Currently // November

Dear Blog,
We have not been friends as of late. I have been working on a post for the past three nights and keep getting distracted and stuck and end up slamming my computer shut most nights - the whole dark by 5pm thing isn't helping. Lets be friends again and start with this easy Currently post!!

Reading // Cold Tangerines by Shauna Niequist plain and simple I love her. She is one of my favorite authors and her books are so easy and the words she writes are always just what I need to hear

Wishlisting // things I don't need - always - like the 5D Mark III that gives me heart eyes and the price gives me a heart attack

Loving // my 'brother' getting engaged!! Steve's cousin has always been more of a 'brother' since Steven has 3 sisters and his cousin and him are so close. He is my closest guy friend, was the Best Man in our wedding and was our roommate in college. He introduced me to Steve and I introduced him and his now fiancé and I. Can't. Wait. for their wedding next fall!

Appreciating // my close friends & family - I got a visit from by best friend last weekend and we did nothing more than catch up and chat and drink wine {those days are the best} - I am also really excited for the holidays to spend more time with the important people in my life

Creating // photo cds for clients. The editing is never ending but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I have also been getting prints made of personal photos from Norway and of Brea and I'm in love with metallic finish photos!

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Tell me what are you Wishlising this season???

linking up with Anne & Jenna

Life Lately

Happy Wednesday.

I thought I'd do a quick post to update you on my life lately. 

*Warning this is a totally Random post*

//Well, I have been putting my public speaking skills to great use the past few days and it made me remember how much I love communication and miss my Comm college days. Last Friday I talked to a group of about 70 farmers about technology. The company I work for went paperless a few years back and we have a new feature that will allow the farmers to securely view their docs online - now we just need them to sign up for it!! 

//I finished reading The Fault In Our Stars this past weekend. I liked it but didn't love it and didn't bawl through the whole book like I thought I would. I really just want to find a book that I love so any recommendations are welcome!!

//I had a great time hanging out with my husband this past weekend. Did you know that every morning he has 3 hours of chores (aka feeding cows)?! Yep so I rode around with him in the tractor on Sunday morning for 3 hours, I don't know how he does that every day!!

//Remembering today my husband's cousin who would have been 21 - So if you have a drink today, say a toast to Jeremy who no doubt is livin' it up Upstairs!! {Miss You}

//I am Falling in Love with photography again - can't wait to show you some things I've been working on

//I hope everyone is having a fantastic week and looking forward to Easter weekend. 

P H O T O

I Understand

Last night I finished the newest Nicholas Sparks book. Initially on finishing it I wasn't in love with it; I mean it was okay but didn't leave me in tears like most of the others - why this is what I want from books, I don't know!!

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But today, I couldn't stop thinking about it … the characters, the moments that did make me cry and make me laugh, the giant end surprise/takeaway from the book. I realized I was more in love with the story than I'd initially thought, sad that after work I wasn't going to get to hang out with Sophia, Luke, Ruth & Ira. Even though it didn't leave me in tears it did make an impact on me. That Nicholas Sparks still knows what he's doing!! 

Shortly after finishing the book, surprisingly, I was already applying it to my life. I was slightly angry with my husband for breaking a kitchen appliance. Looking back, not a big deal at all and to top it off "It was a thing" - my husband didn't die and it was so far from that. I learned from this book that I need to have a much more 'who cares' attitude when it comes to my 'things', that the one 'thing' that really matters is Love! Love in the form of who you love : Love in the form of who loves you - That is All That Matters because if you strip away all of the 'things' what could you truly not live without?!

Now I Understand. Do You?

ps. I highly recommend this book!!