Rainy

DAYS.

// Walk around Target looking at everything but buying nothing.  Sometimes you just like to imagine which picture frames would look good in your room. 

// Use your Starbucks gift card and order your favorite Cheese Danish (quite exquisite and just the right choice of dessert for a rainy day). And since you don't drink coffee, you try to get creative with the menu and end up ordering something that just doesn't make sense. 

// Accompany your husband to Best Buy and talk TVs with him even though they all look the same. And they are all big. 

// Go to the best Mexican restaurant in town (Las Tortugas) and order the same thing you have always ordered. Could there possible be anything else on the menu as delicious as this? Heck no. 

// Make a to do list and watch it get longer and longer by the minute.  Then you think to yourself how can one person possibly do everything on that list. Priorities. 

// End the day with a movie at home, cuddling with your husband on the couch, and everything in the world makes sense. 

Space

One of the main reasons why we bought this home is because of the lighting.  In March, we came to see this house on a rainy, cloudy day but the amount of light that was coming into the house was remarkable.  It was then that we knew this was going to be our home! J and I are very similar when it comes to home decor and we knew this is exactly what we wanted to do!  I've always wanted to do a family gallery and thought it turned out pretty good (unfinished)...just need to add a picture of JD! We are finished decorating the living room and I wanted to show you guys some pics! Enjoy!!!

Now...time to finish up the rest of the house. Eh..this might be a lifelong project. 

Nashvegas

Well, I promised I wouldn't use the obnoxious term NASHVEGAS, but it was toooooo easy! J and I headed out to Nashville this weekend for a romantic getaway...oh yeah! JD got us some tickets to see a concert in the area.

We stayed at a bed & breakfast for the first time EVER.  You will laugh but somewhere in the process of booking our stay they picked the bedroom with TWO twin beds!  Obviously, with it being Valentines weekend, all of the other rooms were booked so we couldn't switch rooms.  The breakfast at the bed & breakfast was super fancy!

In true Castagno fashion, before we went out to Nashville I googled good restaurants and, man oh man, it did not disappoint!  We ate some delicious stuff and we even went to Jackson's Bar & Bistro TWICE for their dessert.

The rest of our stay we visited museums, fancy mansions, and art galleries until our feet couldn't walk anymore.  When we moved to Memphis I was disappointed to find out that there was not an H&M here! I made sure we went to H&M while in Nashville and I got a couple of cute tops! These are pictures of us at the Parthenon with the giant Athena.  And we even whipped out our tripod to take a picture of ourselves because, sometimes, when you ask a random person you will never know what you are going to get! RIGHT????