Dear Follower,

I have a follower!!! I am so excited!! Yes, it is you Lisa that I am talking about! I am so happy that you wanted to follow my lowly and slightly boring blog! I apologize for not updating very often! I love reading your blog so much, and I am so excited that you have decided to try adoption! I love adoption and I am so ecstatic that your dream is going to come true! I believe and know in my heart that you are going to be an amazing mother! I believe that through these trials you are learning more and more about how much a mother truly loves their child!


Thanks again Lisa for being my first follower! I haven't advertised my blog simply because I don't really have enough time to devote to it. I love your comments and I love you!

Craft Blog Obsession Confession

Well for any of you who know me, you may know that I am an avid craft blog follower.  Savannah Garcia at Pitter-Patter got me hooked! I have now passed on the guilty pleasure to my sister who has also become a fan of these ever growing craft blogs.  I seriously can not stop, and don't plan to in the near future.  I love seeing all of the crafts for weddings, home interior, baby (not anytime soon) stuff, and much more...oh my gosh it is just unbelievable.  If you need any for starters just look in my profile at the ones I follow on a regular basis.  There are so many more that I love, but I can not remember the URL's for all of them!  Well I wanted to share a few of the crafts that I have tried from many different sites.  I will be attempting more as this semester ends, because I have absolutely no time for craft projects right now.  Well I hope you enjoy, and I apologize for not having the proper links to where I got the ideas.  I hope you enjoy these as much as I have. (If anyone is even reading, which I doubt!)

This is how I asked each of my bridesmaids (and flower girls) if they would be in my wedding! I mailed them out, and each responded with such excitement!

These may make a reappearance later (much later) in some wedding photos. I hope to be making a ton more of these for the wedding!

I made this clipboard for my niece for Christmas this past year. She is six and loves to play school and waitress, so I thought this would be perfect! I simply modge-podged scrapbooking paper to the cheap (97 cents) clipboard and added stickers and a ribbon for finishing touches.

I made this hairbow holder for my one year old niece for Christmas.  I used an old picture frame, spray paint, ribbon, a staple gun and 'presto' a beautiful and unique hairbow holder!

Snow Storms and Lazy Days

Doesn't snow just make you want to be lazy?!?! And that is exactly how I have spent this weekend! Friday we had a good mini-blizzard here in Kentucky (around 5 to 7 inches), and so a little round of sledding was in order.  After much persuasion I was able to convince Mr. Soon-to-be Splendid into sledding with me (and our best friends!) It wasn't as much fun as it could have been, we lack much sledding experience, but it was fun to play in the snow while it was here. Saturday was a complete lazy day, except for the hour I spent with Tony from P90X.  Which, by the way, I am now regretting due to my sore body! (I swear it hurts all over!) But today the snow is currently melting away and looking dreary... causing my day to be even lazier than yesterday. I don't see how that is possible. 
Here are a few pictures from my balcony (at my not so nice apartment!):

I love the little mushroom shape on the table in the picture above!!

Well that's all for now, until next time!

(Which may be later on today, I want to upload some of my craft pictures!)

The beginning...

    Hello blog world! I am Rachael....your everyday average college senior who is in search of learning more about herself before she enters 'the real world'.  Yesterday was my first field placement seminar and we were instructed to use a daily log of our experiences within our internship. (Insert light bulb moment) And I thought, why not keep a log of my experiences within my own life (especially through this very important and transitional year).
   And so it begins...  I am guilty of beginning projects and not finishing them; however, I pledge allegiance to the blog world that I will not give up!  I am hoping that this will be an opportunity for me to release some of my inner thoughts and anxieties about my everyday happenings and help me see them more clearly and objectively. 
    I currently have a pretty full plate of responsibilities, and I am hoping that this blog will help me be more accountable to each one.  Today I begin my field placement in the Aging Services sector of an Area Development District; this in and of itself is causing me much anxiety and an uneasy stomach.  I am a senior in college majoring in social work and minoring in gerontology, and while the idea of graduating is the only thing that is keeping me going, it is also one of my biggest (and most secret) fears. I have always been a great student and I am scared that that is it. I am scared that that is all I am good at. (I know not a very good student, ending my sentence in a preposition. shame shame!)
    I am also currently planning the happiest day of my life....my wedding! I am so excited and yet so scared.  From the time my fiance and I began dating I dreamed of our wedding day (and even secretly began planning about a year ago!), but now that the time is here...I am out of this world stressed!  I pray that it all comes together and that it all goes smoothly.  I am sure that every bride out there has the same insecurities as me: money; finding the perfect dress (that is affordable); money; catering delimmas; money; finding ways to trick your fiance into wanting to plan; and oh did I say...money?
    So there they are...my biggest worries: school, graduating, and wedding planning.  Oh, and on top of all that I work two jobs and I am a mentor for an online mentoring program....sheesh...you may need a nap after this stressful, long, and boring post; I apologize.  Well then again, I don't. Sorry to be an indian giver of apologies, but I am beginning this blog for myself.  I am hoping to use this as 'me time': to write about my days as a fiancee, a daughter, a sister, a friend, and a student.