Boys Like Girls & The Swell Season...

I'm not a huge concert goer but I do enjoy a good show now and then. In the past week I've gone to 2 shows! I went with my friend Rachel and her sister and her sister's bestie to Boys Like Girls. They were pretty good! I didn't know any of their songs but it was fun people watching and seeing the same outfit on every girl there! haha! Loved it!!!

The lead singer was a cutie and I'm goo when it comes to guys with tattoos!

Rachel and I were pretty excited to be there!!!

I also went to The Swell Season at Britt with my friend Jolie! It was the bestest birthday gift ever!!! They are an amazing band and if you ever get the chance to see them do! I also got to meet Chelsea of Seablanket.com, a blog I LOVE and that was so exciting for me seeing as I live in GP and it's not often that I meet the people of the few blogs I do read!!!

I recently saw Court Yard Hounds too and they were really good! I think the next concert I really want to see is Lady Gaga just for the pure insanity that she is, you know it would be an entertaining show!

What concert do you really want to see?

Loves& Blessings,

K

Life as I know it is changing...

In 6 days I turn 25! Which may not seem like a big deal but it is! I'm not gonna lie I'm freaking out a lil bit. So much in my life is changing as I'm getting older it's hard to grasp and take it all in. At the end of July I move to Independence, Oregon, just outside Salem, and for the first time I will be truly on my own. I am so excited but at the same time terrified that it's going to be awful! I know it's where the Lord is calling me and I feel at peace about it.

However, I had to do some budgeting and the reality of how much it costs to move, live, eat and exist is freaking expensive! Oh man! Sometimes I think, "What have you gotten yourself into Missy?" But then I look at the amazing opportunity to spread my wings and I start smiling and planning and looking forward to the new things I will have the blessing of experiencing. I can't wait to move because of the personal growth that will happen in my life and that excites me to no end. To think of all the new people I'm going to meet and all that is in store for me in this new chapter of life...WOWIE ZOWIE! I alreds have a job at this super cute coffee shop/gelato place and today found out there is an opening at the apartment complex we want! Yay! But I'm not looking forward to all the fun things that getting an apartment entails.

Sorry for the randomness, but I had to tell someone! Haha!

Today I was reflecting about all the amazing opportunities I've had and the FANTASTIC people I've had the honor of knowing for the past three years in Grants Pass and I was so overwhelmed with love, thankfulness and joy! I'm so thankful for my family and my friends and I can't imagine my life without any of them!

When looking back on my life I don't want it to be wasted and spend it wishing it was something it's not! I want to enjoy every moment. To laugh more, hug more, love more and do things that make life full! Things with purpose and meaning. So here is to 25 more years!!!

Loves& Blessings,

K

Life as of late...

This week is Spirit Week at school and today was Superhero day. I decided it would be fun to dress up! So I was Clark Kent. These kids had no idea who I was! What is wrong with our youth today? Geez...they didn't know Superman. I don't think the shirt was a dead giveaway either! Haha! So much has happened that I'm not going to even try to remember but here are the highlight with some pics for your entertainment.
Tali-T's brother Trevor had a show. So we went and we were the bouncers/ticket takers/door peeps. It was so fun! My cousin is in Trev's band so it was fun to support the fam!

I roadtripped it up to Salem for the weekend to go house/apartment hunting with the Bestie Shvitz. We found some places we liked but haven't signed any dotted lines. Apartment shopping was just so exhausting! So we shopped to cure the sleepyness! I got some cute stuff...that I probs shouldn't have but whoops too late nah! We watched Away We Go! I freaking love that movie. If you haven't seen it please go rent it! Life changing!!! I had a job interview and got the job!!! Yay! It's a coffee-gelato place called Napoleons. If you go downtown Salem on Liberty it's there at the Reed Opera house. So cute and bomb gelato...I didn't taste the coffee so I'm not sure but everything is Italian and handmade by an Italian woman that works there. I'm so excited for this job! I start in July...hopefully depends on the housing situation.

I've had lots of Bestie Tali time since I move in July and she leaves for France for a year in August. It's exciting these new adventures we are going on, but so weird! It makes me sad, but at the same time I'm soooooo proud of my Tal for doing this! She's going to be a nanny and she's going to do so well. She was totes born to work with kids. Tal's the only person I know who loves her job! Like LOVES her job! We have been having Bestie sleepovers and have watched some really LAME movies but the laughter has been so wonderful! I can't believe I'll live a whole year without my Tali and that laughter. Golly geez I'm so cheesy!

Here in GP we have a coffee place called Dutch Bros. that my Uncle Dane and his brother Travis started. He passed away last October of ALS and so now Dutch Bros. does fundraisers for ALS research and such. They made these awesome bracelets that say Drink One for Dane. In honor of him and to support the cause pretty much everyone in town wore them and that day all the money for drinks went to MDA. It was really amazing!

All in all life has been pretty good. Doing a lot of cleaning and getting rid of crap! But it's been so nice realizing I can live without all this stuff that I don't actually need. Shocking!

Loves& Blessings,

K

My Bestie Shvitz...

I mean how are we still single with pictures like these?

To Shvitz in honor of her coming home to GP this weekend!

This is my Bestie Aly! She is smart, beautiful and funny!

Things the BESTIE likes: family, bunko, reality tv, reading, sports, math, Twilight, One Tree Hill, Missions trips, Glee, roadtrips, Jesus, Apples to Apples, a reason to get dolled up, food, celebrity gossip and laughing.

We laugh all the time. We met almost 2 years ago and it was an instant friendship. So crazy to me how that works! I love her so much and am so proud of her. She is going to school to be a junior high Math teacher...God bless her! This summer I am moving up to the Salem area where we will be roomies! I'm so excited!!!

This was a Rockband party we were Foxy Roxy and Hottie with a Body!

Did I mention she is the one who got me hooked on Twilight?! It is her I blame for my love/lust relationship with a teenage vampire.

Aly you are one of the best people I know and I am so happy that we met and that we get to do life together. I know we talk all the time about how crazy it is that we are so much alike and understand eachother so well, but I still can't wrap my mind around it! I love you so much!
All the memories we've made and will continue to make I will treasure forevs!

Totes Loves Bestie!!!!

Loves& Blessings,

Brooklyn

Days are starting to blur...

Trevor had his little show at a local coffee shop and did so well! Talia and I of course sang harmony as we sat at the front table watching and cheering. Haha! We had dinner at Blondie's and dessert at G Street Bar and Grill. As we enjoyed our dessert we also got to enjoy the dancing of some older women who were putting out the vibe. If you know what I mean? It was SOOOO funny. I was dying laughing. On stage was the greatest mullet of all time! It was a seriously awesome sight!!! Gotta love GP!

Bestie Tali-T!

My Bestie is just so stinking cute!

My outfit yesterday.

Today I got to do 3 of my small group girlies hair. Gabrielle was very vintage inspired. Ashley was very bird's nest inspired and Lauren was very Dancing with the Stars. It was fun! I'll have pictures up later. It makes me excited that soon I will be doing that for a living!!! This summer I'm moving to Salem, OR to go to Beauty School and I can't wait! I've been wanting to do hair for such a long time and now it's finally happening. Yay for me! Tonight after church, Tali, some friends and I are going to hang out. Not really sure what we are doing but it should be entertaining. Have a wonderful Saturday!!! Enjoy the sun!

Loves& Blessings,

K

Thank goodness it's Friday...

This morning I drank my delicious Dutch Bros. Iced Kicker on my way to work and rocked out to Justin Timberlake's Future Sex Love Sounds. A cd that I forget how much I love until I play it.
It was a typical school day. Kids were crazy and wound up because it's their last day before the weekend. Found out I don't have to work Monday but I get the joy of taking some test this next week for the school district! So looking forward to that...NOT! But hey, maybs I'll leave a little smarter or without a job who can say? Tonight Talia and I are going to have Bestie dinner somewhere and then go see my friend Trevor, her brother, play at a coffeeshop. It's always fun to scream and yell and make him feel awkward! Haha! It should be a good night and a fun show.
Any plans for your weekend?

The Weekend...

This past weekend was so much fun! I'm glad I got to have some fun with friends and shop like a mad woman! Saturday Talia, our dear friends Jon & Holly and their daughter Rachel and I went out and about in Medford! First we dropped off Jon so the ladies could go have fun! We went to Goodwill where Talia bought more shorts than any one person needs! I of course in my nerdyness got books and an Owl vase! I love my Owl vase very much! Then we picked Jon up again and headed for the mall. Such a bad idea in hindsight, well for my checking account, but such a good idea for my wardrobe. Let me just say some serious damage was done! We all split up once we got there and I headed for Icing where I got 2 fabulous headpieces. One being the picture above! Hehe! Then on to Hot Topic to buy some new nose rings. But my favorite was Motherhood Maturnity! Jackpot!!! I got 2 sweaters, 2 shirts and a dress! I love that store because I have huge boobs and nothing ever fits over these suckers! But pregnant mom clothes do fit over the ladies! After our shoppingfest we headed back to GP where Tal and I met up with our friend Megan for sushi. I was the only one who had sushi but it was fun having girl time! After dinner we headed to a play that a few of our small group girls were in. It had a 40's theme and I loved all the music! I always tell people I was born in the wrong era! I would have loved to live back then with all the music and fashion! Ahh! Anywhoo...after the play I headed home and to bed!

Sunday I had small group time with my wonderful small group girlies! I had the great opportunity to speak at Midway our junior high service. I spoke on surrender and sacrifice. It was pretty good if I do say so myself. Since Jon and Holls were leaving later that day we met up at Taco Bell and talked and hung out! Then I had worship practice for Immerse our college aged service. Which rocked! I'm not gonna lie we kicked it! I just love Sundays! As busy as they are I do love having a whole day dedicated to relationships that center on Christ! It's refreshing and it always makes me excited for the next Sunday! It was a good weekend!

Jon & Holls!

Talia, Me and Megan at the play!

On Friday my students made me try this! Still really not sure what to think!

Loves& Blessings,
Kansy