first off! it's summer break and i can't even begin to explain how happy i am to be home on my little island.

only took about 2 and a half weeks to finally get back into the swing of a different routine but i think it's safe to say that we are getting there. really trying to focus on finding balance in my life with work, family/friends, and my own passions.

lately my passions have been getting the back burner but with so many creative ideas forming yesterday i set out to make one happen. this, however, also meant that i would have to get out of my comfort zone because these photos involved one of our local cafes, the pioneer cafe, meaning people were going to be curious because for whatever reason when you whip out a camera and start to have a full on photo shoot people stop to check out what is going on.

not sure about you but that makes me so uncomfortable. i am really not one who likes all the attention on me, but life is sweet, just like this bomb chocolate banana milkshake and we should enjoy it (not worrying about what other people think of us).

that's why i made a point to, as nike would say, just do it (not sponsored,, lol) and take the photos.

and thankfully to my luck there was only a couple workers, a man, and the occasional person walking on by. it wasn't many people, but it was still something that i couldn't say i would have done a few years ago seeing that i was extremely shy.

it's taken me years to be comfortable in myself and in all honestly i am still working on it. every single day i am learning to fall more in love with myself. i'm still awkward, and i am perfectly okay with it, because either way i am learning and growing, and so is everyone else. that is the beautiful thing about life; who we are today is not who we have to be tomorrow. we have the potential for anything we set our minds to.

i suggest taking each day to be better versions than ourselves.

because honey the world could always use more sunshine.