Five Things Friday

Let's see...this week...short and sweet

1) Friends :-)

2) Cherry limeades

3) Strawberry tarts

4) Warm summer nights (ok, wishful thinking!)

5) Peachy yellow roses

Shoes!!

Since I saved so much money on the mattress set I had budgeted for (my goal was to stay around $800, but thanks to the card holder sale at Sears I was well under that!) I splurged on some new summer shoes. Mostly because I really don't need to wear plastic flipflops to work so often...or at least that's how I'm justifying it ;-) I'm totally into wedges this summer, so I ended up with these by American Eagle at Payless:



And these, which are the same brand as the turquoise ones I got last summer and still love :-)




I really wanted these too, but I'm also on a skirt kick this summer and I'm on the fence about wearing slingbacks with skirts...opinions?



Also, how STINKIN' CUTE are these?? I think I might have to go back and rescue them...I wear a lot of blue, so yellow is a good accent color :-)

Phoebe in Wonderland: Dare to Dream Your Life

"At a certain part in your life, probably when too much of it has gone by, you will open your eyes and see yourself for who you are. Especially for everything that made you so different from all the awful normals. And you will say to yourself, 'But I am this person.' And in that statement, that correction, there will be a kind of love."

Five Things Friday: I Fell Off the Wagon...Again...

Sorry folks, I'm lazy these days... Maybe I need to start posting every day so I won't make excuses.

Sooooo...here we go!

1) Snickerdoodles. Cinnamon + sugar cookie = delicious.

2) My mailbox. Where I grew up we had to go get the mail at the post office, so the idea that someone brings it to my house is still cool. Yes, I'm easily entertained.

3) This chocolate pie. Make it today, you won't be sorry. And yes, you really do have to beat it for five minutes between each egg, it's totally worth it. Also, go for the deep dish pie shell.

4) My kitchen sink



5) Unpacking boxes. I need to take a picture of my mountain of empty boxes, it makes me super happy!!

Five Things Friday

Five things that make me happy today:

1) This skirt from Old Navy, which I am wearing today because it's GORGEOUS outside!!



2) Catching up with old friends...thanks for the phone call, Jacs :-)

3) The beautiful weather!!

4) This album, Bethany Dillon's self titled first release...powerful stuff. Track 3, Beautiful, gets me very time. I am not exaggerating when I say that that one song has gotten me through some very bad moments during the last year.

5) Being myself makes me happy. Maybe it's easy for some people to be the same no matter who they're with, but I tend to be a bit of a chameleon. Sometimes I just need to take a step back and think about what it is I've actually been doing. What's that verse in Romans? "Everything is permissible but not everything is beneficial"...I'm working on putting a little more of my life through that filter...