WISHLIST wednesday: No. 38

today i wish for some colored jeans.

aren't they fabulous?! oh yes!
lemon drop or fuchsia? i am leaning towards lemon drop.
are they too nuts?

she's fancy

"I think if women put some more of the time and money they
put on their heads in their heads, they’d be better off."
Iris Apfel

I was introduced to this lady last week and she is pretty cool.
She just does her own thing. I love it. She makes me want to have more courage to care less
about what others think. She also makes me want to wear bright lipstick!

more art work

sent from rye

he's still conquering Thai. way to go!

some old news

i got my field placement for next year... and it was MY TOP CHOICE!

woohoo!

i interviewed a couple weeks ago and found out i got the placement two days later. i will be working with adults with eating disorders in a partial hospitalization program as well as an intensive outpatient program starting in september of this year and going until i graduate in may of 2013. then i will have my master's degree. CRAZY! i am sooooo excited! i have had awesome luck with my field placements. adolescents addicted to drugs for my first year and adults with eating disorders my second. i LOVE it!

social work ROCKS. MY. SOCKS.

from my grandma's kitchen

Buttermilk Biscuits

1 c. flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cube of butter
buttermilk

Mix the first four ingredients. Cut the butter in and add enough buttermilk to make a moist, stiff dough. Turn onto a floured board. Knead 10 times, then pat out to desired thickness. Cut and bake at 425 for 12 to 15 minutes.

My mom used to make these a lot. We love pairing
them with loads of honey. So good! It makes a pretty small
batch, so you might want to double it if there are
more than two of you.

WISHLIST wednesday: No. 37

today i wish for some homemade lemon sugar scrub.

i may have to make some soon. only a few ingredients and BAM!
you have a homemade sugar scrub. sounds lovely! it may even help my with my eczema.

40 day fast

lent starts tomorrow.
(and goes until easter. don't know much about lent? more info here.)

what are you giving up??

i am giving up two things this year.

first, i am giving up weighing myself. i hate how the number on a scale can have so much sway on my mood and overall feelings about myself. the number shouldn't matter, i know that, but it's hard not to rely on something that quantitative when it comes to assessing health and fitness. i need to focus more on how i feel and actually look instead of relying on a number. hopefully, giving up the scale for 40 days will help with that. however, i also secretly hope that when i do weigh myself again after easter, the number will be lower. i know... i'm just terrible.

second, i am giving up candy. i have kept to eating desserts and sweets only on the weekends, but when the weekend hits i feel like i go a little crazy. so instead of cutting out all desserts, i am going to focus on not eating candy and reigning myself in on the weekends a little bit more. jeremy says eating no sweets and desserts effects him too much, because then we don't make delicious things on the weekends... so candy it is. i'm hoping i learn to appreciate homemade goodies more than the over-processed junk i tend to gravitate towards to get a sugar fix.

no eating candy or using the scale until easter! we'll see how this goes.

printed

one of my new year's goals for 2011 and 2012 was to print pictures, and guess what?

i finally did it!

(it helped that i had 80 free prints from shutterfly and only had to pay for shipping.) so with our 80 prints we made a collage on a long wall we have in our bathroom. our bathroom is massive; we could have a party in there. we used the blue painter's tape to tape them on the wall. it was so easy and now we find ourselves looking over our fun adventures while we brush our teeth.

i love it! it will be fun to add more pictures throughout the year.

chocolate dipped

last night we headed into the heart of boston for some dessert.
we decided on chocolate fondue at the melting pot and boy am i glad.

it was so delicious. we got "the original" which consisted of milk chocolate swirled with crunchy
peanut butter. it was awesome! they even brought us extra strawberries and bananas
to dip. i can't wait to go back! after stuffing ourselves with chocolate dipped
everything (which i highly recommend), we walked to the nearest subway station at the
edge of boston common and rode it on home. i love a date in the city!

lassoed

from the picture riley drew at the end of his letter we got yesterday,
it looks like Thai isn't so much of a monster anymore.

you can do anything with help from God. keep up the hard work riley!

shout hooray

happy birthday daddy!

christmas 2011 at disneyland

you are a wonderful father and friend. thanks for always being so supportive
of my big dreams. i am incredibly lucky to have you as my dad.
you are sooo hilarious and always have us laughing. i love you daddy!!
and i miss you, too. have an awesome birthday... you deserve it!
don't forget to pick me up something nice on your cruise.

xoxo,
your favorite daughter

adding some color

this is what jeremy did at school today:

he was drilling on some teeth and they have this new composite (the stuff they use to fill cavities) that come in cool colors - orange, purple, yellow, blue, green, pink, and red- instead of just white. supposedly, it's all the rage for kids in germany. jeremy got a hold of some samples, drilled a star into a tooth, and filled it with orange composite. it's pretty sweet. don't worry... it's a fake tooth in a fake head. and jeremy usually does much more productive things at school.

WISHLIST wednesday: No. 36

today i wish for another blonde streak.

  (blonde streak summer 2011)

now it's pretty much non-existent, it may be time for a new one!

happy v-day!

hope your day is full of love and all things wonderful!
we are going to make and decorate sugar cookies as soon as we finish some homework.
my papers don't write themselves evidently. bummer. oh the joys of school.

anyways, i just wanted you to know...

you really do!!

do you like what i did with my nails? i LOVE them.
it may become my new thing even though they are a little nuts.
why settle on just one color, ya know?

three

happy anniversary cute boy!

marrying you was the best decision of my life. these last three years have been so fun. we have accomplished a whole lot together. we graduated from college, moved across the country, and both started grad school. i can't wait for the many adventures ahead. i'm so happy that you're mine... forever! i love you!

north conway is for lovers

and skiers and shoppers.

we spent the weekend in north conway, new hampshire.
and we loved every minute!

friday night we walked around the little downtown and
dropped in a little shop for some hot chocolate and hot apple cider.

saturday we slept in and then went out to breakfast.

i love corned beef hash and free hot chocolate.

then we cross-country skied for a few hours.




it was a workout! i cross-country skied for my high school when i lived in wyoming and i forgot how
much i LOVED it. we had a BLAST! jeremy picked it right up (and only fell four times).
i can't wait to go again.

after skiing we hit up the outlet shops and found great stuff, ate
dinner at horsefeathers (the food was delicious!), shopped around the cute little downtown,
and ate a huge dessert at the muddy moose.

today we meandered on home after a slow morning.
north conway was the perfect place to go for the weekend to
celebrate our anniversary. we will totally go back!