2014 In Review: Instagram

1. i started the year off with one of my high school friends erin at a low key house party. its sad to see that i probably haven't had a real conversation with erin since that night. we had a great time and i miss her!

2. this year i found my people at school, my frat. i have gained some of my best friends from my fraternity and that night was our bidcel where we got to party with the new pledges

3. we had a ridiculous amount of snow january and february where we got around 3-4 days off of school because we had so much snow

4. spring semester 2014 I was officially a brother in my fraternity and got to take my first little! he's been pretty much perfect, he's so chill and is like an over-protective brother to me. that was the day the little found out who their bigs were, i accidentally ruined my surprise earlier that week.

5. i went to what was most likely my last IUPattys weekend ever. We defiantly went out with a bang! I got to dance on the bar on country night and witnessed a riot. was definitely the best IUPattys weekend ever

6. About 3 weeks before spring break my friend holly and I decided to plan a spring break trip to puerto rico! this picture was on the first day we arrived and went to the private island the hotel had.

7. this picture was taken on the last day right as we were about to get on our shuttle to the airport. the trip was amazing and very relaxing.

8. i have really been taking a liking to hockey. I get very into it and going to the games and being able to sit 10 rows back from the ice has been amazing!

9. printmaking has been an amazing class for me, I have been able to make some really cool things in the class and actually sell some print as well.

10. this year i was able to try benny's pizza which is practically a slice of pizza the size of your face for $4. its the best pizza ever!!!

11. my best friend graduated from college and I was able to drive down to CNU and watch her walk across the stage. She is now at JMU with me at their grad school

12. during the summer I made the usual rounds around the country concerts at Nissan with some amazing friends and was able to see some old friends from high school!

13. I took a 3 day internship job with a photographer to be his assistant photographer in DC. unfortunately I was ridiculously sick had didn't have as great as a time as I expected, but it was an experience

14. Of course I made the usual trip(s) to georgetown for some cupcakes and went into the new macaroon shop and was able to try my first macaroon

15. this year my sister graduated from high school (huge surprise seeing as she never went to class). After her graduation we went to the national harbor and had lunch and road the ferris wheel

16. bailey was able to get pit tickets to the fall out boy/paramore monumentour and had an extra ticket so I was able to go with! We were so close to the stage and the concert was awesome.

17. I spent most of my summer at the beach working again at the frozen yogurt shop, I was able to be their "social media consultant" I got paid to run their facebook, instagram, and twitter as well as work there

18. my parents became empty nesters this year when kristen and I went to college. They also had to start collecting a lot of purple and gold things since mine and my sisters colleges school colors are purple and gold!

19. living with my best friends has been one of the best decisions I have ever made. Its great to always have someone there to talk to and be goofy with

20. this is the first year my whole family came to visit for family weekend. we went to the JMU game, which we won!

21. I started growing my family by taking a second little and my first little taking 2 littles which makes them my glittles! I seriously love my family, they are one of the best things to happen to me this year, and yes... they are all guys.

22.  I attempted to make one creative halloween costume this year and go as a piñata and my friend go as a mexican. well turns out once i put my costume on it all fell apart... and i had only 30 minutes to come up with a new costume! so i thew on some minnie ears and called it a night!

23. This was the first year my fraternity ever did beer olympics and it was one of the best events we have ever put on!! I was apart of team USA and had one of the most dope shirts I found at good will

24. Semi this year was at a beautiful cottage in the middle of no where! I had the most perfect dress I bought from nastygal and some cute cobalt blue heels!

25. one of the hardest parts this year was at the end of november, my family had to put our dog hoss down. He was the most precious and most loved dog ever, I don't know one person who didn't love him. It was a huge loss for the family and my dad took it the hardest. To this day he really misses having a chubby buddy to lay with him while he does his work. So during thanksgiving break we went to a bulldog farms to check out some puppies! we are going to get a new one for sure but its a bit to soon. But expect to see a little one running around in early 2015!

this year has probably been the worst year of my life. going back through my instagram you can't really tell but obviously no ones posts sad posts on instagram. My family started 2014 out with almost losing my grandfather to a horrible illness that landed him in the hospital for about a month, the middle of the year my dad found out he needed surgery on his back and ankle, and now were ending the year without our dog hoss. I'm incredibly grateful for the good moments I was able to have in 2014 but I'm ready for this year to end. I'm hoping 2015 will bring better memories and more adventures!

In a Nutshell

Sometimes I forget that this blog is not only a beauty blog, but a lifestyle blog as well. I think I was so focused on beauty and trying to make my blog a success that it became stressful. I always have loved blogging and have missed it but I want to do this my way and not focus so much on the success or popularity of blogging and just do what i love.

My life this semester at school has been a disaster. I made the deans list last semester and had such an amazing semester this semester has just taken a turn for the worst. so much has been going on i even think some of my teachers are becoming stressed. i'll let you in on my life a little to show you how crazy my life has been. first of all this winter has been insane, my school has had maybe 3 or more snow days which have been somewhat nice but also have made everyone a little more stressed. teachers are trying to catch up and just pilling on work and its been really hard for me.

Also at the beginning to middle of this semester my grandfather was in the hospital and was not expected to make it, because of that my head was never in the right place. i missed a week of classes to be with my family in the hospital. my grandfather is truly a fighter because he made it out of the hospital and doing better.

A couple weeks after coming back to school and getting back into my groove my flash drive with all of my work from the past couple years shit the bed (excuse my language but thats what happened) I plugged in my flash drive during class and it didn't open up in the computer, i took it to the IT desk and they pretty much told me it was dead. As a graphic designer this is one of the worst things that can happen to you. I was a total idiot and didn't have anything backed up so i lost almost everything i have ever worked on, including projects that were due that week.

This semester has been a total stress ball but it hasn't been all bad times. I became a big in my semester and got the most perfect little. I also took a trip to Puerto Rico for spring break. It was the perfect week getaway and totally relaxing. it was exactly what i needed. I have also been working out and trying to change my eating habits and since i started i have lost about 35 lbs. I'm extremely proud of myself.

I hope to continue to update regularly but I have no idea how the rest of this semester is going to go. blogging gives me inspiration and lets me be creative and i really need that in my life because i'm starting to get lost in this "cookie cutter" graphic design major i'm in. let me know if you read any blogs that inspire you or even if you think you have an inspiring blog, i would love to check it out!

2013 In Review: Instagram

1. i started the new year by spending it pittsburgh with some of my best friends from IUP, needless to say it wasn't one of the best new years i have had

2. starting the new year right by spending the 12th in the hospital after waking up at 3:30 with shooting pains in my stomach and finally calling a friend to come pick me up to drive me to the hospital. i then spent 4.5 hours there.

3. i came home one weekend and spent the day with bailey in georgetown where i bought my first sprinkles cupcake. if i remember we went for a smores one but they were out so i settled for this one, still wishing i had that smores one but none the less the cupcake i had was good. yet i'm still obsessed with georgetown for some reason...

4. like everyone else i told myself i wanted to start a healthy lifestyle (which i can say i stuck to it the whole year! may have been a little lenient during summer but still tried) i have kept working out and watching what i eat and i can happily say i'm happy with the path i'm on. i recently just bought my first size small shirt for the first time in forever the other day! :)

5. after spending valentines day with my roommate getting free drinks at a bar my dad gave me his gift that weekend when i came home. chocolate covered strawberries yumm!

6. i spent spring break in new york city with my mom and met up with my best friend a couple days where we went on a sex and the city tour, had lunch at the plaza, and had gossip girl inspired drinks at the empire hotel

7. this is where i first fell in love with hockey. i attended my first capitals game with amazing seats, out friends have season tickets 10 rows away from the ice. i love having connections. i have now become a huge hockey fan because of this game. c-a-p-s CAPS CAPS CAPS!

8. as always i went back up to iup for IUPatty's weekend. it was probably one of the best weekends at IUP (besides homecoming of course)

9. easter weekend i spent with just my dad and i while my mom and sister were in florida for lacrosse. since it was just my dad and i we decided to go look at some bulldogs! this is the day my dad became obsessed with getting another dog, and if i might add i don't hate it.

10. i went to my first ever JMU hosted concert and it was macklemore. to this day still one of the best concerts i have ever been too! he is an amazing performer and puts on an amazing show.

11. the best roommate i have ever had graduated last semester! i'm so proud of her and the rando roommate we got is nowhere as amazing as her! ps. she just got engaged on christmas!!!!!!

12. i went to my first ever nationals game, needless to say it was miserable and boring. i never want to attend another baseball game in my lifetime.

13. when i moved to the beach this summer the first week was spent with 2 friends from IUP. needless to say it was the start to a very interesting summer filled with a ton of highs and lows

14. after a week of being spoiled by my friends who cooked for me almost every day they visited i finally had to cook on my own again. i cooked my first steak this summer! i made a steak with sweet potato fries and green beans, it was a great meal.

15. this summer was filled with plenty of firsts! i paddle boarded for the first time, its definitely hard and an amazing work out. i also learned how to skurf, extremely proud of myself.

16. we got a truck this year (my family finally listened to me) and i drove it on the beach almost every day i could. it was the best decision my family has made in awhile

17. dear sunshine crepes, you make the best crepes i have ever had. keep doin' you. as the summer was winding down i had to get my last crepe of the summer

18. this picture was from my last trip to the beach, it was also that last summer i will be living and working at the beach *brb as i cry*

19. i came home from the beach early to take a quick (but not at all quick) bus ride up to nyc for the night to take my friend to his ring dance for the merchant marine academy. it was... interesting and it is definitely a story for the books

20. i went to my first ever washington redskins game with a couple of friends. it was a lot of fun with a ton of memories. i swear this year was the year of sports, i went to almost every possible washington team sporting event for the first time this year

21. this semester i started to get into my groove at JMU and making great connections with new friends. i surprisingly only went to a few JMU football games this season.

22. i found a new love for printmaking. although i had many sleepless nights because of this class i wish i knew about this earlier. i'm taking an advanced class next semester just for fun

23. i also made the most brilliant decision to join the art honors fraternity, kappa pi. i'm pretty mad at myself for not joining earlier. i have the best big ever and am a triplet! one of my triplets is my best friend :)

24. i surprisingly went to a keith urban concert during the winter, i never allow myself to listen to country music unless its the summer. i also went to a ton of other concerts this winter including, mistletoe madness and jingle ball where i got to see some of my favorite artists such as backstreet boys, gavin degraw, fall out boy, and miley cyrus. i also went to WMZQ at the beginning of the summer

25. at the beginning of this winter break my car was in need for some fixing up. it was so bad it was to the point where my dad almost threw in the towel on marvin (my car) but seeing as we just got a paint job for him my dad decided it was worth fixing him up! i almost cried when i found out i wouldn't be getting him back so when i did the first thing to do was hug him

going back through my instagram brought back a ton of memories. i didn't realize how much of my life i actually documented through instagram. i had an amazing 2013 filled with lots of memories. bring it on 2014!

Tootles Summer

Going into my second week of classes I thought I would do a little goodbye post to summer. This summer has been one of the best summer yet. i was finally 21 which meant i was finally able to experience all the fun beach activities (aka seacrets) and i tried so many new things i was so proud of myself. Not many of my friends visited this summer but when they did visit it was crazy, beach all day, party... well all day as well. i went paddle boarding for the first time ever, standing up for me wasnt the hard part it was going against the current. I totally give so much credit to people who paddle board often because it certainly wasnt easy, but its an amazing work out. i also learned how to skurf! probably one of the highlights of the summer. the weather could have been better but that didnt stop us, storm? pshh beach volleyball in the rain! it was amazing to have all the goon kids together, summer is quite possibly the best bonding experience with them ever. who could forget fitting 8 people in car to go out in dewey for a night. i'm going to miss summers like this, it was my last summer living at the beach. next summer calls for a big girl internship/job. but you better believe that every weekend i'll be at the beach.

now i'm back at school and already in a funk, which is why i haven't posted lately. its only the second week of classes and i already had to pull an all nighter. my classes seem like classes i'm really going to enjoy so hopefully everything will get better soon. i'm hoping to get a website for my artwork up and running soon. maybe i'll post some things on here if i really like it. and if you havent guessed the "back to school series" has ended. those posts are a lot of work and as of right now i dont have time for it. sorry for the lack of posts i'm hoping to get back into the swing of things. i hope everything is going well with your back to school craziness!

Tootles Google Friends Connect

If you have not heard Google Reader will be no more as of July 1st. Which is in about 1 and a half weeks. I haven't really been worrying about it until a little notice popped up and then I started to worry. I then quickly followed all my favorite blogs on bloglovin.

I myself have a bloglovin and an rss feed that you all could follow, and would love if you would follow me so you can keep updated with my posts! i know i have a few followers that i'm not following and i would love to but with google friends connect i was never able to figure out your guys blogs! So if you guys have a bloglovin feel free to leave me a link and i'll check out your blog! 

So you can follow my blog via bloglovin' and rss. if you would like to keep up with my daily life feel free to follow me on my instagram, twitter, pinterest, and tumblr. i actually have 2 twitters, one personal and one for this blog, i'm actually thinking about giving out my personal over very soon! so keep an eye out for that! also i'm constantly updating my pinterest and tumblr so would love for you guys to follow me on there as well! 

Hope to see you guys on my other social networking sites!