Myk-a-palooza Continues

My mother (mim) is the craftiest and most caring person I know. She can take a simple box and create a masterpiece that will warm your heart. Knowing this, I guess I shouldn't have been surprised to get a package today-filled with amazing goodness!!! She made me a birthday banner and boxed it in beautifully crafted boxes. I tried to take pictures, but my camera phone/house lighting doesn't do the gift justice. It's so cheerful and bright, I can't wait to wake up to it tomorrow.

This myk-a-palooza is amazing so far and my birthday hasn't even happened yet!!! Thanks mim for such an amazing package, it really brightened my day and house!

Much love!

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A Sweet Surprise

I got home from work today tired and not looking forward to doing all my cleaning that I promised myself I would do tonight. And after making a pretty delicious dinner, I slipped slowly into a food coma and the thought of cleaning seemed laughable, unrealistic and too exhausting.

Thankfully, just as I sat down to rest my night away, Jessica handed me a package that had come in the mail with my name on the address. I got really excited when I saw it was from Cortney (she sends fun cds, photos, or silly letters all the time) and once I opened it up I was happy and energized! Inside was some printed pictures of my best friends from AZ, a sweet birthday card, and an Adele cd!!!

Well, now I am blasting some Adele while cleaning my room and finding the perfect space for the pictures to go. Thanks Cort Cort, you made me so happy and definitely saved the night!!!

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Music and Photography

Blessed with Bliss

I'm in complete bliss after this past weekend. It was filled with my two favorite things: family & friends. I got to fly home Friday night (thanks to my parents) and squeezed in celebrating a few special occasions.


There was a going away party for katie (Weebee), a wedding reception for Maddie (Mad-dawg), and a quarter century birthday for Vanessa (VV). And since I will be in California for my birthday this year, my family celebrated my birthday a couple weeks early (its not mykapalooza unless it last for 3 weeks!)


Throughout the weekend there were lots of laughs, silliness, burgers (a total of three were consumed this weekend), wiggle hugs, creeping, reminiscing, and catching up. I couldn't help but thank God for just how truly blessed I am. I am so thankful to have so many people- family and friends, that I love and truthfully respect. What else could a girl really need?


I normally try and keep things like this to myself, but today I came across this and couldn't agree more...


Psalm 104:1-2
Bless the lord, o my soul! O lord my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent.

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Sun in the sky

This past three day weekend was my idea of Summer-time in a nutshell. There was sun, beautiful breeze, swim suits and tanning lotion, friends, music, bbq's, sand (when paired with wind-not so great), bike riding, peach lemonade drinking, hiking, good decision making... and colorfully painted toes. Seriously, the world would be a happier place with three day weekends every week.

Currently listening to Muse, "feeling good". 

Sun in the sky, you know how I feel, birds flying high, you know how I feel. 

Fish in the sea, you know how I feel. 

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life, and I'm feeling good."

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Suma-suma-sumatime

I love my job, but at times I really miss doing my own design, my own way, with no rules or limits. Therefore, every once in a while I need what I like to call a "creative energizer." I take about 15 minutes and mess around and see what I come up with... A couple days ago I came up with this...

Mallory and I dancing on the boardwalk listening to one of my favorite bands, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zero's. Please disregard the word, "bitch" in the copy... it's part of the lyrics, but I swear the song is amazing! Make sure to look it up, 40 Day Dream. Anyway, I was pretty happy with how it turned out, and then got some really great and loving feedback from friends and family on Facebook, so I decided to give it another go...

It has a much different feel than the first one because the original colors were a bit dark. I started playing with the levels and contrast of the image and then noticed how Summer and Steve's stance and white shirts formed a heart... It's such happy accidents like this that make me love designing. My sister loves The Little Prince, so I found a quote from the book and placed the text on top. And ta da! 

Hopefully next week I will have more time for some creative energizers, for now, it's back to work!

Let Them Eat Cake

Well I am very behind in my blogging, but I just downloaded the Blogger app for my phone. Hopefully this will help me be a but more consistent and up to date?

With the help of my sister Summer, brother in law Steve, and organic brown eggs, the greatest cake ever was made for my father's birthday!

The inside of the cake was bright striped layers of deliciousness with butter cream Frosting. Summer's blog has some really amazing pictures so if you want more check out 27year.blogspot.com.

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