tips

let's return to this picture again from 2 summers ago:

now let's look at THIS:

can i PLEASE???????? please please please please please please. that's WAY better than feathers.

mas de chicago

some more little gems from my chicago trip. thankyou to mary for (FINALLY) putting up pictures (i love you). also thankyou for lending me sunglasses for our day in the city after i forgot mine at home (normal).

my eyes... of course.

we celebrated mary's parents' anniversary.

colby ♥

dear texas roadhouse, you remind me a lot of roadhouse grill in bakersfield. peanuts on da flo.

dear self, you stand weird. also, OPEN YOUR EYEBALLS.

dear mare, you super rocked Rita the dress on your grad day.

dear covergirl falsies mascara, thankyou for making my eyelashes look immensely longer than they actually are.

dear bomb mexican food restaurant in champaign/urbana with the cute waiter, thankyou for the fajita burrito and the best chips and salsa i have EVER, ever had.

dear mauricios of bakersfield, i found someone who makes better chips and salsa than you. get on that.

dear bob and leslie, you two are the cutest.

dear jonny, thankyou for waiting in the car patiently while i made mary take five thousand pictures outside of wrigley field.

dear wrigley field, i love you.

dear random man standing in the background of my millenium park picture, i'll let it slide.

dear my doctor, thankyou for removing that cyst from my face. (too gross for blogger?)

dear colby, can't wait for you to meet ruby.

missing my chicago trip and my best friend and her hubby, but not for long BECAUSE THEY ARE MOVING TO BOISE.

booyah.

m+b

more scenes from malia and brandon's wedding. via their photographer. i stole them from facebook. it's cool.

malia and brandon mcarthur

may 7, 2011
seattle, washington

double-dutch WHADDUP

i taught eleven people how to double dutch last night.

ELEVEN.

i was a proud little mama bear. i was beaming. and talking really fast. sometimes jumbled-together words, sometimes a little drool.

i was too excited to even take pictures.

i was also hostessing. and passing out otterpops. i was a busypants.

i am not-so-secretly getting everybody ready for my birthday next month for round 2 of Jenny's birthday double-dutch.

special moments from birthday dutch extravaganza 2009:

will miss this girl terribly.

but she will be home from her mission before we know it.

and then we will double dutch some more.

'cept she and Joe won't be trying high stakes together. cuz Liz and Joe got married in 2010 and did high stakes at their reception.

you better believe that for reals happened.

did i mention ELEVEN PEOPLE learned how to double dutch last night?? there are ELEVEN new dutchers in the world, folks. and they all nailed it.

pictures next time. pinky promise.

PS- special props to Jill and Jon for successfully completing the high stakes challenge last night. AND to Paul for leap-frogging over Sam's back into the ropes and still jumping. GOLDEN. these people were born to double dutch, guys. born. to. dutch.

♥

rock, rock, rock lobster.

rock climbing is like a drug. it only took me two afternoons at the quarry (inside climbing gym) to get hooked. i got a membership. that was 2 summers ago.

on saturday i learned that the quarry is like conditioning for the real world. real rocks.

on saturday i climbed outside for my first time.

just one time. one climb. and i'm hooked.

rock canyon

provo, utah