(M)orning

Good Monday morning. I have sort of been unavailable in the blog world this month and I apologize for that. I still have a lot of photos I want to add, but never get a chance too. I still don't have a lot of time this morning, but I wanted to share a little personal note for the day (who knows, maybe the week or month at the rate I've been going with the blog lately).

For Zach's birthday I got him the latest 2 cd's that the band, Mae, has put out: (M)orning and (A)fternoon - soon they will have an (E)vening album as well. We had listened to the album a couple of times, but yesterday while we were in our car on the way back from visiting Zach's family, I pulled out the lyrics to one of the songs, and I just couldn't get over how amazing they were, just absolutely beautiful. Zach was having a hard time hearing them while they were singing, so after the song played, I read the lyrics to them. As I got towards the end of the song I began tearing up. It's been a while since I've really felt God's presence and it was just amazing to me that in that moment, while reading some lyrics to a song, that I really felt like this was how I wanted every morning to feel. Like every day is a choice. God gives me the choice to be here and to make everyday what I want to make of it and for that I am so grateful. We have a lot going on this year and it makes me joyful and loved to know that God wants me to decide every morning what to do.

Night/Day

by Mae

I've been dreaming such a long time

And I've been waiting for the sunshine

But all my friends they say I'm getting by with sleeping in

They say I'm sleeping in

You know whenever I try I want to get it right

But I distract my focus and blur my own sight

Cause I've convinced myself that my best can only come in the moonlight

And I keep sleeping in

I keep on sleeping in

And missing something

(Close your eyes before the daylight breaks)

There are things about me I just can't ignore

I know I want to change and I see that door

On the other side daylight decides there will be war with sleeping in

Oh, I know they'll be no more sleeping in

I wait, I wait, I wait only in jest

I wait, I wait, I wait with no need to rest I wait

The day, the day, the day will come again, I say

A ray of light can only get in if I say

I've been putting off this purification a rebirth

and a regeneration inside of me

And I've been saying for far too long

even though something brand new is coming out of me

I'm going to wake up, wake up every morning and then decide

I'm going to wake up, wake up every morning and make it mine

Rain or shine

I wake, I wake, I wake and greet the day

The light is on the change is made I can see my way

The day, the day, this day has come again

Each ray of light will make its way into the core of me

I always knew that I was missing something

I know this time that I will leave nothing up to chance

And in the wake of this brand new day I see the light

and I feel the sun and I'll do it all again tomorrow

Birthday Weekend!

For the first time, probably since I was in high school, I was able to go back to St. Louis and spend the actual day of my birthday with my family. It was one of the best weekends in a very long time. As some of you may know, Zach's bday is the day after mine so we had a weekend of birthday celebrating!

We started the afternoon by going out to lunch with my mom in Clayton. Wood-fired pizza & flourless chocolate cake = AMAZING. It was a fun lunch with the girls only.

 

Later we went back home had some yummy DQ ice cream cake and then went to my younger sister's talent show. She pretty talented, that girl.

 On Zach's actual bday (that saturday) we did a little shopping in the afternoon and then headed to the City Museum. I left my camera in the car while we were climbing around, but had to get a few pics while we chilled near the fire after everyone was worn out.

 

We ended the night going back to my rents and hanging out playing the guitar by the firepit. Great weekend.

Fisheye

For my birthday Zach got me a fisheye/wide angel/micro lense for my camera. It is probably the best addition yet to the camera, it takes such fun photos and adds some humor to our personal photos. More posts about or birthdays soon, but enjoy some fun fisheye photos below from our Birthday weekend in STL!

 

 

Woolery Invite

I thought I'd share with you all the invite I designed for some friends that I mentioned a few weeks back. I really like how they turned out, you can't tell below, but they were printed on a pretty linen paper, which turned out so classy.

I really enjoy doing wedding invites, so if you or anyone you know is interested, send them my way! One day I plan on having my own stationary shop. :)

Happy Tuesday!

Where did the time go?

I can't believe it's been almost 3 weeks since I've updated this thing! I guess the more time passes, the easier it is to forget to post!  Alot has been going on, I'll list it below. I still have a ton of photos I need to get on flickr, and once I do, I'll post them up here.

A few events from the past few weeks:

• Start of wedding season 
• Family visited
• Copeland Farewell concert in Lawrence, KS.
• Got in a car accident during a freak snow storm - everyone is ok - but I had a bruise the size of my fist on   my butt. Pretty scary, but pretty funny when I would look at the bruise everyday. :) Word to the wise: Dont change lanes on a bridge, during the snow or cold weather.
• Zach started his job - definitly not as good as expected, so he's still job searching.
• Weather the past two weeks has been BEAUTIFUL! Lots of hanging out outside and grilling with friends. 
• Slacklining - Very fun. What is slacklining?
• Easter with Zach's fam

AND my birthday is on Friday and Zach's is on Saturday! This is the birthday where I finally feel older (even though I realize how young I am still.) Quarter of a century down. We will be heading to St. Louis to celebrate late Thursday night.
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Look how happy we are to be going to weddings! :)

More photo updates soon!

Slackline

For Christmas I got Zach a slackline kit. If you haven't heard of slacklining, you can read more about it here. But basically it's a thick strap that connects two trees and you can balence on it and do fun trick eventually. We set it up in our front yard a few weeks back and had fun experimenting with it. One of our trees was to thick so we'll have to find a better place to set it up to get the full effect. But it was fun none-the-less!

The girls hanging out watching.. (Boston being held like a baby)

 

  

 

 

Good times had by all.

Family Visits KC!

This is going to be a long post so watch out. In March, most of my family came and visited Kansas City and we spent the weekend doing fun stuff around the city. The main thing that encouraged the visit was the Copeland farewell concert in Lawrence. Which turned out to be a great way to get to know my younger sister's new boyfriend, Koji. He's been really great for Erin. He's from France originally and has lived in the states with his parents for the last 3 years. He's going to start college at Webster in the fall and i just a great kid all around.

Pics from the show.

Us with Ace Enders from I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business

We really enjoyed the show. My favorite as I knew it would be was Ace Enders. This guy is a genious. And looks a little like Michael Cera...

The next day my older sister and her bf and my niece, my cousin Carrie and her kids and all of us met out at the Plaza and had lunch and just goofed around like we typically do.

 

 

 

     

Later that night we headed to T-Rex Restaurant and had a yummy dinner. Their food is so greasy and delicious.

 

The next we visited the Nelson Atkins and had a FREAK snow storm. That night we played some fun games at my cousin's and then drove back to our house and ended the weekend with a car accident. Everyone is okay, and my mom now has a new car out of the whole situation, which she loves. But it definitly made me hate winters in Kansas City even more!

Green Day

Happy St. Patty's, I'm not Irish, but I have green in my last name... does that count?

So, it's been a while, but I have some good news to share! Zach finally got a real job!!! Yay! This is just great timing and it all happened so fast. He ran into a friend from High School last Friday while working at Panera and she said the school she works for was doing a group interview last Monday and that he should come in, so he joined in the interview not thinking much of it and got a call that afternoon for a one-on-one interview the next day (yesterday). So he went in in the morning and then went to work at Panera for the rest of the afternoon, he then got a call yesterday after picking me up at work on our way back home, that they wanted to offer the job to him!! We were beyond exicted. It just feels really good to not have to worry about that for a bit. It's not quite the job he was looking for, but definitley something to hold him over while looking for other things.

We also got our pics the other day for our friend Drew that did some photos of us last August. I also got to do their wedding invites for this May and they turned out really cute! I will share those eventually, but they haven't sent them out yet and I know some of our friends read this blog. :) Below are some of his awesome photos. He's quite the photographer.

More photos here.

Busy Busy Busy

My posts have been a little distant. I have been so busy. Busy at home, busy at work... busy, busy busy. Life just needs to slow down a bit so I have time to finish the things I'm working on in my "spare" time and trying to get our taxes down. We'll see how that goes.

This weekend I have a birthday party to attend tomorrow night and then we have a wedding on Saturday.
But I am super excited about next week. My sisters and mom are coming to town to go to a concert in Lawrence... the great Copeland Farewell tour show... and then just hanging out in KC for the weekend! It will be so much fun and I'm super pumped to have them here. I go through times where I just miss my family a ton and wnat to be able to just drive down the street to hang out with them, or call up one of my sisters and see if they want to go shopping or to lunch or to the park... so you can see why I"m so excited for next week to come. So I'm sure I'll have photos in a few  weeks from our weekend adventures in KC. But at least I have my love and some good friends, it definitley makes life easier!

(Zach has trouble looking normal in photos...)

I also got a new purse. I HAVE to have purses with a sholder strap. It's just always a must and I just had 3 purses break with in three months (they were all pretty old) and so it was finally time to get a new purse. I am so in love with my new yellow bag I got on sale from Urban. (you can see the strap in the photo above)

If I'm too busy to post tomorrow, have a great weekend! Catch ya next week.

Friday, finally!!

The week is finally over and my Friday evening has almost arrived! I'm so happy for today because it's absolutely beautiful outside, and it seems like almost every Friday during this horrible winter has been snowy and cold, and today, then sun is out and the sky is blue and it's in the 50's! Which is great for Kansas City in March! So, yay for Spring, I'm ready for it to show it's effect full force!

This beautiful photo via Metallic on etsy. A very cute little photography shop, I might add!

Have a great weekend and don't forget to enter the give away at Lauren's blog!

So many giveaways, so little time!

There are so many great giveaways out there in the blogger world right now, and one of them happens to feature one of my lovely cowls!

Head on over to Lauren's blog: the little things we do, and enter your name to win a light blue cowl! Perfect for the spring!

Also, below are a few other great giveaways...

Cakies poloroid camera giveaway - ends today!

Rockstar diaries jototes giveaway - ends friday!

One pearl button's 2 year anniversary giveaway - ends friday!

What a great start to March! Bring on the spring!

P.S. Like the new hair color? I'm still getting used to it...

Rainbow Cake and Some Photo Booth Shots

A few weeks ago I was reading Emma's from scratch blog and thought this cake that she found was so amazing! I had to show Zach...and of course...he wanted to try and make it. So, last weekend, he experimented and this is what he came up with. Not quite the same, but still pretty cool!

We had so many fun photo booth pics from last weekend that I thought I'd share a few more.

My mom and sister, Erin.

I think Erin and Zach had the most fun...the other high school students were a little too cool for this...

 

More photos here.

Weekend recap.

We had such a fun weekend. We drove to St. Louis to visit my fam and had such a good time. My parents are host parents for an exchange student this year and her birthday was on Friday, so we threw her an awesome luau surprise party on Saturday. I made these cute invites pretty quickly one day so her friend could hand them out at school.

It was a ton of fun and she was so excited and super surprised!

 

Her awesome cake my mom ordered from the Cakery in St. Louis

 

We also set up a photo booth in the basement for her to have some memories of the party.

    

 This girl is the sweetest and I'm so glad she is able to spend a year with us! She is truly one special person and will always be a part of our family!

Also, on Sunday my sister did my hair and it's dark now! We're working on getting it closer to my natural color. :) I don't have a photo yet but soon!