photos! yeahhh photos!

tonight i was looking through old photographs because i'm in the process of making a gift for the family i work for. i came across some of will and me, and because going through old photos is a favorite thing to do, i thought i'd post some.

burlington nights.

the knudsey wedding

 this photo made me remember all of the nights in burlington we would sneak away to watch the sunset, or walk on the lake or just sit on a bench and talk. i miss burlington so much.

we had a lot of crap moments after i returned from france...but i remember this day as a really good day.

party at nate's not that long after we first started dating.

camel's hump

this photo reminds me of camping that weekend, and how i convinced will we should go canoeing even though there were huge waves and the wind knocked us in crazy directions. he was so in love with me that weekend. hah. 

before a concert. this concert was so.so.so awesome. i never wanna forget it. also, i know he looks so drunk but he hadn't even had a drop to drink. he just does weird shit with his eyes to mess with me.

will's baby brother lived with us for like a year. the cute boy on the left is him...and the only person that is going to stand up with us when we get married. besides will, my favorite part of will is cameron. always has been that way. i really, really love him.

back in college when we would only see each other once a month or so. some really sweet memories from this time.

CALIFORNIA! ROAD TRIP! BEST TIME EVER!

right before i left for france. this was such a good, good weekend.

le sigh. i love love love looking through photographs. also i need to get better at doing it, because lately i don't take ANY and i have nothing from the past year except random and useless photos that go on instagram. cripes. 

last of beantown

i have five days left. FIVE. my last day of work is friday, but because it's st patrick's day weekend (and i believe the best place to be if you can't be in ireland on st. patrick's day is, of course, boston) i'm having one last hurrah before heading the heck out of here. this weekend and yesterday and today were absolute shit. i can't even begin to explain the whole situation, so i won't. but let me just tell you that I CANNOT WAIT TO GET OUT OF HERE. 


oh and i just realized that i get to experience two spring seasons this year. that makes me so happy. 

wedding budget

the average cost of an american wedding is just about 27k. 

holy balls.

just some of the ways in which we are cutting that number way down:

--growing/raising our own food

--borrowing tables

--haybales for seating (farmers in the family=free)

--thrift stores for tablecloths, plates, etc.

--making our gifts

--wedding and reception on family land

--picking wildflowers for flowers

--made our own save the dates, invites and thank-you notes

--ipod and speakers and one great wedding mix (this might sound terrible to some, but it'll be great. i promise.)

note: in the link above, you don't see the insane amount of money that others spend. having once spent over five hundred dollars on a wedding myself, the average cost should be much, much higher. a friend once told me she spent well over a thousand on a friend's wedding. yup. 

one of the ways in which will and i are working to off-set that cost: we've decided against a wedding party. we will honor our friends in a special way during the ceremony, but we are not requiring anything extra from them. the travel time and cost as well as the days off from work? way too much as it is. 

so there you go. budget stuff. 

enjoy yourself this weekend!

being awesome

Willy P came down this weekend to Boston. It was alright. We mostly just hung out in my bedroom and watched movies and ate healthy food and made out a lot. I've been sick for the past month and Will decided enough was enough and made me eat kale by the bowlful and sweet potato and grapefruit and basically just made me sleep ridiculous hours and guess what? I think it actually worked! I feel so much better. Thank God. 


Anyyyway. 


I've got a pal who had a wee babe six months ago. The fact that she had a baby has nothing to do with what I'm about to write about, I just like the kid a whole lot. Anyway, she was recently talking about how she wants to live more in the right now and how it's easy to become caught up in what we dream of and wish for without looking at and appreciating how awesome the present is (well, hopefully how awesome it is). This is a pretty easy cycle to get caught up in...constantly looking forward to what's next instead of what we have right in front of us. It's definitely something I thought a lot about this past year living in Boston. Turns out I'm not even a teeny tiny bit a city girl. I wanted to discover this for myself, of course, but you probably knew that if you know me. I love love love visiting, but living in one is an entirely different thing. So yeah, this past year I was constantly looking forward to getting the heck out of here. It would have been so much better if we had just focused on the process instead of the eventual. So a few weeks ago, I decided that I was going to make a list of things I wanted to do this year, to focus on what makes me happy and what I want to do. I know that it might seem that making such a list would cause me to look forward more to the future instead of the present, but nope! instead I've been totally motivated to just start enjoying every single day because life is so freaking awesome!! 

All of this from this teeny tiny little silly crafty project I decided to make one day and put on my wall. Huh. 


And no, this is not from Pinterest. Haha :)


-->the photos are kinda bad and i'm not finished with it all because i'm constantly thinking of something new. but there you go christinus! put it on your wall in a place you can see and then every day you'll be reminded to get yo bum out there and live a whole a$$ life. xo!