rushley & crew

If you've been anywhere near my blog in the past year, you probably noticed a very prominent topic: my 23 before 23 bucket list. In fact, for several months now, it's been about the only thing I've posted about because completing the tasks was taking up a lot of my time and energy. So this will be my last "23 before 23" post, but I couldn't let list just die without a little recap of all the things I did and accomplished in the last year :) Go to at least three different national parks or monuments  { Dinosaur National Monument } { Zion National Park } { Mesa Verde National Park } . . . In all of these cases, I had to plan or at least participate in a weekend trip. I really am not much of a planner, so unless I have to plan something, I'll often end up being boring and watching TV or something. Since I had this goal, I had to make the effort, and the effort was always worth it. I had a lot of fun with Russ and other family on these weekend trips.

Oh, hey there blog world! It's been an entire month since I've posted because I've been a blog-slacker with a very busy life. The past month has been spent: Unpacking/settling into our house. The unpacking is pretty much done, but since we went from a one-bedroom apartment  to a four-bedroom house, we've got some space to fill! My goal is for everything to be done by mid-August (including landscaping) so that we can have an awesome house-warming party! Doing the whole job application process. I've been updating my resume/linkedIn/online portfolio/print portfolio, taking editing tests, and going to interviews. Crossing my fingers that I'm getting some good news this week! :) Cruising in Europe! The long-awaited trip finally came, and now it's gone :( But I had an amazing time exploring Spain, Italy, and France with my love and my family! There will definitely be more detailed and picture-filled posts about this trip later, but I can't pr

Written mostly on September 19, 2018-- Oh hey, remember when I went on an amazing cruise through Europe more than 3 years ago? No? Yeah, probably because I NEVER WROTE ABOUT IT. The issue was that I wanted to have all of the pics from everyone before posting, but here we are, years later, and I FINALLY got all the pics, so I'm finally posting about it (only to decide to put like 10 pics in the post). Unfortunately, my memory is not as clear :( Lesson learned -- always blog or at least take notes about a trip before it's so far in the past! (Luckily I did start this post only a year after the trip, so I did jot down a few notes about things I wanted to remember. Each paragraph will be a different point I remembered to jot down!) While the trip was amazing and the sights were beautiful, my favorite memories from the trip are easily the nights spent talking with my family. This was the first adults-only trip, and it was soooo nice to just have that time to bond with each