet this lady too! I mean, how lucky and happy can one girl be to get to spend a weekend with two of her BOFF (best online friend forever)!!

You know what else makes me happy? The fact that at city group last night, the ladies managed to devour the entire bowl of fruit and the chocolate cake... by ourselves, sorry guys! And that we unofficially decided our tagline should  be Dogs, Babies & Jesus! (T-shirt coming soon). And that any night with the ladies of this group, and the men, just puts a smile on my face!

You know what else makes me happy? That I ate a lot yesterday and didn't care. Yup, cereal, fish sandwich and sweet potato fries, pizza, fruit, salad, quac, chocolate cake, golden Oreos..... yup... and no shame people, no shame!

And you know what else makes me happy? This guy (man he puts up with a lot):

These girls:

this guy who forces me to be stronger & faster and eat more protein (and listens to me whine):

single man ladies!

and this verse:

What makes you happy?

A Few of My Favorite Spring Things {Link Up}

Ok, so I know its a little lazy to link up again, but I was totally going to blog about some of my fav things about Spring eventually so why not now? Linking up with Neely & Amber today to reveal my favorite things about pre-Summer Spring (or in Texas that brief period where its only 80 degrees during the day).

The flowers in front of my alma mater! Seriously we have an endowment to beautify the campus, so its always lovely this time of year!

SUN! I have finally  moved from so pale I'm blue to a light pinkish tone! I also am sporting a nice sports bra tan from planning flowers Saturday.


 The sun is still out when I get home! For someone who works long hours it was kind of depressing there for a while when the only sun I saw was from the window in my office. Now I can walk the pup while its still sunny outside, hello vitamin D intake!

this was taken last summer while studying for the bar, she is not amused

Patio dining. Last Friday I headed to lunch with some of the ladies in the office and dined al fresco. Not to mention that the Fort has some great patio spots. If you're in FTW try Riscky's downtown, Cristina's in Southlake, or for those of you more into ambiance than good and a killer margarita Joe T. Garcia's (also the place where I met hubs, but that's a story for another day).

Engagement photo @ Joe T.'s, seriously gorgeous place!

So as the song goes, these are a few of my favorite things! about SPRING. Link up and share yours. ~The Illegal Blonde