Two things

1. I want to learn how to sail in the worst way. 2. These waters would be beautiful to spend some time on. Can't you imagine jumping off the side of the boat into that crystal clear goodness??

This, very soon...

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Happy Valentine's Day!

Pink, red, roses and hearts.

February 14th is a lot of things, but for me it means another day of this 'every day love' with my husband. Its sweet being married to such a wonderful man whom I have so many things in common with. Its easy, honestly. So we'll do something fun today (part of which is spending the evening eating those delicious pot de creme's Landon made last night), but mostly its just a reminder of what we are blessed to experience on a weekly, daily, moment to moment basis.

On an unrelated note, how cute is this necklace?? For some reason its captivating to me, and how nice to have mine and my husband's initials side by side, just like our hearts are? Find it here.

iPhone Cases

I regularly read a few blogs, one of which is called A Cup Of Jo. I love the way Joanna writes, and how conversational her blog is. Like last month, for instance, she wrote about how she was searching for iPhone cases for her new phone. (Read the post here.) Well, I'm here to say that marketing on blogs really works, because I definitely want to get one of these hilarious and creative phone cases off of Society 6. I have a boring clear and gray one and I think my phone wants a little bling. (Corny, again, I know. Sorry about that...)

These are a few of my favorites thus far....

Valentine's Day

Another new thing for 2012 is that the hubs and I are eating differently. We've been trying to eat the Paleo plan, and so far it has been successful.

But what do you do on a day completely dedicated to sweets and chocolates? You eat chocolate! DARK chocolate... (My favorite!)

We have home group tomorrow evening anyway, so as a gift to the other couples in our group we'll be making this amazing dessert for them all. (And its 'legal'!)

Photo credit.

Truffle Shuffle 2012

We did it again! We registered and ran the 4 mile version of the Truffle Shuffle which benefits Big Brother Big Sister of Lane County. It was a perfect day for a run, semi-blue skies and about 55 degrees. And even despite feeling a little under the weather Sunday morning I made myself lace up my shoes and hit the path.

I can proudly say that both my husband and I shaved a few minutes off our times from last year, he ran a 29:52 and I came in at 31:08, whereas last year we both came in at 34:32. I won't lie, I kind of wonder if I could have ran even faster had I been feeling 100%. Oh well.

Its such a blessing to do things like this with my husband, and I am completely thankful to God that we both have the health and desire to do these sorts of things.

Remembered to snap a quick photo of our race tags.

Movie Night

Blank warehouse wall

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projector

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a dozen middle school students

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The Sandlot (aka: best movie ever)

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THIS

A Food Realization

We recently had some friends over for dinner whom we haven't seen in about seven months. They moved to the North Shore of Oahu at the end of last summer, and while that in and of itself is not a bad reason to go so long between seeing one another, we really enjoyed our time spent with them. While we were chatting about the dinner we made this time (homemade meatballs, homemade marinara sauce, spaghetti squash and some corn we picked and preserved this summer) I made some comment about what we had made for them the last time they came over (eight months ago). It was arroz con pollo, a favorite Peruvian dish of ours. Cathleen remarked how I had a great memory to be able to recall something so long ago, and then continued with,

"But I think you must have some sort of deep emotional attachment to food and it helps you remember. I mean, I always see you posting pictures of your dessert or coffee or fabulous dinner you guys have made."

We all chuckled at that, but as I thought on it more, I realized its SO TRUE! I have an eerily clear memory of foods that I have eaten, and the people I ate them with, and why we gathered. I have never thought this of myself, but it was one of those times that once it was voiced by someone else, I could see it. It's sort of odd, but also somewhat convenient, especially when my husband asks me what I'd like to eat for dinner. (He is the cook in our family, so he's usually asking me for ideas). I wonder if other people have this food-induced-memory? I also wonder why I so closely remember the food part of life?

A mocha I snapped a photo of last week. I loved the sweet heart in the corner.

Impulse

Like I said, a lot has occurred in the past few months. One of which is that my look changed, rather drastically...

Just over a month ago I went to see my friend Liz to have her cut my hair. I walked in the salon and uttered these words: "Liz, I think I want you to chop my hair off!"

She excitedly looked me in the eyes and asked the very important question in this situation:

"Are you sure?"

I told her no, of course I wasn't sure, but I had been thinking about it for a while and I was pretty sure it was time. We spent the next twenty minutes flipping through magazines trying to get ideas and help me get my courage up to do the dang thing. (I kept repeating that mantra in my head: "Just do the dang THANG!") Corny. I know.

Finally I just hit the wall and in all assurance told Liz that yes, I wanted her to cut my hair from just above my elbows to a pixie. And please hurry, so I couldn't change my mind again!

By the time my husband came to pick me up it was done and honestly, I have LOVED every moment of it. Liz did a great job, the hair style is fabulously easy, and I can't imagine going back to the agonizing routine that long, thick hair requires. At least not any time soon.

Hello again!

Well it has been some time. Like over two months. Sorry...? A lot has happened since my last post, a lot has kept me from writing on this. Its not that I have not been around a computer. I just simply haven't wanted to write on this. But I'm ready now. So I'm sorry. Maybe we can still be friends?