From Sea to Sunset

Day 28: Just Pictures

Florence, Italy

Key West, Florida

Whitehouse, Jamaica

Lenoir City, Tennessee

Dalton, Georgia

Downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

Say What?!

Day 25: Something someone told you once about yourself that you'll never forget (good or bad)

I'm sure I have been told a lot of genuine sweet things through my years, but unfortunately I have one weird comment that might haunt me for life.  In highschool someone told me that I have worm lips.  Really?  Seriously, you are going to tell a self-conscious high school girl that her lips look like worms.  Wow, that will cure any bad day, right?

Honestly, even though I am haunted by that comment and worry about whether my lips look like worms- I just really don't see the resemblance. Hopefully you don't think so either, especially now that  you are probably searching for a picture of me to see for yourself.....

Undecided

Day 24: My Top 3 Worst Traits

Haha!  Wow! There are so many to choose from.  It is completely obvious to anyone who knows me that I am definitely a sinner.  There are so many things about me that need refining that I am having a hard time deciding which 3 to write about.  Which ironically leads me straight into my first top trait....

1. I am the ABSOLUTE WORST at making decisions.

No seriously.  I am.  I can stand in the same grocery store isle for 10 minutes trying to decide whether to get the 15oz or 32 oz ketchup.  I will make 3 trips to the store to pick out a vacuum and end up not getting one.  I will say I donno/I don't care anytime you ask me what I want to do today.  I'm telling you guys its bad, real bad.  I am often kept from doing things I enjoy because I won't make the decision to go do them.  I have called my parents/husband begging them to make huge life decisions for me.  Not only am I bad at it, I hate being forced to make decisions.  Which definitely makes things worse.  So, basically, if you need something decided. Don't come knocking on my door....

2.  I am so self-conscious.

Ugh.  Isn't every girl?  Gosh it's just the darndest thing.  O how I wish I could feel as beautiful as my husband thinks I am.  How I wish I could love my freckles, or feel in shape, or enjoy my curly hair.  Why is it the curse of all curses on the female race that we have to be so gosh darn self-conscious?!

Oh, don't get me wrong, I'll do everything in the world to come off as self confident, but deep down in side I am a worry wart about my appearance, personality and the like.

3.  I am a grudge holder.

There, I said it.  I admit it.  Ashamedly.  I hate this about myself!  When someone hurts me or "does me wrong" I just can't get over it.  It's the silliest thing too because I know how awful of a sinner I am and that I make offenses to other all the time.  And honestly, I will make amends with those "offenders" by talking through it or making up but deep down I am still holding on to it.  I think of the other person differently or I feel like they owe me or something.  It really is an AWFUL trait that I wish the Lord would rid me of.  I will just keep on praying that He saves me from my sins and refines me to be more like Him....

Pants on Fire

Day 23: Things you've learned that school didn't teach you.  Things school taught me that aren't true....

1.  Work hard 9 months out of the year and you will get 3 months of pure laziness.  Laying by the pool, sleeping in, family vacations, neighborhood flashlight tag, etc.

Talk about rip my heart out.  I go through 20+ years of school where this is engrained into my noggin and then BAM. reality hits.

You mean I won't get a summer anymore?!

You mean I have to work 12 MONTHS out of the year?!

You mean I only get 1 week vacation from work the WHOLE year?!

Yea, school definitely didn't teach me that. Sayonara Summer....

2.  A complete memorized knowledge of the Periodic Table is essential to your future.

Yea, that's certainly not true...

3.  Books cost around a hundred dollars.

Funny thing, ever since I've finished school, book prices have dropped dramatically.. hhhmmm.....

4. A normal work day is 8:30 to 3:30 with a 30 minute lunch break.

Imagine my surprise when my boss told me our work day was 8-5 and to eat at my desk while I'm working!

5.  Its ok to be late as long as you have a note from your parents.

Apparently real life bosses don't think that is a very good excuse.....

Post Favs

Day 21: A Link to all your Favorite Posts

Obviously this one is a tough-y because all of my posts are so wonderful, just HOW am I going to choose my favorites?!?  ;)  hehe just kidding.  I definitely have some favorites, and oddly enough they revolve around food.  Hhhmmm.  Ok, I'll only do a couple favorite food posts and then a couple non food posts.  Otherwise we all might get too hungry to finish reading.....

Thanksgiving Turkey Cupcakes
They are just too dang cute not to be a favorite....

NeriumAD

Because my life has recently been changed by this product and this company

Our Wedding

Because I want to help everyone have a beautiful wedding at a reasonable price!

36 Years Later...
Because it turned out waaay better than I thought it would, and my parents actually liked it!

Hamburger Cupcakes
Because these are the most fun cupcakes to make!

Beginnings

Because it was the starting point to this grand adventure I'm on..

Oh to Pic....

Day 17: Favorite Picture of Yourself and Why

Ok, so bear with me on this post.  My favorite pictures I have ever had taken of me are from my engagement shoot.  I still remember very vividly how nervous I was.  Nervous that I wouldn't look pretty.  Nervous my hair wouldn't work right.  Nervous I would have zits on my face.  Nervous the trees wouldn't be colorful enough.  Nervous it would be raining.  Nervous I would have weird smiles.  Nervous my outfit wouldn't look cute.  Nervous our personalities wouldn't show up in the pictures.  Just plain nervous about almost ANYTHING that there was to be nervous about.

I have loved engagement pictures my whole life.  I love looking at them, whether it is someone I know or some random person.  I just think they are so darn special.  It is at an adorable exciting time in your life and you are so much in love with your fiance and that always shows in the pictures.  Plus you will have those professionally done pictures for the rest of your lives to display in your homes to remember how good you used to look before you had kids... :)...

What if after all that, I didn't like my own engagement pictures?!?!

Well,  The Lord blessed me yet again.  I absolutely positively adore my engagement pictures!  Our photographer, Emily Rodgers (whom I would totally tell everyone to look up and hire if she wasn't retired), was amazing and captured us perfectly.  I love the colors she enhanced and the ideas she brought to the table.  I was so relieved to get the pictures and to love every one of them.

Sooooo, all that being said.  My engagement pictureS are my favorite pictures of myself.  All of them.  I couldn't choose.  Lucky you gets to see them all.....

And there you have it Folks! My favorite pictures...