The Great Outdoors

25 things I ♥.

{about camping}

1. swimsuits instead of underwear

2. lakes

3. paddle boats

4. dirty feet for days

5. campfire smell

6. sunscreen

7. french press

8. spaghetti on a paper plate

9. peeing in the woods

10. hiking

11. being in nature for three days straight

12. peanuts

13. licorice

14, judging the time of day by the sun in the sky

15. no cell service

16. no facebook

17. cereal all day long

18. justifying Shasta grape soda

19. pretending like lake water makes you clean

20. waking up with the sun

21. NAPS

22. watching Ben fish

23. being kinda scared of animal noises at night

24. new tunes for the trip there

25. s'mores with Reese's

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Going camping this weekend at 3 creeks lake with some friends. So excited for a much-needed break from the world!

Do you camp? How do you camp: roughin' it or fancy pants camping?

time for a break.

My life is going a bagillion-mazillion mph.

Here's what my schedule this week looks like:

Tuesday: work, softball game, fold laundry, make dinner, bed.

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Wednesday: work, run home and stuff something in my stomach, house church til 10

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Thursday: work, book study, grocery store, pick up Tangle's flea medicine, make dinner, gym, budget

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Friday: work, gym, dinner with friends

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Saturday: RUN, clean my house, take pictures of Becca and her cute family, pick up Ben.

I notice a lot of work...and absolutely no "nothing" time.

Ben and I have really been working on slowing things down a little bit, but I think we have come to this consensus:

Life is busy.

relationships take effort and time.

Time for yourself doesn't fall in your lap.

you have to choose to relax, it doesn't just happen.

We have decided to choose the relationships that are the most important and valuable to us and pour into them. And make time to do what is important to us. So, we have started to make a plan for EXTRA saving (aside from our regular savings, thank you Dave Ramsey) for things we want to do.

First on the list:

We don't have a camera, our last three have all pooped out on us, so the next one we get will be a fancy one (i don't know anything about cameras, i don't even know what that picture is..but it looks neat and impressive!).

second on the list:

a..

...VACATION.

maybe somewhere like this:

with a little of this:

or maybe this:

and this:

or, perhaps this:

we'll just have to see what we're in the mood for! :-)

What are you planning for?

pretty pretty...

please.

(see)

with a cherry on top?