29.

Good morning, friends! I'm celebrating my 29th birthday today and it's already been quite a day so far. 

I have the day off work which is a nice treat and I woke up to the sweetest surprise from Jonathan. He obviously had to work today, but he planned a whole day for me and left me the most adorable note and itinerary for the day including cash and specific instructions for each part of the day. 

My man sure knows how to make me feel loved. I laughed and I cried happy tears reading his sweet note and I love how thoughtful this is! Surprises are my love language and I am in all my glory today. 

I'm at my first stop now enjoying a cup of coffee and doing some reading and writing at Starbucks. This is my happy place for sure.

               

Jonathan coordinated lunch plans for me and my sister so that is next up on my itinerary! It's such a treat because I rarely see her during the week, nevermind for an unexpected lunch date! 

After lunch I have a massage appointment booked for 3:00 and I have a hot dinner date at home where it looks like my man has quite the meal planned for me. What a day! 

To say I'm feeling the love today would be a huge understatement. I'm so thankful for this life and the people God has put in my path. I could stress about getting older and all that nonsense...or I could praise Him for giving me these 29 years and more to come. I choose praise. 

Hope you all have a happy Tuesday! 

Recap: Random Acts of Kindness for my 28th Birthday

Happy Monday! I can't say I'm thrilled to see the weekend come to an end, but alas, here we are so we should just go ahead and make the best of it.

As promised, I want to recap my birthday week challenge of performing 28 Random Acts of Kindness today. I'm a little disappointed to say that while I'm really happy with what I did do, I didn't even make it close to reaching my goal. I'm going to focus on the positive though, and share with you the few things I did throughout the week:

1. Used a gift card to buy a coffee at Starbucks and gave it to the person behind me in line

2. Donated my old glasses at Lenscrafters when I picked up my new pair

3. Made an extra effort to compliment coworkers

4. Donated $1 to the American Cancer Society at Walgreens

5. Spent time commenting on blog posts I normally wouldn't take the time to comment on. Everyone loves blog comments!

6. After doing some shopping, I taped a $10 gift card to a cart at Target to help with someone's shopping

7. Baked a batch of Snickerdoodle cookies and delivered them to the local police station with a note thanking the officers for what they do

While I didn't make it anywhere near my goal of 28 RAKs this week, I'm still feeling pretty satisfied! These few simple acts felt really good and it reminded me how much more satisfied I am when I am making a conscious effort to bring joy to others. I may not have made it to 28 in a week, but I'm feeling more motivated than ever to seek out opportunities for RAKs on a daily basis.

I know it would take a lot more than a few simple things like this to change the world, but knowing I can spread joy through a simple act of kindness makes me feel better about what I'm putting out into the world. I may not have reached my goal for the week, but I'm certainly going to make an effort to keep this up!

Cheers to 28 Years! Annual Blog Birthday List

Hello and happy Monday! Today is my 28th birthday and I'm feeling quite content after a wonderful weekend with my love. We spent the weekend in St. Augustine and I'll absolutely be filling you in our trip a little later in the week. In the meantime, it's time to celebrate my birthday in blog style, which means I'm sharing my annual blog birthday list with you all today.

Since I started blogging 3+ years ago, each year I’ve come up with a new theme for a blog birthday list. For example, last year I wrote a list of 27 things I still didn’t know how to do yet. I’ve also done a birthday bucket list of 26 things I wanted to do on my birthday and for my 25th birthday, I wrote a list of things I’d learned in my 25 years.

This year, I wasn’t sure what to do but I wanted to switch it up again. Jonathan took me away for the weekend and I thought it would be fun to come up with a list of 28 random acts of kindness for us to perform throughout the weekend. His response? “Only you would give yourself work on your birthday.” He loved the idea of trying to perform RAKs throughout the weekend, but he didn’t loooove giving ourselves a list and focusing on checking things off that list instead of relaxing and enjoying our time together. He makes a good point. I tend to get a little ahead of myself and I can imagine I would have ended up stressing about the list instead of enjoying every moment with my love.

Don’t you worry though, I think I came up with a plan that still accomplishes what I want to do without taking over our weekend away together. I’m doing a reversed birthday list of sorts this year. Instead of writing a list of RAKs to perform in advance, I’m challenging myself to perform 28 of them throughout my birthday week and share them with you all once it’s over! It'll be fun to keep an eye out for opportunities throughout the day where I can do something small for someone else, rather than coming up with my list of things to do in advance. Needless to say, I'm excited to kick off my 28th year this way.

After spending a relaxing weekend in St. Augustine with Jonathan, I'm feeling so at peace and so grateful for this time in my life. My 27th year was full of joy and so many reasons to be thankful...I can only imagine the blessings 28 will bring. Cheers!

If you have any suggestions for Random Acts of Kindness I can perform this week, I'd love to hear your ideas! Share them in the comments or tweet them to me @AmandaLSnyder13 on Twitter!

A Few Things about my Momma

Hello and happy Friday! I'm full of energy this morning and it feels really good. It could have something to do with the fact that I rocked in the diet department this week and just discovered I fit into 3 pairs of shorts comfortably again. I also proceeded to pack all of them for our trip to St. Augustine this weekend (along with several other wardrobe options) which is quite unnecessary for a 2 day trip but I just couldn't help myself. Someday I will pack lightly for a weekend trip. That day is not today. Have I mentioned how excited I am to be going away for the weekend with that adorable husband of mine? Because I am. 

I'm also pretty psyched about turning 28 and celebrating my birthday with friends on Monday night. I didn't want to make a big ordeal out of my birthday, but I'm glad we ended up planning a casual dinner out with friends and family.

I'm loving what Jonathan helped me come up with for my annual blog birthday list and can't wait to share it with you all on Monday. Let's just say I'll be quite the busy bee all week long! You should go ahead and check out my blog birthday lists for birthdays 25, 26 and 27 if you're new here!

Anyway, in honor of Mother's Day, today's few things are all about this lovely lady right here -

Photo by Billy Goble

I love how just this morning, she called me while we were both on our way to work. She does this sometimes and it is always makes my day. Our morning chats are usually short, but they stick with me all day long. 

I love that her and I are alike in nearly every way and I'm so grateful for our shared love of books, sunshine and rainbows, baking and Ann Taylor LOFT. 

I love how she understands why I'm crying when I make a toast at the dinner table, or when I have a lot on my mind or when I'm crying for no real reason at all. She understands because she cries a lot, too. We both feel and embrace our emotions to the max and we just get that about each other.

I love her for her patience and for reminding me, her very impatient daughter to breathe, relax and be patient when I am anxious or feeling like things aren't going my way.

I love her for giving me four lifelong best friends. Not only did she bring these wonderful people into the world, but she taught us to be loving, supportive and understanding toward each other. 

I love her guidance and support, her advice and how she is always cheering for me. If I'm excited about something, she is excited and I can always count on her cheering with me and for me. 

I love her for setting such an example of how to be a good wife and mother.

I love that she chooses joy every day, that she has a grateful heart and I love her for her faith in God.

I love her for being such a wonderful mother and friend to me always.

I love knowing that soon enough, she'll become a Nana to our children and they'll be so lucky to have her as theirs. 

I love that I could go on and on about this super star mother of mine, but I'll leave it a these few things today. 

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! 

What's my Age Again?

I'm not one to stress out about getting older. With my 28th birthday just a week away, I haven't had one moment of panic over being another year older. 28 is still so young! I certainly don't feel old. It's all good! That was until yesterday at my eye appointment. I was wayyy overdue to get my eyes checked seeing it had been at least 2 years and my current pair of glasses just aren't doing the job anymore.

I was excited to pick out new frames and get new lenses so I can stop it with these headaches I get on the regular. But then, the doctor told me what I really need are bifocals. BIFOCALS. You know, what most people don't typically need until they are in their 40s or 50s. Apparently I am both nearsighted and farsighted, which means bifocals are prescribed so you can solve both issues with one lens. Somehow I'm not shocked because I can't make a decision to save my life and apparently neither can my eyes.

Anyway, the doctor broke the news and told me he didn't really want to give me bifocals (I think he felt bad for me), so rather than giving me bifocal lenses, he gave me two prescriptions; one for reading and working on the computer and another for the rest of the time. It's all good and although it's ending up costing a small fortune to get two pairs instead of one, at least I'll be able to see and hopefully my headaches will subside.

However, for the first time, I felt a slight sense of panic over aging. I'm not trying to be dramatic and I know that 28 is still so young in the grand scheme of things, but still. I've never really felt as old as I am. When I was 20, I still felt way younger than that. Then when I turned 27, I still didn't feel like a 27-year-old. But yesterday, when I was told that I need bifocals, I absolutely felt like an adult. Actually, I felt like I skipped 28 and headed straight for the age of 58. It was sad and frightening that my eyes are getting so bad so quickly and I'd be lying if I said I didn't pout over the whole ordeal for a bit after my appointment. Not to mention that it took almost 3 hours for my vision to come back after having my eyes dilated.

The rest of the afternoon went a little something like this: I pouted for a bit, we went to Home Depot to buy plants and I was zero help because I couldn't read anything and the sun was blinding my dilated eyes, we came home and I attempted to make our grocery list which ended up looking like a word search, then by the end of the night I could see things more clearly (literally and figuratively) and I just felt awful for being such a drama queen and being such terrible company to my poor husband. I felt so awful that I cried, which reminded me that I'm still such a baby sometimes. I might be losing my vision, but I still cry a pathetic kind of cry for no valid reason at all on the regular and for that, I'll be forever young. Or at least that's what I'm telling myself.

On a much more positive note, this week is looking good. See what I did there?

I have a whole bunch of Paleo recipes on the menu this week I can't wait to try. All the rain from last week is a distant memory because the sun is shining and it's supposed to beautiful all week. We're headed to St. Augustine this weekend and I cannot wait. In all seriousness, I'm really excited about turning 28 because there are some amazing things in our future. Life is good and we are so blessed. I hold on to this joy, this thankfulness and this humble spirit even if I let my outlook get a little cloudy every now and then.

I hope you all have a wonderful week!

May Goals

Happy Wednesday! It's officially May and because May is my favorite month of the year, I thought it might be necessary to kick things off with some goals for the month. I never blog about monthly goals...I actually don't even make them, but I really like the idea and what better month than my birthday month to start this habit?

Start working out again

Start writing in my gratitude journal before bed 

Continue using Jonathan's fancy camera to take quality photos

Enjoy every second of our weekend in St. Augustine

Spend more time writing quality blog posts

Embrace turning 28 and be thankful for where I'm at in life

Go on more evening bike rides

Change my last name with our bank and on  my passport

See my parents at least once

Continue to get the word out about this little baking business of mine

Choose to only see the good

What are your goals for the month? 

Birthday Weekend Recap & My Birthday List

Happy Monday everyone! I have lots to tell you about after spending the weekend celebrating my 27th birthday and Mother's Day. It was a jam-packed weekend full of family and friends...it was just wonderful. As I do every year, I also have my annual birthday list to share!

First, let me tell you about Saturday. My birthday was on Sunday and not wanting to take away from Mother's Day celebrations, I decided to celebrate on Saturday. Instead of stressing myself out trying to plan a dinner and night out with friends and family, we decided to host a BBQ at Jonathan's house to celebrate my birthday. This way, whoever wanted to come could come and I wouldn't have to stress about making reservations and planning a night out. It was the perfect plan in my book. 

My parents, Jonathan's entire family, my siblings, my best friend, Taryn and tons of our friends showed up and it was such a blast. This was the first time our families were spending some time together and it was also Jonathan's first time meeting my best friend. Most importantly, our families hit it off perfectly and Jonathan and Taryn get along great. Having all of my favorite people in one place made me one happy girl. 

Jonathan gave me the absolute perfect gift...a key to his house. I've been spending most weekends there and have really come to consider it home. Giving me my own key was such a sweet gesture and I couldn't be happier with where we're at in our relationship.

So glad to have my momma there!

Best friend meets boyfriend.

After a long day of celebrating, we were ready for bed.

Sunday, after spending as long as possible snuggling Jonathan, I hit the rode for my parents' house for the day to celebrate Mother's Day. After going to lunch and getting in some quality time with my parents, I headed home to Jonathan's to enjoy the last bit of such a wonderful weekend. I couldn't be happier ending my birthday with a quiet night at home with my love.

And now, I bring you this year's birthday list. If you've been following along for a while, each year I come up with a different birthday list. My 25th birthday was a list of 25 lessons I've learned so far. For my 26th birthday, I came up with a birthday day bucket list. I kind of struggled coming up with a theme this year. I wanted to do 27 random acts of kindness, but didn't really get it planned out in time. I've been thinking a lot about how so many people my age freak out about getting older and it drives me nuts. I still feel so young and still feel like I have so much to learn and look forward to. Because of all this, I've decided to share a list of things I still need to learn. Here goes...I still don't know:

1.    How to dance (hey, just because I love to dance doesn’t mean I am good at it)

2.    My alcohol limits; when I need to stop drinking to avoid being a disaster

3.    CPR

4.    How to use a really nice camera

5.    How to go around making people smile all day and still pay my bills

6.    How to French or fishtail braid my own hair

7.    How to curl my own hair

8.    Okay, just how to do my hair in general

9.    The difference between hungry and bored

10.  How to leave the house without obsessively checking to make sure I turned off the straightener 

11.  How to cook eggs other than scrambled. Sunny side-up, omelets, over-easy, over-hard...I don't know how to do any of this successfully. 

12.  To speak my mind without worrying how people will react

13.  How to change a tire

14.  How to relax

15.  To have more patience 

16.  How to fold a fitted sheet 

17.  How to give a toast without crying

18.  How to argue without getting upset

19.  How to check my oil

20.  How to stop throwing a bunch of random crap in my purse. The other day I had two forks in my purse. Completely unnecessary. 

21.  How to get my dog and Jonathan's cat to get along

22.  How to get Blake more well-trained

23.  How to leave for work without driving back home to make sure I shut the garage door

24.  How to "do" my make up aside from the basic mascara and eye liner I wear most days
25.  How to pack more efficiently. I don't need 12 shirts for one weekend at Jonathan's, honestly.

26.  How to get mad. When I get mad, I just get sad and sometimes that doesn't help.

27.  How to do a cartwheel 

 

I've learned so much about myself and life in the last few years and I know there are still so many lessons to learn. I can't wait to see what wonderful things this year will bring. Cheers to 27 years!

Linking up with Sami for Weekend Shenanigans!

When you put a birthday hat on your dog and he becomes visibly upset

I'm sure if Blake could speak, he'd say he had the most wonderful 1st birthday yesterday. Since I was at work all day, he spent the day at The Dog Whisperer's house. When I showed up last night so we could all celebrate his birthday together, Blake was adorable. He was so happy and exhausted from his day of fun....

Then we put a birthday hat on him and he went from excited to shamed in an instant....

"Really mom?"

 

I can't say Blake loved the birthday hat, but he definitely had a happy birthday. In all seriousness, though, I am so thankful for all the joy this little 1-year-old has brought into my life.

We may have overcelebrated Blake's birthday by going bowling after all of this and taking a few too many shots. Note to self: Taking an excessive amount of shots doesn't make you any better at bowling. It does, however, make the attempt much more entertaining.

Happy Friday!

It's Okay Thursday

I really love this linkup. It's at the point in the week where I am ready for the weekend, where I start to wonder if I really have gone crazy...and seeing everyone's "It's okay" posts makes me realize I am at least not alone in my quirkiness. So here goes!

It's okay to be overly emotional about the fact that my child is turning one-year-old today. I can't stop looking at pictures from when I first took Blake home and remembering how tiny he was. I might shed a few tears at some point...and that is okay.

On that note, it's okay to have a full-fledged birthday celebration planned for him. We'll be celebrating with The Dog Whisperer at his house with his roommate, his dog and my roommate. There are birthday hats to go around and I bought Blake a special birthday treat. Is this overboard? Yes. It is necessary? Absolutely. Is this one of the reasons I start to wonder if I've truly lost my mind? Yes. But, it's okay.

It's okay that I haven't stopped listening to the new Taylor Swift CD all week. Really, though...listening at work, in the car, at the gym....I can't turn it off and want to twirl everytime "Holy Ground" comes on.

It's okay that it's only 11:38 a.m. and I'm already mentally checked out at work. What? I'm going bowling tonight with The Dog Whisperer and can't wait to show off my skills....or I can't wait to drink and attempt to bowl. Either way, it's going to be fun!

It's okay to stop overthinking everything and just go with it.

It's okay to take a random Tuesday off work just to go to breakfast with a sweet boy and shop for your puppy's birthday celebration. Totally worth every vacation hour spent.

It's okay to have random moments where you feel so alive, and so happy, and so happy to be living your life that you laugh and cry at the same time and and you kind of never want the moment to end.

On that note, I hope you all have a more than okay Thursday. xoxo

It's Okay Thursday: Wedding Edition

I participated in one link-up a few weeks ago and now I'm link-up crazy. Not really, but I figured this might be a good way to share some highlights from last weekend's wedding festivities without boring you all with unecessary details. Onward...

It's okay to use more than one penis straw during bachelorette party festivities. It's better to be the girl with the 4 penis straws in her drink than the girl who won't even use one. It's all okay.

 

It's okay to discover a stripper pole at the bar during said bachelorette party and twirl around on it. You're obviously not a stripper, so this is totally okay and all in good fun, proven even more true when you fall off that stripper pole. 

 

It's okay to get ready in the bridal suite with the bridal party if the bride says it's okay and your best friend is with you. It's okay if people are going to see the professional photos and be like "Who is 'that girl' getting ready with the bridesmaids?"

 

 

It's okay that the best man (your best girl friend and wedding date's brother) calls you both out for being in a lesbian relationship and asks you both to stand up during his best man speech. It's totally okay. Just go with it.

 

 

It's okay to shower your best friend with confetti when the clock strikes midnight on her birthday. Maybe you will track it all over the hotel you are staying in and find confetti in your hair 3 days later, but just look at the pure joy on her face. Totally okay...totally worth it. 

Well there you have it. It's Okay Thursday and a recap of the wedding without getting into boring details. I just love weddings...the dressing up, the family and friends that are like family, the dancing and the booze.

Birthday Recap

I had a lovely birthday weekend. I may not have checked everything off my bucket list, but I did accomplish the most important ones. Here is the recap!

1. Laugh until I cry
Okay, so I don't quite know if I laughed until I cried, but I laughed a lot and cried, so I'm counting this one :)

2. Hear “Like a Virgin” at the bar
I have to be honest...this is a point in the night I don't exactly remember. Apparently when we got to The Lodge, I requested it and the DJ played it right away!

The proof is in the photo!

3. Do something nice for a stranger
So glad I did this! During my morning errands, I paid for the car behind me in the Starbucks drive-through. It felt really nice to do that for a stranger!

4. Sleep in past 7 a.m. (I’m really counting on Blake for this one)
Blake was up and whining at about 6:30. I did get him to cuddle me for a little while in bed, but we were up bright and early. I can't complain, though. It was nice to get the day started early!

5. Make a new friend
This was a given since I tend to make friends with grocery store clerks and whatnot, but I did make a new friend. Laura's friend was in town for the week, so she came out to celebrate!

6. Get kissed on the forehead
Upon announcing that this hadn't happened yet at the bar, my sister grabs my head and took care of it. She's the sweetest!

Good lookin' out, girl :)

7. Buy 26 balloons, write happy and inspirational messages on them and hand them out to strangers throughout the day

This was BY FAR my absolute favorite part of the day. I couldn't have done this without the help of my sister. It was an absolute success and brought me more joy than I could've ever imagined. We picked up 26 balloons at Publix and with the help of a complete stranger, I got all of them into the back seat of my car with me and my sister drove us to my house. I could tell we were going to spread a lot of happiness today by the woman who so kindly helped me and the balloons into the car and all the people on our drive home who honked at us and gave us a thumbs up. It was absolutely magical. Once we wrote our favorite happy and positive quotes on each one, we headed to Winter Garden Village, an outdoor mall near my house, and stood outside of Target handing them out. 

The kids absolutely loved the balloons and the parents loved the quotes. We even handed a balloon to a middle-aged woman who initially turned it down. She said "No thanks," and as she walked away asked why I was giving them away. When I told her it was my birthday and what I was doing, she became giddy like a little girl and said she'd love a balloon. She might have been my favorite balloon recipient. This who project made me so happy and completely overwhelmed. 

Outside of Publix after buying the balloons

The final product

We have arrived!

This little girl was so happy. Her balloon said
"Today is a perfect day for a perfect day."

The last one!

The sweet Publix employee who helped us with the balloons.
I don't think he believed me when I told him I'd be back to give him a balloon.
His eyes lit up when he saw us walking up to him with our final balloon.

8. Play the piano at the downtown library
I definitely didn't make it by the library

9. Not have a care in the world
I thought this would be a given! Before we headed downtown, I got a text from someone who I used to consider a best friend. She bailed at the last minute and it really hurt my feelings. It put me in a bit of a funk, which luckily I snapped out of. 

10. Make a toast
It may have been a drunken toast to a few friends and family members I pulled together at the bar, but I'm sure it was eloquent and delivered with love.

11. Treat myself to something just for me…a pedicure, a new dress, new shoes…any of those will do 
I didn't go too wild on this one, but I got my eyebrows done which always makes me feel more put together

12. Not worry whether or not everyone is having fun
I think (and sure hope) everyone had a blast, so this was NOT an issue 

13. Wear a pretty dress
The proof is in the pictures!

14. Soak up every little moment of happiness
That one was easy :)

15. Be surprised
I was surprised a few times! My sista brought me a bunch of balloons when she got to my house, I was surprised by how much I am loved and that wonderful lady who helped me get the balloons in the car was such an unexpected treat!

16. Sing happy birthday to someone else
I didn't even have to look for this one. My sister ran into her friend at the bar, who was out celebrating HIS friend's birthday. I walked right up to him, shook his hand and started singing. 

birthday buddy

17. Rekindle a friendship
Another one of my favorite moments of the day. My very good friend from college, Theresa, surprised me with a phone call. We keep in touch via email and whatnot, but hadn't spoken in a long time. She read my bucket list and decided a phone call was in order so I could cross "Rekindle a friendship" off my list. I love that girl and was so happy to hear her sweet voice!

18. Twirl
I got this one out of the way while I handed out balloons in front of Target. My sister caught me in a weird pose, but this is me twirling!

Just in case people didn't already think I was crazy :)

19. Avoid falling on my face
I was a HOT MESS downtown that night, but I managed to avoid this...thank goodness!

20. Hit on someone using a Paper PickUp
I didn't even bring these out with me. Oops...

21. Get someone to buy me a drink
To my detriment, several people bought me drinks that night. This one wasn't a problem at all. 

22. Focus on how far I’ve come, not where I want to go
This one was easy. I'm happy with where I'm at in life.

23. Get someone to take pickleback shot at Finnhenry’s
We didn't even make it to Finnhenry's. Oh well!

24. Have another unforgettable group dance at The Lodge
For everyone else, this was unforgettable. For me, it happened, but I don't recall a thing. It still happened, though :)

25. Try a drink I’ve never had before
I tried my sister's Crown & Ginger and took a shot called a Pirate Hooker. I don't recommend either one...yuck. 

26. Leave a mark somewhere downtown
I'm not proud of this one, but apparently I got sick outside of The Lodge. When I said "leave a mark downtown," I was thinking I'd sign a bathroom wall or something, but things don't always go as planned. I still left my mark...haha. 

The bucket list was super fun and I had a really nice weekend with my friends and family. My balloon adventure has my head spinning with all the different things I can do on a regular basis to spread happiness and I'm pumped! I closed out the weekend by hosting Mother's Day and spending the day with my family. I'm so thankful for the people in my life I can count on...the people who are here no matter the situation, the ones who participate in my silly schemes to spread joy, the ones who know how to make me smile and know how to have fun, the ones who bring me more joy than I could give in return. I am blessed to have each and every one of them in my life. 26 is pretty lovely so far :) 

26th Birthday Bucket List

Today is my 26th birthday.

I absolutely loved coming up with my 25 Things at 25 List last year, so I couldn’t wait to come up with a list for this year’s birthday. I decided to come up with a bucket list…26 things I’d like to do on my birthday. I have no doubt all of these things will make it a wonderful day.

1. Laugh until I cry
2. Hear “Like a Virgin” at the bar
3. Do something nice for a stranger
4. Sleep in past 7 a.m. (I’m really counting on Blake for this one)
5. Make a new friend
6. Get kissed on the forehead
7. Buy 26 balloons, write happy and inspirational messages on them and hand them out to strangers throughout the day
8. Play the piano at the downtown library
9. Not have a care in the world
10. Make a toast
11. Treat myself to something just for me…a pedicure, a new dress, new shoes…any of those will do :)
12. Not worry whether or not everyone is having fun
13. Wear a pretty dress
14. Soak up every little moment of happiness
15. Be surprised
16. Sing happy birthday to someone else
17. Rekindle a friendship
18. Twirl
19. Avoid falling on my face
20. Hit on someone using a Paper PickUp
21. Get someone to buy me a drink
22. Focus on how far I’ve come, not where I want to go
23. Get someone to take pickleback shot at Finnhenry’s
24. Have another unforgettable group dance at The Lodge
25. Try a drink I’ve never had before
26. Leave a mark somewhere downtown

I'm another year older and can't find one single reason not to be happy about this. Maybe I should be making a lot of bold statements about what I'd like from my 26th year, but I'd much rather let life go where it may and enjoy the surprises along the way. I'm thankful to be on this earth and for all I've been blessed with at this point in my life. That's all I need to know right now.

Anway, I'll report back on my bucket list and let you know how it goes! Have a great weekend!