kayla aimee: only slightly neurotic

Twenty Eight

1. Learn to shoot in manual
2. Plant a fruit and vegetable garden
3. "Do wrong to none" - William Shakespeare
4. Take an overnight trip with Jeff
5. Enter that writing contest you think about entering every year
6. Be a better blog commenter
7. "When in doubt, choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose the work." - Anna Quindlen
8. Make some really good banana pudding
9. Read a book each week
10. Cultivate relationships
11. "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." - Joseph Chilton Pearce
12. Makeover this little blog
13. Create traditions for Scarlette
14. Start Christmas shopping early
15. Live simply
16. Cut out processed foods
17. Master your goals on Wii Fit Yoga
18. Be able to do splits again (this is a sad goal for a former gymnast. thanks for the inspiration elise!)
19. "Children are made readers on the laps of their parents" - Emilie Buchwald
20. Learn to sew well enough to make Scarlette a dress
21. Be present in my marriage
22. Write thank you cards
23. Mail them
24. "No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance." - Robert Holden
25. Unplug regularly
26. Live first and document second.
27. Keep the faith
28 "If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate." -1 Corinthians 13

Today I am twenty eight and I truly want for nothing.
Thank you for being a part of blessing my life.

Every Morning When I Wake Up

...my right eyebrow has parted itself down the middle and the right half sticks straight out from my head. It looks as though my forehead is being overtaken by some sort of blond caterpiller.

...I spend at least five minutes debating whether or not to cook a healthy breakfast of eggs and toast or slice into the cherry and cheese danishes that I've been buying every three days. And then I end up doing both.

...I discreetly remove gray hairs from my husband's pillow so that he will not notice them when he wakes up. A good wife helps to keep her husband in denial, that's my motto.

In completely unrelated news, here's a new picture of Jeff and I complete with baby bump at sixteen weeks. I am happy to report that I've gained eight pounds and thus no longer look like a sickly child who is with child. I do look slightly crazy eyed, but that has nothing to do with the baby and everything to do with the fact that I can not take a photograph where my eyes do not bug out of my head. I hope that is not genetic.

(After I wrote the title of this post, I realized I would now spend the rest of the day singing throwback Sugar Ray songs. You're welcome.)

Shameless Self Promotion (and possibly a bit of begging)

1) Jeff and I are featured here today for a Meet The Newlyweds inteview. I'm quite excited about it as I think our "newlywed" title probably expires this coming anniversary. And also because it's just one more photo of my wedding dress and we all know how much I love my wedding dress. I mean, my groom. Definitely my groom.

2) This is the portion where I beg you. I'm not begging you for these really cute new motorcycle boots I saw online. That begging is reserved for Jeff. No, I'm begging for votes. I'm not above it.

I applied to be a blogger at Nature Made and apparently the top 20 finalists are chosen based on the amount of votes they receive. So I'm asking you to please stop by and vote for me. You can vote once a day until October 30, and if you'd be so kind I'd appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. Seriously, I'd feel all warm and fuzzy, just like I did last night when I was watching GLEE and Puck was apologizing to Rachel for throwing a grape slushie in her face. You can click here or on the badge on the side of my blog to vote each day. THANK YOU. Really.

What's your current love affair?

I'm looking for some really funky/inspirational/trendy crafting and home decor related websites and blogs to visit. Please leave links to said eye candy in the comments section. And yes, you can totally link your own blog or website.

I currently have a love affair going on with http://inkonmyfingers.typepad.com/. Granted, it's completely onesided but I don't think she minds.