Super Save New Year

It's the new year!! Happy 2017

This year my family and I had decided to super save! With super saving, we will be eating out less, turning off lights, and doing other small things to keep track of money! 

One thing that I decided to do today was homemake makeup remover wipes! I found a concoction on Pinterest including water, baby shampoo.. tear free, small, round pads, and coconut oil. The baby shampoo was $2.29, the round pads were $1.99 and the coconut oil we had at the house!  I mixed the ingredients in a bowl. I put the round pads in a mason jar and then poured the liquid concoction in the mason jar over the pads. They absorbed the liquid and waaaa-la!! 

I'm excited to use these makeup wipes and also save money too! I would spent around $5.00 for make up wipes once a month. I only spent roughly $4.50 for 80 make up remover pads! 🙂 

Super save!! 

I'm gonna be a Dohner

I'm overjoyed to be able to call this man my future husband! 

It's 1:05 Jamaican time

I haven't had the gut to upload this blog from over a month ago. But now here it is. 

I have a quiet moment where I can sit and reflect on my service learning trip to Jamaica. It has been an incredible journey being able to visit this country and learn their lifestyle, their music, their hearts. 

My heart is so heavy to think about the children and people I will be leaving behind. I have met some incredible children. I have sang Halo more times in one week to special education children than I will in my entire life.

I reminisce on how simple their lives could be changed by purchases of a fan or buying them a drying machine. 

I have met so many amazing young men and women at the AOC. These people are volunteers who take time out during the day to follow our groups around and assure that everyone stays together and stays happy. 

They have made me feel so comfortable, so safe, so blessed. I can't thank the people of Petersfield enough for their kindness and hospitality. I couldn't be more thankful for the opportunity to meet these incredible people.

Something that really stuck with me was as I was leaving the AOC today for the last time, a 17 year old boy named Nydrae stopped me and said "Logan, I am going to miss you. I hope you are in the facebook group so we can talk."

I mean, my heart has never felt so loved by someone. He remembered my name, he remembered my face. He wants to go to college in America. Tears in my eyes. 

I reflect on the memories I have made on this trip. I reflect on the memories I hope to create with this community. I want to be back. I will be back. 

Until then petersfield, Jamaica, thanks for all you have done for me. You have reminded me what it's like to be 'one', what its like to have respect and honesty within yourself. 

God, thank you for this incredible trip of a lifetime. I couldn't have done it without you. Please watch over us as we fly home to PA. I trust in the lord with all of my heart. I trust in the lord. 

Bless the lord, bless the people and bless this rainbow on my last day here.

xoxo 

Praying for peace

I sit here with the birds chirping in the distance. The tv is sounded to mute. My dog is peacefully laying beside my feet. My belly is full. My heart is empty. 

The poor Orlando night club victims are no longer enjoying the sound of birds. They aren't sitting in silence or eating their favorite meal. I pray for their families and their loved ones. 

I pray for peace. ❤️💛💚💙💜

a big thanks to SU

The semester is winding down and I can't help but think of everything that has happened in my last four years of college. The amount of hours I have spent on projects, papers, lesson plans, and activities. The many places I have spent hours and years living, breathing, and experiencing at Shippensburg University. The number of friends I have grown to love and cherish during hangouts and the usual weekend get-together. The countless education colleagues that I've watched go through Student Teaching and come out the other end. The long, hot days of cheering in the beating sun, rooting for the football players on Saturdays with my ladies. The endless nights of staying up too late and getting up too early. The enormous amount of money spent on good food and good wine. The unforgettable amount of laughs and tears shed from long nights of chatting with my gal pals and doing insanely ridiculous things. This is where it all ends. Or is this where it all begins?

As I calmly wait for my time to shine during student teaching this coming August, I reminisce on these incredible moments of my college career. I couldn't thank my roommates, professors, colleagues, friends and most importantly, my family, enough for all their love and support.

I'm coming for you STUDENT TEACHING!!

Thank you SHIP-
thank you Shippen Hall

xoxoxo

big girl jobs

I can't express how PROUD I am of my childhood best friends for getting BIG GIRL JOBS and beginning their futures!! I am so excited to watch you both grow and succeed in this crazy thing we call life. ILOVEYOUS🌻💕

The light blue house on the corner

Wow. All I can say is wow. 

Where has the time gone? Didn't we just move in like yesterday??

It has been truly amazing living with these four lovely ladies. We are the 120 Fort Street gals and we wouldn't have it any other way. To my friends, thanks for laughing with me and 1 am. Thanks for doing the unimaginable and risky business. Thanks for always going out or staying in. To the house, thanks for giving us the best memories that college girls could ask for. Thanks for allowing us to make this place our {{home}}. 120 Fort St, you hold a special place in our hearts!! We are forever grateful to have had a place like this, even with all of its flaws and mistakes. 

Cheers to a new chapter in all of our lives! 

xoxo