Everyday Pearls: Weekly Recap January 31st

Happy Weekend! I decided to start a new weekly series called Everyday Pearls. Looking back on posts I realized I tend to do huge everyday photo dumps every couple months or so. This is a way to prevent that, and hopefully y'all will like it!

I moved in to my new apartment this past weekend. It's definitely been an adjustment, but I'm so happy to be living with one of my best friends. I'm almost done putting my room together, I just MB to do a couple things when he visits next week!

Sneak peak!

Transitioning back to Green Bay has been a lot more rocky than I expected. I basically stepped away from my life in Green Bay for 8 months, and coming back has been really emotional. Things are similar, and they are very different. Thank goodness for my sisters though. 

I open at my job 4 days a week, so I've been creating my morning & night routines. Look for a post coming soon on how I structured my mornings and nights! 

Thursday night my roomie JP, one of our other sisters and I headed to the Brad Paisley concert at the Resch Center in Green Bay!

CC (A new sister), JP & I!

Oh Hey Parmalee

If you get the chance to go to a Brad Paisley Concert, DO IT. Easily one of the best shows I've been to. 

My Friday night was pretty boring, I wrote some posts, did some homework and watched the new Shonda shows. 

Can't believe that this is what my planner looks like during the first week of school. What happened to syllabus week?

This weekend I'm picking up some extra shifts at work, catching up with sisters and getting ahead on my reading. 

How many weeks have you been at school? I'm not nearly as ready as I thought I was to be in four upper level courses! 

xoxo

Weekend Recap

Happy Monday y'all! If you like stories, you're in for a good one. 

This weekend I headed down to Des Moines to visit MB for his fraternity's date night. We had a great time! We went ice skating, out to dinner and then went to a coffee shop after. I really enjoyed getting to know MB's fraternity brothers, even though we barely survived MB's driving.

The only nice picture I got. 

Sunday morning I left around 10 and was planning a couple hour break in Madison to visit with KG and AD. Well my car Lucy had other ideas. Thirty minutes out  of Des Moines, I had to pull over to the side of the road. Multiple phone calls to my daddy, Triple A, and MB a tow truck was on its way. One of MB's fraternity brothers picked me up and drove me back to their campus. 

My dad then came to pick me up and we drove back to Milwaukee. This morning my grandfather drove me back to school so that I wouldn't have to miss my 8 am class. 

Thankfully my car "Lucy" is just fine, and fixed!

The moral of this story is friendship and family. MB's friends, my friends and family made this experience very bearable. Also, I would have never been able to handle this with a pessimistic attitude. My optimistic attitude definitely helped!

 How was your weekend?

xoxo

Fall Wishlist

I just said it, fall wish list! It is too chilly here in WI for me to event think about summer clothes, and fall is my favorite season!

1//I seriously need Hunter Boots. Between the rain and snow in Green Bay there would be perfect. I just have to convince myself to buy them!

2// New riding boots. Mine are worn, and I want these Steve Madden ones.

3// Sweaters, Sweaters & More Sweaters. (And some cardigans) I have a feeling I am going to have a staple look this fall, and it's going to involve sweaters and my chambray shirt. I'm hoping Gap has some cute sweaters for me to layer this season (ps HUGE sale going on right now, check it out!)
4//Anything Lilly Pulitzer Tusk in Sun is perfection. If only it was in purple, it would be my print for life!
5// I got this shoe in brown & black. I had the brown pair for a year & a half until they had holes in them. They are the perfect flat from Steve Madden

What is on your fall wish list? 

xoxo
aVe
PS. You can tell that I love shoes. 

Washington and Oregon Recap

Hump day, hump day:)

Here is a recap of my 10 day trip out to Oregon and Washington!

We started out July19th at 4:00 am. My younger brother actually woke up,got dressed, grabbed his bag and pillow and walked out to our Suburban and went back to sleep. We drove 17 hours that day all the way into Billings, Montana. The next day we drove to Pasco, Oregon.
Sunday we finally arrived in Canon Beach, OR after 2, 119 miles of driving. We spent the next 3 days surrounded by family!

Monday, we got up bright and early to go check out tide pools! My favorite species we got to see were the puffins, but they were so high up on Haystack Rock that you couldn't see them without a telescope!

Monday we walked around downtown Canon Beach, it was really quaint!
Tuesday some of the family got up at 6 and went clamming, I however did not because my bed was too warm!
 Tuesday we went Kayaking up the coast about 30 miles around an island in the middle of a bay. It was a lot of fun! Unfortunately, I got sun burn pretty badly, and part of me looked like I colored on myself with a red marker. Thank goodness for aloe. I had a great time and hung out with relatives I haven't really spoken to before.

Tuesday night we had our culminating banquet! I'm sure many of you are wondering what kind of reunion is this? 3 days long? Well it is a reunion for all of the descendents of my great great great- grandparents John & Anna. They had 8 children who lived long enough to have families. My siblings and I are fifth generation. This reunion was the 10th reunion we've had. I am so blessed to have the opportunity to know about my heritage, and know  a good portion of my family.

Wednesday morning we got up and drove to Seattle. We got to eat dinner with my mom's good friend, her husband and her one year old. My siblings and I had fun playing with her one year old who was adorable!

Thursday we explored Seattle, including the Space Needle, Monorail,  and Pike's Public Market.
Pikes Market was fun! We got peaches and cherries, fresh donuts and a picture with a scary looking fish. I also picked up this print for my dorm. We used to get t-shirts, but I think as I've grown up I appreciate some form of art more.

myself, my younger sister aVj & aRv my little brother (yes all of our names start with A) 

aVj & I in front of the original Starbucks!
That night we headed to Safeco Field to watch the Mariners play the Twins. While I'm a Brewers fan myself, my mom and grandparents are fans of the Twins. It was pretty fun!

We drove Friday and Saturday, stopping in southwestern Minnesota to visit my great-grandfather, and finally heading home Sunday morning. Sleeping in my own bed by myself was heaven!

A HUGE thank you to my blogging friends who guest blogged for me this past week! It was a huge time saver for me! 

Where have you been/going this summer? I have 29 days until I'm back at school. I am ready to go back to my life at school!

Stay tuned as to why you should read Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In

xoxo
aVe

Memorial Day Weekend

I can't believe that it is Memorial Day Weekend already!
Normally I would have been on my way to the debate national tournament this weekend, but I finally get the chance to go up north to my grandparents' house with the rest of my family!

I will be bringing up some reading a little bit of my summer course homework.
I can't wait to wake up to the sun over the lake, and my family!

While it's supposed to be cold, I am still looking forward to being out on the boat!

What are you doing this memorial day weekend? 

Enjoy yourself

xoxo

AV