Scavenger Hunt Sunday | September 29, 2013

I haven’t participated in SHS in a while.  And guess what, I miss it.  Shame on me.  Most of these photos are ones I collected during my Week in the Life project.  Enjoy!

Rule of Thirds

Made Me Smile

The flowers that my boyfriend got me when I had surgery.

Lines

Alone

We bought and planted these flowers in some pots a few years ago.  We put the pots in our front garden and the next year we had petunias popping up through the rocks.  These are the survivors that still manage to make an appearance. 

Together

Around here

September went by fast, really fast.  It was a pretty good month.  I had so much fun working on my second Week in the Life book.  It is a lot of work to collect the ‘stuff’ and it is a lot of work to put it together, but it is so rewarding in the end.  I can’t wait to see the final product when it arrives in the mail.  (Unlike a lot of people who do this project, I put mine together using Blurb, a book making company.)

This weekend is the second annual Pony Express Run for our Junior League.  I’m really looking forward to this event, it is one of my favorite things we do in the year.  And to make it even better, I know more people who signed up and can cheer on this year!

Currently

Welcoming fall.
Looking forward to scarves, boots, and sweatshirt weather.
Wanting to get pumpkins at our local orchard.
Happy that my stitches are out and I’m still healing.
Smiling each time dad tells me to get my camera to take a photo of something.
Anticipating on getting my Week in the Life book delivered.
Loving my new found love for yoga.
Enjoying being caught up in a good book.
Taking small steps to minimize my clutter.
Using up all the paper products I’ve collected this year for my project life album.
Thinking about how next years album will look like.
Comparing things I want to stay the same vs things I want to change.
Finding how rewarding it can be when helping people in my community.
Celebrating 8 months together today.
Anticipating Christmas and another December Daily book.
Getting wrapped up in travel ideas for 2014 and
Seeing new places.
Incredibly grateful for my family.

Stitches

Week Thirty Seven

September 10, 2013

This week was the week I participated in Week in the Life where I documented the here and now.  I took a ton of photos during this week which just made it that much harder to choose the one to sum up this week.

In the end, I chose this one.  My mom holding me.  (My parents taking care of me.)  What is not shown in this photo was what happened moments before.  The pain set in and the tears came flowing.  I was sitting on the sofa and my mom came in to comfort me.  My dad began to rush around to get me ice, a blanket (because I was shaking uncontrollably), pillows, and Tylenol.

Needless to say, this week was not glamorous and parts of it were hard…well, more like painful.  This week I had my first surgery, (thankfully minor), and as a result, I got 25 stitches throughout my body.  Most of this week was spent healing and adjusting and still keeping up with regular life, just like every other day.

Week in the Life 2013 | Sunday Photos and Words