high five Friday.

welcome to High Five for Friday! here's a look at some fun/exciting things that were buzzing around the house this week...

1. not sure if many of you know this, but i hand make invitations for my close friends and family. this gal, Tori, is best friends with my sister-in-law and is getting married next year, so i whipped these up for her.
2. greatest news all week- Postal Pix is now making a 2X2 grid pictures of your Instagrams in a 9 picture set for only $2.49. i'm hoping it's prefect for Project Life-ers out there. i'll keep you posted.
3. placed an order over here for some fun October add-ons for my Project Life album. Halloween is my favorite holiday, so these Elle's Studio finds are perfect for this month's spreads.
4. second greatest news this week...wait for it! the NY Yankees made it into the playoffs. we are huge baseball fans around my house, so it's been the MLB channel has been on around here nonstop.
5. i had to buy this Hello Kitty Halloween mug to match it's pink sister-mug in our cabinet from work yesterday. i'm secretly hoping for a Christmas mug too... hee hee.

all in all, it's been a busy week around here. the weekend is shaping up nicely and we've already got plans for next weekend with our cousins, so October might be the second coming of #Funtember for us.

how's your week been? anything exciting to share?

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oh, October.

the calendar has flipped to another month, and before you know it the holidays will be here.  i'm looking forward to the last three months of this year. just a few things i'm hoping to get done this month:

clean out the trunk of my car. it's a serious mess!

catch-up on my project life and stay current.

layout the foundation pages for my December daily.

eat healthy-er this month (dieting is a bad word). and hopefully going forward, but we all know the holidays make that difficult.

continue to play along with these challenges, so we have handmade Christmas cards to send out.

try crossing off three more Christmas gifts off our gift list.

i'm hoping to be back later this week with a little project i'm working on for a friend's wedding. and i'm going to start making a weekly post of Christmas cards, High Five for Friday with this fun gal, and a Project Life weekend update. wish me luck!

what are you looking forward to accomplishing this coming month?

ps; doesn't that picture make you want to bake?!?

here's to year one in the books.

today C + i are celebrating our one year anniversary. lots to reflect on today, so here's a little bit of what i've learned in our first year of marriage:

we can get through anything together.

we can respect each other to the fullest every single day.

we can disagree, but still love each other at the same time.

we can decorate a room together even thou we have different styles.

we can face hard times and still make each other laugh.

we can laugh at each other a LOT and still love each other in the end.

we can make tough decisions together even if they only benefit one of us at a time.

we can both agree that we both see things differently and that it's okay.

we can travel together as husband + wife just like we traveled as boyfriend + girlfriend.

we can both agree that we had a fantastic wedding.

we can agree that our wedding party was the COOLEST group of our friends/family.

we can both agree that i'm better at planning.

we can both agree that he's the kind of guy that will get to things later.

we can both agree that life is hard, but we are much better as a partnership.

i am so grateful that we got an awesome photographer that night.  i am so happy that we had all of our loved ones in attendance that night.  i loved that we didn't get into debit over our wedding.  i am so happy that our wedding was intimate and small with all our closest family + friends, but it was perfect that way.

looking forward to working on our marriage for many, many more years to come.

** this post inspired by this amazing summer post by Elise

currents of the week...

this was taken back in September in SD.  We took a much needed weekend vacation filled with amazing food + our last baseball game on the season on September 11th.  i can't say enough good things about enjoying an America tradition, like baseball, on a day like 9/11.  if you ever get the chance, you should really experience it for yourself 1st hand.  it's amazing!

Currents...

listening: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.
eating: nothing
drinking: water with berry flavor airbourne
wearing: green + black pj's
feeling: bothered but unsure why
weather: perfect!
wanting: a good Thanksgiving stamp for my cards
needing: exercise
thinking: i should do some homework but most likely won't
enjoying: my day off
wondering: if i'll finish my 40 Christmas cards before December 10th

(list of currents inspired by Tina) Also thinking I may add this as a weekly feature.
Happy Monday! 

Sorry I haven't posted any new pictures of my work but it's been a very CRAZY week. I rear ended someone, almost got ran over by a car, heard a hit and run around the corner from my house, ran into my besties soon-to-be ex-husband with another woman, all while working a few extra hours this week and learning a new job too. So, I'll be back tomorrow with a few new layouts and maybe some cards if I'm lucky...sweet dreams y'all!