Friday Favorites!

Happy Friday, y'all! 

Are you ready for the weekend???

My weekend will consist of lots of teenage girly screaming because of this little cutie:

I'm taking my niece and 2 of her friends to see Austin Mahone in Nashville. We got my niece meet and greet tickets, so she will get to meet him (for the 2nd time) and have her picture made with him (again). She loves Austin Mahone, but she's also starting to outgrow the hysterical craziness kind of fandom she used to have. Makes me a little sad. 

I'm linking up with Erika, Andrea, and Narci for my favorites this week!

1. Surprise, surprise. 

My first favorite has to be all the fall B&BW scents I've been grabbing up! I devoted a whole post to it Wednesday, but I went back yesterday and loaded up on some fall body creams and shower gels, and ended up buying more hand soaps. I'm going to have the cleanest hands in the South! 

2. It's football time in Tennessee!!! 

My beloved Vols played an incredible game last Sunday against an expected-to-be-tough Utah State. Either I overestimated Utah or underestimated my Vols, but I was THRILLED at the end of that game!! I think this really is our year to turn things around!

Unfortunately we weren't able to go to the game, but this video was released showing a new tradition called the "Circle of Life". Just watching it gives me chills! 

Here's the link. For some reason the video won't embed. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7WvX_MzFQM

I expect another awesome game against Arkansas State this Saturday!!

It's also high school football season, and my nephew's team is struggling this year. He's playing great, but most of the rest of team are very young, and these first few games are really testing them. Tonight will be another tough game against a good school, so we just hope and pray for good sportsmanship and good health. 

I'm so very proud of my nephew and the leader he is on the field and off!!

BTW- This is a pic from a couple years ago. I took one of the two of us after the first game this year, but I look hideous. Not that this one is great, but it's an improvement. I'll see if I can get good one of us, because I'm sure this will be a frequent Friday Favorite! 

3. PSLs are back, baybay!!! 

Need I say more??

4. More pumpkin overload. 

Hope you're not getting tired of it, because I feel like I'm just warming up!!

My pumpkin spice grocery haul yesterday

The quality of these photos is astounding, huh?

5. The new Starz show, Outlander.

Is everyone else watching this? I watched the first episode and liked it so much I bought the first book. Read that (even though it's Harry Potter sized) and am halfway through the second one. There are 8 in the series, so I guess I'll be living halfway in 18th century Scotland for the foreseeable future! 

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

First signs of fall...

There are a few things that put me in a PSL sippin', boot wearin', fireplace snugglin' mood. 

And most of those come to me via Bath and Body Works. 

Now, I'm with ya when y'all get aggravated seeing leaf garlands at HobLob right next to the American flags and flip flop signs, but there's something about that Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin scent that just can't get here fast enough!

Honestly, I would probably have that candle burning in my house all year long. 

It's my favorite smell in the whole wide world. 

Well, other than baby's breath. 

The actual thing, not the weird corsage-filler

Amazingly enough, I caught an IG friend's post about B&BW releasing their fall candles early online. In July. ON MY BIRTHDAY. 

#fate

Throw a coupon code in there and this girl's fingers are taptaptapping away ordering her some candles! 

They came 3-5 days later, and I was the epitome of restraint when I put them away in my candle cabinet (yes, it's a thing) and saved them for crisper weather.

(photo courtesy of Knot and Bow Designs)

My last little bit of my Sundress candle burned up Saturday, and I lit that Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin up faster than you can spell Y-U-M-M-Y.

I burned it. All day. It's half gone. Already. 

Along with my classic favorite, I also ordered Sweater Weather and Leaves. Leaves has been a favorite for a few years now, and Sweater Weather is fairly new and I am in love with it! 

(crappy iphone pics are yours free of charge)

The good news is that it's not early anymore, and the stores are stocking some of their fall scents already. I went into our store on Friday and got an armful of the anti-bacterial hand soap and wallflowers.  

(A Walk in the Woods, Weekend Apple Picking, Crisp Morning Air, Golden Autumn Citrus)

As I was checking out, I heard the manager talking about having to report how many of a certain gift set they had sold that day. 

That gift set was a fall sampler. 

Well, it's only the Christian thing to do to help a manager out, right? 

So one of those little bad boys came home with me, and it is awesome! Trust me, if you love fall scents, you need this. I mean, the soap in there is the Pumpkin Pecan Waffle. 

I die. 

If I can't eat it, I sure as shootin' want to rub it all over my hands! 

Sorry, I can't find this gift set online. Hopefully it's coming, though! I got over-anxious and already used the Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin lotion and body wash that was in the gift set. And the precious little pumpkin-shaped shower pouf! 

I was going to end this post with a BBW wish list, but that's just too durn long. 

Ain't nobody got time for dat! 

I will mention the two things I can't live without, though. I'll be snatching these bad boys up as soon as I see them! 

I sorta wanna taste it. #truth

C'mon, now people. A tailgate candle?!?! Dear heavens. My life isn't complete without it!

Happy almost fall!