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It's Lauren's blanks! Make sure to go visit her if you'd like to play along. 

1.  Today is a good day because   I'm playing blanks for the first time in aages! And at 5pm I will be saying hellooooo weekend of fun #2 this month. As I like to say...hollaaaaa! :) 

2.   The best thing I did all week was   having a mother daughter day my mamacita on Monday :) it was perfect ♥ 

3.  The current weather is     Colorado sunshine       and it makes me feel     like Little Ms Sunshine.

4. The best thing about spring is    the way weather, nature, and sunshine can make you feel literally hugged and awakened from the inside. Goodbye winter bluuues. 

5. A fashion trend that I'm dying to try out for spring is  colored pants!! Which I will be doing this very coming Saturday - can't wait for my electric blue skinnies! 

6. A person who made me smile this week was   my team members at work :) it feels great to start to have real connections with people I see everyday again and to slowly not feel like the new girl anymore. Great time ZooeyD for coming up with your little "its Jess" jingle..my team has been making it my theme song for weeks! 

7.  The most delicious thing I ate all week was   Uncle Tony's Easter Sunday haaaam. mmhhh..now I'm drooling. 

I hope you all have a great weekend. I can't wait to share all the fun with you next week. 

xo . jess

Oodalelli.

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I'm starting you off with a little disclaimer tonight, because over the last few months I have built up some serious writer's block and am here to tell you that I am having the hardest time breaking through it. So if my posts are a little out of whack here and there...just bare with me :) it's all good. I'll find my groove. I have no doubt fun things to share with you. Apparently I'm just a little rusty. 

N and I killed away the afternoon playing couch potatoes after full days of work + school for us. I am so looking forward to the weekend and every single weekend to come in April, because I have them all off which hasn't happened since.. my wedding and it's going to be (and has been already!) filled with family times, birthdays, Denver adventures, and a big fat shopping trip to H&M this coming Saturday. April, you're gonna be a good one. 

And since this week I'm keeping busy with catching up on my cleaning, sunshine walks, work, and exercise time..I decided that I'm going to just catch you up on a few things this evening. you're bursting with excitement, I know. 

Here are my few things:

#1. N and I moved {back} to Fort Collins - we are loving it here and haven't had things go this smoothly for us in a while. It's a nice change, to say the least. 

#2. While N went back to finish school, I have taken a next step in my retail/management career - one that definitely has positively surprised the crap out of me. Happy happy me! 

#3. I managed to lose 15lbs. I don't really like to share those things but I'm really proud of it so there. I'm now working on whipping my butt into shape a little bit for my 25th birthday this year. ... <-- that last bit there might qualify as #4. 

#5. My new playlist is repeat playing Mumford & Sons, Foster the People + The Black Keys. 

#6. I don't think my Pinterest will last through the month...I just can't get that..interested ;) - but seriously, Lauren couldn't have said it better today. It's a cool site, but it stresses me out! In truth, I will never do anything with all those pictures, recipes, diy's..and I don't spend all my time browsing the web to find them to even pin them in the first place. Buh - bye Pinterest account. 

#7. The last book I really read was a rerun through the Hunger Games' Trilogy which threw me on such a weird emotional roller coaster I wasted away about 4 library books. None of which I really remember. (And yes, I'm totally fishing for recommendations.)

#8. I have developed a full blown addiction to The Walking Dead. It's bad. Fall can't come soon enough. Well, maybe. ;)

I think those are enough things for tonight. I'm happy, life's good, no I'm not having babies and my hate for Facebook gets worse each day :P 

2 days til the weekend! Woohoooo :) 

xo . jess

Mein Oster Sonntag.

It is now 9:30pm and I am still feeling completely sun soaked after today's beautiful Easter Sunday weather!! Therefore, since it is still Sunday... happy easter  friends !!! It was pretty ridiculous how beautiful, lazy, and fun this day was and now I'm home plopped on the couch while N is studying. Tomorrow, which marks my 3rd day weekend :))) (triple smiley) I get to have my mommy come visit me in the afternoon...and so basically --> I could simply not be a happier girl tonight. 

before I take my uberhappy self and shut up, I have to share these hilarious, typical, great afternoon snapshots of my italiano in-laws :) I'm telling you, one great day! 

how else do we start the day, but with a car shot? 

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3 photogenic little ladies! 

 80 degree weather, cigars, and bocce ball. 

 the favorite past time of any italian man, no matter what age :)

italian invasion.

 my shadowstache. 

 my cute husband :))

us German girls, sticking together and gettin' a tan ;)

 butts + bocce maddness

the bocce boys. 

okay, I'll stop with the bocce comments and sneak in this speedy 18th birthday we threw in for the day :)

happy birthday Max!

way to go Trey, but please take a look at my mother in law. no, she has not recently been on a cruise or warm vacation of any sort. it's simply Colorado's sun kiss. It is freaking April (!) barely  - this is nuts. 

regardless, Easter was great and from the looks of this basket living on my kitchen table, very very wonderful! 

xo . jess