Crystal Creek

Sometimes I forget where I actually am. I LIVE in Australia now..I'm not just visiting. Today I got to take it all in and go swimming at a place called Crystal Creek and it was so beautiful. I loved every minute of it and it helped me appreciate this opportunity I have been blessed with.



This is one of my new found friends who took us today :)

Where are you Kate?

I am not a fan of this picture of me up top. I look like I'm going to have a baby (And I'm not...YET) But it is what our base is doing right now to restore the eyesight of people in Papa New Guinea. It's an awesome cause.

This is one of my new skirts from Cotton on.

Today has been an alright day. I woke up and rode my bike in the rain to the thrift store and found 3 new skirts and 2 new shirts for 5 dollars. There was a 60 cents bin. How awesome.

Then I had to work for a little while which consisted of watching Aliens in the Attic. And my roommate just got home from doing an outreach all around Australia.

Shutter Island

I can't stop thinking about how good Shutter Island was. Leonardo Decaprio is such a good actor. I've never seen a movie of his I didn't like. Especially Revolutionary Road.

Today has been good so far. I'm going to do an outfit post later today but I got the sweetest compliment. I was told I looked "very Audrey Hepburn" Very nice!

Also someone put some headbands from Thailand in my mailbox, I Think because I stalk the mail room for a package from my mom. There really cool. And yesterday I went shopping with my $50 gift card to cotton on and I got 2 new sweater things and a new skirt and 3 new headbands. All for so cheap.

C'mon C'mon

I want to go home.

I want a care package.

I am not amused but at least my hair is growing out.

My bodies a Zombie for you

I went to the markets last night I finally got one of my favorite things in the world. I wanted to start collecting them for years but they were always so expensive.

I had a good night last night, I just watched Bridget Jones Diary alone. It's amazing how much her and I have in common. Until later at night when I went to bed my allergies were so bad that I woke up sobbing. My eyes were swollen and I couldn't breathe so Trey took care of me and put my eye drops in along with holding ice packs on my eyes and then rubbed my belly.

Here are some pictures we took, we went to this awesome cemetery. While being there it reminded me of the band Dead Mans Bones that Ryan Gosling from the Notebook created. He seems super normal but he is in fact quite bizarre. The whole album is based off of a Haunted house he went in.

A time of giving.

Today I found this awesome skirt for free in this pile of clothes that this girl was giving away. Along with the tank top and a bunch of other tank tops that were perfectly good! It was so awesome. And I made a pact with myself and God today that if someone gives me something new I have to give one thing away. So I packed up a bunch of my clothes and took them over to my friend Rachel's and it was meant to be! Everything fit her and I was so excited to make her happy.

I cleaned our whole house down yesterday. Made a pasta bake tonight that was sooo delicious. And then did our laundry. I am turning into quite the house wife.

Life is good. God is good. My husband is good. And realizing that Courtney Mason is my best friend is Great!

Drinks Dranks. I love you

Valentines day was fun. In the morning woke up to some yellow roses and the movie knocked up because Trey says "I wanna have a baby" then we went to the thrift store. Then we watched movies and ordered a pizza and dreaded Treys hair all day. My little fingers are exhausted.

But later that night we went to get drinks with our German friends. It was a nice time.

Shirt from forever 21, boots surf shop, skirt from Urban outfitters, Sweater from f21

I'm here

I had a great day today. I gave myself one hundred percent to hanging out with the youth street kids and they had fun.

Tomorrow is Valentines day. I get two gifts.

I think I'm going to wear this.

Boots from a surf shop in Australia, Rodarte Dress from Target.

I'm feeling my creative juices flowing. Before we left Ohio we were crocheting all the time because my lovely husband taught me how. I got awesome yarn before we left and haven't finished the hat I started.

And yesterday I painted my nails this awesome color that I would never normally use.

My eyes burn. Howard Stern.

I woke up today looking like this..

Pink eye? Allergies? I don't know what you are, but you itch.

But good news is today my friend Rachel went to the food bank and came back with a bunch of vitamin water for me, I've been dying for them since we got here but there way more expensive then back in the states.

Here are some pictures someone on base took of me and Trey before we went swimming this weekend.

My husband is such a stud.

I wish I had more to talk about but I don't.

Bummer.

Listen to pursuit of happiness by kid cudi.

Great Day

Today was an all around good day. I woke up with only a few hours of sleep because for some reason Trey and I haven't been sleeping very well. I wake up every few minutes and toss and turn. He even went out to sleep on the couch last night. But then I went to worship and one of my new great friends Selena told me that God had a word he wanted her to tell me and it was so great! She told me that I can hear Gods voice and that I shouldn't ever doubt it because when he speaks he means it. And that now I just have to figure out the difference between his voice and my own.

I basically had kitchen duty alone today and it was nice just to get a lot of stuff done.

Now Trey and I are watching The lady in the Water and it's pretty good.

I'm working on no longer grumbling, today it went very well :)

Listen to Black river kill by Blitzen Trapper! So good.

And I'm in the mood to bless someone. I think it's from God so I'm just praying about it until the time is right.

Good Morning Scarecrow

Today something funny happened. I took down the laundry yesterday off the line and since we live in a community there are always a million different peoples clothes hanging as well. And Trey got dressed and halfway through our day we realized that he was wearing someone else's underwear. I laughed so hard.

We decided on how we are going to spend our Valentines day this year. He bought me the boots which I'm going to post yet another picture of because I am soooo obsessed and I'm going to get him this dread wax that he wants and then dread his hair for him. Since our roommate will be out of town for two weeks we will have the house to ourselves so Trey is going to make me dinner and I'm going to buy an ice cream cake for dessert.

Today I was thinking about how my mom and dad always bought us something on Valenti

nes day and how my favorite year I got the LFO cd. I was such a weird kid, but its awesome to always have parents who support you.

Heres a look at what my new room looks like.

I'm trying to make it home as best as possible, and I'm having a hard time keeping it clean now that it isn't just me living in it. We have soo many fans in the room because at the moment we don't have an air-con. Ohh the joys of being in 90 degree weather.

My Valentine

My lovely husband bought me my Valentines day present today! Rather than waiting. He was going to buy me a fish to keep me company but I wanted these for so long, we figured that they would be about the same price in the long run.

I have been wanting these for so long.

:):):):)

This weekend was great. I felt like I really live here and I wasn't sad at all.

I just want to do an early post of how much I love my husband. I couldn't have asked for a better valentine & I'm so excited to spend the special day with him as my husband! (This will be our first one.)

Growing Pains

I went to the grocery today and now I'm snacking on some Baba-Ganouj. It's so tasty and I got a POM tea. (Just like being home)

THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD HAPPENED TODAY.

Just as an insider I am in the middle of nowhere in Australia and I found online that in May, mind you thats when my birthday is. That there is a music festival in the town that I am currently living.

GUESS WHO WILL BE THERE.

Only the greatest: Tegan and Sara, Architecture in Helsinki, Empire of the Sun, Spoon, And Vampire weekend. (There's a lot more but those are just the ones I'm so pumped on)

I saw Tegan and Sara awhile back with my best friends at Bogarts in Cincinnati, Ohio and they were incredible and did an encore of Living room. My favorite song by then.

Trey has agreed that although the tickets are

pricey thats what were doing for my birthday this year and we will be purchasing them next week.

What a great husband I have!

Oh and ps. its Box Jellyfish season here. They're so cool looking..but fatal.

And I'm a freak and google things just to make myself worry more.

Meet Me in Outer-Space

Feel better babygirl.

Thank God for skype.

Tonight I saw the faces of my beloved Courtney Mason, Taylor Frommeyer, & Alison Ellis (plus her budlight) It made me feel astatic.

It makes me feel better knowing that sometimes when I'm bored that its okay because so are they.

I've got to put my heart into it.

Tonight I finally realized that if I don't open my heart I'm going to never feel better.

I've committed to this so I need to go at it whole heartedly.

I'm going to do something to mark the day I put to rest my bad attitude and list things that I'm really, really grateful for..

-My lovely husband and the past 4 years that I've gotten to know everything about him.

-His efforts in always making me happy. Even if that means eating McDonalds with me every day.

-My kind hearted, great mom for letting me be who I want, no ma

tter how weird that was.

-My lovely sister.

-Both my puppies.

-My new flat and all the gifts people have to given to make this home.

-My dad, for always making me laugh.

-The opportunity to start fresh in Australia...but always having Ohio as my home.

-The spiritual guidance and great friendship I get from my best-friend Courtney.

-Never being able to understand Hannah Johnson, but loving her enough not to care.

-The love hate relationship I have with Taylor. (mostly love)

-Sleep

-A personal God

-Laughter

-Swimming on hot days

-Plants for making my house more homey.

-Gay night clubs to go dancing at with Kyle

-Harry Potter, Perks of being a wallflower, An egg on three sticks

-Fireworks

-Alison for being so different from me but being there not matter what I needed.

-Broken social scene.

-The game Clue (& game nights with Becki and Drew)

-But most of all I can't say enough, I'm so thankful for Trey and the wisdom he shares, and the truth he speaks. And how encouraging he is to me.