Can't believe it's been over a month since I've last posted! Fall has seemed so full and busy and it's crazy that winter is around the corner (basically here already), Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and we've already bought a Christmas tree!! :) Grant and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary (!!!!!!) a few weekends ago. We spent a few days in Chicago and had a blast visiting museums and eating amazing food (more to come!). This is a poster I put together to celebrate the different places we've been to since we've been married. It started out as a card, but seemed much more fitting for a poster. It's fun to look back and remember--5 years goes by so quickly. Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!! I'll be making gluten free: apple pie, pumpkin pie and stuffing. Yummmmyy!

An ADVENTURE sounds like something fun: a new exotic place, a road trip, a vacation, BUTTT…Merriam Webster’s dictionary defines an adventure as: an undertaking usually involving danger and unknown risks. Yikes! The unknown is tough. I’m a planner, and I like to know what’s to come (don’t we all?), but the fact is, we don’t know what life will bring. I want to learn to embrace life’s uncertainties as an adventure, be a little more go with the flow instead of trying to direct it to be just how I want/think it should be. I want to revel in the unknown and have peace although it’s risky. Even though I can’t tell what’s ahead, I want to enjoy the here and now, the ride. I’m trying//learning to embrace our own adventure by:

++++ BEING THANKFUL++++

1. for God’s faithfulness 2. my family, my husband

3. good health 4. my job

not looking out/ at other’s lives, but being thankful & looking at ways to celebrate today. Let’s be adventurers…content with not knowing, embracing the surprises (with a good attitude!!) : ) The top left image is Grant and I when we visited my family way back when in Dubai. My sister snapped some pictures of us jumping off the dunes! Isn’t that what life is like sometimes!? Woahhhhhh…