That 2017 Spark

We are seventeen days into 2017 and that spark has been hanging around ever since the first few seconds of this year. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who feels it :) ... there is truly something about this year that has a whole new level of positivity and hope floating around in the universe. I've made a promise to myself to hold onto all of these amazing feelings and use them to make this year everything I've ever dreamed it would be.

Speaking of sparks... lately I can't get my mind to stop wandering back to a little moment that Ben and I shared on a summer night back in 2010. I was twenty years old and we had spent the last few months watching shooting stars reflect in the river and staying up until 2am to catch meteor showers on the beach. 

 One night at the end of the summer, I told Ben that us getting married was all I wanted someday. We joked around about when our wedding would be and how perfect it would be to get married in 2017 since 17 is my favorite number. 2017 seemed so far away at the time and I remember thinking how there was absolutely no way seven years would go by before we would get married. How could it take THAT long?!

And here we are... five months away from me in a white dress. The years have flown by into one big magical journey that ended up playing out just as we imagined that night.

Keep sparkling 2017 :)