Oh the Books!

Hey everyone! I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the weekend! I thought that I would share two book series that I am currently reading through and loving!! But first off…I love love love books! I love to read and love to get lost in a book. It’s one of those things that never gets old and books never get old to me either. My favorite types of books to read are series. I don’t know what draws me to series, I like being able to continue reading about the characters and have them develop and the story just continue on. My favorite series (and favorite books of all time) has to be…drumroll please…

Harry Potter

I own all the books for Harry Potter, as well as the movies, and the Hogwarts Library collection. These books were a large part of my childhood and growing up into adulthood and I have yet to find another series that I love nearly as much. I am a Harry Potter nerd. I cherish these books.
I also like the Hunger Games series which is a lot newer and will also be owning all the movies when they are done. I love those books as well. I also love the Divergent series. That series is so well written! It captivated me right from the beginning. A couple other series that I really enjoyed are: Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Mortal Instruments, and Beautiful Creatures.
I am currently working my way through two series that I am really enjoying that I thought I would share with ya’ll and highly recommend:

Sookie Stackhouse

I am loving the Sookie Stackhouse books! These are not in the correct order at all, but they are such great, quick reads! I am still working my way through them and have not been able to stop reading them (except maybe to get a picture of them and type this blog up!).

Game of Thrones

I am loving Game of Thrones. I saw them in the bookstore, didn’t get them and boy did I regret it! I have been watching the tv show and been loving that and so I did go buy the books in an effort to try and read them before the next season of Game of Thrones came out. I am currently on the second book (I gotta read a little faster!) and I am loving them too! I am finding that I am liking or hating different characters. It’s funny because there are characters that I didn’t mind, that now that I’ve been reading the books I am just not liking them.
So those are the two series that I am currently reading, loving, and highly recommending to everyone!!!!

Until Next Time…

Mia

Wow, It's a New Year ( I know, I know, it's already 15 days into the new year)

Well, it's been a hot minute! I am so sorry that it's been so long! Between the holidays, family, and now our vacation, things got a little overwhelming! (This seems to be a running theme, but I promise...it's really not).

Alright to start off...a couple of updates!

Our big girl is 6 months! She is learning so many things right now, being able to just run for a long while in the forest. She has also been able to have encounters with wildlife, which has been interesting for her! She is such a happy and energetic puppy!

Our wedding is almost all the way done! The remaining things that need to be done are things that have to be done closer to the wedding date. The last major thing to do is send out invitations! Everything else has been booked and ideas have been generated for everything else. I also did say yes to the dress!!! I bought my dress very recently and it was such a memorable experience :). I am very excited to finalize and make our decorations, gifts, and other items!

Posts are going to start being more regular...I know I've said this before but it is really going to happen, so stay tuned! I am starting with a beauty post that will be up for viewing on Friday!!

Today's post is going to focus a little on New Years Resolutions. Do you make them? Have you ever broken one? Why are they so hard to keep?

I have definitely broken them more times than I have kept them. I feel like a lot of times we set a resolution that we think we can achieve, but is actually to large or very out of our reach. For example, I love weight loss goals! I think they can be such great motivators and getting healthy is great to do, however sometimes we set that goal just a little to far. The resolution needs to be something that we can reasonably achieve, otherwise we are just setting ourselves up for failure. DO NOT set yourself up for failure!

Now, what is reasonable for one person, may be out of reach for another. Only YOU can know your limits and what will work for you. Maybe what is better to say as a resolution is that you will stop drinking that soda at dinner, or stop having dessert every night. That may not work for someone else. Someone else may need to put a number to there goal, such as losing 15lbs. It all depends on what YOU as a person needs. Don't worry about what someone else's goal is or that you should be doing a goal just like that person, it may not work for you.

My resolution this year is broad and may seem "out of reach" , but it's more changing a frame of thought. I want to see the good in everything given/handed to me. Every situation has it's ups and downs and I am going to try and choose to look at the positive of each situation. A lot of times we get wrapped up in negatives and how horrible something is. I want to change that thought for myself. What is your new Years Resolution?

Until Next Time...

 

Mia

 

Copper

Today I am going to introduce our little fur-baby! She is 4 months old now and she is behaving quite a bit better! This is our Copper (picture at the bottom is more recent) :

 

Her training has been going well and she's been growing a lot! She is currently sleeping at my feet while I get some work done :)

 

 

I will be back posting on Friday, and have a more regular posting schedule on here. How is everyone doing today? Do you have any fur babies?

 



A quick note

Hey everyone! It's been a little busy in our household!

I have been getting a lot done! We did our engagement photo's (which we should be getting sometime this week), we have made a lot of decisions regarding our wedding, and Copper has been getting into everything!

For starters, we have gotten so much done for our wedding! We have our ceremony and reception venues booked, our officiant booked, colors picked, cake baker booked, idea's down for the decorations, flowers, wedding gifts, and a possible caterer! It's all starting to come together so well! I am excited to start putting all the decorations and little things together!

Copper has been doing good! She has been growing a lot and with that she has been getting into a lot more places and things (along with a lot more trouble haha)! She is in a training class so that she can start behaving better and we can learn some new ways to teach her.

I'm sorry that I have been so absent on here, life has a way of getting in the way. We have been trying to get a lot done with a rough schedule.

Have you ever had a time where life has just "taken over" and gotten in the way of you doing other things?

I've got some new posts coming up about makeup, wedding, and life! I hope everyone is doing well.