dance party

I have been known to have a dance party in our kitchen (Alex occasionally joins in) while I'm waiting for dinner to finish cooking or while I'm trying to avoid cooking. However, I have never claimed to be a good dancer. Taylor Swiftypants has a new song out and subsequently a new music video and her (endearingly sarcastic) dancing is reminiscent of my smooth moves. Check it out!

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best friends

I have been incredibly blessed (and lucky) to have some amazing friendships present and past. However, these fella's have lived a much longer life and are still best friends and they're quite funny too. Enjoy this video I stumbled across on youtube. 

santa hustle half marathon

Christmas is my all time, hands down, no doubt about it favorite time of year. I look forward to it all year, every year and this year is no different. Although is it August, I am eagerly anticipating the arrival of the hap-happiest season of all. And this year I'm adding a new Christmas event, The Santa Hustle!

I have signed up for my third half marathon and it's scheduled for December 21st (the Sunday before Christmas)! I am so excited for this race and I think it has something to do with the music to be played, the cookies to be served and the fact that everyone will be given a Santa hat and beard to wear (if they choose) during the race. Alex hurt himself training for our last half, so he won't be running by my side but, he'll be cheering me along. Wish me luck and a Merry Christmas if you see me training, I may need the motivation until the Christmas season arrives!

sunscreen, you scream, we all scream for sunscreen

As summer wraps up and everyone is eagerly anticipating the cooler weather, sunscreen is probably the last thing on our minds. I am notorious for forgetting sunscreen at the beginning of the summer and getting an ugly burn (shame on me, I know). However, by the end of summer it is usually the first step of my beauty routine, especially if I'm going to be spending time outside. I found this video and am vowing to be more diligent with my SPF. Watch it all and see the difference a bit of sunscreen can make!

Enjoy!

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rap songs + road trips

Alex and I enjoy taking road trips; we like the idea of packing up and driving into the wild blue yonder. It's as much as of an adventure as the trip itself. On our latest road trip, we were driving behind a nice, big, white Cadillac Escalade which got us thinking...

Escalades rose in popularity, in part, due to the rap industry. So, we decided that if rappers would rap about driving their electric cars or their Prius', they would be doing the world and environment a big favor. Gone would be the days of boasting about how big and flashy the Escalade is, but rather how quiet and efficient their Prius is.

I think we're going to take this to a record label and see if we can get some traction with this idea. We'll keep you posted. But, if you hear a new song about a compact electric or hybrid, it was our idea.

tips and tricks

If you have an iPhone and don't use it to it's fullest extent like yours truly, {Life}Buzz has complied a list of 20 little known tricks. If you know them all, you're much cooler than I am and can disregard this blog post. Click on the picture below to discover all of these (relatively) new and (semi) useful tips and tricks!

         

Happy Wednesday!

weekend at the lake

To celebrate our anniversary, Alex and I packed our bags and headed north to Michigan. My cousin Tom and his wife Sara have a cabin on a series of connected lakes just south of Ann Arbor. We were very excited to get away and unplug; we had no internet and chose to use our phones sparingly. It was very peaceful and relaxing.

We kayaked, read, cooked together, watched a couple of movies and enjoyed the quiet. On Friday evening Tom, Sara and Markey came out and we went tubing on their boat. I'm not sure who had more fun, Alex and I or Markey. We ate dinner together and got to catch up all evening. It was a fun, restful weekend and now Alex thinks we should get a cabin...maybe someday.

The front and back of the cabin. The hammock (on the left of the picture on the right) proved to be a bit difficult for me to lay in...I didn't fall all the way out but I came pretty close, much to Alex's amusement.