Here is my Top 7 (yes, 7) list of February loves. In other words, another chance to List thing-ys. *claps*

1. I’m still staying mostly true to my “using stuff up pact” mentioned in this post. I just recently finished off one of my body sprays and was delighted to start a new scent that was already in my stash, which I’ve loved for a loooong time. It’s vintage Bath and Body Works at it’s finest: Meet Pearberry. Sweet, light, perfect.

Any old school Bath and Body Works scents that still do it for you?

2. When we headed back to Minnesota, my SIL taught me how to use the Moby Wrap. I desperately want to “baby wear” so I’m very thankful she figured it out first with her little one and was willing to share the baby wearing love with me.

3. This past month was all sorts of ‘madness’; it was busy, short and hectic. Thankfully, this slow grooving song helped put the brakes on my cluttered mind and let me escape into the music for a while:

4. Our car battery died in Lowes parking lot.

Normally this is not an experience to rave about. BUT. One of the kids working at Lowes kindly jumped our car, reminding us that the world is indeed full of good folks. We were so thankful for his help. Car trouble is never “convenient” but we were counting our lucky stars that it happened on a Sunday afternoon instead of a day where I needed to get to work/coaching or a few days later when a snowstorm hit…or even worse, at the Denver airport. That would have totally sucked!

5. Hub’s homemade FISH TACOS. *drools*

I’ll be sharing the recipe sometime before I have a baby (I hope). You need to know about these, they are fanfrickintastic.

6. It was Hub’s birthday month! I got him beer and socks – it was nothing fancy but it was what he wanted.

But what was fancy was the homemade ice cream cake he was spoiled with while back in Minnesota!

7. And finally, my baby shower was a sweet day; full of blessings, laughter, loving advice and gifts. Baby Girl even decided to show off a little for the family. Awww.

March is HERE and the count down to meeting Baby Girl is ticking away fast!

Here are my Raves & Faves 2012 and Raves & Faves 2011 for your viewing pleasure. Raise your hand if you’ve been reading my crap for this long?

Here is my Top 7 (yes, 7) list of September loves. In other words, another chance to List thing-ys. *claps*

1.  Spending time in the mountains with my guy.

2.  Even though the cooler weather hadn’t snuck in yet this month, we still were craving chili.  We made a new recipe with some special ingredients like coffee, beer and cocoa…I’ll be sharing it with you soon!

3.  We skipped out to sunny California for a gorgeous outdoor wedding

and were so thankful to this little family for hosting us:

4.  This song (be patient of the long intro):

Does the beat remind anyone just a teeny bit of Cecilia by Simon and Garfunkle?

5.  We’re still going to Sunday yoga when we are in town and are so.close. to getting our free goods!  I get a free tank and Hubs gets to pick out a pair of shorts; a pretty good deal for going to a bunch of free yoga classes!

6.  I sweet talked Hubs into picking me up this cappuccino when he was out grocery shopping because I LOVE THIS STUFF.

Unfortunately, I downed it all in less than a week and decided to let Hubs memory fade before I sneak it onto the grocery list again.

7.  We had our only home xc meet and dang, it’s a beautiful course.

The warm sun of September is starting to set and my favorite season is finally upon us!

Check out 2010 and 2011 September Raves and Faves if your heart so desires.

Here is my Top 7 (yes, 7) list of August loves. In other words, another chance to List thing-ys. *claps*

1.  The cross country season (and school for that matter) has started.  It’s MAYHEM.  We’ve got 135 kids on the team!  It was “Spirit Day” for the time trials (where the kids race on our home course to see who will run varsity for the first meet).  Aren’t my senior kids adorable?

2.  The perfect summer night: Biking to get Mexican food and ice cream.

3.  We celebrated the 2012 Olympics by dressing up as soccer/croquet players and overeating at a friend’s party:

5.  The dog days of summer are over (well, not really for Colorado), which has got me humming this tune nonstop.  God, I love this song.

6.  My new running shoes…oooh, pretty.

Let me just dispel the myth that running is a cheap sport.  It’s NOT.  These pretty babies cost me over a hundred bones and they will only last through the rest of 2012!  Owie, my wallet hurts.

7.  Colorado peaches!!!  FINALLY I understand what everyone has been raving about!

The summer days of August melted like my beloved Dairy Queens and the winds of fall are sneaking in.  What did you love about August?

Take a look back to my 2010 and 2011 August Raves and Faves if you have time to waste.

Here is my Top 7 (yes, 7) list of May loves. In other words, another chance to List thing-ys. *claps*  I know we are half way through June, but still.

1. Revlon’s Posh nail polish!  It’s a spring-y green but unexpected.  Me likey.

I got mine at the local Rite-Aid when they were doing a 40% Revlon sale.  Wish I would have had more room in the budget because they have a ton of fun funky colors to choose from!

2.  God, I love this song by Gotye.  Please tell me you do too.?

3.  This version, by Walk Off the Earth, will make you love it even more.

4.  Totally switching gears here, but Hubs and I have been loving this salsa.  We bought it first because it was cheap, but now I can’t stand the thought of enjoying anything else.  You can find it any most grocery stores, even Walmart.

5.  Our garden.  It’s adorable and still alive!  Yay spring!

6.  NAPS.  Who doesn’t love naps?!?

7. When we ran the Bolder Boulder on Memorial Day!  Whoa, it was crazytown.

We raced right out of May and into summatime.  I’m totally stoked.  Am I too old to say that?

Check out how my last May went down here.

Here is my Top 7 (yes, 7) list of November loves. In other words, another chance to List thing-ys. *claps*

1. You remember when I met up with an old friend?  Well, she kindly invited Hubs and I to spend Thanksgiving with her family since we were not planning on travelling back to MN.  How’s that for a totally clutch meet up?!?  We sure had ourselves a good time:

2.  Went to the fancy Dushanbe Tea House with friends.  I got myself a bloom tea and completely checked out of the table’s conversation until that thing sprouted.  Seriously, SO COOL.

3. Hubs and I hit up a CU Buffs volleyball game.  Three things happened: They WON (like whoa cuz they never win), we celebrated with ice cream and I declared it should be illegal to look that adorable in those itty bitty spandies.

4.  I’m loooving this blush MamaP bought for me when she came out to visit.  You might want to love it too so we have something in common.

5.  Celestial Seasonings (a Boulder company) Apple Cinnamon tea.

(No worries friends, even I almost fell asleep after writing such a boring Rave and Fave but the tea is good, trust me.)

6.  We had the pleasure of hosting a few November visitors.  Read about our (mis)adventures here and here.

7.  The day after Thanksgiving, I avoided the mall madness (but thought about shopping obsessively) and instead, we dragged out the Christmas bins and put up the tree.

November got recycled with all of the Black Friday ads and I’m outrageously excited to have this song stuck in my head all December long.

Don’t click here if you are uninterested in what I was raving about last year.

Here is my Top 7 (yes, 7) list of June loves. In other words, another chance to List thing-ys. *claps*

1.  Ran a 10 mile trail run with a friend.  It was a tough course and I rolled my ankle right in the middle of the race (you guys, you would be *so annoyed* if you knew how many times this has happened to me on a run) but Becky told me to Cowboy up and keep going.  So, we did.  We finished and Trader Joes was at the end to greet us with frozen oranges (heavenly) and those stellar granola bars!  My blogger brain was absent that morning and so we had to make due with my cell phone camera.  Even though it may seem like Becky is petting my rack, we are just really close friends is all.

2.  This is what happens when you round up my female family members for a bridal shower and serve them mimosas at 10am.

Can you only imagine how fun this wedding will be?!?

4.  This throwback tune.  It brings me back to my first year in Rochester, fresh out of college with a used Honda and $11 to my name.  Peanut butter aside, you better believe I jammed out to this song by Something Corporate.

5.  I chopped off three scraggly inches of my hair and highlighted the hell out of it.  Hooray!

6.  Celebrating my 2 year anniversary!  We managed to do the lamest thing ever – lunch at Hu Hot and then had to head back to work.  It went from awesome to terribly depressing in one afternoon!

7.  Saying our good byes to friends and family.  Byes are never good (why do they claim to be?) but sometimes Change shakes life up and they have to happen.

*updated with a photo because it was too sweet not to show off.

After they were all said and done, I left Minnesota with my heart heavy but full, if that makes sense?

June bugged out to make way for some July skies.  Summertime…and the living is easy, no?

Here is my Top 7 (yes, 7) list of May loves. In other words, another chance to List thing-ys. *claps*

1. Giving a shout out to those two nice ladies that fired us out of their birth canal (aka Mother’s Day).

Thecandace’s Mom and her kids (and one dashing SIL):

Hub’s Mom and her kids:

2. Much to my cranky calve’s chagrin, coed city league soccer started up this month.  We’ve had a few decent weather days and we’ve had some yucky weather days.  Tis par for spring soccer.  Here are the rockstar ladies I share the field with.  Good soccer players?  You got it.  Good people?  Absolutely.  That’s why I like this team.

3.  I know this is so totally old news but Hubs and I just rented “The Fighter”.  You should too (unless you are approaching your swear word monthly quota, then you might want to hold off until that quota resets).

4.  Memorial Day weekend with Hub’s family.  There was the general face stuffing (Hub’s side of the family makes some mean potluck dishes), hill rolling, rock skipping, and you know, tad pole hunting with our little nephew, Noah.

5.  This song is bangin.  I’m not usually a Miley fan (oh come on, you know I nodded my head like yeah to Party in the USA) but she’s pretty fly in the video.  It’s the theme song for Mob Wives, which I have yet to devote any time to but maybe it’ll be my next reality TV guilty pleasure?  Hard to say because you know So You Think You Can Dance is coming soon.  *heart palpitations*

6.  The Med City Half Marathon.  I already wasted your time telling you about it.

And, finally…

7.  Waking up to sunshine and birds singing.  It’s so cliche.  But, it’s so what I needed after this long winter and very funky spring.

May left to come back another day and all of a sudden, we are half way through 2011.  Let’s get going on summer, shall we?  What’s first on your summer agenda?

Here is my Top 7 (yes, 7) list of April loves. In other words, another chance to List thing-ys. *claps*

1.  Duh.  The day I was crowned THE BIRTHDAY PRINCESS.  I did like I always do, and went to bed early.

2.  We fixed our dishwasher all by ourselves!  We are SO proud!  Thanks, Google, you really pulled through for us.

(If you declared this the lamest Rave and Fave of all time, I understand.)

3.  Our trip to Colorado to pay homage to the place where Hubs ‘put a ring on it’.

The nice thing was if ever the Hubs wandered away from me, I didn’t panic.  I knew all I had to do was look for someone wearing the exact same outfit as me.

4.  I had the honor of speaking at my Alma mater and of course I had to snap a few self timer pics.  Can we say photo bomb all together now?

Did you notice my rosette pin got in a relocation program?

The weather was ugly but the campus is beautiful.  It’s so nice to be able to take it all in now that I don’t have worrisome equations clouding up my brain.  Take a look at the Weisman Art Museum…

Isn’t it gorgeous?

Come to think of it, it’s strongly reminiscent of my car after a little snafu with the recycle bin.

5.  This song.  You should love it.  And no, that guy is not Johnny Depp.

6.  JELLY BEANS!!  Onnom nom nom….

7.  Enjoying the few two days of sunshine we had in April.  I even let these especially pale appendages make a public appearance!

April got blown out with the birthday candles and Maybe some more days of sun are on their way?