cannot wait!

Matt's Mom, Dad, Sister, and our Nephew get to the island this Sunday

I'm super excited
I love having people come stay with us.

We always do lots of fun things.
I know we're going to go out every single day. I'm praying the weather is great.

After they leave, a few weeks later my cousin LESLIE gets to the island. She's moving here with her husband who's in the coastguard. YAY!

I've only been able to hang out with her a couple times our entire lives. Once in Disneyland when I was 2 or 3, another time when I think I was 7 or 8 and she visited for Christmas, and lastly when I was about 15 when she visited one summer. But since then we have kept in touch and can't wait to live near each other!

In preparation for all this fun I will be having this month, I've been shopping like crazy. Since I've lost all the baby weight I have come to realize.. I don't have a lot of clothes. Most of my jeans were still from high school (hey, they were good jeans). The whole time I was pregnant I only bought maternity clothes, and when I went home to California I bought some winter clothes for the cold weather, but other than that.. man that's OVER A YEAR of not shopping for myself (almost 2), and DANG has style changed a bit. I finally converted to skinny jeans via the GAP (took me forever, right?). I got some cool sandals, and lots of tops. Now my seemingly empty closet is starting to look full again. Thank you GAP, Charlotte Russe, Forever 21, and American Eagle. :)

After cutting my hair from being super dooper long, it's way more manageable now, so I'm beginning to get into the habit of styling it more often.

before

after

I feel like a brand new person