I’ve had this image saved on my computer for more than a year.
The title is kind of weird, but the graphic caught my eye on Pinterest a long time ago and I thought it would make a fun mini blog post series. (If you know the original source of the image, please let me know as I would like to give credit where credit is due!)
I’m not planning to dedicate a whole blog post to each of these topics every day and I may even combine days, but the series seemed a lot like an extended blog survey and since we all know I am a huge sucker for surveys, I cannot figure out why it took me this long to get around to debuting it on PBF. Let’s get started!
Day Two: Nine Loves
Yes, I skipped the first day. I started to share 10 secrets, but I got stumped after three, so it was time to move on. This challenge is off to a great start, huh?
Anyway… Nine loves!
1. Ryan
Going strong since 2004! He’s so important to me and truly gets me in a way I cannot describe. He seems to understand exactly what I need when I am feeling down and makes me feel absolutely adored every single day.
2. My Family
I feel incredibly lucky to have such a loving and fun family and amazing in-laws. They are the best people in the entire world.
3. Sadie
I know you’re totally shocked she made the list, right!? Sadie is the most joyful, playful, excitable little girl and I adore her more than I ever thought possible. I never quite understood the love people seemed to have for their pets until Ryan and I got Sadie and now I’m a lifelong member of the “way too obsessed with my dog” club.
4. My Girlfriends
I feel very fortunate to have forged lifelong friendships with women from every stage of my life. My best friends from elementary school/high school are still my best friends. My college girlfriends will be my best friends for years to come. The older I get, the more I realize how special quality friends are and I cherish these friendships and do my best to make the most of every opportunity I have to see my friends when we’re together.
5. Travel
Traveling is a passion of mine and I feel like I truly come alive when I explore new places and experience life outside of my little Florida bubble. I hope to take advantage of every opportunity I have to travel and see the world. A few bucket list places I’m dying to visit: Alaska, Australia, Thailand, Greece, the Maldives and Africa!
6. Reading
I’ve been a big-time reader all my life and there’s something about diving into a book at the end of a long day that relaxes me and transports me to another world. Books are the best.
7. The Outdoors
I need to spend time outside every single day or I start to feel a little stir crazy. Sunshine and a long walk do wonders for me!
8. Exercise
Exercise is a true love for me because of the way it makes me feel inside. It’s a release, an escape, a way to have a bit of “me time,” something that gives me a daily sense of accomplishment, something that makes me feel empowered and so much more.
9. Ice Cream
Because it’s the best food on the planet.
Question of the Afternoon
- What are some of your big loves?
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I love this challenge! Does that count? haha
1. My Family
2. My Dog – even though he IS family
3. My Friends
4. Running
5. Austin, Texas – where I live
6. 75 and sunny on a patio with a cold drink
7. Football games
8. Mac and Cheese
9. Sleeping in on a rainy day
Great list!!!! Yours is almost exactly the same as mine, except #5 would be Charlotte, NC!
I’m so with you on ice cream… though it may be closer to the top of my list 🙂
I absolutely love the green top you are wearing in the ice cream photo! Where did you get it?
Thank you! It’s from Marshalls a few years ago but the brand is Due Per Due.
How fun! Ice cream would totally make my top nine list too, as well as peanut butter! 😉 And well, of course Cody and Hunter.
Love this post! My loves include much of the same as yours, I have to add coffee and a good long walk with my 3 pups and boyfriend.
Exercise, My Family, Barbecue Pulled Pork, Almond and Hazelnut Butter, Sunshine, Picnics and Barbecues!
Sunshine!!!! Yes!
Love it! I’m going to bore you with my 9 now 😉 Most look very similar to yours!
My hubby, family, friends, blogging/blogs, Florida, makeup, ice cream, music and working out.
Music is a great one!!!!
I am REALLY shocked that peanut butter did not make the list. What??
That is exactly what I thought!
I love it, but I love ice cream more. 🙂
This is a great little mini blog series idea! A few of my loves are: adventure, my friends, my family, exercise, and food in general.
My boyfriend, my cat and my family are my big loves.
Haha we have so many of the same loves: family, friends, pets <3, travel, exercise, ICE CREAM (hands down the best food)… makes sense why I enjoy reading your blog so much!
fitness, reading, and first and foremost food! Of course I love my friends and family a bit too 😉
1) Family
2) Friends
3) My alma mater – UCLA! <3
4) My career and my kiddos at school that inspire me each and every day.
5) Garlic. To an obsessive degree.
6) Toppings. With a side of froyo.
7) Books. Definitely agree with you on the books. I started a book club this year (following through with a NY resolution!) and it's been the best decision EVER!
8) All. Things. Wine. and. Coffee.
LOVE this series!!!
several loves come to mind: my husband, my baby, my family, God, the Savior, my faith, Les Mills (pretty much all of it! best fitness classes ever), teaching fitness, and eating ice cream with my sisters 🙂
I love my dogs so stinkin’ much. I never knew how attached I could get to an animal until I got my golden retriever boys. I blog and talk about them way too often. Your Sadie stories always remind me of them!
ps I feel the need to mention that my husband is cool too 🙂
do you plan on doing a book club again??
Alaska is the best! I’d always wanted to go and ended up making it to Seward for free on a work trip. It was worth a million bucks! A. MAZ. ING. Definitely keep it on your must-do list.
Oh my goodness, I almost thought about linking up to this idea because it looks like such a great series until I realized your list 100% matches mine except that I would replace Ice Cream with Froyo haha!
Love this series ideA!!!!!!!
Love this idea!! I definitely share the exercise, ice cream, my pup, reading, and traveling loves. Especially traveling, I feel like I’m in a Florida bubble, too. haha I’d also definitely say nut butters, and music!
I’m so with you on the traveling! It makes me feel so much more connected to the world when I travel outside of my little Texas bubble 🙂
This is a great series. I love so many things, a lot the same as you, and here’s my list:
1. My husband
2. My family
3. My friends
4. Teaching group fitness
5. Living in San Francisco
6. Going out to new restaurants
7. Travel and exploring
8. Writing/blogging/sharing
9. Decadent desserts
I love all of these! Family, girlfriends, exercise, and food are definitely all on my list!
I 100% agree with you on ice cream! And working out! Both are on my list.
Mine are very similar to yours.
Family
Friends
Food
Fitness
Travel
Cooking
Reading
Dessert!
Good music
My answers are pretty similar to yours! My loves are:
My husband
My family
My friends
traveling
music
hot yoga
exploring outdoors
and FOOD! (especially sushi!)
OMG LOVE this so much! I’m going to have to do this on my blog too 🙂
Pretty much the same as you…guess that explains why I love your blog
1. My Family
2. Boyfriend <3
3. Friends ( I've also known my friends forever…I've had the same group of friends since 7th grade, I'm 25 now)
4.My Pets
5.My Job
6.Dessert
7. Outdoors
8. A good adventure. Whether it's something like, traveling to a new destination, visiting a new museum or trying out a segway
9.Books
10.Exercise
9.
I love this!
So for your travel bucket list to Greece, I must throw a shout out to Santorini Island. I got married there (to another love) almost 10 years ago! Can’t believe it is been that long!
One love that you didn’t have that I would have towards the top of my list is coffee. In any form. Iced, black, lattes, with cream, flavored…anything. Just give me the coffee and I am a happy girl!
I absolutely agree with your love of friends. Like you, I am so blessed with a set of best friends from high school, college, and even our first military post in Tennessee, and I have to remind myself often that true friendships like these are hard to come by.
I love this post! My 9 other loves
1 Family
2 Friends
3 My pup
4 J.
5 yoga daily
6 good healthy delicious food
7 lots of sleep & leisure time
8 nature/ the ocean
My list would include my husband, dog, baby on the way!!, famil
Congratulations!!
What!?! No peanut butter? What a fun challenge!
Love that ice cream made the list!!! 😛
That picture you have for ‘The Outdoors’ is beautiful.
Thank you! It was from my trip to the Outaouais Region of Canada last year. A gorgeous place!
I love reading all these 🙂 Thailand is beautiful, I spent a month there about 8 years ago- Phi Phi is a must, absolutely gorgeous, you must go! Greece is great too- I second what another reader said- go to Santorini- the sunsets are the most amazing you’ll ever see, so romantic! I love to travel too, we’re lucky in the UK as europe is on our doorstop. The place i’m obsessed with now is Lake Garda in the north of Italy. We’e been 3 times, and I can’t get enough of it! So one of my loves is sipping an Aperol Spritz overlooking lake Garda 🙂
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I love reading all these 🙂 Thailand is beautiful, I spent a month there about 8 years ago- Phi Phi is a must, absolutely gorgeous, you must go! Greece is great too- I second what another reader said- go to Santorini- the sunsets are the most amazing you’ll ever see, so romantic! I love to travel too, we’re lucky in the UK as europe is on our doorstop. The place i’m obsessed with now is Lake Garda in the north of Italy. We’e been 3 times, and I can’t get enough of it! So one of my loves is sipping an Aperol Spritz overlooking lake Garda 🙂
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Great loves! Some of my loves: my husband, my family, and guacamole 🙂
You pretty much nailed it on the head! Only I have a serious love for EGGS! Call it weird if you must but I just love them so much. 🙂
I love this mini series! A few of mine would be family, friends, my dogs, running outside along the water on a beautiful day, country music, reading a good book, hammocks, coffee and peanut butter!
SO fun!! My love for travel has definitely been surfacing lately and I’ve got such an itch to just see the world! I’m trying to figure out how to make that happen ASAP! 😉
Aww, love…my favorite of the feels! Most of all, I LOVE being a Mom! That has become very clear to me this past month as my oldest is graduating from high school. LOTS of tears! I love my family, my dog and travel as well. Wish I felt the same way you do about exercise, but at least I’m trying. 😉
1. family
2. exercise with a friend or a good playlist
3. friends
4. dog
5. exploring new places/things
6. cooking/eating
7. learning
8. taking risks
9. a clean/organized area 🙂
What a fun post! One of my loves is the ocean! I wish I lived near one!
Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh love this idea!! 9 loves….
1. my boy
2. my family
3. my dog
4. exercise
5. bananas
6. travel
7. my 4 bffs
8. dancing & acting
9. holidays
btw: Alaska is beautiful!!! The scenery is breathtaking! It’s one of my favorite places! I went last year and I’m hoping to go again!
Holidays is a great one!!
That picture from the travel one is stunning! Hard to pin it down to 9 things but family, my dog, friends, cupcakes, the beach, running, Friends (the tv show), traveling and baking!
Love this idea! Might have to use it for my own blog ! 🙂
This is a fantastic mini series!!
9 Loves:
1. Fiance
2. Family
3. Friends
4. Puppy
5. Running
6. Wine
7. Travel
8. Reading good books
9. Great food
That picture of you & Saddie is crazy silly! My loves are my family, my health, exercise, my intelligence, my friends, my travels and my home.
In no particular order: red velvet ANYTHING, my boyfriend, my family, my two cats (Ringo & Georgie), my friends, fitness/nutrition, reading, sunny & 70 degree weather 🙂