Weekly Gratitude

Weekly Gratitude is back! I have so much to be thankful for, and it never hurts to articulate (slash write) what those things are. This week I am grateful for:

• New windshield wipers.  They are fantastic!  Super nice and work so well and with all the rain I have been driving in, I am so happy to have them!
• Notes from my sister.  Rikka sends me happy little letters all the time and they always brighten my day.  Plus she is hilarious and I end up laughing to myself for hours from her one liners. 
• That I have a job!  A real, big girl, I-have-business-cards-job.  The fact that this job is 2,000+ miles away from my friends and family is hard, but that doesn't mean that having said job is not a huge blessing and answer to prayer.
• The fact that I was raised in a healthy and safe environment. The amount of people I have encountered in the last few months that have serious drug addictions that are ruining lives is so sad.  I am very naive when it comes to drugs, but I am so blessed that I was raised in a place and by a family that was not dependent or corrupted by heroin, cocaine, meth, or prescription pills.
• #whatshouldwecallme.tumblr.com.  Keeps me entertained and laughing when I need a quick pick me up at work.
• My wonderful friends that call and text me every week, because they know how bad I am at keeping in touch.  Their calls, texts, and emails mean so much to me.

Hope you all had a lovely weekend!

x

Favorite Things Friday

I am pretty much obsessed with Sound of Music.  Anyone who knows me knows that it is one of my absolute favorite movies, that adore the soundtrack, that I went on the official Sound of Music Tour in Salzburg, Austria...

So I have decided to have a weekly blog post about some of my favorite things.  

Here are some of my current faves:

I absolutely ADORE hydrangeas.  

And I love them in these colors especially.

They are my favorite flowers (along with roses, ranunculous, and peonies) 

I love Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert.  

I just think they are so cute together, and they are so genuine and real.  

Plus they are hilarious and I bet they have so much fun making each other laugh.

This hot coral bag and cute outfit.  I am in love with all things coral and really think I need this bag.

xx

{all photos via pinterest}

Lovin' me some Luke Bryan

Oh Luke Bryan.  How I adore you.  Country perfection in the male form.

x

One Whole Year

Well would ya look at that!  It has been one whole year since my last post.  To say I fell of the blogging bandwagon would be quite the understatement.  As would saying nothing in the last year has changed.  The ups and downs, new and old, good and bad.  It is so crazy to think back on all that has gone on, and even crazier to think where I might be a year from now.

 A year ago, I was living at home with my parents, working a crazy, stressful, drama prone job,  not making any money, hanging out with my amazing friends, getting excited for summer.  

Now I am living across the country in a completely new and different place, away from my friends and family, but I am working in a job I really enjoy, for great people.  Crazy how things can change, huh?

I'm going to do my best at being a better blogger.  Wish me luck!

x

{via www.happydayout.tumblr.com}

Happy Easter!

Christ the Lord is risen today, Alleluia! 

Earth and heaven in chorus say, Alleluia! 

Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia! 

Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply, Alleluia! 
 

Love's redeeming work is done, Alleluia! 

Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia! 

Death in vain forbids him rise, Alleluia! 

Christ has opened paradise, Alleluia! 
 

Lives again our glorious King, Alleluia! 

Where, O death, is now thy sting? Alleluia! 

Once he died our souls to save, Alleluia! 

Where's thy victory, boasting grave? Alleluia! 
 

Soar we now where Christ has led, Alleluia! 

Following our exalted Head, Alleluia! 

Made like him, like him we rise, Alleluia! 

Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, Alleluia! 
 

Hail the Lord of earth and heaven, Alleluia! 

Praise to thee by both be given, Alleluia! 

Thee we greet triumphant now, Alleluia! 

Hail the Resurrection, thou, Alleluia! 
 

King of glory, soul of bliss, Alleluia! 

Everlasting life is this, Alleluia! 

Thee to know, thy power to prove, Alleluia! 

Thus to sing, and thus to love, Alleluia! 


Happy Easter, Peeps!
x

Silver

 Happy 25th Anniversary to my absolutely incredible parents!

I am so happy for them, and so blessed to have them as parents.  They are both so generous, hilarious, smart, and loving.  They give me great advice, support me, and make me want to be a better person.  They are each other's best friend, and I can only hope to find the kind of love that they have for each other.

My mom sent all of us (my siblings and my father) a beautiful love letter in honor of her anniversary.  Read it here.  It's lovely.

x

Weekly Gratitude

• Thank you for my AMAZING family and friends, and everyone who made my 23rd birthday wonderful (and much less painful than I expected).  It was seriously awesome, and I am so, so grateful to have so many wonderful people in my life.
• Thank you for my bff Piper for doing my hair.  She is so good at what she does.
• Thank your for my new iPhone. I am already too addicted.
• Thank you for my boss for letting me have Tuesday (my birthday!) off and for buying me a manicure!
• Thank your for creme brulee. Oh man is it delish!
• Thank you for the past 23 blessed years that I am so fortunate to call my life.