Katie, Lately

 

"mom. are you coming?"

 

snapchats like this? day makers. these two are my whole world. i'm obsessed with them.

 

particularly good hair and makeup days warrant excessive selfies. (it's so funny to me that i will take like, 200 pictures until i pick one that i'm okay with. and this is the winner. isn't that sad and also hilarious? haha also - forgive my winged liner. i'm still in the learning stages.)

 

cooper would so boycott computers and phones if he could. poor buddy.

 

snuck out (no, literally. it took me a good 5 minutes just to get outside because i was being so quiet) on a saturday morning while devin was still sleeping and snagged some donuts and hot chocolate (what's in dunkin's hot chocolate? it's my favorite. the best.) and then we ate it in bed and cooper laid in the sunshine and it was such a content, happy moment - the kind that i just live for!

 

coop and i have taken to evening runs at the local park. luckily, he's cute and nice enough that nobody cares that he's never on a leash. i reward him with a few rounds of fetch afterward. he's such a happy dog when he's tired from exercising.

 

this baby girl is just… auh! i don't know that it's possible to love a baby more. she is the sweetest little baby and i'm always so, so happy to see her. she is perfect in every single way. i just love her so much. being an aunt is so rewarding.

 

a couple weeks ago, we went on a sushi date with some friends, and grabbed coldstone after (sushi and ice cream. perfect combo, right?). i got the cotton candy ice cream (duh), but hardly any of their mix-ins go with cotton candy. that is, all except for jimmies. i told the girl i just wanted sprinkles, and she put about 15 on top. ummmmm, no. i told her i wanted more, and she proceeded to carve a giant hole in the middle of my ice cream and filled it with sprikles, totally redeeming herself. it was amazing.

 

 

girl scout cookie season! this is actually the first year that i bought girl scout cookies, but i've gone back for more already! those girl scouts are just the cutest. oh my gosh. the ones outside the harmon's in the district are my girls. they are so darn cute. i will buy all my cookies from them.

 

sno-balls. hands down favorite hostess product, or probably just treat in general, ever. and now that hostess is gone, or bought or whatever is going on, they are so hard to find. so when i do, i stock up. and when they're bright pink? even better. also? sunny days in march. that's the good stuff.

 

i've got probably the sweetest friends in the universe. even though i've had a tendency to be a horrible friend lately, they love me anyway. they totally get it. that's the greatest. it's so hard to find such genuine friendships as an adult, and i want to write more about that later, but anyway.. on a particularly hellish day a few weeks ago (like, not kidding, it was a cry at work in the bathroom, and then again to your sister on the phone, and then again on the drive home, and then even more to your husband in bed that night kind of bad day), Danica showed up at my work, completely unannounced with a giant-A dirty diet coke, and this shirt as a present. like… what? how do people that nice even exist? i could have cried. i almost did. it was the sweetest gesture. i love that i've got the macaron lady label. i can totally go with that. Danica, you are such a thoughtful friend. seriously. i just love you.

 

my heart just swells when i look at this picture. these are a few of our sunbeams on our "I am thankful for Trees, Plants and Flowers" lesson day. we planted grass in cups, and made flowers out of their hand prints. that little guy in the dead center? he's my buddy. i wish i had the other kids in this photo! they have come to mean so much to me, and i think about them throughout the week, and i get so excited to see them as they all file into the primary room each week, and i genuinely miss them when they aren't there one week. i truly think that devin and i were placed in this calling for a very specific reason. these kids specifically are teaching me so much, and i have loved every minute of it, but i also think i needed to see the gospel in the way it's been laid out for these three year olds. i needed the simplified version. i needed to break it down. it's been so great. i hope we are in sunbeams forever.

 

did i tell you we got a fish? this is lloyd christmas. devin has had several beta fish, but not for awhile and he had mentioned it more than once that he wanted another, so one night we just…went. and got one. and he's the weirdest fish. and cooper loves him. fish are cool.

 

my dog, fabio. goodness gracious, he is so dramatic haha

 

better than ordering online is when your packages come wrapped this cute.

 

since devin and i see each other so little at home, we usually find time in the week to meet for lunch, or i will grab dinner and take it to his work and we'll eat together. this was on one of those dinner runs.

 

try gnarly nutrition. i honestly don't like protein powder. it's got a weird taste and texture. but gnarly? gnarly is different. it's so delicious. this is the vanilla recovery formula and i wish i could drink it all day, every day. it's that good. and i don't even like protein powder. they are local, too.

 

this was taken a few weeks ago and the gym looks so different now, but LOOOOOK! i am so excited about this gym. i've said it before. it's going to be so great on so many levels. momentum has become home for both devin and i. those people are our family. we are so invested in this place. it's been so good to us, and i'm so excited to see what the milcreek gym does for the climbing community! i hope everyone is excited about it.

one word: spring.