I'm gonna be all serious today and discuss how my plan is not always what He has in store for me. I try to remember that God's plans are way better than my plans. Even if every part of me wants to move to Washington, its just not going to happen for me right now. This makes me sad...but then I wonder, I must be staying here another year for a certain reason. A reason that is unknown to me today but a reason that one day I will see.

I also wonder why do I want to move to Washington so badly. Of course my sister is there and the weather is dream like. I just need to step back and realize that the place I am in...a small college town, filled with people I don't know, is very amazing. I smile still, I laugh still, and that feeling makes me know that everything will be all right.  He has a great plan for me.

awkward things keep happening to me

Lets first discuss my Tuesday morning.

I'm running late for class.

A class that happens to be located right next to a pond my university has.

This pond has a TON of ducks, geese, & just gross scary things chilling around the shore.

So guess what. 

I made eye contact with one...

Harmless...I thought.

That was until it started chasing me.

Then all his buddies joined in & started chasing me.

then they caught me and started to stinkin bite me with their beaks. 

I could have died.

Lets just say that was awkward. 

& now I officially (highly) dislike geese type animals.

They suck.

Okay second awkward occurrence..

Someone accidentally spit on me.

ya.

and then while i was freaking out...

Saying, "Wipe that off me!"

They took their hand and wiped it all the way down my leg.

ya. thats not what i meant.

I was not a happy girl.

And finally third awkward thing..

The part that I am writing about both of those experiences on a public blog.

wow. 

So the lessons learned this week.

Never look ducks in the eye. Ever.

If someone spits on you....Slap them upside their head.

And always post embarrassing things on your blog.

the end.

happy list

A list of lovely things that make me happy:

A phone call from sister, and she meows at me. its how we talk to each other.

Niece now joining in on the 'meowing,'  its sorta the cutest thing ever.

meow.

freckles. every single one on everyone is beautiful.
niece is lucky and has one on her little toe. lucky kid.

Driving in a jam packed car, wiht best friends family. we were all laughing/singing, windows down, seventy degree air flowing in...& then glancing at her mom and seeing the sweetest smile across her face..it was precious.

listening to Kina Grannis and her angelic voice.

taking pictures with the absolute best light. I was screaming with joy...oh what my clients have to deal with when I take their photos.

Knowing that finals will soon be over and summer will be here.

A cold glass filled to the rim with ice and lemonade.

Hugs from your cousins.

conquering the french braid, im one proud chic. & my sister will be happy she no longer has to do them for me!

off days spent with my padre. he sorta loves his daughter!

colored jeans. that i dyed myself....

LIFE is just BEAUTIFUL. END of Story.

this is perfect

I wish I had enough guts to do this to my own room.
I swear it would all be gone in a week though. hello I'm sorta OCD & everything in my room has to be perfect. I couldn't even do this in my closet. Maybe if I was living in a dorm room I would.....

But Nicole is at the perfect age for this magazine wall collage.
Its perfect for inspiration
Its perfect for covering bare walls & adding inspiration
Its just perfect!

We spent a full night a month ago cutting out pages of a magizine and decided then we would hang all that inspiration on Nicole's wall above her bed!
Yesterday we started the collage. It took, all day....and a lot of tape & tacks, time, and music playing, to get this completed.

By the end of hanging everything we started to maybe go a little crayyy beacuse we were calling each other 'dude,' and laughing histarically at nothing. lets just say our parental units were concerned.

lets talk easter weekend

Easter weekend was welcomed with a slumber party filled with A Midnight in Paris and 20/20 episodes. and that was just the start.

A Friday filled with a 196o circa inspired photo shoot. Then another photo shoot with the GORG Faith and all her freckles.

A Saturday slaving away at covering our whole backyard with sod (grass). Hard work. no joke. thank the lord for three willing teenage boys; who came and helped a sista out!

An evening filled with a huge BBQ at a family friends property in the middle of a forest. I was driving convertible, listening to Coldplay and Ravens & Chimes. Gavin even decided to join us and we walked around in the warm weather, hiding eggs from eager kiddos.
side note-confetti eggs were all destroyed before the kids could get them, i still have confetti in my hair.
A very redneck ride in a tractor bucket. I never laughed so hard.
Wearing HOTPink pants and having three people mock me to my face. I don't mind. they just don't know how much cooler I look then them.

A Midnight filled with Shel & Nicole watching Titanic in 3D. We might have busted out singing My Heart Will Go On- 4x on the way home...we are such 90's girls...or at least we wish.

A sunday morning filled with a beautiful church service & a relaxing night with my close family. we all watched My Girl then had pie; good night.

title not needed

things I would rather do then homework:

clean

read

iron

stalk people on facebook I have never met

answer emails

jog

read the dictionary

reread the dictionary

I have a terrible case of procrastination right now.

all I can think about is how much funner blogging is and how much better sleep sounds than writing papers. 

4 more weeks brittany

4 more weeks.

almost summer

We started the glorious month of April with a day at the lake. It was a hot 88 degrees but the weather was hard to feel when your going thirty mph and feeling cold droplets of lake water land upon your skin. I tried to take in as much of the sun as possible and we sang to our hearts content at cheesy pop music. I even jumped in the water like a cray cray person. It was cold but one hundred percent worth it.  It was such a fun day & it brought about a hope that summer is so close and that I only have four weeks of school left. I have a feeling that this is a great start to an almost summer!

afternoon

the song: Honey Trees-To Be With You

the location: A small town in East Texas

Shot via iphone. 

I like to spend spring afternoons sitting on the grass covered ground outside surrounded by my cousins. We normally have our stomachs filled with red popsicles and are laughing at something we saw or heard at school today. We all ride our bikes till we our out of breath and our hair is sweaty from the Texas heat. There is no other thing I would rather be doing then spending time with them. I can be one hundred percent myself and I can let the troubles and stress of the day fade away into the sunset. I am happy and content.

a tuesday in seattle

A three hour drive listening to a cd mix I made my sister lingered in the background while everyone else was fast asleep. Water droplets than snow fell upon the large windshield. I watched the wipers go back and forth as the snow filled the outside of the car. thankfully upon our arrival the sky cleared and Seattle seemed like the perfect place to be. With a quick trip to the American Girl Doll store, for Ky and maybe for my sisters and mine own enjoyment, we were headed to lunch. We walked a lot in the cold air. and settled for a restaurant on the Sound that we knew served a warm cup of clam chowder. That cup of clam chowder was the perfect touch to our cold day. We than reembarked to the cold weather and walked the streets for some time. Even a 'Ride the Duck' passed and I was eager for summer to come so I could finally experience the life of a true tourist in Seattle. Shopping was practically the only thing left for us to do, and I obliged eagerly. The sun began to slowly set and we were off again back to the city where we all felt more familiar with. A stop for greasy mexican food warmed us all up again. then again we were all at my sisters house reflecting on the day we went to Seattle just to go to the American girl store. It was worth it.

oh hello.

follow-britteaustin

I really have been missing my sweet little blog.
But seriously I have missed blogging A LOT.
So I'm sorta back!
I'm hoping for a little bit more activity around here.

So I thought I would create a little schedule for myself:

Monday>>Brittany Austin Photography- A little recap about the photos I took professionally!

Wednesday>> Instagram- you know pictures with cool filters

Friday>>Fashion

Weekend>>Lifestyle

This schedule is sure to help me get back on track of recording my life.
Im excited to be back!