MONDAY QUOTE
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” -C.S. Lewis
xoxo,
s.s.♥.
COUCH DREAMS
we’re on the hunt for a couch. it’s going to be a long hunt. we’re not insanely desperate. we do have a couch. it’s just the most uncomfortable thing. ever. like seriously, uncomfortable. and a horrendous colour. but it was free, so i can’t really complain….. if money weren’t an issue, i wouldn’t mind one of these lovelies. how beautiful is that mustard one!
ps. watched hugo last night on netflix…SO SO SO SO GOOD.
xoxo,
s.s.♥.
RECIPE // NUTELLA-STUFFED, BROWN BUTTER, SEA SALT, CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE
it’s november.
there are only 7 days left of november…BOOYAH.
i’m very looking forward to december 1st because that means november is over, which means i can eat sweets again! james & i are partaking in no sweets november. it’s been hard but the end is near.
we started working out again and it’s been awesome! i’ve lost 4lbs and i’m stoked on that but i’m very excited to eat chocolate in 7 days…
i’ve decided on the cookie i’m going to make.
it looks real good. really, really, good.
nutella- stuffed, brown butter, sea salt, chocolate chip cookies.
i haven’t made these yet, so if you make them and they suck, i’m sorry!
i’ll let you know on saturday :)
off to a dinner party tonight..excited for yummy food!
hope you’re having a grand weekend.
xoxo,
s.s.♥.
DIARY // YEEEEEEEP
ahhh, it’s been a long time my friends. and i’m so sorry. every time i think i’ll get consistent with blogging, i go ahead and be inconsistent. my weekend in vancouver came and went. amazing times were spent with courtney! we even went to topshop!!!! ..fyi i was under budget :)
it was hard being away from james for 4 days considering we haven’t spent a night a part since we got married! but i did survive.
the past week has been pretty low-key. saturday night i made a slow-cooker beef roast and it was delish (recipe coming soon)! along with brussels sprouts…
we saw bond on saturday night. so good. so so so sooo good! sorry for the short post..my brain is in sermon-prepping mode (i’m speaking thursday, pray for me!)
talk to you soon (i promise!),
s.s.♥.
DIARY // THIS GUY
i married a freaking supermodel. ok warning you, this post may be a bit gushy…mainly because this morning james + i said goodbye. sad. he’s off to a men’s retreat in princeton..and he’s not back until late monday night (!!!!!!) this is the first time we haven’t slept in the same bed together since we were married. since i don’t want to sleep alone for four nights, i’m off to vancouver tonight! i’m stoked for some hangs with my lovely friend (& bridesmaid) courtney! also excited to see my friend mahkeela and check out the brand spanking new, topshop..(be still my heart). i have a very limited shopping budget (welcome to married life) so i’ll probs do some window shopping as well ha.
so last night was wednesday night which means…date night! we went to zambris and feasted on incredible italian food. after that james had a BIG surprise for me at home….OUR WEDDING VIDEO! him and his good friend logan had been scheming. here’s some back story….
i knew james had a surprise for me at the wedding but i didn’t know what it was going to be. i had asked for a song awhile before and he said he didn’t want to stress out with writing and performing…i totally believed him. anyways, a couple nights before the wedding he said he was busy the entire evening. i was mad but just trusted him. (fyi the week before the wedding is very stressful for brides) i had no idea what he was up to but i heard from his mom that him and logan got in at 5:30am! and his sister joy got in at 3am. i knew something was up.
well at the wedding he totally surprised me by singing the most beautiful song he wrote. it was an absolutely incredible moment.
fast forward to now. i knew logan was working on the video and i assumed he was using our processional song (home by edward sharpe). about a week ago logan told me that the video was almost done. i was getting very excited to see it. but a couple days ago logan told me that someone knocked a fish tank over his computer and it died. i believed him (i’m extremely pretty gullible ha) he said it would take awhile to edit it all over again.
it turns out james was waiting for a special night to show it to me and knew that if i knew it was done i’d be pestering logan to send it. so last night was the night. and the video wasn’t the only surprise. the big surprise was the song that accompianied it…
oh remember that super late night james and his friends had before the wedding? turns out they were recording the wedding song!!! I HAVE THE BEST HUSBAND IN THE ENTIRE WORLD! i can’t wait to share the video + song with you…probably next week :)
for now i’ll listen to the song over and over as i write thank you cards on the ferry trying not to miss james like crazy…can’t wait for monday night!!!!!!
have an awesome weekend my loves!
-s.s.♥.