Countdowns Are Fun

don't you think?? I'm counting down to LOTS of things at the moment...but a big one is....

76 DAYS UNTIL CARRIE UNDERWOOD!!

I am SO SUPER EXCITED I CAN"T EVEN DESCRIBE IT TO YOU!! I cannot WAIT to see her in concert. Carrie is probably my favorite music artist ever. I just love her songs and I can't wait to hear them in person! From floor seats even!!

A Simpler Life

A very lovely piece of nostalgia. :)

Numero Dos

So, I know everyone is just DYING to see what our new apartment looks like. ;) Just kidding, you probably don't care, but you get to see pictures anyway! I love this little place....It fits us much better than our apartment in PG did. Sorry for the picture-heavy post. :)

Our room. I am working on a big print from our wedding to go above the bed. That door you see is our closet.

Our bathroom. Seashell-themed, although it's a little hard to tell in this picture.

Right outside the bedroom door - hallway into kitchen. Plus our lovely flumes picture. :)

Kitchen. Needs a valance. And my chili peppers from Mexico!!

View from master bedroom door. Living/Dining area. Ignore the ginormous Texas Rangers cup.

View of kitchen from living room. Also ignore the hamster cage. It's cooler in this room so she stays out here for now.

2nd bedroom. See all those boxes? Those are all my classroom stuff. I am hoping it will be out in a couple weeks. :)

2nd bathroom. AKA Texas bathroom. AKA awesome.

My Mexican fruit from Grandpa Nichols.

Knickknack bookshelf. hi Carl and Jen! :)

Ohhh I love this arrangement above the couch. I love the iron. and the canvas pic.

Dining table decorations. :)

Mantel. And temple! And Jesus. and cake topper. :)

Well, that's it! Our second place! We love it so much!

My Dear Friend Lisa. Frank, that is.

Today, at Walmart, (which, by the way, is a terrible start to a story), I grabbed a binder to hold all my random recipes. I grabbed this binder:

Or something like it anyway. Mine's pink. But it's sparkly, and that's really all that matters in this world. Except, I was very, very, disappointed. Want to know why?? Because they did not sell binders with things like this on them:

Oh, Lisa Frank! I miss  you! I had a LF Trapper Keeper, folders, pencils, erasers, stickers, a diary, and probably more. It was the one trend that my mom indulged me on. :) And I kind of wanted a Lisa Frank binder for my recipes! Even though I'm almost 23 and all grown up now. Supposedly. I still wanted Lisa Frank in my life. I mean, who couldn't use a bit of this colorful, animally goodness?

Teen Talk....AKA Yakking with Youth

And if you know where that reference is from...you win 1000 million points.

Here's a hint....

Full House. Awesome show. LOVE. IT.

Okay, back to "Teen Talk." haha

So, I am babysitting my little sister and her friends this morning...or at least, being a responsible adult around a bunch of teenagers. And I am listening to their conversations coming from upstairs.

Seriously the funniest thing I've heard in a long time.

Did I talk like that when I was a teenager? Did my friends? Or is it a new modern thing?

They are so funny!! It's all, "so and so is SO hot." and "omg did you hear that so and so broke up with her boyfriend??? They were, like, so perfect together."

etcetera.

I can't even count the number of "omg"s and "like"s that I am hearing right now. And I don't say this to make fun of them, but it's so funny to me. I'm sure that's exactly how I sounded at 15. Because Michala and I are very similar. But it's just funny.

Also, how is this girl:

15 now??? How did that happen? She's supposed to be my baby sister....not almost driving sister.

Love you punk!