30 for 30

I'm on a budget. A strict budget. An essentials only budget (I count a weekly latte at Starbucks essential).  Anyways I've been reading this blog, Kendi Everyday and she does thing every season where she challenges people to pick 30 items from your closet (including shoes) and you have to use only those 30 items to create outfits for 30 days.  I've never done this but I'm assuming it helps you extend your clothing budget by pairing items you wouldn't normally wear together.  I'm very excited to do this.  My goal is to choose my 30 items this weekend and take pictures and post them.  Then starting February 1st I will post a picture of my outfit everyday.

Feel free to join in!

2011

Ok, so I know that it's almost February but I wanted to do a recap of 2010 (because it was such a great year) and resolutions for 2011.

2010:
- 3 weddings of some of TJ's best friends (and now dear friends of mine)
- Our first Valentine's day together
- Lots of dinner dates and movie nights in the Attic
- A new job for TJ and a move to Denver
- Drove from Ohio to Colorado together
- The beginning of a long-distance relationship: Lots of learning, tears and becoming a stronger couple
- Getting Engaged!
- Planning a wedding
- 2 Notre Dame Football games
- Spending Thanksgiving and Christmas together
- Learning how to be in a relationship when one person is a carnivore (TJ) and one is a vegan (me)
- Getting our first apartment together

Resolutions for 2011:
- Pray more frequently together
- Get baptized together
- Abandon my deeply-rooted career goals and be more open to something completely different
- Drink less Mountain Dew and more water (this one's for TJ)
- Write Thank You notes (and send in a timely manner)
- Learn to sew (a little; were on a budget!)
- Read more
- Grow herbs
- Make more memories

The Kind Life

Visit thekindlife.com. I love how happy and zen she is. Plus she says "groovy". I love it.

Whirlwind

On Tuesday last week my computer crashed. I rushed it to the Apple store in Cincinnati. They tried to resuscitate it but it did not work. They told me they would have to keep it to work on it. I finally got my computer back on Friday. I know that's only 4 days but it felt like a lot longer. In those 4 days I got 2 jobs. Babysitting 2 adorable yet very loud and energetic little boys (aged 2 and 3) and working part-time at an assisted living facility as a resident assistant. I also finished all 20 of the table numbers for the wedding and cut out and assembled approximately 25 feet of pennant flags (apparently that's the official name) for the wedding reception. It was a productive week. And now I have a cold. Here's some pictures from my weekend.

Bonfire at my Grandma's...I promise there was fire in there.

I carried all this wood.

1 Cor. 1:25

I missed church on Sunday so I've been waiting for the sermon to appear on the website so I could listen to it. Going to church really balances me so I hate missing. Anyways this scripture really caught my attention.

"For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength." ~ 1 Corinthians 1:25

Meditating on scripture is something that I admittedly do not do often enough.
This would be a great verse to start with.

I love...

vanilla frozen yogurt with warm raspberry jam.  Yum.  I'm about to eat some.

6 Months...

Until we get married!!  It's actually less than 6 months now; it was officially 6 months on Saturday.  We have done so much but still have a lot of little stuff to do.  We couldn't be more excited!  Hopefully this time goes by really fast! 

Here are some pictures from our most recent engagement session.  Yes we had two.  

*Pictures from Nixon Photography in Germantown, OH.