cadiem rey

so i know it's out of focus a little, but how CUTE is he???

a nately quote for your evening

"would you accept 'stanky' as a acceptable scrabble word or would you challenge it? for example... she was stanky. she was real stanky... "

and for the record, no. i don't consider that an acceptable scrabble word and yes, i would have challenged it ;)


in the end, i won because the word "aw" is actually in my dictionary (as an interjection!) but it was a close game :)

excerpt from the book i'm reading, "prep"

"...we got shuffled and thrust together and shuffled again, and there was always the chance that you might find out one of the pieces of hidden information. This was why I felt excited when life was different from normal, when things happened- snow and fire drills and the times we had chapel at night, evensong, when the sky outside the stained glass windows was black. Depending on circumstances, a wild fact could be revealed to you, or you could fall desperately in love."

i really like this paragraph and totally identify with it :) that when things are totally thrown out of normal is when the exciting stuff happens or at least the air seems charged with something different. like a snow day or hurricane watch or a change of travel plans. good book so far!

wall art!

nate and i really need to work on getting more art on the walls. for a long time, i've been meaning to do a scrabble dealy in our ... extra room... music room... random room that happens to be filled with guitars? whatever room it is, i'm planning on framing the travel scrabble board that nate proposed on (which is still snapped in place!) in a shadow box with some notes or pictures, surrounded by square frames holding the pictures below. if it looks like hell once i get it all together.... well then i'll try something else!

oops! have a safe trip on the 20th grandma!

:)

have a safe trip grandma!

my grandma has spent her summer in indiana, which is a great place to spend it, especially when you live in arizona! here's a picture of her with my aunt willie and aunt peggy (2 of her sisters, she has 4 others!) :) they are the three that visited us in florida last spring which is where they got these shirts :) she's headed home tomorrow. have a safe trip gram!

vacation!... in 2010

so i FINALLY get 3 weeks of vacation for the first time in my life next year :) nate and i are starting to plan what i like to call: the-honeymoon-i-never-had-unless-you-count-the-24-hours-spent-in-venice-florida ;)

we're looking at visiting glacier national park (and potentially another... banff perhaps?). the plan is to visit next summer and we're in the early planning stages :) nate's been there before which creates a funny dynamic for planning, i can tell when i suggest an activity they didn't do on their previous trip because he looks reluctant to agree (for example, horseback riding). did you know that glacier national park has more bears than anywhere in the continental united states? we have a great book from nina & john that has all kinds of good details, including this gem (mom, take note!):

"if you encounter a bear don't run. back away slowly and assume a non-threatening posture. if a brown or grizzly bear charges, drop into the fetal position, protect your head and neck, and do not move. it's the opposite if you encounter a black bear or mountain lion: act aggressively, throw rocks or sticks, and try to look large by holding up a pack or branches. if attacked, fight back, aiming for the nose."

everyone in this family wants to be a guitar player...

cleo has a little box of nate's guitar picks in her mouth...she doesn't want to chew on them or anything, in fact they're only halfway in her mouth. she just wants nate to chase her :) which he is. she's hilarious :) they're both running laps around the house, we usually can't catch her without the help of the other!

she stole them while nate was helping me learn guitar ;) i better go help him catch her! goodnight! :)

happy birthday seester!

guess who's the big 3-0 today??