Randoms and My Jams

Holy wow. This weekend was a whirlwind of just about everything. I haven't had much time to share, so I thought Random Wednesday would be the perfect time to share a few highlights...

1. Tyson's Corner (read: huge, amazing mall) with my friend Katie! We had so much fun at the American Girl Doll store... we basically turned into little girls again. I better give birth to a girl someday, because these dolls are amazing- so much more than they were when I was little!
2. Chris and I went on two bike rides over the weekend! One was over 12 miles...considering I'm out of shape and we just started biking, I'm proud of us! 
3. I read a whole book over the weekend. "Gone Girl" was amazing. I'd heard mixed reviews but I guess I like dark and twisty fiction because I couldn't put it down.

1. Loving this yellow polish! (Butter-fly stroke from Sally Hansen). It's the perfect golden yellow.
2. Why is there nothing better than strawberries and (non-fat) whipped cream? So yummy.
3. I made freezer breakfast sandwiches from Pinterest. I'm not a fan of the way the eggs cooked but they'll do for quick "in a pinch" breakfasts.

It was so nice to have a long weekend, and I have a super short 3-day work week. That means I'm trying to cram everything into 3 days which has been a little stressful. I'm off work Friday because it's my little brother Jake's Bar Mitzvah on Saturday! I'm so excited for him, we have family coming into town and it'll be a great weekend. 

Now, to share my playlist for Day 29 of the challenge! Here's a mini soundtrack of my life right now.




There are so many more songs I could use, but these are the ones that came to mind. 
The first two songs are songs that just make me happy, always. The next two are songs that describe where I feel I'm at in life right now. Yes, T-Swift is right, I'm feeling 22 again. The last song is "Our song" :)

Linking up with Jenni and Shanna

15 Day Challenge: Day 13

{13} List your favorites: song, quote, food, vacation spot, photo


Edit:It's obvious that my brain is on robot mode. While writing this I followed the prompt exactly as written when it was actually an open ended prompt as I saw from other participants. Oh well, I liked the prompt as-is and don't really feel like adding anything :)

Song ~ "Lucky" by Jason Mraz/Colbie Cailat. This is "our song" and will be our first dance someday! (Sorry to spoil the surprise, everyone!) I'd have to say one of the best moments was hearing this song live last summer at the Jason Mraz concert. Pretty sure I cried.

Quote ~ "Be the change you wish to see in the world" -Gandhi. I'm sure this is every other social worker's favorite quote but I just love this reminder!

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Food ~ I can't pick just one. Pizza, Mexican food, and any type of sweet. That covers a lot but it's just the truth! These are my favorite cupcakes I've ever made and one of my first blog posts!

Salted caramel cupcakes

Vacation spot ~ Puerto Rico! We took our first "real" vacation together last May and this is where we went. I'd been there before, on a Middle school trip (yes, back when schools actually took trips!). I fell in love with this island and so did Chris. We had such a great time and will definitely be visiting again! Of course, here are a few pictures...

It's so gorgeous there!

Favorite photo ~ Homecoming 2003 (Chris' senior year and my junior year)

Hopefully Chris won't kill me for posting this since I don't post pictures of him on the blog. This is definitely my favorite picture of all time and our first picture together!

Those are my favorite things!

Check out Sar's blog, life of love, for more!

Summer 2012 Mixed Tape

Remember making random mixed tapes with your friends in middle/high school?

For the past couple months, Chris and I have been collecting songs we like that we hear on the radio or wherever. We decided to bring it back to the mixed tape days and make a mixed playlist for summer! It's fun and energetic so I wanted to share with you all :)

Midnight City (M83)

Houdini (Foster the People)

Call Me Maybe (Carly Rae Jepsen) (much to Chris' dismay, I added this one in. he hates it :P)

Young Blood (The Naked and Famous)

Boyz-N-The-Hood (Dynamite Hack) (and this is the one Chris added much to MY dismay...)

You are a Tourist (Death Cab for Cutie)

Cough Syrup (Young the Giant)

Everybody Talks (Neon Trees)

We Are Young (Fun)

Somebody That I Used to Know (Gotye)

Lights (Ellie Goulding)

Tounge Tied (Grouplove)

What are your favorite songs this summer?