"it was one of those march days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light and winter in the shade."

~charles dickens, great expectations

spring lovelies

i have a very wise friend who is moving to boston next week (sniff, sniff) with her hubby and two babies.

her family is here, and it will be hard, BUT it is a great opportunity for their little family and we are all so proud of them!

i was talking to her earlier about how we are all so sad, but know it is the right decision.

she said this to me and i thought it was just so wise.

"yeah, it is hard to leave. but it will be fine. I have been trying to focus each day on recognizing things to be thankful for. It really changes perspective."

such a wise lady, who is about to pack up her newborn baby and toddler and go across the country!

she has inspired me :)


some little things I am loving these days:


~the weather! we had a few glimpses of that sunshine and it is just SO great.

~my momma and dad. it was my dad's birthday this weekend so we had a fun weekend celebrating him. they are so cute.

~my dad tore his meniscus and had surgery a few weeks ago. he has been bored out of his mind, and one day i told him i wanted a planter box for our little front porch. came home from work and voila! started picking out the flowers I want to plant in it :)

~these little bunny easter decorations.

~finding a lamp that is big enough for our side table. this lamp is ginormous.

~easter candy. enough said. deliciousssss and make cute decorations ;) two birds with one stone.

~my new throw pillow! i love love love it. :) me and my quotes and words. its getting a little much I think ;) you feel like you are reading a book when you walk around our house. oh well :)

what little things are making you happy?

22.8 days

i spend a lot of the time in the car these days. about an hour and a half each day just coming from and home from work. for so-cal residents and even seattleies, this may seem like no big thang, but oh my goodness sometimes i go a little crazy.

one can only listen to taylor swift so many times before you need a change.

needless to say, I have been listening to the radio lots. i like the morning shows where they talk about random things.

i learned something VERY alarming last week on my drive to the good ole office.

we spend an average of 22.8 days PER YEAR ON OUR CELL PHONES!

not necessarily talking, but emailing, texting, web browsingt, pinterest-ing, tweeting, facebooking, instagramming etc.

they compared that to the month of February.

WE ALMOST SPEND THE ENTIRE MONTH OF FEBRUARY ON OUR CELL PHONES each year.

they took that out to a lifetime average, and it was almost EIGHT YEARS of our entire life we spend on our little cell phones. 

Yes, who knows where this statistic came from but it really hit me.

ONE MONTH A YEAR looking at a stupid little screen and feeling bad about myself because so and so is on a beach in Jamaica and I am stuck in the rain?

maybe i'm not on quite that much. maybe i am. (drew would say yes i am) but from when I wakeup from when I go to bed, I can admit that i log some serious minutes on my iphone.

i mean, really. i'm not going to stop instagramming or checking my facebook but I want to make a conscience decision each time I decide to use my phone. Is it just a bored habit?

cuz at least if I'm going to spend 8 years of my life looking at something, it's not going to be making comparisons of my life to everyone else's.

:)

why hello :)

baby sister's wedding is only 4 months away! busy planning away :) 

i have been SO busy at work. actually, this last week I think I logged 65ish hours at the office :)

blessed to have this opportunity but you know it's getting a little crazy when your alarm is set for 5:03AM on a saturday morning and you realize that is the latest it is going to be set for the next three weeks...

my dad had a tear in his meniscus (ligament in the knee) and finally got it operated on. good luck putting this man on bedrest. 

applied for grad school and was anxiously checking my status everyday....

got selected for an interview :) i'll keep you updated. ;)

thankful :) 

instragram from blueeyedbride

"i am much less interested in right circumstances than in right responses to whatever comes your way."

i keep chanting this in my head. busy, busy week. things are good, but busy and we are learning how to be a married couple when life gets crazzaaaay. <3 happy weekend, everyone.