new adventures with a new name

hello to readers, old and new! i can't believe what a whirlwind the past two months have been. here's a little taste of what i've been up to:

1: i finally became a college graduate at yankee stadium!

2: rachel and me-the graduates

3: the college student and me

4: they gave us pom-poms!!

1: i turned 22!

2: tisch salute at radio city

3: i said goodbye to my apartment... (my room looks so big!)

4: and i said goodbye to new york.

1: i said hello to boston.

2: michael and his diploma

3: michael's turn to graduate

4: some of the awesome banners at michael's graduation.

1: pretty packaging from black ink. i am going to miss that store!

2: i said goodbye to boston

3: the view of chicago as i flew from boston to nashville to see...

4: ...my brother at his high school graduation. 

1: south padre, tx

2: michael's brother, rob, and his sandcastle masterpiece. for those of you who aren't from texas, it is the ut tower in austin (:

3: after a week at the beach, i went back to nashville for a few days, then headed back to texas on a family roadtrip. 

4: dinner stop in memphis-we can't drive through without a visit to rendezvous. 

1: our pretty nails

2: some of my bridesmaids and me at our engagement fiesta!

3: my favorite part of the fiesta..the mariachi band!! 

4: a preview of our engagement photos by caroline joy! more on those later... 

1: QUESO.

2: date night, river cruise in austin.

3: on a lake somewhere between waco and austin.

4: taylor came to visit me in austin to enjoy a lovely weekend together.

after spending four weeks in texas, i am back in tennessee until the wedding next month. this weekend i am also going to be doing a lot of updating on here. over this break, i realized that there is another blog by the name of oh lovely day. while we have different types of blogs, i thought it would still be a nice time to change things up around here and start this new chapter of life with a new name, lovely lost things. it actually simplifies things for me, too(:
i look forward to getting back into the swing of things around here and will be back with more updates soon(: