February Instragram Photo Challenge

I am sure a lot of you interenet friends have seen the Instragram photo challenges. The January one was such a hit, but I didn't join the band wagon until February.

For March I have decided not to do but maybe I will do another photo challenge again soon because it really got me thinking and helped me to look at different and smaller things and to be grateful for everything I am blessed with.

Anyway...I thought I would share with you my daily photos from each day all in one little post here!

Day 1: My view today=my overly planned school life/lists,
Dora the Explorer (oh the joys of being a Nanny), and my annoying homework.

Day 2: Words. Two papers and THREE important words that fix everything :)

Day 3: Hands. Mine and Matson's hands on our wedding day.

Day 4: A stranger. We went to a guy's house that sells golf clubs that Matson got for his birthday. This guy's little son just kept running around the house all dressed up and kept bringing me fun new things! Quite a cute little stranger.

Day 5: What my 10 AM looks like every Sunday. Primary time, 4 year olds flirting with each other, and lots of fun learning about the gospel!

Day 6: Dinner. A yummy smoothie (more like a snack) and a yummy episode of Bachelor with evil Courtney.

Day 7: Buttons. My button jar. All the spares. 

Day 8: The Sun. Well today I have been waiting for the sun to come out. Nope, not once. So...
these things bring me happiness like the sun does...a package of cute stationary and stuff designed by Amy Ruth Designs.

Day 9: My front door.

Day 10: Self Portrait of myself (and Matson).

Day 11: Makes me happy. The birthday boy! (His birthday is on 2/12)

Day 12: My closet. Out of our 2 apartment closets I take up 1 & 1/2. OOPS!

Day 13: Something BLUE. Enjoying my homemade smoothie in my BLUE sweatpants
 and Mister Chris from the Bachelor in his BLUE shirt.

Day 14: Hearts. A heart treat, my heart socks, heart decor, and a pretty rose! Happy Valentine's Day!

Day 15: My phone. Using my phone during the previews as we are seeing The Vow!

Day 16: Something new. We are watching a family the next two days & this NEW feeling of what it's like to have kids, not having time to feed myself...So I am eating some oatmeal at 9pm in huge sweatpants.

Day 17: Time. Cuddle Time.

Day 18: Our Drinks of Choice. Him: a soda. Her: a water. 

Day 19: Something I hate to do: touch/look at raw meat. Yuck! (I'll cook it but just not my favorite)..

Day 20: My (childhood) handwriting. Because I am embarrassed to show my (not so much better) handwriting now.

Day 21: Favorite photo of yourself. Some of my faves of me from my younger years!

Day 22: My work place. Nanny time!

Day 23: My (gym) shoes.

Day 24: My bathroom cabinet. Inside my bathroom drawer (I don't have a cabinet).

Day 25: Green. Rookie asleep super weird on our GREEN throw pillow.

Day 26: Night. Dancing the NIGHT away at our reception 1 & 1/2 years ago!
Such a fun night...as you can tell my friend J* was really getting jiggy wit it!

Day 27: Something I ate. Obsessed as of late.

Day 28: Money. This may not exactly be money, but a form of it. Today Matson and I used our Groupon massages! 

Day 29: Something I've been listening to. NOTHING today. Dead silence at our home the last few hours while studying for midterms and homework. No music at all, not even in my car. 

Thanks for looking through these photos! You probably got to know me (and Matson) a little bit better.

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Meet My Pointed Toes.

Yes, I was a dancer . I started dancing at age 3. 

So precious, huh?
And who would of thought that I actually do my hair like that on a regular day and that it is in style now (minus the green frilly bow thing)?

Loved dance then and still do love it 

(I dance in my kitchen daily and love to watch YouTube dance videos and stalk my friends' dance videos/pictures). 

Although I am no longer on any dance teams and do not take dance classes...
it is still apparent in my toes.

This was pointed out by Matson right when we got married. I can't jump up without pointing my toes. Seriously I try jumping on the tramp with flat feet and it feels so weird and so unnatural.

Pointed toes through the Uggs (Seattle-May 2011)

Pointed toes with heels on!?
(Caribbean Cruise 2011)

 (My sister A*, friend C*, me-the one in the yellow/lime swimsuit, and friend B* in Turkey on our cruise ship-Summer 2009)
I know the picture cuts off the end of my foot, but obviously pointed toes. 

My pointed feet on the table with curlers in my hair!

I feel bad from my bro-in-law C* on the far left who had to hold my pointed feet!

Can you tell which one is me?
Yes, the crazy spirited dressed one on the left with the pointed foot and crazy hair!

Remember in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding...
I am reenacting their restaurant name "Dancing Zorbas."
So I know I am acting like I am dancing...but hey pointed toes.

Who knows what I was doing? Stretching?
Pointed toes. Check.

My siblings and I playing with our underwater camera in Cancun, Summer 2009.
Pointed toes. Check.

My Twist on a Pinterest Pin - Balloon Tutorial

I am sure, you have all seen this pin or similar ones on Pinterest.

This woman tied different pictures to the end of ballons for an anniversary.
via

I thought it was such a cute idea so I did my own twist on it for Matson's birthday last weekend (that you probably already read about in his birthday post from February 12th, here). As I have said many a times, I love decorations and I love birthdays and I love make the birthday person feel super special. So if you are like me then I thought you would love to see! And for those of you that like things laid out for you step by step (like me)...then here you go!

1. Buy your balloons. If your birthday person is 12, then buy 12 or 24 then buy 24. I bought all sorts of colors to make it fun and if you are buy lots take a big car, my little bug was not so fun to squeeze 24 balloons into, made for quite the adventure ride home. haha.

2. Choose out your printable labels. I have a few pinned here. And write/type out 24 (or whatever number your birthday person is turning) reasons you love them, like them, or funny things about them on the labels.  You can totally laugh at my funny/cute reasons I love Matson or you can steal some ideas for your own! I chose to type mine because a) I type faster than I write and b) all the cute fonts on my computer beat my sometimes messy handwriting.

3. Cut out your labels.

4. Hole punch your labels. If you printed on regular copy paper, it is better to punch them on the shorter side in the center, rather than the corner so that they do not rip when you tie them to the ballons.

My little sister loved #14's reason why I love Matson. He really does.

5. Tie the labels onto the end of the ballons. I tied my labels at the center of the ribbon so they were higher and could be seen better.

6. Place them around in one room so the whole room looks filled up! The little girl I nanny loved helping me do this, she loved choosing where each color went in the room. 

7. And your little birthday gift and decoration in one is finished!


I pulled this little surprise off and Matson loved it...he's sentimental he seriously is. He told me that he walked in the door looking down at his phone or something then ran into a string and looked up so happy to see so many balloons!

Such a great surprise and only cost me about $16 (and would obviously be cheaper for less balloons). I bought my balloons at Zurchers, where the plain colored ballons with helium are 67 cents each.

P.S. You can totally follow me on Pinterest here.