Green with envy

(Red heads always look the best in green!)

                      Tell the man in your life to dress like this for St. Patrick's Day! It's Eco Friendly =]



Hello cuties,

Do you like to decorate for St. Patty's day? I think I may try one or two of these ideas this year. What about you?

Galatians 6:9

I am 22 today. It's funny to think of all that I have accomplished in my life thus far. But I can't help worrying about what my future looks like. I want to put all of my faith in the Lord- knowing that He has my best interest at heart. I want God to continue to keep my life sweet and special. I want to be the best wife I can be, even though it may be hard. Why is it hard to be nice sometimes? Why do I have to constantly think about ways to show my husband that I love him dearly, would lay down my life for him in an instant, or just flat out show him all of the respect he deserves? Why can't that all come naturally? Why do I worry about what God has in store for me in regards to a career?

This week I have been talking with God--alot. Not necessarily asking him for things, but trying to explain to Him why I want the things I want.  I just cannot get it through my head as to why after all of these years praying for my brother to become a Christian, there has been no progress. I don't see why my brother is so set on not believing there is a Savior out there for him, that absolutely loves him, even with all of his faults. I think his crappy childhood and having endured so much pain in his life makes him refuse to think a loving God could allow those things to happen. The worst part is he is such a sweet brother. He loves me so much and tells me everytime I talk to him that he is so proud of me, but I still want so much more from him. I want him to share my faith, to have conversations with me about God's enduring love, and I want him to be in Heaven with me one day.




I need to be  reminded of this:

"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do  not give up."

Galatians 6:9

Foodie Weekend

I'm really excited for this weekend. I will be helping my friend, Dottie, with her "WINE" themed birthday get together and my hubby and I are going to our married couples group (I promise, it's less gay than it sounds!) and it's our turn to bring din din. Can you say gooey, cheesy FATTENING!, FONDUE! If Rachel Ray were with me she'd say, "YUM-O!"

So needless to say this will be me on Sunday!

But I really am excited to get to hang out with Dot! I feel like I have been in hibernation for the past month and a half and haven't gotten to spend time having fun with friends. So, here's what I'll be bringing to the soiree.

Yummy sparkling pink lemonade

BRUSCHETTA

Dottie LOVES Caprese!

And here's what I'm bringing to couples group:

Delicious cheese fondue

Ahhh, its so good!

What will you be doing this weekend, jolies?



Dumb Egg Suit & Valentine's night

I have the best hubby in the world!!! I honestly thought he did not care much about Valentine's Day because he didn't ask me what I wanted to do and I thought we wouldn't have any time to go on a date since he is Student Teaching and working sooo much =[ But he stole me away for a night last night and we got some lots of sushi and went to the movies. Really funny because we saw three other couples that were at sushi in the same movie with us. Popular date idea I guess =] Then we came home and watched the Grammy's. Does anyone else feel sorry for Lady GaGa and Nikki Minaj or is it just me?! I mean, I feel really sorry for them because they have to dress/act like morons just to keep people interested in them. Who the hell shows up in a freakin' egg suit and completely copies Madonna with their performances??? Can you say "Express Yourself" Part 2? Not gonna lie though- I love gettin' down to their muuuzacck!What are your plans???

Muh gifts:

YOU SEE THIS? How awesome is that?? SO much delicious chocolate!!!!

Really excited to try the Chilies and Cherry Bar =]

How cute are these shorts? I'm really excited for it to warm up so I can wear these funky 70s print shorts

Yay, for a husband who knows what I need. I haven't been able to listen to my own music at the gym because I lost my headphones, so my sweetie bought me some new ones!

This was the very first thing Max made me open. He told me to close my eyes, and put this somewhat heavy bag in my hand but he told me not to open it until I could guess what C.S. meant. So after a couple unsuccessful guesses including "Chicken Sauce, Chocolate Sauce, and Chocolate Sticks" I gave up. Thats when Max let me know it stood for "chocolate stash" and when I got a craving for chocolate I would have some on hand. What a smoochie!!

                                                AND.... my ABSOLUTE favorite- purple tulips!!!

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..... and some extra for the guest bathroom =]

Enjoy some sweet, sweet lovin' tonight!!

Look what I FOUND!!!

In case there are some of you reading this that don't really know me--- let me help.


I am turning 22 next month (not too excited about it for some reason), I got married to my best friend last October, I am a senior at UNLV majoring in Sociology, and I am a leader for an awesome ministry called Young Life that seeks out non-Christian high schoolers in hopes of helping them meet Christ- welp, thats me in a nutshell. Oh yea--- I love, love, LOVE to cook!!

Check out what I found  yesterday!!!

*So this is the list I made when I was 16 years old for a man I wanted God to place in my life to marry one day. How funny is this?! (And it was definately done in Crayola marker) I'll let you read it yourself, but my favs are:

1. Loves God

14. Doesn't indulge in sweets too often (because I am such a freak and have the BIGGEST sweet tooth. It was so crazy when I first started dating Max and realized he basically doesn't like sweets at all. How funny of a prayer request for God to answer)

25. Dark, straight hair (Again, how silly! But I don't feel too bad considering Max has told me he prayed for certain physical characteristics he wanted his wife to have and God answered that ;)

33. Pushes me mentally and physically (SO true!)

See this cute black and white croqueted flower on my sweater?? This was worn on my bestie's wedding day a couple weeks ago and I just haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad to wear it today. I really miss her!!

Feeling straaaaaange

SOOOO, I don't like how I've been feeling lately. It's in a state of complete restlessness. I feel like there is so much on my plate. I feel like I'm waiting for something BIG to happen. I don't get it. Is it that I feel like I'm useless because every second of my life is not consumed with planning a wedding?? I don't know-- BUT it's really bugging me. I wish I had either one of my best friends living near to me. I wish that my little sister wasn't screwing up her life without realizing it. And I wish that I was content. I feel like I have so much weight on my shoulders, but none of it means anything. Do you ever have those days? Like nothing you do matters? Maybe I'm just being silly. Maybe school has something to do with it? It just feels like I don't have time to do the things I really want to do. And it doesn't help that I basically am getting NO quality time with Max right now. This whole student teaching thing SUCKS! I hate that it feels like he has two jobs and I only get to see him at night and a little on the weekends. I want to g on a honeymoon again! Is three months too soon for another one??!!

It finally got to me...

urg! well, it finally got to me. I'm officially sick. And feel like complete crapola! My throat hurts...Anyone want to come over and give me a back massage?

I've had a lot on my mind the last couple of days.

~When Max and I finally start having little kiddos of our own the idea of not knowing the sex has seemed pretty awesome to me. I'm loving this gender neutral room,

~Date place for tonight,

~Could you imagine doing this? It take some major balls... maybe fun idea for graduation, hmmm? I need to find a photographer for that.

~CUTE dress. Sexy and chic.

~ I'm itching for my annual trip to here.



A lot of changes are coming up shortly for me. Is it weird that I feel them lurking, waiting to be unleashed at just right moment?

Max is student teaching right now and gets to spend all day teaching P.E. to some cute kiddos. I felt a little bad for him yesterday. It was his turn to run warm-ups for the first time. Except 5 of those stinkin' fifth graders would just not listen to him! How rude! Don't they know that he's the nicest, most awesome, loving, wonderful man in the whole world?! So anyway, it was time for them to run a warm up lap and those 5 kiddos decided they weren't going to and then their real teacher had to chime in and forced them along with the other kids in the class to run another lap. Max was so cute about it too. He was like, "You know babe, that's a great principle. If the kids choose not to do something once, we won't move on to the next step until they finish the first step. It's like everything else-- you can't decide you want to learn how to divide, but then just decide to skip  multiplication before." He's so cute and logical.

And last night was so great. I've recently gotten into watching documentaries on Netflix (nerdy, i know!) and came across this one called Pressure Cooker. If you don't know me that well, i adore cooking! Like I'm obsessed with reading cookbooks, watching Food Network, and experimenting with new recipes (and figuring out how to make them gluten free!). SO ANNNNNNNNYWAY, I turned on this doc and it was so inspirational. It was set in inner city Philadelphia and a high school culinary teacher devoted so much of herself to helping her students succeed in college. And she was one tough broad!! She would not hesitate to call out each student and she often yelled at them when they did something wrong. But, what I loved so much was her faith in these kids that would have no other option for college or that much of a future without her. She went out of her way to help the girls pick out dresses for Prom, baked and sold cookies before and after school to help the cost of application fees (some culinary school application fees were $200!), spend her Spring Break with these kids helping them to prepare for mulitple cooking contests that gave away scholarship money, went to their football games, and cheer matches. She went above and beyond any teacher I've ever seen. Max and I just sat and cried at the end when she prayed with her kids and asked the Lord to provide a future for these kids. And He did!!! Many kids received full ride scholarships to Culinary Schools. SO touching!!!

Here, watch for yourself!

Pressure Cooker

Adieu bebes! I'm off to treat myself to a gluten free blueberry scone from Layers =]