ALSO

when i returned from home, zach picked me up from the airport and we got coffee at starbucks (first things first) and THEN WE WENT TO REI AND

I GOT A PATAGONIA BETTER SWEATER. no big deal!!!!!!! i absolutely love it, its so warm. i can't take it off! i've worn it at least once every day since i've gotten it

also this happened when i got back. love that cheech to death. 

lately

i've been so MIA lately, sorry to all my thousands of followers!!! school is eating my soul and sucking out my brain. all i can do is take pictures of life and put it on here. maybe soon i will be a real person, who knows!

this is from the walk the moon show we went to! such an amazing energetic fun show!!!!

zach, zoei and i all went camping at san elijo a few weekends ago! it was just what we needed. we saw sunsets,  put our toes in lots of ocean waves, ate hotdogs and smores and just enjoyed the outdoors. it was perfect. 

also one day me and zach were wearing basically the same thing, but it was on accident.

we got to see our good friend paul greg a few weeks ago! we walked around san clemente, went to some surf shops and of course, the candy store! and we also saw the sunset on the beach!

then. we had friendsgiving at jeremiahs house! 

then. i got on an airplane and flew home for the week for thanksgiving! being with my family was so so great, i haven't seen them since summertime! i love the bay and san francisco and everything about northern california!

mal, her rooomate lainey and i hiked up a mountain to see the sunset on thanksgiving, it was beautiful. (If you can't tell, i'm really into sunsets lately. i love em, can't get enough)

of COURSE i loved the weather, perfect fall weather!

thats been my life lately! oh yes, and a million pillion trillion pounds of reading and projects and studying and writing papers and planning presentations. but i refuse to document that.

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i have realized something. i am a natural avoider. with mostly every problem that comes my way, my instinct is to push it to the back of my mind and my schedule and just not deal with it. when an assignment is due that i haven't had time to do, my instinct is to just skip class for the day. or when i get frustrated with zach, (sometimes) i just try to stop thinking about it because i don't want a fight.
but its not good!!!!! i am learning that it is not good to do that and i am also learning to not do that.  yikes

Today we hiked up a mountain to see the sunset. it was freezing outside and the hike was hard but so worth it to get to the top of that mountain! i like going on adventures with zach, its my favorite kind of date.

lately

favorite coffee place with zo and christy

julie's bachelorette weekend!

meghan lynn riedmiller

day in julian!

family (in julian)

pretty mountain stuff

  

my man (and that wonderful facial hair)

barn/best friends'wedding

love these with my whole heart.

caterpillar fights with dallas (he's like 19 feet tall, so he won)

joshua family. so much love.

oh boy

ELECTION TIME STRESSES ME OUT. Facebook is blowing up with crazy emotional psycho dramatic posts. people are arguing and disputing and hating on each other and the candidates. it really bothers me when people are so disrespectful of the president. even if he is not someone you don't agree with or don't love having in office, we are called to respect him and submit to his authority, because he has been placed there for a reason.

i'll be honest, i'm pretty glad romney did not win the election. i'm not necessarily thrilled that obama won but i am sure that there is a God that is all good and is in control. despite the democrats taking it again! imagine that. this election didn't take God by surprise and he has a plan and a purpose for the United States. and that is something to take comfort in! woohoo

i am so emotional right now. i am listening to this song on repeat--it was the first dance song at julie and tc's wedding---and he was singing it to her in her ear. (!!) so i am listening to it and crying and looking at wedding pictures and crying and reminiscing at how beautiful and love filled that whole day was and crying and thinking and praying for them. a few tears were shed.

i love love. and i love that i got to be a part of julie & tc's day. and as much as it embarrasses me, i love that i have emotions, a lot of them. 

this is just something i want to remember

tonight at the flood, after a really good sermon about forgiveness, singing amazing grace, i got really emotional. at first it was just the song and the people around me that was gettin to me but then i noticed there was a guy a few rows up, that was yell screaming the words so intensely, tears streaming down his face. and that is how i know this is all real. that guy is loved by Jesus and has been saved by his amazing grace. and he knows it and is stoked on it. and at that point (i might be suffering from PMS) i couldn't keep it in and i broke down. lotsa tears. happy joyful tears.