via i’ve pretty much wanted to crawl back into bed every morning for the last five days.  so this print pretty much sums up exactly how i’ve felt! i’d like to take a moment to acknowledge the wonderful things that have pulled me through: + here’s looking at you husband {thank you} + knowing that at any moment, there is the…

these are all on my fall wishlist! and yes..i want a tutu 🙂 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15 find last’s fall’s lookie lookie here 🙂  

joanna posted this video of an upcoming documentary on what makes people happy.  it looks absolutely lovely 🙂   [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vZ1LutLRRY]

pizza, to be exact. it was a bit weird. ..at least the bistro’s “margherita pizza” was delicious!

eating, jumping looking, snoozing swagdad-ing, pigtailing head-tilting, sleep-piling taking off our shoes, vacuuming our rugs and enjoying a cookie with our first pumpkin spice latte of the season! ps definition and rules of lomography if you’re so inclined 🙂

he made lil jude drool & giggle this weekend 🙂 {made w/ picasion}

today, i feel like being brutally honest with you all. duh duh duh! but anywho..out of curiosity, i looked up the definition of “brutal” and realized it meant savage and inhumane. ummm, yeah..creepy. the only synonym i could hang with was ferocious. so, instead, i guess i’ll be ferociously honest with you. ferociously honest enough to…

last week, we went out of town for a few days for a conference and to handle some family business. we stopped off shortly at a cheese farm that had some lovely little ponds and some livestock. and although i didn’t notice til now, i’m definitely getting my fall on with all these farms and such! some highlights: grilled cheese with gouda james first interaction…

i love getting to spend time with our youth group girlies!! truly, they are a riot..i think i’m always laughing. and they’re always ready for a photoshoot. since all the men were away at a men-away weekend (or as our church refers to it, “men’s advance”), we decided that it was the perfect weekend for…

Our thoughts today are with our fellow Americans and everyone  around the world remembering 9/11, eleven years ago today. some beautifully captured pieces from NY mag. image via.

dear bed, i miss you. let’s be friends. dear husband, i miss sleeping in with you. darn my 5am sched. dear house, i promise i didn’t forget about you and the shelves. dear faraway friends, we should reunite asap, with cupcakes. dear m other, don’t worry! i will come pick up the quilt today. dear…

labor day this year was full of yummy food, friends and cute babies in the pool 🙂 i treasure those sorts of days off with friends and loved ones, especially my hubs. i think one of my favorite parts was julia (pink sweatshirt below) coming to wake us up in the morning..after that, her and…

however, i didn’t get any cracker jacks..i had ghirardelli sipping chocolate! which is equally delicious and you must try if you ever go. serious now. on tuesday evening, we had a wonderful adventure at the sf giants game! our friends, bill and lorraine, shared their incredible seats with us and we had a view of the game that we’re not…

i forgot to tell you that i—a little bit—have butterflies in my tummy today because… we are going to see the giants  play ten rows behind home plate! eee! i was told it might look like this 🙂

hope you all had a wonderful three-day weekend!  we have been enjoying the extra time together over here 🙂 this weekend, we tackled some house projects..getting it truly clean, not just using a wipey, and it feels so good! we also had an unexpected breakfast date! james and i realized that the way our life…

and i get to leave work early!!!!!!!!!!!! hoo-tee-hoo!!! xo!

and there are quite a few things i have to be happy about! like the sunshine just pouring out on little santa cruz (it’s soo beautiful), my little trail mix chomp party i’m having at my desk, a breakfast date with a sweet friend tomorrow morning, we have a three-day-weekend to look forward to (woohoo!)…

i think this is pretty wonderful!

this weekend, we (along with our friends kevin, kayli and steven who absolutely rock!) had to pull a few 2am nights (and early mornings) in order prep for a special video project we were working on. mainly because it needed major overhaul as of end of day, friday afternoon..whew! but we did it! this was where we…

on sunday evening, our “campus family” (or..all the people we live on our church campus with) went to our monthly dermott dinner. the dermott family hosts us once a month with an incredible meal that we are not allowed to lift a finger for  (cooking, cleaning and the like!) it is such a blessing to have a place where…

i’m so envious! i am one of those weird people who loves school. • new books to read • school supply shopping • pouring over the syllabus • packing brown bag lunches • notebooks to fill with brilliant (ha) notes • freshly sharpened pencils • making lists with bullets   although it came a little early this year, it’s one of…

  inspired by these Très romantic shots from elle ukraine now excuse me while i try to make all my pictures look like this.

i’m loving this song today! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdVgCqdV9wI] what’s your music du jour??

i have a slight addiction to food blogs. for some reason, those messy food pictures with beautiful food mess all over a plate makes me want to run into my kitchen and make a pretty mess and take pictures of it. and of course, freely devour said messy food. ..it never really works out the…

  via i’ve been thinking of pies today. the ones with the criss cross crust on top and hot berry amazingness inside. or really, —— i would love to get started on my “project” for a special someone. scrapbook! (shh) —— i’ve talked about book clubs in the past. but i am now serious. so to all you…