Meet the Shaneyfelts

The Blog-tember Challenge: Day 10

Day 10: 10 items off your bucket list. If you haven’t made one, now’s a good time to start!

I’ve never made a bucket list (and I don’t ever plan on it–I’m just not that type), but I do have a few things that I would want to do in my lifetime–some I already have 🙂

1. Fall in love and get married  
Check!  We just celebrated our one year anniversary July 26th!
This was right after he had been throwing candy corn for me to try catching in my mouth and I caught one!

2. Have babies!  
We’re enjoying just the two of us right now, plus with teaching full time and being a full time grad student, there’s no way….no way

3. Run a half marathon  
Check!  I ran my first (and so far only) half three years ago.  I want to run it again but it’s hard right now finding the time to train.  And…grad school.
I just got done running 13.1 miles.  I ran walked straight to the pizza.

4. Visit the UK.  
I want to visit LOTS of literary places….Canterbury Cathedral, The Globe, etc.  Might be a girls’ trip one day since I doubt Dustin would ever be interested in those things.

5. Write my own cookbook.  
This is something I talk about a lot, and I hope to actually do it someday!  Cooking and baking are such passions of mine.

6. Get my masters degree in library media. 
 I’ll be done in May!  Woohoo!  And then I have a life again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7. Visit New York City during Christmas.  
Because I love Christmas and I know I would love NYC during Christmas.

8. Visit a Southern Living Idea House. 
 I love them every year, and I loved the one for this year.

9. Be a stay at home mom.  
Can this be on my bucket list??  I would love to be able to stay home and raise my future children.

10. Learn this dance with my sister!  
We talked about it a lot when the movie came out.  It’s time we learned!  

The Blog-tember Challenge: Day 8

Today’s prompt for The Blog-tember Challenge is a fun one!  But haven’t they all been fun so far?  I had fun writing this one!

Day 8: Tell us about your favorite season.  Why is it your favorite and what does it say about you?

My answer to this one might be different from everyone else’s.  My favorite season is the last day of school – December 25th.  I love summer through Christmas!  I actually thought about putting October as my favorite season because it’s my birthday month (and we all know birthdays are a holiday) but then I was afraid of what that might say about me haha!  Let me explain why I picked such a wide range of the year…
Summer

As a teacher, summer is my favorite because of a “break” from school.  I say break loosely because if you have a teacher in your family, then you know there’s never really a break at all.  There’s required workshops over the summer, workshops that aren’t required but you’ve been asked to go to, lesson planning, and working in your classroom before school starts.  But when I’m not busy with any of that, I’m enjoying the beautiful weather!  I love the freedom summer brings to my daily schedule–the freedom to wake up early or sleep in, the freedom to choose if I want to be a homebody that day, the freedom to eat somewhere other than the school cafeteria, and the freedom to stay up later.  I love summer!

Here we are just a couple of weeks before we got married about to enjoy a day out on the river!  Ol Shaneyfelt was pointing to my new monogram because he was excited about that becoming official!


Fall

 I love this quote–not because it’s written by Fitzgerald–but because it’s so true.  There’s something about the crispness in the air that feels renewing.  I love fall colors.  I love that college football season starts in the fall.  I love fall foods and baking fall goodies.  I love fall decorations–pumpkins and gourds.  I love fall clothes.  And I love that I have a fall birthday because the weather is always perfect.
 This was the very first Anthropologie fashion show I did and I loved this fall outfit!

 Learning to bake my grandma’s fudge in my mom’s kitchen.  Baking is love 🙂


Christmas

I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT CHRISTMAS!!!  I can’t be more excited when I say that!!  I love that Christmas is the time of year when we remember our Savior’s birth and the faithfulness of God to provide a Savior for us.  But on the secular side, I love how Christmas is a joyful time of year where everyone is happy.  I love Christmas music, movies, smells, decorations–you name it, I love it.
Dustin knows how much I love Christmas lights so he surprised me one day after school with a date to my favorite Mexican restaurant and then to the botanical gardens to see the Christmas lights!!!  I was beyond thrilled!

And then later in the season he took me to the Grand Ole Opry to see The Radio City Rockettes.  And of course, after we walked over to the hotel to tour the lights.  I’m already begging him to take me again this year to see the new Christmas show!

The Blog-tember Challenge: Day 7

Happy Labor Day, y’all!  I am so happy to have a day off from school 🙂  I’ve been participating in the Blog-tember Challenge as much as I can and it’s been fun.  Today’s question is…
Day 8: Tell us about your blog name.  Where did it come from?

I started blogging in October of 2014.  I had been reading blogs since college and enjoyed keeping up with some of the same blogs for years.  I know that sounds weird, but it’s like you really get to know the bloggers if you’ve read their blog for a few years.

Anyway, I had just gotten married and felt like it was time for me to try out blogging. I looked at lots of blogs to check out their names, and I even made notes in my phone of different names I had thought of.  I ended up going with Meet the Shaneyfelts because I was still obsessed with thinking about our wedding, and it was our hashtag.  
#MeetTheShaneyfelts  (check it out on Instagram!)

Another reason why I chose Meet the Shaneyfelts is because when I started this blog, I planned on blogging more about our family.  Now almost a year later, I’m starting to rethink a few things about this blog and the direction I”m going in.  Am I really blogging about family or more about myself?  That’s something I’ve got to think about.  I’ve been planning on updating this blog in October in honor of my one year blog-iversary (I love celebrating!), so we’ll see what changes I make in October!
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