Day 31

Working on save the dates!!!

Day 30

Sad day. Second time in the past few months I've had fraud with my debit card. :-(

Day 29

I love coffee dates!

Day 28

Marriage counseling homework!

Day 27

Yum!

Day 26

Happy Birthday to me!! Dirk took me on a tour at Theo Chocolate!

Day 25

Something came in the mail today for the wedding!

Day 24

Lily says, "happy birthday Peter!"

Day 23

Lunch date!

Day 22

Started our young marrieds class on Mark Driscolls book on marriage!

Day 21

Got my birthday off of work!! :-)

Day 20

Where I slept last night!

Day 19

Powers out!!!

Day 18

What happens when it snows and you have to work! :-)

Day 17

What do you do when you and your fiancé are snowed in and cant get to each other? Google chat of course and work on our pre-marital counseling homework!!

Day 16

It snowed some more!

Day 15

SNOW!!!!!

Day 14

Rarely do I actually get to do my hair and make up for work since I work so early, but I worked later today so I was excited!

Day 13

I beat Dirk at Bananagrams today!! I apologize for the "damn.". It was "dam," but then I got an "n."

Day 12

Beautiful sunrise that I got to witness this morning through the drive-thru at work! Customers were definitely in a better mood because of it!

Day 11

View from my mom's hospital room. Beautiful sunset and amazingly clear view of the mountains!

Day 10

The sunset from my house this evening.

I apologize as you can see that this was multiple photos put together, but I didnt have a ton of time to piece it together as I need to get to bed since I have to wake up at 2:30am for work!
P.S. The sunset was way prettier in person, this photo doesn't do it justice!

Day 9

Guess who got to help set up for the launch of Blonde Roast? Me!!!

Day 8

Dirk likes to take the path home that goes past where we are going to get married. <3

Day 7

This is Jessica.  She is a new Shift Supervisor at my Starbucks and I got the privilege of taking some portraits of her to create a flier about her recent promotion! :-) (I'm in charge of partner recognition at our store...).

Day 6

Playing with some of my favorite photos! :-)

Day 5

Best breakfast.

Day 4

Crafting with Sister! Heat up marbles in the oven, drop them in iced water and the marble cracks on the inside!

Day 3

Movie with the fiancé!

Day 2

We decided on our honeymoon location!!

Day 1

Excited for what this year has in store. :-)

365 Thousand Words: About This Blog

If you hadn't caught on from the title of this blog, I decided that I want to try to take one photo a day, for a year. Now, I have thought about doing this for a long time to simply provoke me to take more photos to improve by photography skills. But, that's not why I'm doing it. I simply want to document this year in the best way that I know how, through photos. This year is a big year for us. Getting married, finding a place to live, finding "real" jobs and everything along with that. Dirk and I decided when we got engaged to focus on enjoying our engagement instead of focusing so hard on the wedding and letting it stress us out.  We want to focus more on our relationship and our upcoming marriage than our wedding.  And when having that focus in mind, planning the wedding has been so much more fun!  I've loved being engaged and am so excited for this next year. So... Here is to documenting this amazing year through photos!

P.S. yes, 95% of these photos will probably be from my iPhone! :-)