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

Two of my favorite people...

My older sister April is in town for the weekend and I am so excited!!! I miss her so much! It's been a non-stop laughfest since she came and I am so thankful that she's here!
My precious nephew Austin, my brothers son, is with us for 2 weeks!!! He's 4 now and he just keeps getting bigger and bigger and he is such a ham! At dinner tonight he looked at my sister and said, "Your creeping me out!" We died laughing! I really do wonder how I will ever love my own children because he is the most wonderful, special and cutest kid on planet earth...excuse the gushing! I love him so much and am proud to share a birthday with the booger!

Last night my friend Rachel and I went to a concert, which I will post in the next few days!Tomarrow Willma and I will be floating down the river...yet again! So much fun and it's FREE!
I love free fun! This summer has been one of the best! It only gets better!!! Thursday WIllma and I go in for some tattoos! I'm so excited and nervous as it will be my first color tattoo. Oh and pleanty of pictures will be up for that one!!!

Loves& Blessings,
K

Fun Fact Friday...

Fun Facts about me...

1. I love to read and collect books. It is my dream to have a room filled with books someday! I love old book because they have a distinct smell and they make me feel like I am apart of a different time.
2. I paint my nails about every week. It makes me feel pretty and girly!

3. I LOVE MY BEDROOM! I swear I spend more time in my room than anywhere else in the house. I'm such a homebody!

I hope to have Fun Fact Friday be about anyone and everything! Not just me!!! Haha!

My hair...

has been Blue...
Blonde with blue...

Bleach Blonde...

Black...

and Reddish/Brown.

In just 20 days I will be moving to Independence, Oregon! I am sooo excited I could burst open and confetti would cover the streets of this small town! In processing the fact that I have only 20 days I've realized I have the fun task of determining who I want to be! Which means I can do whatever I want to my hair and no one will know that it hasn't been that way for years! Unless they look at my Facebook...but anywho! Not only hair but who I want people to see me as! I can be a new person! The freedom in letting go of the past and moving on to a new and shiny and bright future is scary yet so exciting! I'm still processing what this will look like and what things I might want to change! However I will always be 100% myself because, well, I don't know how not to be! So cheers to new things and fun changes!!!

NOW which hair color do I want?

Have you ever moved and decided to change something about you or your lifestyle?

Being 25...

Has been awesome! I was nervous at first but now it doesn't seem so weird anymore. For my 25th Birthday I had a Peter Pan theme party, dyed my hair PINK and got my Monroe pierced. Then dyed my hair back to normal and went on a cruise to the Caribbean! SO MUCH FUN! Plus Wilms and I made lots of friends!

Today I unpacked all my clothes and fun little things that I bought and did massive ammounts of laundry and cleaned out 7 bags worth of clothes and shoes! It was hard work but now they all live at the Gospel Rescue Mission and it's for a good cause! I washed my car Rosemary and now she is all sparkly and bug free! It's been a busy day but I feel very productive! It was such a beautiful day outside and opening up the shades and having all the pretty light come into the room today was so peaceful! I sound like a crazy but it was something simple that made my day! I still have lots to do today so now off to do them!

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