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Digesting Architecture I love odd architecture, odd homes and odd spaces.  This one takes the cake though.  The images pretty much say it all. It's something that I think My Mr and I could...

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Out for the Count Well after the long weekend packed full of activities by the end my body succumbed to a 102 degree fever and 2 swollen eyes, from who knows what.  My body is on lock down...

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Bieber Eat Your Heart Out! Bieber,  Neon Trees just kicked your songs butt!  This is the best version of the song I've heard yet!  Who doesn't love a little soul in a song? Enjoy!

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Impassioned Love http://www.dayswithmyfather.com/ I found this website called dayswithmyfather, no idea how, and I couldn't help but shed a few tears at my work desk.  But it touched me...

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Week in the Wilderness My return to Mia Shalom was wondrous, and with no accidents, Yes, Whitney I'm talking to you and the loss of your front tooth! It was magnificent and left me with the...

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Digesting Architecture

Category : Decor, Love It

I love odd architecture, odd homes and odd spaces.  This one takes the cake though.  The images pretty much say it all.

It’s something that I think My Mr and I could attach to our subeedoo and roam across the country with.  It’s not actually meant for travel, and we would probably need a travel version to be able to tote around, and well while we are being honest I doubt My Mr could keep it that white on a camping trip, dirt doesn’t do well with white!  So I guess this design is really for the minimalist home lovers,and those who don’t cook, because I don’t see a kitchen stashed in there somewhere.  Obviously space is limited, but there is a tiny piece of me that thinks “could I live that simply?”  And I don’t think so, but it’s a cool concept!  Check all of it out here!

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Out for the Count

Category : Book of Me

Well after the long weekend packed full of activities by the end my body succumbed to a 102 degree fever and 2 swollen eyes, from who knows what.  My body is on lock down and all I can do is lay here with my eyes half open and burning, my throat on fire and the hope that this Excedrin PM will finally kick in and knock me out so that I can get over my misery.  So I apologize for my lack of posts, but there is my excuse.  Here is hoping I’m better tomorrow.

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Bieber Eat Your Heart Out!

Category : Love It

Bieber,  Neon Trees just kicked your songs butt!  This is the best version of the song I’ve heard yet!  Who doesn’t love a little soul in a song?

Enjoy!

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Impassioned Love

Category : Love It

http://www.dayswithmyfather.com/

I found this website called dayswithmyfather, no idea how, and I couldn’t help but shed a few tears at my work desk.  But it touched me deeply as Phillip Toledano described & photographed his experiences with his Father.  Having seen 3 of my Grandparents slowly pass away, from various causes (all abnormal if you ask me), this writer touched me.  As I watch this older generation of lovely, truly astounding people pass on it makes me sad.  I think they are the generation that kept us grounded.  The ladies were sassy (in the most charming way, like our own GW), and magnificent, then men were gentlemen, and dashing. They were a driven generation, ambitious to a fault.  They are amazing and a great loss to our world.  It is hard for me to see them go, the neighbors I grew up with are slowly slipping away, the teachers from school, even those who passed by my house every Sunday for there evening walks aren’t there anymore.  They are just moving on.

My Mother’s side, the Swiss in Us, battles Alzheimer’s.  I have seen my Great Grandmother, a couple of my Great Aunts and now Great Uncle battle this disease, it is complicated and demoralizing.  You wonder where this person came from, it’s like your meeting them again, and there not who you remember.  This is not a battle I wish any family to come up against, it is trying to the core.  But in the silver lining in my mind i think there is a special place in heaven for those who battle these illnesses, and a special place for those who take care of and love them through it.  It takes an Amazing amount of love, truly the divine kind, indescribable by any earthly words.  But I think Phillip put it beautifully in one of his last photos;

“I feel luck to have had these last three years. To have left nothing unsaid.  To know that we loved each other nakedly, without embarrassment.  To have felt his pride at my accomplishments. And to have discovered how funny he was. . . . . What an amazing gift.”

I love how he said “we loved each other nakedly” which I feel to be the deepest kind of love where you “knew the worst thing about each other and it’s ok.” (another favorite quote from a film)  But that is true love the kind that last and pushes us through the hard times, the kind that I think Phillip describes so beautifully on his website.  So if you get a chance wander over there and find your way through his website and read the entry’s he has to share, you will be changed for the better!

Thank you Phillip for sharing your story and Your Father!

Photos by; Phillip Toledano

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Week in the Wilderness

Category : Love It, Photog Me, Vacay Getaway

My return to Mia Shalom was wondrous, and with no accidents, Yes, Whitney I’m talking to you and the loss of your front tooth! It was magnificent and left me with the same fond memories from my girlhood!  The week away in the wood, surrounded by a dozen hormone driven, emotional, FANTASTIC GIRLS was and eye opening experience.  Having not had the experience of any female siblings I was a bit worried that I may not survive.  To my total and complete surprise it was great!  No fights, no mean words, no critical accusations.  We became a sisterhood, bonded together in our love for the Gospel and Our Savior.

We excelled in all our areas, even with our small group, and in the final water races & relay (leaders included) we toasted the competition, place in every heat if not winning it, Yes Ms. Legas and I took out the leaders heat competition no questions asked!  It was truly amazing to be away and had I not missed My Mr. and a hot shower I probably could have stayed another week or two.  We returned to reality with our spirits renewed and new friendships acquired.  And yes I find myself wishing I was back there!  Thanks Mia Shalom for letting me relive my youth!

Photos by; Me & Michelle I.

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Wedded Weekend

Category : Photog Me

I spent part of my weekend with this lovely couple who are getting ready to be wedded!  We had a fun time with balloons, couches, long boards and burgers, ok not really but a milk shake or two.  We chased the last bits of sun and then said farewell to the weekend.  Girls camp photos tomorrow!

Be sure to check out the The Post below, it will give you a great laugh!

Photos by; Me

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BYU’s Old Spice! (yes, we Mormon’s can be spicy!)

Category : Love It, What The . . .

I interrupt my normally scheduled posting for a bit of Awesome’ness

Check it Out!  BYU is advertising their library!  And Yes it’s TOTALLY AWESOME!  Please enjoy and pass along!

Old Spice has got nothin on us!

Check it on You Tube here too!

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Friday Food for Thought

Category : Friday's

(photo by me)

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My Pollock

Category : Love It

I discovered this website, OK yes, pretty archaic but it allows you to be Pollock’ized.  I love the way you can create your own canvas art, it’s an outlet, even if it’s just on a computer.  This kept me mesmerized for a while as I figured out how to change colors and create my own Pollock inspired works of art.  Take a gander over to the website and try it out!

Learn more about Jackson Pollock here, and if your interested check out his wife Lee Kransner here, she was an incredible artist as well.

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Back to School Shopping . . . . – the school

Category : Love It

Remember the line from You’ve Got Mail?

“Don’t you love New York in the fall?  Makes me want to buy school supplies.  I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils, if I knew you name and address.”

- Joe Fox (ie Tom Hanks)

And so it is for me, though we’re not in NY and it’s no where near fall, none the less school supply season is on!  I love this time of year, when the school supplies fill the shelves and I think, “holy cow kids now days are spoiled”, our stuff was so boring back then!  There is some amazingly cool stuff, those lunch boxes are AWESOME, so cute I want one for me!

This is the time of year my Mom and I would go school shopping, she always wanted me to get what I wanted and not have to fight the back to school crowds so we always did the school shopping early, really early.  So here I go, school supply eye shopping, since I don’t have school anymore, it doesn’t really make sense for me to actually buy them but I can at least peruse, ok maybe I got a couple of things for old times sake!  A new planner was in order to replace this one, though I don’t like the colors as well as last years it’s gto pockets to add my own designs and of course it was bought at Target. Happy School Supplies Season!

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Girls Week

Category : Photog Me, Vacay Getaway

(Only 8 pictured, but believe me there were more.)

1 week, 1 wilderness, 12 little sisters; No casualties!

I just returned from a week at girls camp, it was truly wonderful and I love my girls, I really do love my girls!  They are amazing, and annoying as all little sisters can be.  But still all in all I love them.  A full update later, for now I’m back and trying to get back into this technology thing, being without it for a week was fantastic!  Back to real life and I’ll get back to you with the weeks DETS!

Photos by; Me

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Friday Food for Thought

Category : Friday's

“Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy &%#$…what a ride!’”

~Hunter S. Thompson

Photo by: Me

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