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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1430751933044058164</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:08:12 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>an occasion</category><category>social work</category><category>photography</category><category>plastic cameras</category><category>causes</category><category>guest post</category><category>websites to love</category><category>mental health</category><category>on my bookshelf</category><category>a day in the life</category><category>faith</category><category>getting healthy</category><category>television</category><category>instagram</category><category>adventure</category><category>travel</category><category>uni</category><category>blog love</category><category>today I bought</category><category>Sunday</category><category>church</category><category>brisbane</category><category>baking</category><category>family</category><category>the bible</category><category>music monday</category><category>today i learned</category><category>lauren</category><category>film</category><category>for a laugh</category><category>recipes</category><category>linked</category><category>flashback</category><category>love</category><category>friends</category><title>Living Loved</title><description /><link>http://www.laurenlivingloved.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Lauren)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>96</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/dHMlT" /><feedburner:info uri="blogspot/dhmlt" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1430751933044058164.post-2484536890664852853</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-08T07:08:13.033+10:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">causes</category><title>#Kony2012</title><description>This video has been shared so much today, and with good reason. &lt;br /&gt;
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Watch. Think. Pray. but most importantly. DO. SOMETHING. Even if it's simply spreading the word. Sign the petition, find out what's happening in your town, and go do it. &lt;br /&gt;
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Don't let this be a video that moves you for a moment. Let it break your heart and change your perspective. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Update: To sign the petition, go&lt;a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/kony2012/kony-4.html"&gt;&amp;nbsp;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to buy your action kit or bracelet (like I did) go&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://invisiblechildrenstore.myshopify.com/products/konybracelet"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. You can also download the Crisis Tracker App on your iphone.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uaMkZgwwoZg/T1RiwykzqKI/AAAAAAAABHA/s46SpQ1T2dA/s1600/photo+(1).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uaMkZgwwoZg/T1RiwykzqKI/AAAAAAAABHA/s46SpQ1T2dA/s1600/photo+(1).JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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1/2 cup Firm Packed Brown Sugar&lt;br /&gt;
2/3 cup Dessicated Coconut&lt;br /&gt;
2/3 SR Flour&lt;br /&gt;
85g Melted Butter&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Top:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
30g Butter&lt;br /&gt;
2 Tablespoons Golden Syrup&lt;br /&gt;
1 Can Condensed Milk&lt;br /&gt;
1 block dark or Milk Chocolate&lt;br /&gt;
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Stir all base ingredients together in a bowl. Once well combined, firmly&amp;nbsp;press mixture into base of pan. Bake in 180C oven until lightly browned (about 10-12mins).&lt;br /&gt;
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Then, for filling: Melt butter and syrup over medium heat. Add consensed milk and stir constantly for 9-12mins until mixture is thickened. Spread over the base and place tray back in oven for 10-12 minutes. Once lightly browned, remove from oven and cool to room temperature. Melt Chocolate and pour over tray. Place in fridge to cool and harden.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1430751933044058164-4414234789018209111?l=www.laurenlivingloved.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/dHMlT/~4/OSCzYdf_Tw4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dHMlT/~3/OSCzYdf_Tw4/caramel-slice.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Lauren)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uaMkZgwwoZg/T1RiwykzqKI/AAAAAAAABHA/s46SpQ1T2dA/s72-c/photo+(1).JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.laurenlivingloved.com/2012/03/caramel-slice.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1430751933044058164.post-1066552720077072671</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-03T00:10:57.980+10:00</atom:updated><title>A list of thoughts</title><description>Placement is going so well. I am loving getting out there with reeeeal professionals and feeling confident that it's what I want to do.&lt;br /&gt;
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Meeting up with Uni girls today was great. Love chatting to them. Love chatting all things social work with them. Love drinking coffee and eating cakes and cookies for breakfast with them! &lt;br /&gt;
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I am super excited about a project&lt;br /&gt;
I've started with a friend. More on that later!&lt;br /&gt;
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This weekend, I'm looking forward to getting a heap of Uni work done. As well as watch lots of Castle. Surely that will work - right? &lt;br /&gt;
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Making new friends is the best. Having people come into your life and just 'click' is seriously amaaaaze.&lt;br /&gt;
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I just recently finished The Hunger Games trilogy. Woot woo.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Italians are coming to visit next weekend, dads aunt and uncle. It's exciting :) &lt;br /&gt;
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I am in need of cheap,cute professional cloths for placement - anyone have any suggestions of online stores?&lt;br /&gt;
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I see Bon Iver in 2 weeks!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1430751933044058164-1066552720077072671?l=www.laurenlivingloved.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/dHMlT/~4/_xNx17368Uc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dHMlT/~3/_xNx17368Uc/list-of-thoughts.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Lauren)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.laurenlivingloved.com/2012/03/list-of-thoughts.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1430751933044058164.post-2512082609171627843</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-28T23:53:48.090+10:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">lauren</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">church</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">faith</category><title>My Baptism</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1y_aoWQ2chE/T0zIGhIWeOI/AAAAAAAABGY/zRp2WaHFstU/s1600/fc2e97c6596711e180c9123138016265_7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1y_aoWQ2chE/T0zIGhIWeOI/AAAAAAAABGY/zRp2WaHFstU/s320/fc2e97c6596711e180c9123138016265_7.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I wrote this in my journal on the 17th of February. It was a Friday. Two days later I signed up for Baptism, which would be held the following week.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Because I'm me, I didn't realise this simple fact until a few days ago. I had &amp;nbsp;asked God what I could do for Him and it only took two days later for the Holy Spirit to prompt me. No wonder it felt so good to sign up! No wonder for the entire week I walked with &lt;i&gt;purpose &lt;/i&gt;and &lt;i&gt;peace. &lt;/i&gt;He wanted me to stop making excuses and stand in my new life with Him. Unashamed. Completely Clean. Completely His.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;While baptism is a super significant, it's also very simple. It's telling the world that you know you're loved and that you want to live your life for Jesus.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #999999;"&gt;For all of you who were baptised&amp;nbsp;into Christ have clothed yourselves&amp;nbsp;with Christ (Galatians 3:27)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a believer we are baptised because Jesus was baptised, He set that example for us:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="text Mark-1-9" style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;It came to pass in those days&amp;nbsp;that&amp;nbsp;Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptised by John in the Jordan.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="text Mark-1-10" id="en-NKJV-24226" style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;And immediately, coming up from&amp;nbsp;the water, He saw the heavens parting and the Spirit descending upon Him like a dove.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="text Mark-1-11" id="en-NKJV-24227" style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;sup class="versenum" style="vertical-align: text-top;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/sup&gt;Then a voice came from heaven, “You are My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. (Mark 1:9-11)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="text Mark-1-11" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;While I do not believe you need to be baptised to go to Heaven (acknowledging Jesus is Lord and having a relationship with Him does that!) I believe it to be a necessary step in any believers life and one of great beauty.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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This is not just a religious ritual&amp;nbsp;or ceremonial routine . . . rather it should be a sign of one’s personal&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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commitment to Christ when they&amp;nbsp;are ready and of age to make such a&amp;nbsp;decision for themselves.(Citipointe Church)&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;On Sunday February 26th at around 8:30pm I walked into a room full of people supporting me and the others being baptised that night. I was in the&amp;nbsp;presence&amp;nbsp;of my immediate family, close friends and connect group from&amp;nbsp;church&amp;nbsp;(who clapped and cheered me on like the AMAZING women they are). I stood in the water, gave my testimony and was baptised in the name of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Afterwards, as I stood in the water the two people who baptised me prayed, as well as everyone in the room. Then, senior members of my church spoke words over me that I will never forget! Amazing words, to carry me into this next chapter of my relationship with God.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Lovely blog friends, God blesses obedience. He draws near to those that draw near to Him. I encourage you that while this story is about my Baptism, it's also about me asking God what I can do, where I can go.. I encourage you to ponder what God wants you to do for Him today. I know I can often just talk about all &lt;i&gt;my &lt;/i&gt;issues in time with Him, but when I took a moment to think about what He wanted me to be doing, He blessed me in more ways then I could ever imagine!&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;That face in the last picture? That's me thinking Im fooling everyone by trying to look like i'm not crying!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="text Mark-1-11" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1430751933044058164-2512082609171627843?l=www.laurenlivingloved.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/dHMlT/~4/yBTmvWE4jBo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dHMlT/~3/yBTmvWE4jBo/my-baptism.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Lauren)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1y_aoWQ2chE/T0zIGhIWeOI/AAAAAAAABGY/zRp2WaHFstU/s72-c/fc2e97c6596711e180c9123138016265_7.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.laurenlivingloved.com/2012/02/my-baptism.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1430751933044058164.post-8032212135451028897</guid><pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-27T09:00:06.322+10:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">music monday</category><title>Music Monday</title><description>...because everything is better with Bon Iver around&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;center style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="525" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TWcyIpul8OE?rel=0" width="770"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;...because Josh Pyke's voice will forever be a favourite.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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It was all about the Penguins at the Melbourne&amp;nbsp;Aquarium. We decided to go because we were just a little over shopping for 8 hours a day. So that day we went to the&amp;nbsp;aquarium, we also had high tea at &lt;a href="http://melbourne.langhamhotels.com.au/"&gt;The Langham&lt;/a&gt;, a treat provided by Georgie - she was given a voucher for her birthday the week before.&lt;br /&gt;
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The day after, we hit the road for a day of driving to see the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Apostles_(Victoria)"&gt;Twelve Apostles&lt;/a&gt; and I became the most patriotic I even have been! It was a beautiful drive along the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ocean_Road"&gt;Great Ocean Road&lt;/a&gt;. I was in awe of my country. We live in a truly beautiful nation. I feel so lucky to have seen the Twelve Apostles (or the eight that still remain... you can see in my photos one in the foreground that has collapsed due to erosion)!! Despite the almost 8 hours driving for 1 hour of actually viewing... it was so incredibly worth it. If you are in Melbourne for a trip and have thought about doing something similar then go, go, go!&lt;br /&gt;
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On our final day we went to St Kilda for breakfast/lunch before getting on our plane. There were a massive pair of headphones made out of flavoured milk cartons&amp;nbsp;blaring&amp;nbsp;music.... oh Melbourne. We'll miss you.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lolkate18/6776528446/" title="Melbourne 212 by Lolkate18, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Melbourne 212" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7054/6776528446_415f2e051d_b.jpg" width="770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lolkate18/6776529690/" title="Melbourne 229 by Lolkate18, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Melbourne 229" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7054/6776529690_bfd6d64057_b.jpg" width="770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lolkate18/6922646587/" title="Melbourne 239 by Lolkate18, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Melbourne 239" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7051/6922646587_d6d1335884_b.jpg" width="770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lolkate18/6776534794/" title="Melbourne 254 by Lolkate18, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Melbourne 254" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7183/6776534794_609f2194ae_b.jpg" width="770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lolkate18/6925004643/" title="Melbourne 275 by Lolkate18, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Melbourne 275" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7052/6925004643_ff8637025a_b.jpg" width="770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lolkate18/6922652625/" title="Melbourne 296 by Lolkate18, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Melbourne 296" height="1111" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7064/6922652625_476bc02243_b.jpg" width="770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lolkate18/6922654441/" title="Melbourne 320 by Lolkate18, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Melbourne 429" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7062/6922654441_5b37ec8b99_b.jpg" width="770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lolkate18/6925007271/" title="Melbourne 335 by Lolkate18, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Melbourne 335" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7069/6925007271_9a19c9db79_b.jpg" width="770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lolkate18/6922657705/" title="Melbourne 337 by Lolkate18, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Melbourne 337" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7177/6922657705_474f12e63f_b.jpg" width="770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lolkate18/6778918578/" title="Melbourne 354 by Lolkate18, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Melbourne 354" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7043/6778918578_d2ef1a9886_b.jpg" width="770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lolkate18/6778893798/" title="Melbourne 411 by Lolkate18, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Melbourne 411" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7177/6778893798_74b2503f78_b.jpg" width="770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lolkate18/6922664167/" title="Melbourne 388 by Lolkate18, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Melbourne 388" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7181/6922664167_229db03ae4_b.jpg" width="770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lolkate18/6778894634/" title="Melbourne 425 by Lolkate18, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Melbourne 425" height="1111" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7206/6778894634_a37a07fd34_b.jpg" width="770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1430751933044058164-758101591251188938?l=www.laurenlivingloved.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/dHMlT/~4/4a5SXjBeSic" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dHMlT/~3/4a5SXjBeSic/melbourne-part-2.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Lauren)</author><thr:total>5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.laurenlivingloved.com/2012/02/melbourne-part-2.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1430751933044058164.post-2412119142779085634</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-22T21:44:58.904+10:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">today i learned</category><title>Today I learned</title><description>That chickens do indeed cross the road. In lines of three. On my way to prac this morning!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1430751933044058164-2412119142779085634?l=www.laurenlivingloved.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/dHMlT/~4/flk0PnDhbBs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dHMlT/~3/flk0PnDhbBs/today-i-learned.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Lauren)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.laurenlivingloved.com/2012/02/today-i-learned.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1430751933044058164.post-4844477049654185373</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-20T23:10:13.501+10:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">lauren</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">faith</category><title>Perfect Timing</title><description>Do you know that feeling? That in one particular moment you KNOW you're supposed to be where you are? I had that today. It was perfect and lovely.&lt;br /&gt;
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I'm being baptised this Sunday. I've wanted to do it for so long. When I came to know what it meant and why it's important... I knew I wanted to do it again myself (even though I was baptised as a baby) to symbolize the conviction I felt. I know God is real, I know He loves me and I know my sins are taken away because of Jesus' life.&lt;br /&gt;
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As I was helping sign up people for their baptisms at church this weekend gone, I realised that there was no excuse for waiting any longer for my own baptism, especially because this year has been synonymous with new beginnings for me. &lt;br /&gt;
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I'm excited for this next step in my walk. If you know me personally and would like to come along you're more than welcome. It will be held at around 8pm (after the 6:30pm service) this Sunday night at Citipointe Church, Mansfield.   &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1430751933044058164-4844477049654185373?l=www.laurenlivingloved.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/dHMlT/~4/OPvoe0PeX0Y" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dHMlT/~3/OPvoe0PeX0Y/perfect-timing.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Lauren)</author><thr:total>10</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.laurenlivingloved.com/2012/02/perfect-timing.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1430751933044058164.post-4534224224339253792</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-18T15:30:00.137+10:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">guest post</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">a day in the life</category><title>A Day in the Life || Niina from It Seems Pretty Obvious</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
Hello! I'm Niina and my blog is called &lt;a href="http://seemsprettyobvious.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;It seems pretty obvious &lt;/a&gt;(don't ask me why). This is a day in my life. A cold day in my life. This Saturday we had -16 degrees Celsius (3 degrees&amp;nbsp;Fahrenheit), this might sound like something we're used to in Sweden (yes, that's where I live), but believe me, we're not! So me and my boyfriend Daniel decided to stay inside most of the day (we had the courage to take a trip to the mall though);&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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I usually wake up before Daniel so I eat breakfast alone. I'm not a big breakfast person so I usually only have some filmjölk (it's like yogurt), muesli and glass of orange juice. And this morning I had some time for blogging and answering comments before Daniel woke up.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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After getting ready we decided to go to the thrift store. This is not Daniel's favorite thing to do but he was out of ideas considering it was too cold for any outdoor&amp;nbsp;activities. This is what I had to wear only to survive the short walk to our car (I might be exaggerating a bit though). And yes, it's impossible to look fashionable in this weather!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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I didn't find anything at the thrift store (that's probably a first!) so we decided to go to the mall instead. And I needed to buy some new stationary.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Some Chai Latte to keep me warm during our walk to;&lt;/div&gt;
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Our favorite store,; Movieline! It's a basement filled with every movie ever released (okay, I'm exaggerating again but you get the point). We weren't looking for anything special but ended up with a documentary about the Second World War (Daniel's special interest).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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A quick stop at Subway. I ALWAYS have the grilled chicken breast with garlic dressing. I can't understand how they don't have that garlic dressing in the US. The country that invented Subway: how do you survive without the garlic dressing?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Then we went home and relaxed a bit and then it was time for dinner. This used to be a bowl of pasta, pesto rosso, feta cheese and Serrano ham. We love our pasta!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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The weather called for a movie night. We decided to watch an old classic from our collection; The Shawshank Redemption. It's an EXCELLENT movie! You all need to watch it! Now!&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Thank you Lauren for letting me do this! It was a lot of fun!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Thanks Niina! Seriously... garlic dressing at Subway? We dont have that either but it sounds amazing! Go check out Niina and her fantastically&amp;nbsp;Swedish&amp;nbsp;blog &lt;a href="http://seemsprettyobvious.blogspot.com.au/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
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Today is such a good day! I can FEEL the love that surrounds me! I feel optimistic and so happy that its lovely and sunny outside. I've had a really great week with my 'getting healthy' and it's put me in a such a good mood. However, there was one thing that made me UBER excited for life.&lt;br /&gt;
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You see as I&amp;nbsp;mentioned&amp;nbsp;previously, two of my closest friends are getting married...on Valentines day one of them, Jess asked to grab coffee. I'm always up for a caffienated beverage so I headed to Shingle Inn and we ordered our spoils.&lt;br /&gt;
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I'd had such a rough morning. I was so-over emotional... I cried watching the Grammys. Ri-donk-ulous!&amp;nbsp;So then I met with Jess in the afternoon and we have lovely chats as we always do, caught up on life and then she gave me the most wonderful card. I knew she'd know v-day was hard and so I thought it was so lovely she was giving me a card! Turns out the card had some of the nicest things ever written inside of it, which yes, I started crying over (happy tears though!) oh.. and then at the end of the card she asked if I would be her MAID OF HONOUR! and I started hyperventilating! I was speechless! What an honour!!! I guess for some this may be not as exciting news, but I was so happy to be a bridesmaid twice for my two bestest friends that I being maid of honour for one just sent me over the edge!!! haha :)&lt;br /&gt;
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Jess and I were friends in school, but got really close after we graduated. We took a trip to europe in 2010 and I feel like that's when we really got to know&amp;nbsp;each other. We have shared the best and the worst times and I thank God for her friendship. I'm so excited to go on this journey with her! To support and love her through the most exciting time of her life. Goodness me friends, i'm blessed!&lt;br /&gt;
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For those that don't know, Melbourne is shopping central and it's common to do a girls weekend there for shopping and eating good food. Steph, Georgie and I decided to go for a week as a belated twenty-first birthday present to eachother and I'm so glad we did!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/36602646"&gt;Girl Behind The Blog Link Up&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/user10395053"&gt;Lauren&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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I deleted it because it was me pouring out my heart and it wasn't uplifting. This blog is personal, but it didn't seem appropriate to post.&lt;br /&gt;
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My head is all over the place. My heart's a mess. I am having many a sad day. Even though I'm in Melbourne at the moment and having a really wonderful time, I cannot stop thinking about Justin. The smallest things bring back big memories and I find myself having to take deep breaths and focus on anything BUT that thing.&lt;br /&gt;
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"you've GOT to be kidding me! This is weird."&lt;br /&gt;
"actually, this is sort of&amp;nbsp;inspiring.."&lt;br /&gt;
"yeah Lauren you can do it... ain't about how fast you get there, ain't about what's waiting on the other sideeeeee, it's the cliiiiiiimb."&lt;br /&gt;
"you can climb the mountains in your life. You go girl"&lt;br /&gt;
"you are SO LAME. did you just think 'you go girl'&amp;nbsp;to yourself?"&lt;br /&gt;
"Wow i'm at 2mins 30secs! The song works!"&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Dough:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;1 cup warm milk&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;2 eggs, room temperature&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;1/3 cup (75g) butter, melted&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;4 1/2 cups plain &amp;nbsp;flour&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;1/2 cup white sugar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;1 pkg yeast&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Filling:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;1 cup brown sugar, packed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;2 1/2 tablespoons ground cinnamon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;1 tps nutmeg&lt;br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;1/3 (75g) cup butter, softened&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Icing:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;3 oz (85g) cream cheese, softened&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;1/4 cup (57g) butter, softened&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;1 1/2 cups icing sugar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /&gt;&lt;br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;Microwave milk for 45-60 seconds in the microwave. Dissolve yeast in warm milk in a large bowl. Add sugar, butter, eggs, and flour. Mix well. Knead dough into a large ball, using your hands dusted lightly with flour. Put in a bowl sprayed with cooking spray and cover tightly with plastic wrap. Let rise in a warm place about 1 hour or until dough has doubled in size (I left mine for 2 hours).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;In a small bowl, thoroughly combine brown sugar, nutmeg and cinnamon.&amp;nbsp;Spray surface with cooking spray or sprinkle flour on it. Roll dough into a rectangle about 2cm thick. Spread dough with softened butter and sprinkle evenly with cinnamon mixture. Roll up dough starting with the longer side and cut into 12 roughly 12 rolls (obviously the smaller the roll the more rolls you can get). Place rolls in a lightly greased baking dish. Cover and let rise until nearly doubled, about 30 minutes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;Meanwhile, preheat oven to 175 C. Bake rolls in preheated oven until golden brown, about 18-20 minutes. While rolls are baking, beat together cream cheese, butter, sugar and vanilla extract.. Spread&amp;nbsp;frosting on while they are still warm so that the frosting melts into the roll.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1430751933044058164-878079719160725565?l=www.laurenlivingloved.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/dHMlT/~4/Xu4dDDpvavA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dHMlT/~3/Xu4dDDpvavA/seasons.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Lauren)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.laurenlivingloved.com/2012/01/seasons.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1430751933044058164.post-3297626382982262174</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-30T14:19:11.499+10:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">lauren</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">love</category><title>A Break Up</title><description>Justin and I broke up last week. After a few months of mutual feelings (though we hadn't discussed them at length until last week) we decided that&amp;nbsp;despite&amp;nbsp;so wanting to be, it was better for now that we weren't together. I could go on, but I know he might read this and I'm assuming it's as hard for him to think about it as it is for me.&lt;br /&gt;
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I went on my annual church Yong Adult (18-25ish) getaway over the weekend and got to spend time praying, reading God's word and encouraging others through their difficult times. Isn't it amazing that &lt;span style="color: #f6b26b;"&gt;Gods grace is sufficient that we're able to stand on Him in our own circumstance or weakness and reach out to others in theirs?&lt;/span&gt; He's so amazing. I was rooming with my entire cell group (small group, life group - whatever you call yours) and got to spend time with loving, encouraging woman who gave me space or distraction depending on when I needed it.&lt;br /&gt;
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I can't think of how to end this post so i'll just stop here. Hope you're having a lovely Monday. x&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1430751933044058164-3297626382982262174?l=www.laurenlivingloved.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/dHMlT/~4/RSnRELyOeTA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dHMlT/~3/RSnRELyOeTA/break-up.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Lauren)</author><thr:total>5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.laurenlivingloved.com/2012/01/break-up.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1430751933044058164.post-3534964269616361261</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-26T15:05:33.480+10:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">guest post</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">a day in the life</category><title>A Day in the Life || Kaytee from Kaytee Lauren</title><description>&lt;div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Hello Readers, I'm Kaytee from&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://kaylaur.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"&gt;Kaytee Lauren&lt;/a&gt;. Lauren asked me to do post on A Day in the Life, and I thought 'what a cool idea!' My husband and I recently got married in July of last year, and I started my blog shortly after. My day in the life post consist mainly of what it's like on a daily basis for us moving in and out of our crazy schedules. It starts with a messy room, in the middle of being reconstructed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-W5hAV0ukV68/Txy1rpN4HzI/AAAAAAAACU4/9RWPSml4qz0/s640/picture+1.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;My Husband, Joel, and I work odd hours, so anytime we get together is precious to us. In the mornings, we like to sleep in, and the fact that our jobs allow this is a luxury to us. We never make our bed, we're too lazy.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="425" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8qci5gozmm0/Txy1uD0yLAI/AAAAAAAACVA/r2JR8xRiYL4/s640/picture+2.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;We start our day together with breakfast infront of the TV. Our coffee table seems more inviting for meals than our kitchen table does. My pick today is an english muffin smeared with Nutella and a glass of milk. Joel has to do the toasting for me, because I seem to ALWAYS burn the sides when I try to heat it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hLDG0cdUBKw/Txy1xVaf0GI/AAAAAAAACVI/lBlMfHUdrfY/s640/picture+3.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I walk around every day in my slippers, I would live in these and use them as everyday shoes if it was possible.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U5hnWo3Hl7Q/Txy117T6ltI/AAAAAAAACVQ/mfM1SzCCkXo/s640/picture+4.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;One of my favorite parts of the day is getting ready. Where we live we have an enormous bathroom and a pretty nice sized closet to go with it. It makes getting prepped for the day that much more fun.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nRDK91E5SCM/Txy14wNRZRI/AAAAAAAACVY/h5sS0-R_DWY/s640/picture+5.jpg" width="426" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Today's outfit includes shades of black, gray, an American Apparel watch, and Blushing Nude lipstick by Revlon.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bfTRp3HcCto/Txy17WWwtLI/AAAAAAAACVg/trIthVeYLtA/s640/picture+6.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I save all of my photography sessions for the weekends. Today I had a session with one of my best friends, Rebekah. If you've visited my blog, you've probably seen her face a time or two.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PPLUVPhsMno/Txy1_hqq_wI/AAAAAAAACVo/fB0wIUnIBbI/s640/picture+7.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I do all of my photo editing, blogging, creating, and music listening right here. When Joel is working, I come straight home and upload the photos from the previous photo session and get right to work editing. I love this part of the photography process.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="425" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oGEUgl6NEqI/Txy2EFcavGI/AAAAAAAACVw/LGzk1LbWLjc/s640/picture+8.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Tonight's menu included cheeseburgers and sweet ice tea. Joel and I share the cooking, but he makes the most amazing burgers I've ever had. I put double cheese on mine for the first time tonight, and I don't think I'll go back to the single layer days. Yum.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iy1Cmz6bW1M/Txy2IqO3UPI/AAAAAAAACV4/P9bSgsj1MQQ/s640/picture+9.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;One of my absolute favorite things to do is watch movies. Joel and I have collected an extensive collection. Tonight's pick is 27 Dresses, a cute and quirky film starring the beautiful Katherine Heigl.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M--GX9_8McI/Txy2Mt38SLI/AAAAAAAACWA/Z3id2FDVCQk/s640/picture+10.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I have been sucked into the Hunger Games bandwagon, and I love it. Lately, I have been wrapping up the night with one of the books from the series, and a cup of Earl Gray tea. I drink my tea with milk and sugar, always.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Thanks Kaytee! I love the last picture of hunger games.. I know it will only be a matter of time until I jump on the bandwagon too! &lt;a href="http://kaylaur.blogspot.com/"&gt;Kaytees blog&lt;/a&gt; is a great mix of everything, she's also super sweet and I'm so fortunate to know her through the blog world!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;If you'd like to share a day in YOUR life then email me at laurenlivingloved@gmail.com. I'd love to have you! xx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1430751933044058164-3534964269616361261?l=www.laurenlivingloved.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/dHMlT/~4/zmMvV1v-gYk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dHMlT/~3/zmMvV1v-gYk/day-in-life-kaytee-from-kaytee-lauren.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Lauren)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-W5hAV0ukV68/Txy1rpN4HzI/AAAAAAAACU4/9RWPSml4qz0/s72-c/picture+1.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.laurenlivingloved.com/2012/01/day-in-life-kaytee-from-kaytee-lauren.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1430751933044058164.post-1466673041494397800</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-24T16:53:56.232+10:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">linked</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">blog love</category><title>Liebster Blog Nomination</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"&gt;Yesterday I was nominated for the Liebster Blog by Breanne at &lt;a href="http://restingonyourlove.blogspot.com/"&gt;My World Resting on your love&lt;/a&gt;. I feel so honoured! Her blog is so uplifting and I find the way she goes about outworking her faith to be truly beautiful. I find such inspiration from her words! Thanks again Breanne :)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;This award is given to blogs with less then 200 followers that you think deserve a little bit more recognition.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"&gt;1) Show your thanks by linking the sweet person who nominated you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"&gt;2) Leave links to 5 of your top blogs and leave a comment letting them know!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Though it was hard to pick, here are five blogs i've chosen, each for different reasons! Below is a list of the ladies I nominated and their blog names. Click on the picture to be taken to their blog and check them out for yourself! x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://s1107.photobucket.com/albums/h381/lolkate18/?action=view&amp;amp;current=Leibster.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="63" src="http://i1107.photobucket.com/albums/h381/lolkate18/Leibster.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1430751933044058164-1466673041494397800?l=www.laurenlivingloved.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/dHMlT/~4/jjIqHfDn5uM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dHMlT/~3/jjIqHfDn5uM/liebster-blog-nomination.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Lauren)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.laurenlivingloved.com/2012/01/liebster-blog-nomination.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1430751933044058164.post-1289565839841735021</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-23T07:55:55.111+10:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">photography</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">friends</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">love</category><title>Georgie and Michael, Save the Date!</title><description>I don't want to share the one they chose to send out, but here are a few other photos from Georgie and Michael's save the date mini photo session. Of course, their new puppy &lt;a href="http://www.laurenlivingloved.com/2012/01/meet-lu-lu.html"&gt;Lulu&lt;/a&gt; was featured heavily!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lolkate18/6744739959/" title="Georgie and Michael  by Lolkate18, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Georgie and Michael " height="1111" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7149/6744739959_9421fd1e41_b.jpg" width="770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1430751933044058164-1289565839841735021?l=www.laurenlivingloved.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/dHMlT/~4/ZNoqJfyDj8I" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dHMlT/~3/ZNoqJfyDj8I/georgie-and-michael-save-date.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Lauren)</author><thr:total>10</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.laurenlivingloved.com/2012/01/georgie-and-michael-save-date.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1430751933044058164.post-889103844382303369</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-20T10:48:43.068+10:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">getting healthy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">recipes</category><title>Caramel Cookies</title><description>I haven't posted any recipes since the new year, the main reason being I'm doing Weight Watchers. Therefore baking a whole batch of the normal delicious&amp;nbsp;treats is &lt;i&gt;super dangerous.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;However, I found myself&amp;nbsp;fidgeting and really wanting to bake, so I went on WW online and found a few recipes that were friendly to my propoints plan. I'm really looking forward to going through them! The first I made were these Caramel Cookies... and goodness me, they're&amp;nbsp;delicious! They're only 1 point each and are perfect with a cup of tea! The recipe is really easy to make and makes like... 60 cookies.. they're great when you need a little sweet something! Remember to stick to the measurements for the width and diameter of the cookie so that you're keeping them as just 1 ProPoint if you're doing WW too.&lt;br /&gt;
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I want to make sure it's known that although i'm reposting this recipe, it's &lt;i&gt;not &lt;/i&gt;my own. It's from &lt;a href="http://www.weightwatchers.com.au/util/prt/recipe.aspx?Type=1&amp;amp;RecipeID=37811"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;In a large bowl, cream together butter, sugar, egg and vanilla using an electric mixer. Add remaining ingredients and beat thoroughly. You may need to add 1-2 tbs iced water if mixture is too dry. (I used 1)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Scrape dough out of bowl and onto a large piece of plastic. Roll dough into a log, approximately 4cm wide. Completely wrap dough in plastic and refrigerate until firm, for at least 60 minutes, or overnight.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Cut dough into 3mm thin slices and arrange on baking trays well apart. Bake for approximately 10 minutes, or until lightly browned around edges and biscuits are firm to the touch.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Allow cookies to cool on trays then remove using a spatula to a cake rack to cool completely.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fSfs_aSL-jU/Txey281siMI/AAAAAAAABD4/ny1m8N185ag/s1600/sickday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fSfs_aSL-jU/Txey281siMI/AAAAAAAABD4/ny1m8N185ag/s1600/sickday.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I've been laying low the last couple days, fighting off a bad flu/sinus infection.&amp;nbsp;There's&amp;nbsp;been lots of reading, sleeping, eating fresh fruit and pulling the couch in front of the computer to catch up on Bones.&lt;br /&gt;
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I've also been reading some lovely blog posts that I thought I would share. They're not the latest posts by these people, but I've stored them away to share because I loved them so much. Enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kylee Noelle's Guest Post&amp;nbsp;inspired&amp;nbsp;by 'Crazy Love'&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://ambermaheu.blogspot.com/2011/12/guest-post-kylee.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Al's 'It's all about relationships' &lt;a href="http://aldtalks.blogspot.com/2012/01/its-all-about-relationships.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://wearetheparsonsfamily.com/"&gt;This entire blog,&lt;/a&gt; and their amazing story.&lt;br /&gt;
The heartbreaking and beautiful story of Nella's birth &lt;a href="http://www.kellehampton.com/2010/01/nella-cordelia-birth-story.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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I bought a new journal today on my lunch break.. (I also bought 3 other books..oops!I just love that Koorong!)&amp;nbsp;The journal I was previously using isn't full, but I decided I wanted a new one. New pages, new start for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
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I want to dive into God's word this year, get to know it more than I have in the past and gain a deeper understanding of it. I'm going to study a chapter at a time (not in order, just whichever chapter I do choose) and this journal will&amp;nbsp;solely&amp;nbsp;be for bible study. I think i'm going to keep church notes in another journal.&lt;br /&gt;
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I've done this before, my own reading of the bible chapter by chapter, but I haven't &lt;i&gt;studied &lt;/i&gt;like I plan to this year. I'm expectant to recieve personal revelation and direction for my year, through reading God's word.At small group we're doing Revelation, which I'm really looking forward too - so that's what's going to take up the first pages! Oh... a new journal... don't you just love those clean white pages?&lt;br /&gt;
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