{twinsies}

Pretty art.

Now I'm cool like them!!!! I just love wrist tattoos. So simple.

{hey*cookie}

So during my last visit to Dallas, I bit the bullet and bought an apron from Anthropology. I've been wanting one for quite some time now, so I decided I now was the time and that my excuse for getting it would be so I could help my mom in the kitchen for Thanksgiving! {She got one too, so be expecting pics of that!} My apron {should I name her?} hangs nicely on the rack next to my scarves and jackets and is just the cutest!


I have had a yearning to bake lately, even though I do not want to eat whatever it is I'm baking. {That doesn't mix well with the running!} So I decided I would go through my cabinets, see what ingredients that I already had so I wouldn't have to go to the store, then get to work. {Also, an excuse to wear my cute apron!} So chocolate chip cookies it was! How original I know!!


The cookie dough! Mmmm clearly the best part!

{that's why it got 2 pics!}

And here they are in all their glory! One batch got a little more golden than the other..but they taste great! {Pat self on back!}

I love baking and I love my new apron and I love all my kitchen gadgets and I love love love my beautiful kitchen that my hubs got for me!!!!

{ps....when I was cleaning today, I thought to myself "I wonder what itd be like to be a professional blogger...to have a ton of followers and to get paid to blog......" Ahhhh wishful thinking! If I want that, I need to step up my game! And if you read and aren't following...show me some love so I know who to thank!!!!}

Peace. Love.

{josie*bear}

{benched}

So I spent a few hours in Baird, TX yesterday for work {it's a wee bitty town east of Abilene...don't blink cause you'll miss it} and they have the cutest little downtown square thingy lined and lined with antique shops. The best things about antique shops in teensy weensy towns is that theyre dirt cheap. I fell in love with this bench and had to give it a home.


It's kinda hard to tell from the pictures, but it's adorable. It even had some pencil marks on there...looked like a little kid had been practicing his addition on it. {I did think that was a cute touch but ended up taking "magic eraser" to it and it came off like a charm}



The top opens up and everything, although I'm not sure what you could store in there.

I am debating whether to paint it black and sand it down some more...or just leave it how it is. I mean, it's already really beat up and authentic as is. Thoughts? Paint black and distress or leave? It looks so cute in our mini hallway by the door!!! Hooray for fun finds!

{yo*quierro}

I want, I want, I REALLY REALLY want! Ok so I have been thinking and thinking and contemplating and toiling....{you get it} I think I REALLY want to get myself a pup. Let's face it, with JoJo being gone all the time, coming home to an empty house is NO FUN! I want a baby, but we aren't ready for that yet people!! So I'm thinking, if Josiah goes to OTS, I wanna get a puppy and I love love love these Boston Terriers. I want a little black and white one! SO SO Sweet!!!

Holy cow! I am in love.

{thinking}

Today, I've been spending alot of time thinking about my boy.

I'm not sure if it's because I had a rough day and I wish he was here to walk me through it.

Or if I just want to get in bed and have him hold me {cause then I KNOW everything will be ok}

Everything is safe when you are here.

In your arms. Is where I wanna be. {isn't that a song?}

I'm missing you.

{a*latte}

There's one thing I always want when I go into Anthropologie. Latte bowls. I don't know what it is about these things, but I like em...a latte!


The lime green is my fav!!!

THey are only $5 each and every time I go in this store, I pick 2 or 4 up and carry them around like I'm going to buy them....but they never quite make it to the checkout counter. Maybe Santa likes me a latte and will bring me some???

{THE*tattoo}

It's true....after much deliberation and consideration...I decided to bite the bullet and get a tattoo. I know the horror! A good Christian girl like you Amber?! Yes. Don't you judge me! JK! I do not know why but I have always wanted to get a tattoo. I've gone with several friends to get them, and always backed out at the last second. Obviously I like them...my hubs has a ginormous one on his leg and one on his inner ankle. I could just never think of what to get. What is something that I wouldn't mind having on my body...for like Ever!? I always liked the thought of a cross or an icthus....but those are so cliche. I wanted something more unique. What I ended up getting was actually by the suggestion of a coworker, but as soon as she mentioned it ... i was like "yes! that's it!" A dove. It is a symbol of God's promise. The Holy Spirit descended on Jesus when he was baptized in the form of a dove. It is a reminder to me that God is with me and He will keep His promises NO MATTER what my circumstance in life is. The design actually came from none other than the good ol' James Avery catalog. So without further adieu....Here is a picture walk into my experience of getting "tatted up."


For those of you that don't know the process...the artist will draw out your design and putting in on tracing paper of sorts....then flip it over on your skin.....and there's the outline....much like a tattoo you'd get out of a vending machine.


Ummm not quite sure what this face means...looks like "Uhhhh is this gonna hurt? Am I sure about this one?"



Me giving the full play by play to Josiah and Jenni my coworker....




Hard at work. {Him not me}

Voila. I wanted something very simple, elegant {can tattoos be elegant}, feminine, and most of all....a very thin black outline. He took a picture of it and said it was the thinnest he'd done and maybe the fastest! All in all the actual process took maybe 7 minutes.

I think I look satisfied.

And that's that. No big deal. I really like it. I feel somewhat like an 18 year old again....but what the heck?! Plus it has a much deeper meaning for me! Peace & Love!

{operation*christmas*child}

We decided that this year, we were gonna pack a shoebox to send to a child overseas for Operation Christmas Child. Of course, I wanted to make one for a little girl! I went to Target with my mom on Saturday and we had so much fun buying stuff to fill our boxes with.


The cutest little shirt and leggings in the world!



Shampoo, lotion, toothbrush&toothpaste, hat, gloves, hairbrush, princess stickers, coloring book, colors...you name it....I got it!

I also thought it would be cute to put a pic of me and Josiah in there so they'd know who the box came from...This little frame was in the dollar section. {Do you see the Hello Kitty socks!?}

It all fit somehow!

Ready to be dropped off at the church!

It truly is better to give than to receive. I had so much fun doing this!!!

{turkey*trot}

Yesterday I registered to run the Turkey Trot in Dallas on Thanksgiving Day! I'm gonna just do the 5k since I have not been training, but it should still be interesting! Crystal is gonna do it with me and I am pumped!