danny and crystal; not siblings...their parents are kinda together. ish.
nor really. kinda. that's how we've got them both today while their parents work. lol.
encouraging 4 year olds to share is fun...... me: "no whining about it....we're gonna share and be happy!" danny: "is that like Happy Feet?" me: um. "yeah. Happy Feet shares. and he's happy." danny: "no, Happy Feet doesn't share." he gives me a look like he knows everything. me: "oh yes he does."
sometimes i'm washing dishes, music is going, and the children are running in and out of the kitchen simply because we don't have the tv on with anything that interests them so they're running off energy with little hands grasping slices of granny smith apples and they're smiling, and they tell me something as i turn my head, and i didn't hear it all but i say something anyways: be careful.
sidenote: i adore this version of the song. gray sidenote: only thing i would say is better than a movie scene...because as that awesome song by the avett brothers goes, with a twinkle in their eyes, they're just saying their lines. and so we can't be in love like the movies. [lyrics here] . . . not to get technical or anything. ;)
we were going to go swing dancing. anna, ben and i.
i was going to try wearing comfy jeans to it for the first time since we started going in july.
and this shirt, i just got for my birthday last week from anna and rach.
my make up was all did, i put glue in my hair, and i was all dressed up....
and weather got an idea to interrupt our plans.
so we're not going. thank you, snow.
and now i'm back to pajamas, working on heather's wedding reception/dinner/dancing music playlists.
lots of 40's-50's music. :)
and i do believe, sometime tonight, we might get around to watching midnight in paris. looks good.
what a night....
you gotta love it when you can be your weirdo self with someone and they love you for it, not just in spite of it. :)
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saturday night:
scrabble and bananagrams with the fam.
everyone was getting tired around 9pm, so i used a few letters sitting around justin's pile to add to his vine of words.
like changing win to winery immediately. i did not add the s to that. it needs an apostrophe. ;)
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sunday:
we. were. tired.
i brewed coffee sunday morning around 7:30-8, and painted a canvas for a gift at a bridal shower that mom was going to.
4pm-ish. strangely enough, everyone was either outside, or napping. or, as anna was: at the theater with girlfriends watching The Vow.
so i made use of my long arms and here we have it. lol.
i don't know; still trying to decide... ;) but i kinda like him.
davidcito hugged us. he wanted to be in all the pictures rach took.
sunset light. goodness gracious.
at least the little guy was smiling for this one. hah. the next was crazy. :)
rach has a knack for catching some awesome sun flare.
who's up for some dancing in the middle of a small town road?
us.
gotta love it when the younger photographer sister gets her boss on. go dance.
right there.
yeah.
in the road.
now dip her.
can you dip her?
why, yes.
:)
and that was the near-ending to my weekend.
p.s. sorry this is no real post...busy weekend ahead, and just got finished writing names on paper for table placements at heather's wedding coming up in 15 days here...
have a lovely weekend! ♥
the best and simplest parts of love, i believe. patient. kind.
and my hand was holding a mug of coffee, by the way. you can't see it though. :P
i wrote this on my arm.
for the heck of it, and because pastor was talking about marriage and selfishness/selflessness today in honor of valentines day. [speaking of which, here's a post of 5 lessons learned after 18 years of marriage.]
we had dinner.
i grabbed the yarn a lady from church hand-dyed and gave me a year or more ago, plus an I-9 sized crochet hook and the pattern i printed off the other day in hopes of making a hat with nothing at all wrong with it.
i haven't crocheted in the longest time.
actually, since october.
yeah. that post. with the mohawk. thingy. going on. [speaking of old posts --or oldish posts-- i miss that shade of dark red/purple....darnit....so gosh darn fun....]
we'd been talking about it while recalling different chick flicks with cousin david, so i found a walk to remember on the dvd shelf and put that in.
i was the first one to sit down, and everyone else slowly came and nestled wherever they could on the couch, the chairs, etcetera. it never happens that way. i hardly ever watch movies anymore.
i got to about round 5, and the increase in stitches was wonky, so i gave up and pulled most of it out before i wound it around, around, around and mom helped me get the knotted stuff free and able to be wound.
that movie is sad. mi dispiace, i don't have many brilliant thoughts tonight; i'm even having a hard time catching typos and wrong words that shouldn't be where they're ending up . . . i guess going to bed at 1am how many nights in a row and waking at 6:40 on a gorgeous sunday morning will do that to ya . . . kind of . . . yeah.
i love carter hulsey's music.
my other favorite song by him [maybe if it rains] . . . << this link is actually a really really good cover.
oh. and a few highlights of saturday:
1. lyddie, posing cuteness.
2. me, trying to pose in the freezing outdoors.
3. rach, her 35mm, and . . . yeah.
4. heath, kelly, anna, steph, shannon, and me, at heather's bridal shower. :) only 20-something more days till the wedding . . . of course she's counting down. ;)
a happy thought.
caramel breve, extra shot.
. . . and even though the sky is better seen with your own eyes . . .
ben borrowed my camera with a tripod and took this:
since it's only 11:06pm and i like to be adventurous, i'm going to stay up till my birthday hour. 12:20am.
yeah. plus, someone amazing has to wake up at 1 anyways to work overtime hours, so i'll get to hear his voice and basically the first happy-birthday of my day . . . :)
the thought makes me smile.
so.
to stay awake [did i mention i'm slightly crashing? no? well....] now, i'm going to either edit and update the peoples page, or go upstairs and journal some horribly pointless, jumbled up sap trying to talk about another year even though the actual day doesn't actually matter; it's all the days between that make you feel it.
color, color, color. this was february 6. ^^
no one has to tell me that this is a tired, and very-very-very random post.
i figured it'd just be good to post some life stuff and write a bit. sigh.
here, you can find last year's birthday-day post. fun, fun.
when we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
[william arthur ward]
