Category: Bits and Pieces

^^ DO you guys see this eyebrow raise?! Kills me. Happy Friday guys! Hope you have fun plans for the weekend. We’re hoping the weather cools a little! Consistent high 80’s in this town is enough to make us all melt—I’d do anyyyyyything for A/C right about now! Or maybe it’s just me.. Can I blame this…

So many things about our life are new right now, all of which are extremely exciting to us! For starters, we have a newborn (if ya haven’t noticed, he’s kind of overtaken the little that I blog!). We’ve also taken on new areas of ministry in our church, and really we’ve just entered a new…

dear berry farm, i love your strawberry cider & cobbler (and blackberry) and old chess set.. and even though i threw a halfway fit when james won our chess tournament today, i promise i won’t be a sore loser next time (at least i’ll try 🙂 dear sundays, so happy to have sundays in our lives!…

so is a self portrait considered a selfie? here’s mine: hope you all have a great weekend! we’re starting our new saturday night services at our church with an awesome dinner in between so i’m super excited for how that will all pan out; we have some prep-age to do tomorrow. nothing like enjoying a…

i know i have that little button on my sidebar over there that says ‘blogtember’ and you might be wondering what that’s all about! well! here’s more on that, but basically it was my desire to blog every day this month (like i did last may!). and in my mind, i had this dream that…

  july flewww by in such a scurry and flurry!! can you believe we’re here in the smack dab middle of august? summer and fall are definitely my favorites as far as seasons go. our fall is a bit of an ‘indian summer’ with long, warm, quiet days. especially once our santa cruz population settles back down to…

it’s true. i’ve succumbed to being a bad blogger as of late. i didn’t want it to come to this.. you know, a post about being a bad blogger. blah! and i didn’t, but you know, alas, here i am. i think the onset of summer has threw off my clock in many many ways.…

a few snapshots of the last few weeks, because one, i’ve been a sick zombie along with my sickie husband. two people attempting to take care of one another on lots of medication is not necessarily an ideal situation, but we’ve been making it through. and two, isn’t it just the busiest time? school’s out,…

over the weekend, james was away at a wedding so naturally i do as i’m often tempted to when left on my own devices. i filled my schedule to the brim! it’s always my temptation.. ‘can we fit it in on sunday late at night after that one thing and before that other thing?’ to…

on monday, james and i had a little impromptu date nite to our beloved ‘bittersweet bistro‘ 🙂 it was more like a private dining experience because by 8:30, we were the only people left in the restaurant area (everyone else was in the bar)! we had it all to ourselves (welcome to mayberry people!). we…

on friday, we cut out of work early for a beach day of standup paddling! this was my second attempt and i have to say, i am just as sore after the second time as i was after the first..ouch! but it is the greatest workout, i think it engages almost every muscle possible, down…

below is a little mashup of the last month in pictures.. i name these posts differently almost everytime and thought that potatoes sounded yummy when i wrote this, so there you go! maybe next time i’ll go with peas and carrots. muah! 1// our youth room is on it’s way to being a finished remodel.…

over the weekend, we got to celebrate our good friends tying the knot in their very gorgeous spring wedding—and james was apart of the wedding party, woot! there were bachelor/bachelorette parties to be had, rehearsing to be done and a full day of wedding goodness on saturday 🙂 our legs are still tired from dancing..crazy…

while the first day of spring was rainy, rainboot-filled and a little problematic, the second day has been wondrous and sunny and filled with walking and sushi and all that is fun and good! yay second day of spring. and i added a purple flower to my header up there (along with a fancy font)…

  holy daylight savings people, i am a hot mess today! this transition is so hard for us. so fragile is our sleep schedule and these sorts of things aren’t to be messed with. alas though..luckily for me, i had a nice sleepy saturday that is fueling my day today. can you say it with…

happy monday! i now present you with a small smattering of pictures from the last couple weeks! hooray! now i must say that these are mostly ‘while i’m sick at home’ photos, so umm sorry bout that! but i’m just on the other side of it now..and oh ma gosh, i’m just not built for that…

these are the lovely sunbeams i picked up for a little party we threw this weekend! while meanwhile, the rest of the country laced up their snow boots 🙂 to all those in nemo, i salute you! over the weekend: i took one of our lovely high school gals to coffee, went on a surprise…

    on monday we went on a little double date to the shadowbrook restaurant in capitola. i haven’t been there in ages! but one of my favorite parts of dining here is the little trolley you take to get to the restaurant, which is riverside right by the inlet to the ocean. it’s typically delicious…

ohhh, januaryyyyy. after the christmas buzz + decorations + many many parties go away, sometimes you, january, seem much too quiet! suddenly everyone’s eating salads again and there are no more cookies everywhere you turn. the alarm seems to be a lot longer/louder in the morning, which makes trying to join james on his workouts…

it has been so difficult for me to adjust to the back to work, back to not-having-a-christmas-tree, back to normal and back to non-five-day weekends—those were so pleasant! whew! …last night we *unfortunately* took apart all that was our christmas gloriousness and moved around our whole house (which isn’t that hard given the size!). it feels…

coffee dates, relaxing on vacation, new years eve parties + adorable little girlies

2012 was a good year… however..the more that i thought about it and compiled all our highlights, i realized we had an amazing year! so many things have happened, as you’ll see below (and as i’m sure is true in your life)! looking back, i’m much much more grateful than i ever knew. i’m grateful because this…

if you are anything like us, you are essentially pining away for christmas eve + day!! you might think to yourself like we did, how in the heck am i going to last?! a very noble thing to wonder. well. after much deliberation and a bit of brainstorming, we thought we’d pass on a couple…

last week was quite a whirlwind. we’ve been scurrying from christmas party to christmas party (three last weekend) and we’re off to another tonight 🙂 so far, the white elephant gifts have gone well and not too many people have been hurt (see: christmas college group party of 2007..yikes!). we’ve walked away with fudge (deelicious!),…

1-4 | gingerbread house partay! 5&6 | babies + silly husbands 7&8&18 | christmas parties 9&10 | nutcrackers + kids choirs 11&12 | trying out burger + christmas trees 13&14&17 | a few more sf snapshots 15&16 | decorating for christmas   ps definition and rules of lomography if you’re so inclined 🙂

  happy friday everybody! it’s le weekend, which hopefully means a little extra sleep in the m household. but most likely not, as we have two full days and a lot of pumpkin carving, fall activities and celebrations! so the sleep will just have to wait. here we go..yippee! here are my friday letters: dear chelsea, we…

ode to joy—things that give me joy: 24. the smell of rain 25. jumping in puddles 26. lending a helping hand to someone in need 27. doing a jumping jack 28. cute lettered mugs (i have x’s & o’s—anthro on sale!) 29. offering encouragement to one who’s going through just what you’ve been through 30. the start of a…

seven things that give me joy: 17. baby pumpkins scattered throughout the home 18. going through old class notes from college classes 19. pretending to tap dance (although i used to really know how..) 20. pedicures with sea salt scrub 21. reading a book that i just can’t put down 22. and having the time to read…

so over the weekend, i got a new app that let’s me shake my iphone like a polaroid picture and out comes..a polaroid picture (on the screen at least)! i’m actually shocked i haven’t flung the thing across the room yet. though, i’ve had strange/uncanny iphone blessings (dropped a bazillion times with*out* any case..naughty head, but no damage). anyways,…