NERD ALERT

thank God for...

1. time with family. i loved this thanksgiving because i did absolutely nothing with the people i love. that felt good. below is one of these people:

cute....

2. pre-thanksgiving letter writing.

3. math meets at MSOE with my favorite nerds.

"more snacks please"

4. taking weird pictures of myself in the bathroom at work and sending it to all my friends (aka 3 people haha)

attractive..... ..

8. Cute couples i see at starbucks who just crack jokes the entire time & can't stop laughing. love it.

5. pre-black friday shopping with caitlin & jesse

clearly they were excited.

6. Black friday shopping with caitlin & jesse.

why we chose best buy i will never be certain.

7. thanksgiving parties with friends from the greatest place on earth

caiti : )

9. Chili's Chips & Queso

10. old photos from freshman year.

carolyn.

j.u.l.i.a

milky way

The Mountain from TSO Photography on Vimeo.

owl city

as part of the lovely maggie's birthday present i took her to see Owl City!

 ^shadow!

i thought it was fun & we had a good time. : )

mornings

this is how i wish all my mornings were.

: )

only one awake

sipping tazo tea

waiting for my hair to dry

xo

catching up on what matters

nothing largely significant has happened in my life lately, 

just many little things.

i like it this way. : )

first, carolyn had an apple the size of her head at lunch this week 

(actually, multiple times this week).

BEGINNING

15 MINUTES LATER

then we had a baking party...

we made cookies for lauren's birthday!

props to carolyn, this was all her idea.

above are two of my favorite epic girls,

talor & courtney. 

they're so energetic & they always have a story for me, i love it!

talor wearing my glasses!

next on the list was a jean shopping date with mary & audrey.

this was audrey's face when she saw me.

i'm not sure why but i kinda love it.

and her.

the end.

so cute : )

i finished off this crazy week with a dinner date!

my friend jennifer always makes me laugh.

we reminisced about all of our old inside jokes from when we were both in 

high school together and had a great time eating STIR CRAZY!

mmmm.

have a warm weekend everybody.

it's officially mitten season. : )

j u l i a

also i got my dad this beard hat. 

it rocks.

he loves it.

this picture looks nothing like him.

weird.

babysitting

this weekend i babysat for mary & conor's kiddies.

: )

how can you not just DIE when you see that face?!

L & i made a sweet fort out of many blankets & had a glowstick party

(we even taped some inside. so great)

word.

we also had a light saber fight..

i found blow up light sabers at target & it was a must!

the night included hide & go seek, candy, oreos, obviously glowsticks & more glowsticks, 

grapes, rugrats, and disney channel.

xo

if i had the money to spare...

christmas list.

xoxo

lady etiquette quotes

1. "Learn the difference between attention & affection"

2. "It's probably not nearly as big of a deal as you are making it out to be."

3. "intelligence is sexy, don't play stupid."

4. "money can't buy happiness, but it can buy marshmallows, which are pretty much the same thing."

5. "How he treats his mother is a pretty good indicator of how he will treat you."

6. "being hard to forget > playing hard to get"

7. "if he is dumb enough to walk away, be smart enough to let him go"

8."a girl should be two things: classy & fabulous"

ipod story 3

jesse's band concert!

carolyn is my favorite. so entertaining.

STRESS.

audrey is always the perfect way to end my blog. 

you can thank mary for capturing this moment. : )

xo

having a tough week?

carolyn's ^

below: not mine 

me too.

good news is..

you can have anything you want:

check it.