Five Things Friday {1}

I have decided to start a new series on Fridays to be posted weekly along with Bride's Prayers as a way to share more of myself to you. I'm calling this series Five Things Friday where I will share 5 things from the week that made me smile, that I am thankful for or that has blessed me! As a part of this, I challenge you to also list your 5 happy, blessed things from your week in the comments below! Forcing ourselves to look at the positive allows us to really see how joyful life is even while being stressed from planning a wedding or keeping up with wife-dom. :-)

So here goes,

My 5 Things:

1. Finding photos from my favorite wedding that I worked at
Virginia is such a beautiful state and I felt so blessed that I not only got to live there near D.C. for 6 months but that I also got to intern for Ritzy Bee. The last wedding I worked with them before moving was my favorite wedding because it was small, outdoors in the beautiful country side of Virginia and had such darling decor that appealed so much to my style. The flowers I brought home from the wedding had my apartment smelling amazing for days! A Bryan Photo just posted the wedding the other day and it brought back such wonderful memories! It was nice to finally be able to see the professional pics from that day other than my iphone pics.

My iphone pics from that wedding!

2. Beginning a fitness challenge with my sister
My sister and I started to race each other with the Nike Training Club app to get to each reward before the other. The workouts are very challenging but I am excited because it is always fun to have a partner but even funner that my sis and I text about how sore we are, lol. No pain, no gain!

3. Laying in bed until 3am
I am in the midst of a new vision for this blog and this includes a re-design when I make the switch over to Wordpress. It's gonna be epic! I am excited to be busy with ideas, brainstorming and when I can't sleep, I know my heart is a-stirring again. I have been praying for a boost in my motivation in life, and I'm starting to feel that fire again. Praise Him!

4. Support on Facebook from friends and family
I have been looking for a job since I moved here to Florida, but I live in a small town and the competition to get jobs against the local college kids and other military wives leave me unemployed. I have applied to substitute teach and to places like Chili's, Kohl's, Petsmart, Starbucks and Pizza Hut. I never even get a phone call for an interview. It is quite discouraging when I really want to work to save my own money to fund my dreams, but it is really hard to do. When I posted on Facebook that I recently applied to Petsmart and for all to pray for me, I got responses that made me smile. I never ask for help when I need it, let alone ask for prayer requests. Seeing that people care reminds me that God is present. This is me asking you to please pray for me that I find a job ASAP!

5. Starting a class at the local university
Perhaps this would be the most random of things that I've done, but I started a personal training course at the local university. Not because I want to be a personal trainer, but because I am addicted to knowledge and I am determined to arm myself the best I can to finally be the fit person I have always dreamed of being. Not skinny, but fit and strong! So I saw this as my way of changing the way I've always done things to see different results. (Now if this certification that I can potentially earn lands me a job, I would be more than ecstatic!) It feels really good to be on a campus in a classroom again!

Oh and just because my baby and cakes make me happy, I'll share these every week too!

Here is Mila . . .

. . .  and here is cake!

Source: stylemepretty.com via Melina on Pinterest by Jessicakes

What are your 5 things for this week? Or you can share one, however many you want to share. It can be as simple as having had ice cream with sprinkles! (Always makes me happy!) Go ahead, try it! Can't wait to see yours! :-)