I made a new friend at the Malibu beach the other day!
We were just laying out basking in the sun when an older man came over with his pet alpaca and two dogs. She was very sweet and kept making a purring type noise when I pet her, so hopefully that was a happy noise! The owner wasn't quite sure what her various noises meant yet because he hasn't had her very long.
Miss Alpaca was so sweet and adorable, and I'm just now realizing I never asked her name. Oops! Anyway, just a silly unexpected experience on a beach in Malibu!
Guess who totally forgot she had a blog? This girl!
I mean, it's 2019, nobody really reads blogs anymore anyway, but I really enjoyed documenting life through here.
Birthday week is upon us! I'll be 27 this Thursday and that's so crazy to me! No matter how much I don't want to, I just keep getting older and I really don't know how time is flying by so fast! Didn't I just turn 26 like 3 months ago? Wasn't I just 22 last year?
This year I'm going to Disneyland for my birthday because I'm truly still an 8 year old at heart. An 8 year old with a credit card! :)
I'm excited! I love Disneyland and although I was just there in the Spring, I'm excited to go back! It will already be decorated for Halloween and I've never been there while it's decorated for a holiday so I'm excited for that!
So here's to my last few days being 26! It was a really good year and I'm extremely grateful for it and the adventures I had!
Here's to making 27 even better than all the others combined!
My wandering heart has been aching to go out on a road trip again. I've been really reminiscing about the road trip I went on in the fall and it's making me want to head back out again. I didn't get to explore pretty much any of the South so I think it would be fun to do a Southern U.S. trip this time around!
I would love to see Florida, New Orleans, Georgia, the Carolinas, and those swampy mossy style trees! I'm absolutely terrified of alligators but it would be kind of neat to see those too from the complete safety of a tour. :)
On my last trip, I pretty much just went as far south as Virginia Beach and then I cut back across the U.S, stopping to see my dear friends in Nashville, and then my brother's family in Oklahoma.
And as crazy as this may seem to some of you, I kind of really miss sleeping in my car. I know that sounds insane, but it was just so oddly comforting! I never thought I could ever sleep so comfortably and peacefully in my car, in the middle of some random city, in a parking lot, but oh man was it just so cozy! Don't get me wrong, I love my queen size bed too, but there's just something about the adventure of it all that my heart has been longing for lately!
A little Spring road trip may be just what I need... :)
This is the second year that I've picked a focus word for the year. My dear friend Phillip introduced me to the idea last New Year's Day that instead of writing a typical New Year's Resolutions list, to choose one word that you want to be the center focus for that upcoming year. I really love that sentiment, so together at brunch, we all picked our words.
Last year my word was DELIBERATE. I wanted to really focus on being intentional with my time and just how I spent it, and to really focus on being present in each moment.
This year I chose the word COURAGEOUS.
I feel like there are just so many things I want to do in life but fear sometimes stops me from attempting those things. I want to focus on being more courageous in life, and realize that it really is okay to fail. It's okay to take chances. It's okay to try new things and be bad at it the first time around. It's okay to be apprehensive about life changes, but I never want that apprehension to stop me from doing the things I want to pursue in life.
So, 2019 will be a year of courage, a year to try new things, a year to live my life fully! As cliche as that may sound. I never want to look back on my life as a "what could have been". I want to take chances, and make changes, and be courageous.
