Here's a sneak peak at a project I started two days ago. Hopefully it will be finished this evening. Can't wait for the finished project, especially after seeing each piece of the puzzle fit together perfectly! Stay tuned for the end result, and I promise the pictures will be better-than-iPhone quality!

Lists, planning, dates, organizing. All things I love.

With the new school year lurking in a month's distance, I am getting particularly antsy with planning out everything for this year. For me, it feels like I am beginning college all over again for the first time. A new place brings new excitement, wonders, and occasionally a little snippet of anxiety. But if I am the most excited about one thing, it would be decorating my house with my roommates!

I am living just blocks away from campus and Kyle field (quite a luxury in CStat, I hear) in a house with one of my best Tyler friends, Katie, and a new friend that I get the joy of meeting and living with, Katherine. Katie and I have been planning and figuring out all the details of our new house. My most favorite aspects of the house we are about to call home? A flagpole we will hopefully put in the front, flowers I will plant in the front yard, and strange enough picking out the curtains that will serve as the "door" to our little laundry nook. Speaking of that, if anyone has any suggestions for a place to find cheap, cute curtains (other than Target or Bed, Bath and Beyond) I would love to hear them! We are still on the hunt for our perfect print.

Anyway, I am getting my pre-school jitter bugs and am actually ready for school to get started. Although give me a week into classes and that will probably change. I remember waiting by the mailbox every summer afternoon to find out who my next elementary school teacher would be, so this anticipation of the new school year is nothing new to me!

I may or may not have spent my morning looking for my 15 year old gameboy. Look at these games though? Still no luck, but praying that it didn't wander into a Goodwill box over the past 5 years...! Beach trip, here we come!

• Continue running or biking six times a week. No excuses. I can't say I did this enough. Usually around 4 times a week, but I slacked here and there. But I am back into my routine, despite it being hot, hot, hot! 
• Cut back on snacking (darn you Flavor Blasted Goldfish!) in order to make the above worthwhile. Of all the things on my list, this is what I probably did best on! Dessert reduction, not so much.
• Finish reading Crazy Love, The Irresistible Revolution, and one or two stories out of my C.S. Lewis Complete Works. (This should be incredibly attainable!) Finished the first two (both incredibly good!) but didn't get a chance to start the third. Maybe a beach book?
• Continue reading a gospel and Psalm every day, as well as journaling. Did OK, definitely need to spend more time with this, especially for the past week. Always going to be on my list!
• Become less anxious about situations I cannot control, bah. I don't think I can really cross this off, but the main thing that I was anxious about has been solved after much prayer, so for now, it's over!
• Complete (3) craft projects I have pinned on Pinterest. This is a terrible, terrible failure. I did one ten minute craft project this month, that's ALL. I (hopefully) will be in full craft gear this month.
• In addition to the above, continue learning how to work with my sewing machine. See above.
• Learn more about my camera and how to use it, possibly buy the 50mm before we head for Destin. Played around in the garden, but decided to wait to buy the nifty fifty. Em and Aaron have on that they will bring to the beach, so I will wait to buy one for myself, methinks.
• Write better and sillier letters to Hayden each week. My letters are probably going to get boring! I suppose only Hayden can answer this, but I did have some good news in my letters, some silly drawings, and a few ideas for summer adventures.
• Continue praying about next summer and the possibility of {this}. I have been praying about my direction for the next summer, as well as this upcoming year. This won't be done until I know what I am doing, but continual prayers are definitely in order.

So there is my monthly goal update. I didn't do too well this month, but hopefully my next monthly goal list will be more complete. Tune in tomorrow and I will have my goal list for July. I hope everyone had a fun Fourth of July!

This guy's my favorite. And he's home for the REST of the summer tomorrow. I've only seen him about a month and a half out of the past year, so it's about time to get our bum on!! Ready for some nomz, flapjacking, bache (that's "beach" in Bum), and adventures! And not to mention quality time with Queen Mildred--- his favorite!! My excitement level is out da roof!

P.S. wishing I was noming on the cookie dough ice cream cone right now. A-yuh.