I'm taller than my husband when I wear shoes and he is barefoot (and he is 6'1"). I can say the alphabet backwards in 5 seconds. I LOVE cereal - I would eat it for every meal if my family didn't object. I am a francophile (j'adore la langue française). I play the piano, and I love to teach; at one insane point I had 42 students. If I could do whatever I wanted 24 hours a day, I would read and blog. I love my family, and I don't think I show them often enough. I watch entirely too much tv. I eat chocolate every day.
Erin this looks FANTASTIC! And I am feeling a little homesick for our boy who lives in San Diego! But luckily for us, he visited us over the weekend. Have fun my dear! You look great in that photo!
Christian and I met our junior year in high school, hated each other, dated each other's best friends our senior year, fell in love six days before he went on his mission, and got engaged eight days after he came home from his mission. We were married in the Laie Hawaii LDS temple. We have been married for fourteen years and we have three sweet children.
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“The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame.” ~ Salman Rushdie
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. ~Steve Jobs
It is a waste of time and energy to worry about what others are thinking about you. because... You can never know exactly what another person is thinking...AND, the wost part is...they are usually not thinking about you at all. They are too busy worrying about what others are thinking about them. So, the truth is, all those terrible thoughts you thought they might be thinking about you, are your own thoughts about yourself. Better spend your energy worrying about that...or, you just might convince somebody to think what you were afraid they might be thinking after all. ~Portia Nelson
"When we honestly ask which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not-knowing, not-curing, not-healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness ... makes it clear that whatever happens in the external world, being present to each other is what really matters." ~Henri Nouwen
"...People need to talk, and often a willingness to sit and listen is the greatest kindness one person can offer to another. One of the first lessons of childhood is to be wary of strangers, and while this is good counsel to guard against the world's very small nefarious element, it also teaches us to block out the large majority of those who just have something on their mind they'd like to say. We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs. By the time we reach adulthood, many have perfected the art of isolation, of being careful, of not listening in the name of safety. But the truth is that we need to hear other people, all people, especially in those moments when we don't know exactly where we're going ourselves." ~Ann Patchett
"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away." ~George Eliot
"Sometimes, I imagine my own life as a series of snapshots taken by some omniscient artist who is just keeping track - not interfering or saying anything, just capturing the moment for me to look back at it again later....This is the way it is, the photograph says, and I nod my head in appreciation. The power of art is in that nod of appreciation, though sometimes I puzzle nothing out, and the nod is more a shrug. No, I do not understand this one, but I see it. I take it in. I will think about it. If I sit with this image long enough, this story, I have the hope of understanding something I did not understand before. And that, too, is art, the best art." ~Dorothy Allison
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Cupcakes. Nom, nom, nom.
the food.. and cupcakes.. yummmm.... looks like a FUN trip! I love San Diego!!
That picture of me stinks. You got some awesome pictures, too. I took around a hundred.
Oh my goodness...look at the seals! I love it!
P.S. That last picture of you is terrific!
I am HUNGRY now!
Those cupcakes do indeed look Heavenly! Mmmmmm...
It is always weird for me to see the seals on the children's beach...that's where I lived my summers as a kid, seal-free! :)
I have yet to see a dolphin show. I will someday! Until then I'll settle for you cute pics.
I asked. You delivered. Thank you. :D
LOVE it!
Oh, it's all so wonderful! Now you've got me homesick.
Love the pictures. It looks like a fun trip...and the cupcakes look so good. Makes me want one.
Mmmm those cupcakes look soo good!
Cute pictures
After growing up on the east coast I sometimes feel so incredibly land-locked here. Great photos!
Was that Sea World?
I've always wanted to go there!
Erin this looks FANTASTIC! And I am feeling a little homesick for our boy who lives in San Diego! But luckily for us, he visited us over the weekend. Have fun my dear! You look great in that photo!
I need those cupcakes! I am still doing the no chocolate, sugar, treats thing. ugh..
I love the last photo of you!
LOVE San Diego! Looks like you had a great time :)
I absolutely love San Diego!!! The caves of La Jolla was one of my favorite things we saw while there and I loved Old Town. :)
I always think I'm going to warm in San Diego, then wish I had a sweater when I'm at the beach. I guess I'm too used to the dry desert temp. of 95.
Lovely pics, and Yes, those cupcakes look GOOOOOD.
I heart that place. I really do.
Great pictures!!
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