8. What's In My Bag

 

1. Papersource planner

2. JCrew Wallet

3. Orbit Gum

4. Lotion & hand sanitizer

5. Lipstick & gloss

7. Something You See Every Morning

 

 

I've started an inspiration wall in my room, clearly it's new.

 

It allows me to mark down inspiring scriptures or phrases that I want to dwell on, and also lets me be creative with typography. I love scripture and I love to be artistic, and I love that I get to start every morning off this way.

 

6. The Color Red

 

Valentines Day is coming up soon which means stores are slowly becoming a giant blob of red. <3

5. My Sky

 

I don't know if you've noticed, but I've been a little late posting my pictures. Picture #5 is supposed to be of my sky, but my sky right not is pitch black, and wouldn't make a very interesting picture. So I'm including a picture of the day I brought a dear friend to the airport. He had a really early flight which meant we got to watch the sun rise as we drove into the airport.

4. Smiles

 

 

If you know me, you know I love to smile! But guess what I love more than smiling? Seeing others smile!

"Every time you smile at someone, it is an a room of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."

- Mother Theresa

These are the wonderful gifts I get everyday :)

3. Guilty Pleasure

 

Guilty pleasures are not something one usually likes to share with the world, but for you guys, I will make an exception. And by you guys, I mean my readers. And by my readers, I mean Katelynn and Anne. This post is dedicated to my loyal friends ;) -jk-

My guilty pleasure is peanut butter and chocolate mixed together in heavenly wonderfulness.

2. Something That Made Me Laugh

 

Who doesn't love a good dare? Especially if you're not the one doing the embarrassing dare, but just get to witness it's hilarious response?

 

Impractical Joekers is a show of 4 friends who dare each other to do funny things, and it makes me cry lauhging every episode. Last night I watched an episode, where Murr (far right) had to try and eskimo kiss a stranger. Can you imagine if a random someone came up to you so close, and just started to rub their nose on yours? HAHA

1. Self Portrait

 

Every morning, I start with my morning coffee and my hair down...

 

 

... and every evening I end with a glass of water and hair up. And apparently my butt chin decided to grace us with it's prescence. Little fact about me, my butt chin only comes out at night.

30 Day Photo Challenge 2013

The 30 day photo challenge is back!

Katelynn and I will begin our adventures through the lense once again. Above is a list of what we will capture each day, and then we will post them to our blogs! I'm really excited for this list but a little nervous for 3, 9, and 22. No judging aloud alright?!

Our Souls Are Lost

I don't really know what the 29th photo challenge was, but I have to tell this story! Katelynn and I were playing around in photobooth on Sarah's computer while her and Paige were in the basement getting laundry. So we decided to take a scary picture and put it up on the projector and hide when they came up just to mess with them. This is the scary picture.

The funny thing is, Sarah changed her desktop picture, threw this picture away, and emptied her trash and this picture wouldn't go away. We reset the projector, we restarted her laptop, we connected the projector to my laptop and back to Sarah's, and this picture popped up everytime!! I told Katelynn that our souls are lost in the projector. It was so scary when it kept popping up, hahaha.

What We Did

Day 28 of the photo challenge was a picture of your day. Well the 28th was the day of Hurricane Irene, which we didn't get much of, but what we did have was a projector that our friend Lucas was so kind to lend us. We gratefully had power all day so we got to watch movies on the wall all day. Sunday some of the stuff we watched was Along Came Polly and the VMAs.

Ps. I am SO excited that Beyonce and Jay-Z are pregnant!!

My Baby Sister

Day 27 of the photo challenge is a picture of you and a family member. This is my youngest sister, Angela.

She just turned 4 this May, and this is us on her 3rd birthday. My younger brother and sister, Olivia and Stefan, came to get me in Boston, and then we drove down to New Jersey where my dad, his wife and Angela live to celebrate her special day. It was a lot of fun and so precious. Her mom asked her the night we got there, what her favorite part of the day was. And I guess she pointed upstairs and named Stefan, Olivia, my dad's parents and me. Her favorite part of the day was seeing her family come celebrate her birthday with her! So cute. I really miss her.

Galen's Unwanted Visitor

Day 26 of the photo challenge is a picture of something you're afraid of. Well, I have a real phobia of hair in the shower and spiders and I was too scared to take a picture of either. But it just so happened that we have a mouse in our apartment and I also am scared. I am a human for goodness sake, and I only want to live with humans. No rodents or bugs allowed!! I know this isn't a picture, but it describes my fear pretty well :)

My favorite part starts around 1:42

I Miss You

Day 25 of the photo challenge is a picture of someone that you miss. My picture is of my grandma Pat.

She is the mother of my Dad's ex-wife, so we're not technically related, but they were married for my first ~10 years of life, so they have always felt like family to me. Even after the divorce.

My grandma passed away in July of 2009, right before I graduated college so it was a tough time of the year for me. I will never forget the woman that she was though. She was warm, loving, generous, an AMAZING cook, and very welcoming. My older brother and I weren't related to her by blood, but she still treated us as if we were her own. She taught us life lessons, how to garden, made me a clothes when I was younger, drove us everywhere. She had such a serving heart, and everyone loved her.

The week before she passed away, most of us came together and spent the week in the hospital with her. My older brother even drove in from Illinois with his three little boys to spend that week with her. It was a great week, just to be able to spend time with family, surrounding the one woman who taught us the true meaning of family.

Family isn't just those you're related to by blood, or those who you see at the dinner table every night. Family are those who make you feel like yourself when you're with them; those who have seen you cry your eyes out and hug you until you feel better; those who see the worst in you and still love you. You're family can be whoever you want them to be because your heart is never limited.

IT IS NOT FLESH AND BLOOD BUT THE HEART WHICH MAKES US FATHERS AND SONS.

~johann schiller

The Yesteryears

Day 24 of the photo challenge was a picture of a childhood memory.

Fall has always been my favorite time of year, simply because it's so beautiful out and that's when soccer started. :) When I was younger my Aunt Laura owned a house with a huge backyard, and it had a pool, a large garden, a tree swing, a hammock, badminton, sitting area, everything!! My favorite thing to do was jump in the large pile of leaves that was raked up from her bug yard, and to this day, playing in a pile of leaves still brings me a lot of joy. :)

Ehh... What?

Day 23 of the photo challenge was to take a picture of something that confuses you. For me that's coding!

Reading or creating code is like trying to put a square peg in a round hole. Just isn't happening. It always boggles my mind when I hear people can build apps, programs, or websites just by writing code. If you can do that, I think you're soooo smart.

I Do Love a Good Cup of Coffee

Monday's photo challenge was to take a picture of something that brings you comfort. I took a picture of my morning cup of coffee.

I think the routine of having a cup of coffee wakes me up more than the caffine in the coffee, but either way, I love coffee. My favorite time to actually drink a cup is on Sunday afternoons when my roommates and I come home from church. We have a little routine on Sundays, where we get up early and go to church in the morning, but come right home and get back in our pjs and watch movies all cuddled up on the couches. I feel so comfortable in my sweats, sitting on my couch, wrapped up in all these blankets with a cup of coffee watching movies. It's my favorite thing to do!

I wish...

Sunday's photo challenge was to take a picture of something you wish you were better at. There are many things I wish I was better at, but I chose basketball. I am very athletic and love to play sports, but when it comes to shooting a basketball, Lord have mercy on me. I look like I'm shooting it right, but whenever I let go, I somehow throw it 20 degrees too much to one side. People have tried to teach me so many ways, but I just can't get it. I wish I was better.

I don't own a basketball and didn't want to look like a fool taking a picture of myself at the park playing basketball with no ball... so I just decided to draw my picture.

Butterface...

Have you ever heard the phrase butterface? It's a rude term that some guys use when they think everything about a girl is "cute" but her face. Well, I know I look good from head to toe! But Saturday's photo challenge was a faceless self portrait. So somehow my brain connected a faceless self portrait with the phrase butterface. Kind of makes sense... :)

I got so many compliments on this outfit at church... I was told it looks like something one would find on Pinterest! Oh so flattering... thank you!

Something Orange

Day 19's photo is a picture of something orange. I decided to take a picture of my shower curtain rings from Urban Outfitters.

I was really into interior decorating when we first moved into our apartment last September. I think I was going into a big phase of nesting or something. My bathroom is pretty small, but perfect in size for me. So I went to town in decorating it and making it feel like it was apart of my home. I fell in love with my Pottery Barn shower curatin and really wanted to work around the color scheme found in it's deisgn.