Springy Boston Goodness...

Even though it's a little grey outside today, this is how I feel in my heart! Sunny, with gorgeous flowers/trees blooming. I think I could honestly live in perpetual Spring...mmmm sounds nice. And if I could live in perpetual Spring in Boston?!? Are you kidding me?? Heaven! While we were there a few weeks ago, Zach and I had a chance to go to Newbery Street for a few hours, without Aubrey, to just stroll around at our leisure and take pictures....and take pictures I did! I love that when we are not worrying about a 3 year old(that still feels weird to say!) when we're out, Zach is so relaxed with my picture taking meandering. So patient when I sit at the same magnolia tree for about 10 minutes getting every angle of their blooming goodness. What a good man ;) I can't believe how my love for photography has grown in the past months. I never thought that I'd become so addicted and obsessed! It feels like every post I do it is bursting with the results of my can't-choose-just-one-picture-so-I-post-them-all-itis! Oh well, I personally am not a fan of blogs that don't have at least one picture to accompany their post, I'm just visual like that ;) I feel like God has given me this desire and passion for photography and I'm not sure where it will lead, but I'm happy just to practice ALL THE TIME!

Speaking of photography... I bought my first lens yesterday!!! I went into the city with my best photography buddy, Amy :), and we went to B&H! Speaking of heaven! Oh man, so amazing...and intimidating! I felt like such a rookie in the midst of all those pros, but we end up talking with the guy behind the counter(who was SO helpful and just downright funny!) for almost an hour and ended up with the perfect "creeper" zoom lens for me:) I'm so excited, it's being shipped as I type and I CAN'T WAIT to get my hands on it! If you live in the NYC area, I totally recommend going there, even if you are not into photography....seriously the place is nuts and I could have just sat on a bench and watched the goings on! I could go on and on about this, but I'll stop myself there...but seriously...go! Wow...that turned into a random post!

I Wish.....

*that I was already living in my house in Georgia....

*that New Jersey would stop having such schizophrenic weather

*that I didn't have a mouse(most likely mice) in the house

*that said mouse/mice hadn't got into Aubrey's Birthday chocolate....that was in the gift bag already...and I had to throw away...and Aubrey was devastated:(

*that my house would pack itself

*that I had motivation to work out

*that chocolate wasn't so stinkin' tasty

*that Aubrey wasn't so stinkin' cute because it plain ol' hurts to love her so much!

My Turn...

...to try my hand at a Spring wreath and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out! I need to get a more substantial ribbon for the top, but I'm liking the look! I got the wreath from JoAnn's and the mini frame with the "K" is from a garage sale....pretty sure it was less than $1:) For the rosettes I used Modern Meadow by Joel Dewberry and Fresh Cut by Heather Bailey...two of my favorite designers/lines at the moment. Sorry the picture is a bit funky, the lighting was off ---mix that with a cloudy day and you got yourself a bit of a crappy picture! Oh and I decided to put the wreath indoors so that I could enjoy it all the time....plus I live in an apartment and thought that it would be wasted in the hallway. So it's alllll mine!

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Random Thoughts

*Zach's mom was supposed to get in last night and she missed her flight, so she's getting in later today. My heart is breaking for 2 reasons...Aubrey and Zach's mom:( They were both SO excited to see each other and are NOT happy about this delay.

*I am beyond excited about Boston this weekend!! And Zach just surprised me with tickets to the Red Sox game tomorrow night...for my Birthday!

*It's my Birthday on Saturday and yes, I'm one of those obsessed-with-my-Birthday-and-let-everyone-know people:)

*My love language is TOTALLY gifts and I think that Zach is getting it finally. Uh-oh, now I'm making him sound bad! I don't mean it like that, we're just poor and he's now getting that I don't care how small the gift, flowers,homemade, whatever, I'll love it!

*I love random surprises, so the fact that he's planned this since March makes me love it/him even more!

*If you are either a die hard Red Sox fan or a die hard Yankees fan, I apologize in advance for this next comment...

*Zach and I can't pick a team. We love the whole rivalry business and can't get enough of it! So even though we live in the NYC area, we can't commit to just the Yankees. We just love them both...sorry.

*whew. I feel better having got that confession off my chest.

*This spacing is off again?!? What is up with this stupid thing???

*Have I ever mentioned how much I LOVE Boston?? I do. I LOVE Boston. So much that I have to write LOVE in capitals every time, see? LOVE LOVE LOVE Boston:) And Boston in the Spring?!! Are you kidding me?!? *This is the second East Cost birthday(out of 3 so far) that I've spent in Boston(LOVE!!). Now that is a yearly tradition I can get behind!

*If you asked me where my dream place to live is? Boston, hands down! Why? Because I....you guessed it---LOVE it!

*something I'm not excited about----I have to go back to the DMV today. Yes again. At least I have my wonderful companion, Amy, to go with! Bless her, she's going with me again today and that's the only reason I'm not dreading it.

{SPRING}

On Sunday our little family headed over to Liberty State Park. It's only about a half hour away and we hadn't been there yet....that seems to be the case with with a lot of places around here, SO many places still to visit before we move in June:(

The park is right on the East River and it has a great view of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and lower Manhattan! I have a bunch of pictures from those that I'll show another time, but to be honest, I was more excited for the signs of Spring there! I love Spring, and I think I might even love it even more than Autumn and those of you who know me, that's saying A LOT!

There is just something about seeing all these bursts of color after a long winter that just gets me grinning! As time passes, I realize I'm becoming more and more like my mom. She LOVES flowers...is passionate about them and I can see myself heading in that direction...maybe not to the point of obsession like her and not to the point where I would be spending all my days in the garden, but looking at them?! I'm in! And taking pictures of them?! So fun! I am totally not a "take portraits" type of gal. Too many variables with people, I love taking pictures of objects and finding the beauty in them:) Not that it's hard to find the beauty in this puppies! ~~~Happy Spring~~~