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Five things about me
it’s the five things post! and i’m doing one (which means i can use any picture i want, like this fun old one with fur and striped walls)! thanks to anna for tagging me..isn’t she the sweetest! i, too, do these ‘tagged’ posts from time to time but they are always really super duper hard for me…
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Saturday mornings
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…
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a first birthday dinner
this week we celebrated our little godson’s first birthday! he had his favorite meal and had {what i think was his first of} many tastes of frosting 🙂 it is such an honor to be godparents for this little guy and we are so looking forward to the many fun years that are to follow!
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Camp weekend
^^ my favorite picture from the weekend 🙂 we’ve been back for a day or so now but we’re still doing laundry, sleeping extra and trying to detox from all the in-n-out + the abundance of peanut butter filled pretzels we’ve eaten (and by detox i mean, miss thoroughly). i love doing camp with our youth…
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gone [winter] campin’!
let’s go camping!! woohoo! we’re so elated to be whisking ourselves off to the mountains today! james and i and our fearless team of leaders will be headed to the edge of the stanislaus national forest with nearly 35 jr highers + high schoolers. and while i’d like to brag that we’re going ‘real’ camping, we’ll be in…
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The Oscars
hope your oscar party sunday was grand! i’ve been celebrating the oscars since i was a kid (family pressure..) and i’m pretty sure a late february sunday without an oscar party would now feel absolutely absurd to me, just wrong. we’ve always joked with 85% seriousness that one day our oscar party fun will turn…
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Life lately
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…
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A hello that brightened my day!
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/59692301 w=600&h=341] i love these people!! this little diddy came to me when i was sick at work last week! i just want to smooch them all!
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Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
on saturday, we utilized our much awaited christmas gift—wicked tickets (ahh! thanks brad + amy!)—in sf! it was pretty abuzz as it was closing weekend so we made a day of it. first we jaunted around golden gate park cause duh it was such a beautiful day (along with a gazillion other people who thought so…
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Happy love day!
to you + yours! we love love a whole lot around here, so (we hope) this day usually ends up like any other, though i do enjoy putting hearts everywhere + eating more chocolate than usual + wearing more pink/polka dots than is allowed or ok..without people wondering why 🙂 i’m not so struck this…
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♪ february, april said..don’t be fooled by the summer again ♪♪
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…
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Double date
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…
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Superbowl Sunday with a forced exclamation point…”!”
warning..still a little bit sad over here! soo despite the mourning over here at our house (meaning watching big bang theory + eating leftover pizza), we’re still pretty proud of the niners and had a pretty wonderful night with our friends—despite the game stress. and oh was the stress bountiful. we hung out at our…
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Snapshots
happy weekend everybody! a couple thoughts before the weekend begins: +unlike so many i’ve encountered around the interwebs, i am so so so so ecstatic for the super bowl and may the forty-niners stick it to em! can’t wait! +i’m making guac + a skillet strawberry pie, or if i’m…
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Fog-lined coast
one of my favorite places in the world to be is sitting along our sleepy fog-lined coast, listening to the continuous roar of the ocean and the thundering crashing against the shore with my legs hanging over the edge of the seawall where i like to sit. i smell that ocean spray, which breaks into…
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A little trip up hwy one
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/58501927 w=500&h=281] we took a little trip up the coast to our favorite berry farm! fave-orite..seriously! ps: i’m not a self-professed filmmaker..this is a little “rough” to say the least 🙂
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baby it’s chili outside!
over the weekend, we cooked, chopped, boiled, painted and prayed for good weather for our cornbread + chili fundraiser to send our wonderful group of youth to their winter camp in march. it ended up a success! so many thanks to all who joined + supported + gave. we seriously cannot do it without all…
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Travel dreams
serious travel fever people! which thankfully won’t last too too long as we are headed on a european excursion vacation at the end of summer this year! emphasis on vacation 🙂 and emphasis on it’s still a little too far away for my liking. but we’ll be making our way through our beloved switzerland, france, and italy…fritzerly. we’ve…
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Snapshots
from the both of us! featuring friends, new threads, sweets and my never ending quest to eat more veggies!
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hello weekend!
happy weekend to you!! however you find yourself spending it 🙂 we’ll be watching football tomorrow + attending a fun super intensive bible study this morn, cue the nespresso machine people (i’m excited but i’ll need a little kick! muah! ps go niners!
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Letter of love
I wrote this letter for our church bulletin a few weeks ago. It’s to add to the “letters of love” series..I’ll post one that James wrote too in week or so, too 🙂 I’ll let it speak for itself but it‘s just a little reflection of my thoughts on the new year! oh yeah..and just picture…
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ten thoughts
ten thoughts today: 1. we are absolutely tickled, our friends had twin baby girls last week! still elated about that! 2. it is frigidly cold..i’ve never had to scrape my windows this many days in a row, ever! 3. disqus stopped working on here so i had to uninstall! 4. in the process, i deleted…
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on the topic of january
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…
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back to it all!
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…
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Snapshots
coffee dates, relaxing on vacation, new years eve parties + adorable little girlies
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NYE
2013 new year’s resolutions: +simplify +love people better +serve people better +adventures +gain new perspectives +to love the things I do happy new year to you! so that’s it! …share share! what are your resolutions this year??
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The New Year
here’s looking at you 2013! hope you all had a wonderful nye + ny day! … this is james at our swag + bling party. and i highly recommend throwing yourself your own swag + bling party! if you squint, you’ll see bieber chilling in the background. ps james was wearing gold leggings! wha?!? +some form of resolutions coming…
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2012 in review
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…
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My favorite Christmas houses
you can find these in capitola village! {our old village} 🙂 … they make me happy!
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All things christmas!
merry christmas (belatedly..) to you!! we have had the week off since christmas so there’s been lots of after christmas activities + just a tad bit of delirium! we’ve enjoyed it so much and i can’t believe how fast it all went! i mean..new years eve is just days away {shocker!} we spent christmas eve getting ready for services + planning an awesome…
