Celebrated My 16th Birthday!

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The title says it all! Yes, this past Monday I turned 16. Yay! Turning 16 is a pretty huge deal to me.. I guess it's because I'm two years closer to becoming independent and heading off to college. Anyway, enough about the future.





Last Sunday, I spent the night stuffing myself with food. Of course my family helped me, too. We ate at Café Santorini in Pasadena. The food was so good! Just thinking about it makes my stomach grumble. Sorry about my sucky phone camera quality. I promise their food looks 100000x better than this. 
On my birthday, my friends and I took a bunch of photos at school. Then they sang "happy birthday" to me at lunchtime. I'm a happy girl. (:

 There's this thing at my school called singing valentine grams, where someone can request a song for the choir department to sing to the person's crush/friend. Who knew I would get a gram! On Thursday, three girls came into my math class and started singing "Lucky" by Jason Mraz ft. Colbie Caillat. It turned out one of my guy friends requested that song for me! :)

What I've been up to:

// I had my first official rehearsal with my church's worship team on Wednesday

// Today I helped sing for worship, and it's been 3 years since I've last sang in front of people

3 songs I recommend:

- Boom Clap // Lennon & Maisy

- I Wanna Go // Yuna

- Melody Changes // Katie Sky



February Goals 2015

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I consider myself to be a goal type of person, so I'll be creating monthly goals from now on. I didn't really do much in January, so I'm hoping this month will be different.

February Goals

- Celebrate turning 16!

- Wash my face 2x a day no matter how tired/lazy I am

- Do laundry this month

- Update my journal

- Create a Bible reading plan

- Volunteer for an event  

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3 upbeat songs i recommend listening to: 

- Afterlife // Ingrid Michaelson

- Better // Gardiner Sisters

- Let's Get Started // Dylan Gardner

 What are your goals for this month?





The Little Things + A Grateful Heart

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One of my favorite, inspirational quotes. Although, it took me a good 15 minutes to edit and insert the quote into this pic (above). #thestruggleisreal

 Let's all take a minute and obsess over how adorable my dog is. jk. Behind all that white fluffiness, he's an evil minion. And if you look closely, you can see specks of dust on the floor. How pleasant.

Last week happenings:

// I ended up getting sick last week ugh, but it was bound to happen because people kept on coughing on me at school.

// I bought Adobe Photoshop + Lightroom, and words can't explain how excited I was to use them. I used Lightroom for this pic (above).

// One of my all-time favorite movies.. THE LONGSHOTS. It's definitely worth watching!

// Cute cup alert!



// Up until last week, I had no clue there were flowers in my backyard! This is why I love photography. When I'm looking for objects to take pictures of, I start to notice the little things.