Halloween Memories #TBT

{Day 9}

Best or Worst Halloween Memory #TBT

I never had a great love for halloween. Until I came to college that is. Now I love it and I love dressing up and going out with my friends. In some ways college has turned me into a child more than I ever was before but that's a whole another post in it of itself. 

So since I told you I didn't love halloween until I came to college you may be able to guess that my best halloween memory was last halloween with my college friends. Halloween was on a Thursday last halloween but I didn't actually celebrate it until Friday and Saturday night. That's another thing I love about halloween in college, you celebrate it for the whole weekend. 

I loved that my roommate and I were Batman and Robin because that explains us so well. Plus we had the costume ideas planned since September and we look super cute. It was a great night spent with all of my closest friends. The second night, Saturday night, I went out as an army girl but it was kind of just thrown together and not planned at all. I'm not as proud of that costume as I was the first. 

I really think this weekend was my favorite weekend of the whole entire school year. I remember I was so happy and nothing bothered me. It was just fun all around. 

I'll stick with happy memories for this one.

xoxo,

Lauren 

10 Years From Now

{Day 8}

Letter To Yourself In 10 Years

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I love writing letters to the future me! I think it’s the coolest thing to write a letter and than open in some many years later. You get to see how much has changed in your life. This letter is for 10 years down the road. Ten years! That’s a whole lot of time!

In 10 years I will be 29 years old. By that point I hope to be a nurse with a husband, a few kids, a dog or two, and a nice house. I want to have my life completely together by this point. Honestly speaking it scares me to think about my life 10 years from now. I’ll be 29! Out of college with an actual adult life! That would scare any college student!

Anyway I have a little advice for my future self.

Dear 29 year old Lauren,

          Girl its been 10 years since you wrote this letter! Ten years ago when you were a sophomore in college writing this in your 8am statistics class. The fact that you were even thinking about your life in 10 years scared you especially since you were in the middle of your fun and free life. Twenty-nine seemed so old to you! But I have some advice from the younger Lauren. I'm just not sure how good this advice will be. 

Twenty-nine isn't that old really it isn't. Yeah it's older than the college student but at this point in your life you have what you've been dreaming of since you were a little girl. You are a mom and wife and a nurse! You have a house and your life together. Everything you wanted growing up. 

Now I'm just guessing you have everything together because knowing you you have your life together. You work for what you want and this is exactly what you want. With complete confidence I can tell you that you are a nurse. You have worked so hard to become one so I know that you are a nurse. 

And if you don't have your life together that's ok with me. A lot of this is just big general dreams and life throws things at you that you didn't expect. Plus I know commitment scares you so I wouldn't be shocked if you didn't have a husband. Now if you don't have kids I'd be a little shocked. It's just something you've wanted since you were a little girl. Please have at least one kid by now! 

Really the only things I want for you at the rip age of 29 is to be a happy and healthy nurse. Oh and one kid wouldn't hurt either. 

                                                                                  xoxo,

                                                                                                              19 year old Lauren 

I really hope I come back and look at this when I'm 29 years old and see how true all this is. Maybe I should write myself a reminder to check!

xoxo,

Lauren 

Family Beach Trips

{Day 7}

Best/Worst Vacation

I don’t think I’ve ever had a best or worst vacation. All my vacations are usually to the same spot, the beach right by my house. Well, not right by my house but like an hour and a half from where I live. The only time I’ve been on a plane to go on vacation was to Disney World back in 2007. I guess you could say Disney was my best vacation but I don’t remember it much so I can’t really say how much I loved it. What I can say is I want to go back so, so badly but I don’t see that happening anytime soon.

Since I don’t really have a best or worst vacation I can tell you about a typical vacation for my family growing up. We would go down to the beach and stay in the same hotel every year. My dad’s side of the family would go down together and get rooms next to each other. As a kid it was the greatest thing to have your family on the other side of the wall for a week. You could run two feet and be in your cousin’s room watching a movie.

Our days were spent in the pool and on the beach and our nights on the boardwalk. There would be sand in our beds and toes and it was great. I always had a friend to go on rides with me or to just play with me. I loved it and was sad when it ended. When you have 4 families with a total of 11 kids life gets busy and there’s just no way to schedule a vacation at the same time.

I was able to grab a few pictures before I left my house two weeks ago from our vacations. Sadly I forgot to get some pictures from Disney World but than again those were some really horrible pictures for me. Let’s just say I don’t want people to see me at that time.

xoxo,

Lauren

10 Things I'd Tell Baby Blogging Lauren

{Day 6}

10 Things You'd Tell Yourself When You Started Blogging

1. You will hit speed bumps and writers block at completely random times.

I didn't expect to hit so much writer's block and at such random times! Most of the time I'm not blogging is because I have bad writer's block or at the rare times its because I'm busy.

2. Blogging takes time and lots of it!

I didn't know that blogging would take as much time as it does. I need to spend at least an hour on each blog post and that's just the beginning of it. Some days I will spend hours a day working on blog posts so I am ready for the week.

3. You should really get use to taking pictures. 

I hated pictures and hardly ever took them. Actually I hardly ever take them now! But when you're a blogger you really should take pictures because it makes your posts look good. 

4. When you get inspiration write it down! 

I can't even tell you how many times I've gotten this sudden burst of inspiration and thought I would remember it later. Than later comes and I don't causing me to be really sad. Now I write it down no matter where I am or what I am doing. 

5. Communicate with other bloggers

Comment on their blogs, send them emails, follow them on twitter or any social media, answer the comments they leave on your blog, really anything! I am not the best at this but I try my hardest with my busy lifestyle. 

6. Blog for you and no one else.

If you are blogging because you feel like you have to and not because you want to than your posts won't be good. And you will hate blogging. Do it for you and only you!

7. Schedule post ahead of time.

It will take so much stress off of you and the post will turn out better in the end. 

8. Don't stress of you haven't posted in a while.

People get busy and stressed and stressing about your blog is not going to help you at all. It's ok to take a break. 

9. Write about what interest you.

If you aren't interested in what you're writing about than you won't be happy and it won't end up good. Be pleasant about your blog! 

10. Never give up!

I have started and stopped blogging so many times but in the end I never gave up and I am so glad I didn't. It is so worth everything to be blogging. 

xoxo,

Lauren

Fall Bucket List

{Day 5}

My Fall Bucket List

Visit the pumpkin patch

Drink apple cider

Carve a pumpkin 

Make a gratitude jar 

Diy a halloween costume 

Decorate our window 

Bake bread

Go for a walk 

I have probably one of the simplest fall bucket list. I'm not a huge pumpkin person so I don't go crazy for the pumpkin lattes or pumpkin cookies. I'd be happy just going to a pumpkin patch and carving pumpkins.

xoxo,

Lauren

Birthday Lovin

{Day 4}

Favorite Photo You've Posted On Instagram 

Well I don't post on instagram much but I do have a few favorite pictures. I couldn't just pick one because I love them so much! 

A picture from the One Direction concert with my little sister. For some reason I look really red but trust me when I say that is not what I looked like in real life.  

This is a picture of a group of my friends when we went to the beach. I love this picture because it shows how we really are together, crazy and dysfunctional. 

Now let's move on to the most important part of this post, a birthday shout out to my bestest best friend in the world. 

Happy 20th Birthday Batman! I don't know what I would have done if we hadn't become roommates over a year ago. I like to think that I would be lost in this world and I'd probably be in pieces right now. You are always there for me even when you're mad or upset. I can count on you for anything whether its to make my day better, give me advice, or tell me I look good in my outfit. We get along great and it wasn't until I met you that I had someone to call my best friend. I feel the most happy and comfortable around you and that's what best friends are. 

I hope you have an amazing day and it lives up to your expectations. Party it up and don't let anyone stop you. I'll be here to party with you!

Lots of Love, 

Robin

Now here's a over load of pictures because why not! 

P.S. Her name is not batman I just call her that.

xoxo,

Lauren

The Modern Day Addiction

{Day 3}

One Thing You can't Live Without

The one thing I can't live without is my iPhone. I know, I know it's such a modern thing to say but its the honest truth. The addiction I have to my iPhone is crazy. It's always in my hand even when I'm in class. And yes it is bad that I use it in class and I don't pay attention. I'm trying to break this habit but its been hard so far.

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My iPhone has my whole life on it. I use it to text and call people. I use it to get on twitter, intsagram, bloglovin, and any other social media you can think of. I check all my emails on my phone and I even check my grades on it. Recently I have been adding all my homework and different things to the calendar so I can keep track of them in one place. Since I don't own/use a camera my phone is also the only place I take pictures. I have gone so far as to use my phone to keep track of my period and bank account balance. because I can't sit in silence I use my iPhone for music either on pandora, youtube, or iTunes radio.

So as you can see without my phone I would be lost. Life for me would be so difficult and I'd probably have to carry around a ton of things like a camera, agenda planner, radio, and even a check book.

Since I'm talking about my phone I thought it would be a good idea to do a what's on my iPhone tour. I got the new iPhone 6 the day it came out because I preordered it at 3 am the week before. For those who care, I am in love with it. There really aren't that many difference to me except for the screen size and the weigh. My favorite feature is the fingerprint id and the favorites.

My lock screen. It is a picture of my best friend and I and I love this picture.

First page has the apps I use the most and the background is a picture of me and my best friend its yet another favorite of mine; 

Messages, Calendar, Camera, Clock

Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Settings

The bar at the bottom has Safari, Mail, Phone, and Music

The second page is all the other apps that came with the phone that I use but not all the time

Notes, Reminders, Maps, Calculator 

FaceTime, iBooks, Photos, Weather

iTunes, App Store

The third page is all of the apps I have downloaded in alphabetical order. I am super OCD at these apps. 

A Beautiful Mess, Amazon, Bible, Bloglovin

Checklist, Checklist Folder, Etsy, Flow Free

GorupMe, Netflix, Pandora, Pic Collage

Pink Pad, Pinterest, TD Bank, Two Dots

Yik Yak, Youtube, Zulily

These are the two countdown apps I use

The last page has a junk folder and a folder for different social media for the blog

The junk folder has all of the apps that came on the phone that I can't delete but don't use.

Compass, Voice Memos, Contacts

Sticks, Game Center, Newsstand

Videos, Passbook, Health

Tips, Podcast 

Tumblr, Blogger, Facebook

Facebook Messanger, Gmail, Latergrame 

If you have any questions about any of these apps feel free to ask. They're mostly boring apps because I don't play a ton of games. 

xoxo,

Lauren