Soundtrack Memories

Isn't it amazing how you can listen to a song and you can remember exactly when you first hear it and what you were doing with your life! The reason I bring this up is May and June are my two soundtrack months!

Every May I start missing the beach! May marks the time when school was out and that I would be packing up my stuff and heading out to good old Myrtle Beach to sit in a lifeguard stand all summer and soak up the sun! I miss those carefree days badly! Its super weird now being married and done with school owning a house and having a lot more responsibilities than I sometimes want.

So with out a doubt every May, Dashboard Confessionals Dusk and Summer album fills my car speakers and the windows go down and I picture driving down the coastal HW and sitting in my beaten up white lifeguard stand!

Every summer I wish I could go back, but I know if I did it would never be quite the same as the two amazing summers I spent there!

Every June, Cold Play Viva la Vida pops in the stereo and remindes me exactly why I am no longer enjoying the sunshine on the beach, It remindes me of the June that I met Landon. The song Viva La Vida was all over the radio the summer I met Landon and I loved it! That album was the first thing Landon ever bought me and I will never be able to listen to it and not think of him! 

Since then there have still been many songs that will always remind me of wonderful and not so great times. But these two soundtracks will always be what I listen to every May and June.

You know now that I have mentioned these two albums you want to go listen to them! 

Happy Listening!

Love Michelle

Gear Up!!

So some of my friends know that I used to climb quite a bit, enough so that I had all of my own gear. I loved it, it was the only thing besides swimming that I could go do to de-stress, vent, or just go out and have a good time with some friends. It was right up my thrill seeking ally!

But not so much Landon's. When Landon and I got married I was the much more adventuresome one of our duo, but with school, work and being newlyweds it was just easier to put away the climbing gear and focus on what life had to bring us.

Until this year.

Im not sure what snapped in me, if it was the mundane of my job or the exhausting repetition of day to day life, but I needed so thrill back and so I drug Landon to the climbing gym one day with me!

And much to my surprise my very not so adventuresome husband loved it! over the next few weeks we went out and splurged a bit on getting him outfitted with climbing gear and I dusted off mine and we started to become climbers!

Now I am proud to say that Landon has quickly picked up on climbing and I have fallen happily back into my old niche! Now I'm just bummed we didn't start 3 years ago...It would have helped us keep of the comfortable married couple weight gain!

The best part about it is that it has really strengthened our bond and husband and wife and best friends, we enjoy challenging each other and cheering each other on!

And now that the weather has warmed up for the most part we are loving being able to go climb outside! If anyone ever wants to come with us we love having company just let me know!

I don't have many pictures of Landon and I climbing seeing that our hands are usually preoccupied but hear are a few from with we have taken my family climbing with us.

Happy Climbing!

Love Michelle

Quarter Century + 1

When I turned 25 it was traumatic to say the least! I experienced my quarter life crisis, what had I done with my life thus far, what I still need to do! Well adding one more year to that amplified that crisis! I always thought people were ridiculous that complained about getting older, and here I was realizing why they do. It's terrifying to get older, realize how fast time goes and how hard it is to get all the things you want to do in such little time.

One thing that I am grateful for as I have gotten older it's the important realization of how much family and true friends are. I'm lucky to have both of those in my life!

For my birthday my friends took me out to lunch for my birthday at Zupas! It was so great to be able to spend time with them, and they were great and pitched in and got me a gift card to Bare Essentials my favorite makeup! It was great that they put so much thought to get me something I would love!



That night Landon had surprised me and had planned for all of our friends to go to Color Me Mine! It was so much fun!



And then back to our house for cake and ice cream!


Landon out did himself and made my day special, and also got me a great birthday present...a new bike!
I was also luck to have a birthday dinner at my family's house and at my in laws with great food and presents at both!
I had a great birthday and I am so happy I got to spend it with so many of my favorite people! Thanks everyone for making me feel special!

Landon's 25th!

I know I am quite a bit behind but you got to start somewhere!

We always get to start of December with a bang, Landons birthday falls at the first of the month so it just adds to the excitement of the Holidays.

This year Landon turned 25!

which means, now when we go on vacation he can finally drive the rental car.... Legally at least.

For his birthday Landon got a new xbox with a kinect, which we enjoy dancing around the living room and just looking like complete idiots most of the time!

We invited a few friends over for cake and ice cream and had some fun.

I love Landon so much and I am glad I get to spend so much time with him and watch as we continue to grow closer as a couple. He never stops telling me how much he loves me I couldn't ask for a better husband! Happy Birthday Love!

Umm...Happy Halloween

Now seeing its like a month past Halloween I figured I should really post some pictures.

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My adorable little nephew Kyson practicing his scary face!

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I was forced to dress up at work so I found random things in my closet and came up with wheres waldo, can you find me. I can totally find a freaking cute monkey in this picture. 

My sister brought him over so we could be his first official trick-or-treat house ever!

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Alexa was a cub scout, holding a smily monkey.

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Roxy cat was got a skeleton costume as well, although she mauled me as I put it on her she surprisingly kept in on most of the night, but she continued to attack me every time she got the chance (you can see the  murder in her eyes).

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Not much else, we stayed at home and welcomed our 6 trick or treaters with handfulls of candy. We are still eating leftover candy to this day. I made homemade brocoli cheddar soup in pumpkin bread bowls I got from the store. YUM! Hope everyone else had a good Halloween, even if it is a month late!

Roxy

So for the longest time Landon and I have wanted a pet. When we finally bought our house we figured now was the time! I wanted a dog but with my new job I knew I would not have enough time to devote to a rambunctious puppy. So that is how we came to find our most of the time adorable Roxy cat!

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We picked her up from the pet store in June and Landon was amazed that I actually went through with buying here...I have a past of not being able to commit to pets. As a kitten she had a funny personality about her, and loved to chew on and play in my roxy shoes, hence the name!

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Its been a couple of months since we first got her and we love her to death! She constantly makes our lives more entertaining. 

Here are some of Roxy's quirks:

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She is insanely needy when she is left at home all day alone, and will run and meet you at the door and wait for you to pick her up and give her some love and pets. (I love being the first one home from work because of this).

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We are pretty sure she is bi-polar, literally, one minute she is a loving lap cat, the next she is zooming around the house like a nut job (I hope to one day catch this on camera).

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She hates drinking out of her water bowl so instead she waits and drinks out of everyones cups when the aren't looking. Because of this we have resorted to just leaving a cup by the fridge just for here, even though her water dish is just feet away in the laundry room.

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She finds the funniest places/positions to sleep in

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She also is a menace lots of the times....

But we love her still.

The world will miss him

Today I head some awful news. One of my most amazing friends lost her adorable brother yesterday in a car accident, at the young age of 17. It is things like these where I can't help but wonder, "why was it his time?"
I have been blessed to grow up in a religion being taught that we will have the opportunity to see each other again in heaven and that families can be together forever, but it does not make news like this any less hard. He had such a bright future ahead of him, and now the world will never know the amazing person it lost at such a young age.
It makes me kind of of angry that there seem to be so many people who don't even care for or appreciate the life they have but it is the strong, amazing, people who have to face some of the hardest trials. We will never know the completeness of Gods plan on this earth, we just have to have faith.

My heart love and prayers go out to my amazing friend and her family as they cope with the loss of an amazing person.