Best Days

My sincerest apologies for taking so long to update. Again. I have no excuses besides being super, super busy. And somewhat of a slacker. And a newlywed, of course.

I'm not sure where to start. I could write a book on the past couple months, I'm sure. It's been great for the most part. I'm absolutely loving married life, as well as family and friends, obviously.

I start work on the new record on Monday! I'm so unbelievably stoked! I can't wait to get into the studio. I have so many songs already, and so much more to write about. I'm a little nervous about putting certain stuff out there... but I also feel like it's a necessary part of the healing process for me. Either way, I can't wait to see where this record takes me!

In other news, Joel and I are now living alone again. Mom and Serena moved into their brand spanking new apartment last week. It's super delicious. Seeing them leave was quite emotional, but they're only twenty minutes away. Missa, who is now living with Gracie, as I think I mentioned before, spent their last night here. We all slept on sleeping bags in the living room, watched movies and giggled until 2AM. It was precious. And then we all helped to move them in the next day, along with Alex, Mom's boyfriend. Things seem to be going great between the two of them. Serena tells me that he's been spending the night at the apartment a lot. Mom's definitely got her glow back. She's constantly smiling these days, and Serena seems to like him a lot. I really, really hope it works out.

As for Joel and I, married life has been nothing but amazing so far. He'll be coming to the studio with me a lot when I start recording, which is great because I'm not sure I'd like having to leave him that much. It's quite pathetic. Oh well. We're newlyweds.

Now that we have the apartment to ourselves again, we decided we'd finish the decorating we never got around to doing. Today we started work on the guest room. It seems weird calling it a guest room again. It's been Mom and Serena's bedroom for the past year. And now it's empty. Kinda bittersweet. But doing it up is turning out to be a lot of fun. Joel and I are both hopeless decorators. But we're having fun.

We've been hanging out with the boys a lot. I missed them so, so much whilst we were gone. I need my boys. We've also seen a lot of Gracie, which I love. I feel like we've barely seen one another this past year. Not because we haven't wanted to but because we've both had so much going on. But now that things are calming down I want to devote some more time to her. Because she really is awesome.

I'm headed out to New York tomorrow! Fun times. I love The Twins. I've seen them once since we got back from Australia and that's just not enough. I have to be back on Sunday to start work on Monday but I'm pretty sure it's going to be an amazing weekend. Joel is going to Laguna to spend some time with the family. He was invited to New York but he likes to give us girls what he calls 'lady time'. And he hasn't seen his parents in around three weeks. Cady is currently in New York too.

I love that woman. I really do. I've seen her a couple times in the past month or so. We hang out when we can. It's kinda crazy to be hanging out with Cady Cross though. It's all crazy really. I mean, I'm not sure that I'll ever get my head around the fact that Lindsay and Roxy Stevens are two of my closest friends. Plus Cady Cross? Madness.

Having Cady in my life has taught me so much. It's taught me to appreciate all that I have and all I've been blessed with. The fact that she's still with us says more about her strength and character than people give her credit for. She's the type of person that changes your life without ever really meaning to. I'd give her the world if I could.

Gotta head out. Joel and I are meeting the boys for dinner and bowling! I'll try to blog whilst I'm in New York!

California Gurls

Just a quick update, since we have to go to dinner in ten! We've been back in LA a little over a week. It's good to be home! Australia was amazing. I'm so, so glad we went. But I'm also stoked to be back home with our loved ones. Mom, Missa, Serena and Gracie met us at the airport, which was a nice surprise! Gracie and Missa are now roomies! I love it!

There's so much to write about and so little time! But I'll do my best to write a proper blog sometime in the near future. But don't hold me to that.