|{ Looking Back }|

I just skimmed through all of my previous blog posts and it was really entertaining to see all the changes that happened since I started blogging.  Not just in my life, which is obviously always changing, but in the quality of my photos, the way I posted my photos onto my blog, the way I typed out my blog posts, and the different people who commented on my blog posts during different times of my life.

It is really pretty eye opening just to see where I was and where I am now.  I really like where I am now and I am so happy to be seeing progress in everything that I am doing!

I really do love my life and I love where I am at and I have so much to continually look forward too! I have AMAZING friends and the most wonderful husband a girl could ask for!

I am feeling so blessed right now as I type this, my husband studying at his desk next to me, listening to the rain softly falling outside.

Life is good!

p.s. I love Pinterest.

|{ Massage Therapy }|

I recently started school to become a massage therapist!!! I'm so excited to really learn and get good at this skill and so far I am really enjoying school, partially just excited to actually be in school again, it's so much fun! I can't even believe how much I just enjoy taking notes in class and doing homework at home!! (Silly, I know, but there you have it.) But I also just love what I'm learning! So far it has mostly anatomy but I enjoy that too because that's what hubby is studying and I like that I can understand better (though not to quite such a large extent) what he is talking about.

Last week we bought my massage table and I just had to do a selfie shot of me studying with my massage table set up!! :)

|{ My 23rd Birthday }|

I had the most amazing birthday this year!!!  My dearest husband threw me a surprise party and he did it so perfectly!! I was over at my friend's (Katie and Doug) house the day before my birthday sewing curtains so we can finally finish decorating our house and they were going to make dinner but they were 'out of rosemary' and wondered if we had any.  So we hoped in the car to go and grab some rosemary only to find a group of people yelling surprise at me when I opened the door the house!  Haha!! They did so well at tricking me.  Doug even had a pot of boiling water on upstairs and kept turning on the microwave even though there was nothing in it to convince me that he really was making dinner. Lol!

It was a great party! It was so fun to see everyone who came!! Jon even decorated my cake tiger-striped, it was perfect!! After that we went and played Dutch Darts and everyone had a blast!! It was a fabulous party!!

On my birthday we went out to breakfast together at Angelo's (a super popular eatery here in A2 (Ann Arbor)), we decided that it is definitely going to be our birthday tradition as it is delicious and you get a free meal on you birthday!

After that we went home and I opened up my presents!! I am always so impressed with my husband's skill of gift giving, he knows me so well and really pays attention to what I say.  I have all of the Harry Potter books, but the first 4 I had in paperback and the last 3 I had in hardback.  Hubby got me the first 4 in hardback, he also got me the Harry Potter 6 game on the Wii (which I told him I wanted the Harry Potter games for the Wii so he went online and found the one that people said was the most fun and got me that one, I LOVE IT!), I also got my favorite perfume, a lap fan for my computer so it will stop dying when I try to do anything that it finds too strenuous, some jewelry, and some clothes! He is THE BEST!!

Then he had to go to class which was sad but it wasn't for too long.  After he got home we went and got free birthday stuff!! (We got 6 free bagels and gelato (ginger-flavored=AMAZING)!).  Then we got together with our lovely friends Katie and Doug (and Paige) and we went raspberry picking!!! Which would have been super delightful only we realized that we really should have brought bug spray, there were so many mosquitoes it was ridiculous!! We only picked for probably less than 5 minutes before we called retreat and ran back to the car...in that time I collected a total of 45 bites...yeah... We really should think more about terms like "pesticide-free" means LOTS of bugs, and "we make our own honey" means LOTS of bees.... It makes a good memory though! Haha!

Then we came back and Jon made Tangerine Stir Fry Beef with Sushi Rice!!! YUMMY!!! And then we played some games, Katie totally dominated!! :) It was a wonderful birthday!!