{dress is via rent the runway – Rebecca Taylor’s “meteor shower gown”  // jewels are via rocksbox }
turning 31 today!

thirty one!  that seems so much older than thirty.  i’m not just dipping my toes in my thirties, i have arrived (:

So how about thirty one things I’ve learned?

1.  I probably look better as a blonde than as a brunette.  right?  Future self, stop going brunette.  

I know you’ll do it anyway… 

2.  growing old really is a privilege.  never have i ever felt this more since Tuck arrived in this world – to watch him (and soon Wes) grow, to maybe be a grandma one day – it is nothing but a blessing.

I’ll take all the gray hairs and wrinkles they give me.  

3.  I married the best human being in the whole entire world.  hands down.  

4.  marriage isn’t that much hard work.  but maybe i’m doing it wrong.  or maybe that comes later?  #famouslastwords

5.    always be the one that smiles instead of the one that side eye’s.

6.  trials are really blessings in disguise.  i could have never said my surgeries were blessings when I was in pain, scared, and living in a hospital.  But it is/was.  

Helped me have some grit, and a whole lot of perspective.  which are priceless.  

7.  you can stop worrying now.  God is bigger than every worry on our minds.

still learning this.

8.  a good concealer is your BFF.  this is my favvvvorite in the history of concealers btw.

9.  best beauty product?  sleep and water.  at least i drink a lot of water these days (;

10.  there is really nothing better than watching your husband and your baby napping together.  

11.  The beach cures what ails you.

12.  even when life feels really rotten – it’s not.  best to count your blessings.
13.  fam and friends are make life.  invest in them.
14. this quote is so true:  “you can be the ripest, juciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches”
15.  dogs simultaneously drive me crazy and make my life so much better.
16.  you’ll get your masters and you’ll start a business.  and then you’ll be a stay at home mom.  and you’ll be pretty pumped about that last part.
17.  your twenties are definitely not for playing it safe.  i probably shouldn’t be saying this since my husband is in finance.  But I think it’s fine to start investing late twenties/early thirties.
travel while you are footloose and fancy free.   save later (;