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Thursday Thoughts

July 3, 2014 by Jenna

knee high by 4 of july

You know what they always say… knee-high by the 4th of July! I am at my parent’s house and we are about to head up to our cabin for the weekend. I thought I would share this picture of our corn field. I also thought I would share some things I have been thinking about this week:

  • Last weekend was the Pride Festival in Minneapolis. It was so much fun. I kind of felt like I was in Vegas for a second? Love for everyone, people. Love. For. Everyone.
  • I just bought these little detachable lenses for my iPhone last week: wide-angle, fisheye, and macro. They are so cute and little and just snap on and off via a magnet. I haven’t played with them too much yet – the above photo was taken with the fisheye lens this morning – but I am excited to experiment more!
  • I just started using Bloglovin’ and I loooove it. It’s like a combination of Pinterest and Feedly. #addicting. Check it out and follow me on there!
  • I really want to try to grill pizza. Have you done it before? This looks amazing and so does this. Come grill and eat (and drink) with me!
  • On Saturday the ladies in my family along our cabin neighbor ladies will be running/walking the Nisswa Firecracker 5K together as the “Bass Lake Bandits”. My mom made all of us matching red, white, and blue headbands. The finish line features a crawfish boil, a free PBR, and a Slip ‘N Slide. So yeah, it’ll be fun.

I had a half-day of work, so I am officially on vacation and ready to head up north. Woop woop! My bag is packed full of miscellaneous red, white, and blue clothing that will hopefully come together is a somewhat matching and stylish patriotic outfit or two. My nails are red. I am ready to go festively celebrate our nation’s birth. I hope you have a great weekend planned! I hope you grill and enjoy some sunshine and wear sunscreen and enjoy time with people you love (or like a lot) and have ice cold beverages and hop into a pool or lake and see fireworks and just have a grand time all around!

Have a great day! xo

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