Monday, July 18, 2011

Whoops

So I totally forgot to blog yesterday. Doesn't help the fact that I wasn't feeling too well yesterday, but I still could have at least remembered! Sometimes having lupus gets the better of me, which is frustrating. I don't like having something having the ability to beat me, I should be stronger and better than it.

Enough about that though, I hate talking about it. Right now I am listening to Hannah talk on the phone to her friend while they play Club Penguin online. When did I get old enough to have a kid talking to her friend on the phone, basically hanging out? Everytime I glance at her really fast, she looks so much older to me. We also just recently got her a new bed since little sis needed a bed. So we went with a full and I took Hannah out to Target to pick her bedding and we got these really cool teal, dark blue and grey colors that really mature up her room. Wow. My baby is growing up. She's going into 3rd grade! Craziness.

Granted she still has her moments where the little girl shines through, like when she whines or talks like a baby. But she really is maturing more.



This was taken at Brent's parents house in Texas while we were on vacation a few weeks ago. They had been playing with the water hose and I went out to take pictures of them. They really do grow up so fast.

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Day 3

How's that for an original title?!? ;)

I really actually have nothing funny, witty or creative to say :( Although I do have to say my newest obsession is Pinterest. I just *love* it! I now have all kinds of crazy ideas for decorating the house, some yummy new recipes to try (glazed donut muffins, um heck yes!) and some new style of clothes I want to buy. It's really given me a great boost of creative juice, which I sorely needed.

Speaking of, I am heading there now :)

Friday, July 15, 2011

Day Two

I'm not even more than two days into my challenge and I have already thought about what I want to do for my next 30 days. I want to write hand written letters. One a day for 30 days all to different people. Lucky for me I have a lot of relatives, so it should make it relatively easy, but I'm going to throw some friends in there as well. Don't you miss the days of getting a handwritten note? I used to look forward to my mom getting the mail everyday just to see if there was something in there for me. Nowadays it's just bills and HOA notices, nothing to get excited over. Unless you are a finance person and like doing bills *shudder*, but that's just the English major in me talking ;)

I've also already thought about how I can use up my immense cache of note cards and stationary and what exactly I can write about. I'm almost too excited to wait, but first I must conquer this month's challenge. Only 28 more days to go :)

Thursday, July 14, 2011

30 Day Challenge

365 day projects, 30 day projects are all the rage right now and I have to admit I found them, one, rather daunting, and two, curious because I could never think of something good and solid that I would actually do for that length of time.

Well as I said in my last post, I've gone through a lot of growth these past few years and especially these past few months I have been drawn to reconnecting myself with what I love and enjoy. Hence my burst of photography and now my latest craze, Pinterest. I'm trying to reach that creative soul that used to exist in me. I want to do things that mean something to me, something that gives me oomph in my step and brings joy to my heart.

I've jumped in head first into Catechism classes to reconnect to my spiritual heart and man alive has it ever! It's so refreshing to be around people who truly and honestly believe and you can see how much it affects them. This passion, joy and wonder at the great things we are given by God, it's truly a blessing. I feel more alive and blessed because of it.

But back to what I was trying to say, these 30 day projects, well I have decided to do one. It took me awhile to decide what to do because for some reason taking a picture a day was extremely daunting to me (crazy since I seem to live with my camera, but oh well). Well I figured I would do a blog post a day for 30 days! It reconnects me to my writing days and it will help leave something behind for my girls to remember me by as well. Poor things, lol! So here is day one, whooo hooo!

Hopefully this will be a great project for me and I can't wait to decide what to do for my next 30 day challenge!