Crabapple

The color of this tree outside the Y makes me smile...








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Love Fern

I was getting a glass of water this evening and this is what I found....





I love my roommate. She makes me laugh.

And, tonight, I really needed to laugh.

**I also love the movie where she got the love fern quote!

It's a wet rainy Friday. And it's not helping my overall peppiness. When I look out my window it's all grey.

Not helping, not helping.

I need you sun!! Where are you?





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God is love!

God IS love!

God is LOVE!

The WBC is in Boulder and Denver picketing the next few days. In my opinion, they are not a happy loving group that exhibits the attributes and love of Christ; but rather scream, judge and preach falsely in the Name of Jesus. This makes my heart sad. Actually, it makes me all hivey, agitated, pissed .... the list could go on. But overall, my heart is sad. I know that I know this is not how Jesus would want us to act in His Name. He would choose love. He always chooses love--even in discipline and rebuke. He is nothing but love.

But regardless of the slander they choose to put out there today, I know that,

God is good. God is love.

You can read a little about the pickets going on here!

just when i feel like throwing in the towel...

those beautiful ladies in my world, that despite all my craziness,

LOVE ME

...come in and swoop me off my feet with words of love and encouragement.

i am blessed with the most amazing friends!!!

ps more details to come later. but for now, i m.u.s.t. sleep!!!

Oh my!! My newest obsession

So, there I was, minding my own business, thinking about random things--aka, pretending to work--when I decided to start a wee google chat with Jenn that went like this....

me: i'm going to tell you something....don't judge me....
Jennifer: haha. never!! what is it??
me: i kinda want to see the miley cyrus movie
Jennifer: lol! I don't judge. i'm sure it's a good movie, being based on Nicholas Sparks. those are all good. i just don't think i could get past miley cyrus' acting. and her voice. lol
me: ha ha....i know....but the suspense is sorta killing me
Jennifer: suspense?
me: of just knowing what that movie is about
Jennifer: lol. you could just read the book! ;)
me: with a name like "last song"
Jennifer: true
me: and nicholas sparks?! who knows?
Jennifer: it sounds good

and THEN it happened. the conversation turned to this.....

Jennifer: have I told you about The Pioneer Woman and my slight obsession with her and her website?
me: No! What???
Jennifer: it's thepioneerwoman.com and I'm in love with her. she's in Oklahoma, and she has this cooking/everything under the sun website that now gets like 20 million hits a month. she's a "city girl turned cattle rancher's wife"
me: ha....i must read this

So, I took a little stroll over to The Pioneer Woman's page and immediately knew I was going to love it. Blogging. Photography. Cooking. Home and Garden. And more. Her writing is fantastic and completely pulls you. I won't lie. After reading her story of her romance with the Marlboro Man, aptly titled "Black Heels to Tractor Wheels", I decided I MUST marry a cowboy and live on a ranch. Yep, I said it. This is what the Pioneer Woman has done to me. Lord, help me!!!

I love that she lives in the Great State of Oklahoma. Oh, how I utterly adore that she is a fellow Oklahoman. It sorta makes me want to move back to my home State. I just know she and I would be Besties!! We would take photos, make crass jokes, wrangle kids and sit on the front porch drinking sweet tea and laughing about the randomness of life, (Insert those beautiful Oklahoma sunsets here.), all while our cowboy husbands farmed the land.

I have a friend crush. It's true.

Thank you, Jenn for introducing me to my newest obsession. I long to be a Pioneer Woman now. I'm thinking about trading in my Steve Madden's for a life on the ranch. But, I guess I deserve it; after all, I did introduce you to him....

Poor Steve. He didn't see this one coming!!

"the earth, it sings about You!"






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HBD!!

Today is my birthday!!

Whoop whoop. :)

And the countdown begins...

I'll be 35 tomorrow.

Woah!!!

I have mixed feelings about this birthday.

Excited. Disappointed. Hopeful. Anxious.

But despite all these emotions, today I have the assurance of knowing that He is good. And I am loved by Him. He is more important than any unfulfilled dream or desires. For I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

And that is more than enough for me.


P.S. Rio I'll be seeing you tomorrow.



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And a Good Friday it is...

Slept in.
Had a morning Seevink latte-o-love.




Yummy breakfast.
Morning laughs.
Perused, roamed, adventured around IKEA.
Now I'm resting in my favorite room with my favorite view.

So far....Lovin' it!!!!


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Birthday month

It officially begins!!!


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