Stay Classy.

Create high standards for everything you allow into your life.

Do each act full-heartedly.

Kill with kindness.
Keep your heels high and your head higher.

Leave the trash talking and gossiping to the girls who do it best.

Smiling can get you anywhere.

Never lose respect for yourself.

"Embrace your flaws and be true to who you really are."

"Hold your head high, but never your nose."

Don't hold a grudge over the past, instead forget about it but remember what it has taught you.

Confidence is sexy.

What counts is on the inside, beauty shows throughout.

Building a Life in Love

Adam Patrick Gutierrez & Mandi Linné Avis

December 21, 2010

"I do not want to wake up from this wonderful dream with you."

It's hard to describe how much you care for somebody and how close you have grown to be with them...without making the person you're describing this to melt into a puddle of mush with all the lovey dovey details.

Bare with this.

Adam and I..

We define the term "best friends."

Before him,

I never knew I could let down my guard so much to one person.

He's everything I want and need combined...

He's my therapist, my trainer, my stabilizer, my sweetheart, my best friend, and the only person I want to spend time around when I'm feeling independent.

And he's definitely stolen my heart. Literally. ;)

We eat entirely too much candy together some nights

and get so sick from it,

but we're there for each other for the comfort and the laughs

that make the stomach ache go away.

We can read each other's minds

and even after running ourselves down with our ridiculously busy lives,

we always know what the other one of us wants.

My happiness is always in the apple of his eye.

We adore eachother.

He will always be there with flowers and a bottle of my favorite red wine

after I've had the roughest day.

OR with a surprise homemade dinner.

OR with a surprise date night out.

And most importantly, he's there for me with a sweet kiss and a hug.

We never get sick of each other and we don't care for time apart.

We keep a healthy balance with our love life

 and we share the strongest connection.

We're meant to be.

Family Means Most

My four siblings and I are all so distracted with running around and working on our lives that it's rare for us to be together at once. Mitch lives in Arizona, Megan in an apartment, I live all over the place, and Morgan with Dad. So when Dad wants to get everybody together, a family BBQ is called on deck. Those days turn out to be the most memorable, fastest-lived days.

Music.Beauty.

Great minds think alike.

"On My Own" By Yasmin

A Love for Coffee

Coffee is my mind motivator - Keeping me sane since 2003. The first thing the majority of us want and need in the morning is coffee and breakfast. That's pretty standard. My addiction, however, is not so standard. Trying to ween myself off of coffee only to get withdrawl headaches isn't worth the warm cup of love that I enjoy so much. Hazelnutt flavored coffee has the ability to make me the happiest girl in the world.

A Place to Start

I always thought blogging was something people did if they weren't living their lives on their tippy toes or for those who were never rushing around staying busy and just needed something to keep them more busy...now I'm realizing that it is something anybody and everybody does, whether it's to keep track of their non-stop way of life or just to pass time. With me, I decided to create a blog because I wanted a piece of something to look back on and a way to share my creativity and view on things...I guess.

I'm 21 years old and I have more ambition than I know what to do with. My life and my thoughts are constantly in motion and I keep myself at such a level of busy-ness that it's gotten to the point where I refer to my mind as freight train brain. So here's where I'll try to put most of these thoughts and actions, maybe then I'll feel more organized.

I'm connected at the hip with the most amazing, inspiring, and admirable guy...Adam. He does more for me than any man probably ever could for a girl in this time. He keeps me focused, determined, motivated, sane, refreshed, and most of all - I'm more than happy with him every day.

Here I am. My name is Mandi.