New Year, New Goals

       So I must admit I kept putting of this post. I hate New Years. I'm afraid that it makes me horribly pessimistic, all I can think about it all the crap I DIDN'T accomplish. Well, ten days later I'm trying to be more optimistic! So I have thought a lot about this list, and I had to think even more on it once I realized that this is also the year I will turn 25 so this is also my list of things I want to do before I'm 25, YIKES where did the time go!

1. Write a blog post AT LEAST twice a week
2. Make a pair of pants for myself
3. Find a job (It doesn't have to be perfect yet, but that would be nice)
4. Finally, finally, finally launch Robutton
5. Read Cordelia a book before bed every night (I'm slacking on this a little)
6. Weed negative, selfish people out of my life
7. Send Birthday cards
8. Exercise. Make a habit of it. So far I'm doing ok with this one. 
9. Eat more fruits and veggies
10. Get the cats to run around and exercise everyday! They are getting too lazy! 
11. Keep my nails looking nice
12. Learn to be more forgiving

Wish me luck!

It's been awhile. . . again

Hello readers, I hope you are still there! I took a little break from the blog, life was more than a bit hectic and I had some personal things going on that left me little energy for anything. I hope to turn this blog into a regular thing again, I love blogging and I really have missed it. Now to catch you up! (well on the big things at least)

Cordelia has gotten A LOT bigger: 

 Three months

Four Months

 

Five Months

 

Six Months

 

Seven Months

She can crawl, eat mushy foods, sit up by herself, pull herself up to stand and says "mama" and "dada"! It's amazing, and the time has gone by so fast it's a blur. 

We attended two absolutely beautiful weddings. The first was for one of my old time friends and her prince charming. The wedding was at Bordeleau Winery, such a beautiful venue! The amazing photos below are  care of their photographer. It was Brendon and my first night away from Cordelia, but we had such a great time, and Ashley and Brandon are such fun people (as I'm sure you can see from the picture below! ).

The second wedding was for our mutual friends Tuan and Camila. I was honored to be in the wedding party. They had such beautiful weather and the people at their venue, Bretton Woods, were wonderful.  These beautiful photos were taken by an awesome photographer I know- check him out here. There will probably be a longer post about this wedding later :)

 We wore super cool shoes

Camila's Brother married them, it was very heartfelt 

Cordelia Hung out with Daddy

 

We played in the photo booth :)

We were able to rejoice in our third anniversary of this day:

We celebrated our first Halloween! As a Rainbow, a leprechaun, and a pot of gold. 

Well... those were the biggest things, I have a ton of other little things to catch you up with later, but for now I will leave you and go back to my horrible holiday to do list! Yikes 

Something to Remember

I found this on Pintrest (my new obsession) and I found it to be very beautiful, and I wanted to share it with you all. If you cannot read the words they say:

"A mark for every breath you took, every blink, every sleepy yawn. One for every time you sucked your thumb, waved hello, closed your eyes and slept in the most perfect darkness. One for every time you had the hiccups. One for every dream you dreamed within me. It isn't very pretty anymore. Some may even think it ugly. That's OK. It was your home. It's where I first grew to love you, where I lay my hand as I dreamed about who you were and who you would be. It held you until my arms could, and for that, I will always find something beautiful in it."

Being Happy

Photo by Sarah

Today has not been a good day. I spent all day staring at my computer trying, really trying, to get homework done, and failing miserably. I went back and forth feeling hopeless, and depressed, and blah, and mad at myself. Then I went to yoga (I'm taking prenatal yoga- which is wonderful) and everything the instructor reflected on made me weepy and emotional.

 Yes, I know, part of these emotions are due to my hormones being crazy and out of whack- but some of them are because of my depression. Depression is something I have coped with for the past ten years of my life. One of my close friends asked me how I "got better". I don't think I really got better- I learned my own ways to keep going and keep smiling. Depression may be a part of you, but you cannot let it define you.

Martha Stewart has a magazine called Whole Living (which I stumbled across while doing research for my homework assignment). I picked one up while I was at the grocery store- the March 2011 "Happiness Issue".   The whole issue discusses way to live happier, I haven't finished reading the issue yet, but it made me think about my "happy things". 

Every day there are some things I try to do, I take a shower with my husband in the morning, I make sure I play with my cats, and I focus on the pretty things in life. Some days I need a little extra help being happy and I use little things to help me cheer up- painting my nails, wearing happy colors, making the bed, actually putting on makeup. 

Today I am having my hubby paint my toe nails (they are getting hard to reach), I'm catching up on this week's episode of NCIS, watching my cats play fight, and focusing on the happy things by writing this blog. Its helping. 

Whether or not you deal with depression, everyone has down days; what do you do to cheer you up on your down days?