bright, shiny new year!

{champagne toast found here}

I always get so excited about the beginning of the New Year. It feels like you get the chance to be anything you want to be, a fresh start for everyone. I really love New Year's Resolutions, this year mine are:

1. Go to Bikram every week.

{I literally haven't been in over a month}

2. Learn to wear {and walk in} high heels.

3. Figure out how to properly use my camera.

{I mean it this time, no more auto setting for this girl}

4. Cook more dinners at home, preferably a la Julia.

{We walked by her house while we were in Paris!}

5. Cover my handsome husband in kisses,

as much as humanly possible.

*I haven't forgotten about my 25 Before 25 list, it's a work in progress.

What are your New Year's Resolutions?

the buried life

what do you want to do before you die?

*i want to travel to all seven continents... i've only got australia and antarctica left to go! who's coming with me?

the time traveler's wife

"We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment." - The Time Traveler's Wife

*please read this amazing book before the movie comes out... you won't be sorry.

vacation, all i ever wanted...

this week is going to be crazy. running around like a chicken with it's head cut off... just trying to wrap everything up before we leave for south america!

*i am unsuccessfully trying to figure out how make backpacking glamorous... two pairs of pants for ten days = not chic.

(image via sfgirlbybay)

25 before 25

25 before 25

1. tell kiwi i love him every. single. day
2. buy fresh flowers once a month
3. go on a wine tour
4. take my grandparents out to lunch
5. take a photography class (actually learn how to use the rebel)
6. cultivate my "french closet"
7. get married (!)
8. read. read. read. (specifically: NPR’s summer reading list and meg’s book club)
9. remember to tell my family how amazing i think they are
10. start going to church again
11. master five new recipes from gourmet (kiwi is getting tired of lasagna)
12. check out artlink first fridays
13. order beautiful, personalized stationary
14. write my grandmother letters, not emails
15. travel to a new country (south america this summer, bali for the honeymoon)
16. put money in our travel fund every month (see above)
17. buy organic
18. find a hobby to replace the void left by rugby ( i really miss playing)
19. go to the opera
20. archive/ organize/ print my photos
21. make it through my first year of dental hygiene school
22. go on a picnic
23. learn to love salads
24. take a salsa dancing class
25. throw a fabulous dinner party

*i can't wait to get started.

(photo via ffffound!)