Five More Things That Made Me Smile

1. This song. I absolutely love it. I tend to Shazam a lot of songs so I remember to put them on my Spotify playlists and I must have heard this song once and liked it. I was listening to music the other day and the song came on and I started to really listen to the lyrics. It has an awesome message and I fell in love with this band and immediately added a whole bunch more of their songs to my playlist!

Kutless - What Faith Can Do

2. Last Saturday I coached a bunch of my former players (and a couple new ones) in a 4v4 tournament. I love coaching these kids and we had a good time, even though it was super hot out!

Both teams and me before the games

3. On Monday, a friend texted me and said she had an extra ticket to the Boyz II Men, 98° and New Kids On The Block concert and asked if I wanted to go. I said sure, why not? We ended up having a blast and it was hilarious watching the guys do all their old boy band moves on stage! I have to say, some of them aged VERY nicely ;)

Top to Bottom: Boyz II Men, 98°, and New Kids On The Block

4. I went up to the quarry nearby with my friend Jen and we had a great time laying out, swimming, and just generally hanging out. (And she also let me do my laundry at her house. Thanks, Jen!) We had to leave the quarry a little earlier than we wanted to because of a crazy rainstorm, but afterwards the sun shining through the clouds was too beautiful to not capture!

The sunshine after the rain

5. On Saturday I get to see one of my favorite people get married! Bri was a rock for me all through college and I don't know what I would have done without her some days! She was always there for me when I needed a hug, some advice, spiritual help, a shoulder to cry on, and even once a floor to sleep on. She will be a beautiful bride I'm sure and I'm so excited to share the day with her!

And old but awesome picture of Bri and me at a UC football game

Five Things That Made Me Smile

Instead of writing something super prophetic today, I decided to keep it simple and just share some fun and awesome things from my life recently. So here you have it, the things that made me smile this week!

1. I volunteered at my church's Vacation Bible School for the first time this year and I had an absolute blast hanging out with my group of five little girls all week. The week went by way too fast in my opinion! I can only console myself with the fact that in a week and a day I leave for Camp Otyokwah for a week to staff junior week!

Four of the little ones

All five of my little girls!

2. Tomorrow I get to coach some of my little soccer players in a 4v4 tournament. I won't get to coach most of my kids again this year as some of them made different teams and I will be coaching different age groups, so I'm super excited to see them tomorrow! I'm taking two teams, one group from my youngest team and one from the older group of little ones. Plus we ordered some super cool t-shirts, so we'll be styling!

All three of my teams from the fall

3. New manicures. There is just something I find so fun about painting my nails. I don't wear a lot of jewelry and the stuff I do wear is very simple. I dress and do my hair and makeup pretty simply too, so doing fun things to my nails is always a fun way for me to show some personality. This week I went with a pale purple with a little bit of glitter!

essie play date with OPI Which is Witch? accent nail

4. I got to see some of my extended church "family" way more this week because of VBS and it was wonderful! I miss getting to see the Lehman's all the time, and once a week is barely cutting it for me! I loved talking with Rachael every day and seeing my little Kasen punk every evening when VBS was done. Getting hugs and kisses from that little dude will never get old, and my favorite thing is when he yells "I LUB YOU TIFFY!" 

Kasen and me after VBS

5. Last night my roomie and I had a campfire and made s'mores! It was comical watching her and her friend trying to light the fire but then we got it going (once I stepped in and used my old Girl Scout skills haha) and had an awesome time sitting around eating s'mores and just spending some time with each other. Campfires are one of my favorite things about summertime!

I build a darn good fire

It's been a pretty good week here! I'll try to post some more next week and I'll hopefully have some pictures of my girls from tomorrow! Next Saturday I get to see one of my best friends get married and then I'm off to camp for a week, so I'm sure I'll have lots to share after all of that! Have an awesome first day of summer!