.LWP:Oct. 9th.

Here are some of my favorite pictures from this last week!

He is soooo cute when he falls asleep on the couch!!

Manly Beach

This week equalled: 

street festival, work, trip to Manly Beach, first Aussie sunburn, rugby,

reading, (finally) working out, and hanging with the hubs!

FTF: Five Things Friday

Can you believe it's Friday already?!?! This week I have shared a lot with you guys, with the A to Z and now Five Things Friday! Hopefully you aren't to bored of hearing about me!

1) I have wavy hair BUT have always wanted curly hair like my sister Jess. I used to dream about getting a perm and having curly (red) hair. I'm a chicken, so I never did it!

2) I worked at McDonalds for 7, yes 7, years! For a majority of the time, I LOVED working there with my friends, talking to the customers, it was great...I miss those days at times.

3) As a kid my favorite game to play was Hi Ho Cherry O. Because my sisters are light years older then I am (9 &6 years older) they never played with me so I was left to play Hi Ho Cherry O all by myself. But hey, I still had a blast playing twice as much since I always got to spin for the "invisible" second player.

4) My wedding shoes are some of the favorite shoes I own, they are the lady version of the classic black and white checkered Vans. It broke my heart when I went into Vans to get a new pair and they told me they no longer make them because they didn't sell well....I actually called Dave and almost cried!

5) If you want to make me happy or get on my good side all you need to do is bring my Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. It can be in dough form, cookie form, Ice Cream form...basically any form and I will love you for at least a day or two unconditionally!

I hope you have a great Friday! Tonight I'm going to my first ever book club meeting...eeeecccckkk! I'm really excited and nervous all at the same time, I don't do well meeting new people all by my lonesome. But today is the day to face my fears and meet some new people in Newcastle!! Wish me luck!

Wellington, NZ: Botanic Gardens

One of my very, very favorite things to photograph is nature. I could spend hours upon hours taking photos of trees, clouds, flowers, statues,  and taking in the fresh air. Here are some of the plethora of photos I took in the Wellington, New Zealand Botanic Gardens. I hope you enjoy!

OOW: 1 Day, 1 Dress, 3 Outfits

Have you ever had those days when one look just doesn't cut it? 

That was totally me on Sunday. 

Here is how things played out through my wardrobe....

Look #1:

I wore this at the beginning of the day; Dave and I went to brunch, shopping, and then to a street festival. It started to get a little windy so I was at times trying to hold my dress down and my scarf from flying in my face at the same time...then add holding bags, it was not a pretty sight. It was then and there I decided it was time to head home and maybe put some pants on....

Dress: Forever 21, Cardigan: Old Navy, Scarf: TJ Maxx, Shoes: Big W

Look #2:

After heading home and changing the outfit a little bit I was ready to head back out to the street festival. I feel that adding the pants and tucking in my dress a bit really changed the outfit. With the pants, I wasn't feeling the red cardigan anymore, so I opt for my trusty black one and added a little color with the necklace. I also got a little bit of color with my new purse purchased that day! 

Look #3:

So after a day at the street festival, Dave and I headed back home to relax. The day was so lovely outside I talked him into going into once last walk before it got dark out. Since the wind died down, off with the pants....for my third look of the day!

Don't you love pieces that are so versatile?

What do you have in your closet that you 

can wear in different ways to get

different outfits?

This girl needs more tips and ideas!!!

Me: A to Z..Yippie!!!

I have seen this on a few blogs and thought it would be fun to do! A lot of the items are random tidbits about myself, but random things are sometimes the most fun to know about others! Dave and I came up with the categories ourself, that way I could switch it up from what others have posted. What can I say I sometimes just like to go my own way......go my own way...anyone, anyone get the reference?!?! Anyways, I hope you enjoy!!!

Age: 27 years, 4 months, 16 days
Books I really, really like:  This Much I Know Is True, Lovely Bones, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, (almost) any Laurie Notaro book.
Colleges Attended: Minnesota State University, Mankato (MSU) and George Mason University (GMU)
Dad Memory: every summer my dad would take me on a trip in his Semi to Texas, it was just us and the open road for a week. I loved it, it made me feel special and close to him!
Eye Color: Blue
Favorite Movie: Away We Go, if it is on the TV I HAVE to watch it!! The end, it always gets me, I cry soooo hard. I want to one day live in the farm house where my mom and I grew up, it is filled with so many memories and I would love to fill it with more family memories.
Games I like to play: Scrabble, Drunk Monopoly, and Scategories
Husbands Name: David Andrew Roberts.  I call him 'Babe' or Davi

Inspirations: clouds, love, trees, children, colors, openness, quite, the world
Job: book seller at local family owned bookstore
Kids: someday...but none right now.  I keep changing the time on when I want to have them, one day it will be soon and then another time I think people my age are crazy to have kids...I'm just so confused!
Languages: English (kind of) and Spanish (poco)
Music: Hanson, City and Colour, Bright Eyes, The Head and the Heart, Foster the People, Florence + Machine, GLEE, Mumford & Sons, Matt Wertz, etc.........
Nervous Ticks: tapping my foot, twidling my thumbs, feeling like I'm going to pee my pants
Originally From: Huntley, Minnesota...small town, probably about 300 people. It has a church, bank, cafe/post office, and lots of farmers!

Patience level: not very high, this is something I need to work on.
Questions I most frequently ask: Why? Does this look cool? What are you doing?
Reality Shows I'm addicted to: Farmer Wants a Wife, The Beauty and The Geek, The Bachelorette,The Amazing Race, Kardashins,...I will watch almost any reality tv show. I love other peoples drama and then am glad I don't have drama in my life.  Maybe I learned this from my mom who used to watch the Jerry Springer Show to make herself feel normal!
Song on the radio that I stay in my car for: Boys of Summer; The Ataris version. It's hands down one of my two favorite songs!
Twinge: Great Scrabble word I played this last month!
Umbrella: square blocks of pink, green, yellow, purple, white...its cute!
Vikings Player: Jared Allen #69....I sooooo want to be his friend. We could double date!
World Travels: Mexico, Nepal, London, Canada, Bermuda, Australia (2 times), New Zealand

Mexico- Mayan Ruins

X-Rays: only of my collarbone when I was little, I fell off my grandma's bed.  My mom was an X-Ray technician so I grew up around X-Rays and trying to figure out what was wrong with people.
Yard Sales: YES PLEASE!! I love yards sales! We used to have one every summer and for some reason I loved working it all day long.
Zoo animal: elephant, if it's a baby elephant it's even better!

Thanks for reading! I hope you learned something new!

Have a great Tuesday!