A Royal Wake Up

The royal wedding was very elegant. I have finished three out of my four finals, I'm so close to summer I can see it, but just far enough that I can't enjoy it. For this year and to celebrate I woke up early and watch a wedding. The only downside is my wake up call was 5:50 am because I'm in America and not London so the time difference hurt a little. 

The wedding was very elegant. What the wedding dress looked like and who designed it was kept very much so quiet until Kate arrived at Westminster Abby and it was reveled that it was in fact designed by Sarah Burton at Alexander McQueen. More important than the dress though, it was nice to see that William and Kate truly love each other.

During the ceremony Romans 12 was read as was a prayer that William and Kate wrote together. The Westminster choir sang songs including the National Anthem and songs written specifically for the wedding; I can only imagine how it must have sounded ringing through the church. The wedding was genuinely a sign of hope and excitement for not only one country but a light of what is good to the whole world. 

While it doesn't solve the worlds problems seeing a woman, of my generation, who is loved by her country and does what she can to help those in need is a lovely sigt. Taking part of William and Kate's prayer, I pray we too "In the busyness of each day keep our eyes fixed on what is real and important in life and help us to be generous with our time and love and energy."

Easter!!

Happy Easter! Today was spent with family, decorating a table, and remembering how grateful I am for my loved ones and most of all the sacrifice that was made for me! Love you Jesus!!! The only downside today is that I ate too many sweets and now have a self inflicted stomach ache. I hope you all have a great Easter.

Inspiration

 Yellow for Spring and Summer

I need a new desk for my apartment. Possibly this DIY desk

Lace shorts! How I love Anthropologie 

I think this is going to be my next headboard

What's your Spring/Summer inspiration?

Cake Pops Recipe

Yesterday my small group didn't know what to eat for dessert so we decided to make cake pops. They were super easy and delicious. We even ended up making too many expecting the guys to eat like 12 each. They were so rich and filling that we only used one cake mix and had leftovers. All in all cake pops were a great decision! Can you tell which one I made? 

Ingredients: 

• Cake mix (any kind)
• All the necessary ingredients to make a cake (for example- eggs, water, oil)
• Icing (we used vanilla) 
• Chocolate (we used both white and milk)
• Any extra toppings you want to add
• Ice cream scoop
• Cookie sheet(s)
• Sticks/ lollipop sticks (we found ours in the baking aisle) 

Directions:

• Bake your cake using the normal ingredients and time
• When you take it out of the oven instead of adding the icing on top and eating, tear the cake apart and put it into a bowl
• Mix in your icing (one tub of store bought icing per cake)
• Take your ice cream scoop and mold the cake into small balls and place on your cookie sheet
• Put the cake balls into the freezer till they're cold
• Melt your chocolate and dip the end of your sticks into the chocolate then put them into your cake balls (you dip them into chocolate first so the chocolate acts like a glue and helps the sticks from falling out)
• Cover the cake pops in chocolate and add any extra topping or design you want
• Put them back into the freezer to harden
• EAT!

April 10 in 30 mid-month update

1. Make macaroons. I keep seeing them everywhere and they look delicious! I haven't made macaroons yet, but me and my friends have made some pina colodas but instead of rum we added more pineapple.

2. Find out were I can locally find henna temporary tattoos and possibly try one. I've asked where to buy henna but I haven't gotten any yet

3. Finish out this semester strong! Only three weeks, only three weeks. So far so good. Now only two weeks left!

4. Take time to stop and think not just run through life. Take the time to stop focus on what is important in life and talk to my creator. I've been on and off with this one. Since I wrote this my life has gotten so busy I've been spending less and less time where I should; that's probably why I'm so stressed. I need to fix my priorities, and in the last few days I have been.  

Via google

5. Watch AFI's 15 top movies of all time. I've already seen a couple

I haven't watched a single movie from this list yet

1. Citizen Kane
2. Casablanca 
3. The Godfather
4. Gone with the Wind
5. Lawrence of Arabia
6. The Wizard of Oz
7. The Graduate
8. On the Waterfront
9. Schindler's List
10. Singin' in the Rain
11. It's a Wonderful Life
12. Sunset Boulevard
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai
14. Some Like it Hot
15. Star Wars 

6.Use coupons when grocery shopping. I keep reading stories about how much money people are saving; I wonder how much I can save in a month? I'm doing pretty well with this one so far. Update to come at the end of the month!

7. Have a good Easter with my family! Easters not here yet

8. Dress up a little more. Don't always wear shorts and a t-shirt Nope. I've been wearing shorts and t-shirts every day

Via PhotoAtlas

9. Start actively learning either Spanish or Italian. My mom has books on speaking French so I may start learning French instead. 

10. Take at least an hour a day to take a break and relax. Hahaha. Wouldn't that be nice

Why Worry?

Lately I've been thinking about how everything connects. Don't zone me out yet, just track with me for a second.

When my parents first met (nearly 26 years ago) neither was impressed with the other. My mom saw my dad as the new guy who was standing at the punch bowl by himself and she was told by a leader to be nice to new people, and my dad saw my mom as nice but not too memorable and too tall (my mom is 5'9" and my dad is 6'). To make a long story kind of short my dad asked out my mom thinking she was a different Rose from the group. That's so amazing to me because if he had asked out the "right" Rose, they may have never gotten to know each other, dated, and therefore they may have never gotten married. 

They were pretty bad, but it was their first time playing. I'll give them a break.

I believe there is a plan and a purpose for everything that happens and that although I may not see it yet it all is for an end goal. Having that in mind is very helpful on the days where life seems to be spinning and I'm standing still, but how often do I really remember to think that when I am spazzing out? It takes me till that night or hearing  someone speak on the fact before I remember it. So this is my self reminder and I hope a reminder to someone else too that although right now life may not be making sense, and one day may be up and the next seem like it's down there really is an end goal and there is someone who loves you and cares, and know the end of the story. So we can all try our best to relax. If you can change something- change it, but most of what we worry about we can't change anyway so why worry? 

April 10 in 30

Via A Blog With No Name

1. Make macaroons. I keep seeing them everywhere and they look delicious!

2. Find out were I can locally find henna temporary tattoos and possibly try one

3. Finish out this semester strong! Only three weeks, only three weeks

4. Take time to stop and think not just run through life. Take the time to stop focus on what is important in life and talk to my creator

Via google

5. Watch AFI's 15 top movies of all time. I've already seen a couple

1. Citizen Kane
2. Casablanca 
3. The Godfather
4. Gone with the Wind
5. Lawrence of Arabia
6. The Wizard of Oz
7. The Graduate
8. On the Waterfront
9. Schindler's List
10. Singin' in the Rain
11. It's a Wonderful Life
12. Sunset Boulevard
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai
14. Some Like it Hot
15. Star Wars 

6.Use coupons when grocery shopping. I keep reading stories about how much money people are saving; I wonder how much I can save in a month?

7. Have a good Easter with my family!

8. Dress up a little more. Don't always wear shorts and a t-shirt

Via PhotoAtlas

9. Start actively learning either Spanish or Italian

10. Take at least an hour a day to take a break and relax.

What are your goals this month?

March 10 in 30 Finale

1. Spring book fail; didn't get to this one but I'm hopefully going to the craft store tomorrow!

2. Buy a new summer purse! Done. I got a vintage Dooney & Bourke from a local thrift shop

3. Floss regularly. Yes and No. I was off and on about flossing but I did start a mouthwash routine before bed which is good (don't judge)

4. Figure out what I'm doing over summer. To work or not to work? That truly is the question  I did actually figure out what I'm doing; hopefully working half the summer and focusing on next school year/traveling the other half

5. Finish reading my book!  Finished it at like 11:30 pm on the 31st; close but I made it!

6. Have my days happen on purpose. I really tried but I'll give myself half credit I did have some really off days

7. Build a tent. Nope, I'll try to make one this weekend!

8. DIY 5 things. Let me count

1. Homemade peanut butter cups; recipe from here

     2.My Bundt Cake

     3.Birthday present for friend 

          4. I also made her wrapping paper

         

          5. Shorts

     

 9. Dye a top-nope
10. I did manage my time better