Showing posts with label i love........ Show all posts
Showing posts with label i love........ Show all posts

Monday, February 22, 2016

All The Love

We have been blessed with so many people visiting, calling, helping our family and Tom.  My heart is full with the amount of love showered onto our family.  It amazes me how people in the midst of their busy lives take the time to come see us, send us words of encouragement through texts or a phone call here or there.  Thank you thank you! Our hearts are very full!

#1 Dallin and Tom in matching outfits (unplanned).
#2 Tom & David B. He came to make sure everything Tom was doing was "normal" after some brain trauma.  He made me feel so much better!
#3 Mike and Tom filling out paperwork at a doctor appointment.  I was silently laughing while they painstakingly analyzed every survey question.  It was obvious they have never sat and filled out endless paperwork at the doctor fro sick kids etc.  Seriously it was so funny! (wives - you get this right?)
#4 Tom and his Mama.  Sweetness.

#1 Tom getting wheeled into surgery.
#2  Tom's cool scar!
#3  The pain scale
#4  Our super cute/fun nurse Janice in the O.R.  She was the one that would go into all the O.R. rooms and find out what the updates were.  She was amazing!  We were instant BFF's!  Mainly because we had to be there twice.

#1  Tom had a room full of pretty ladies one day.  His room was always full of visitors!
#2  Tom, his mom and his brother Keiske
#3  The whiteboard the girls wrote love notes on. (and a curse word)
#4  Partners in crime.  Right before surgery. 

#1  Tom holding baby Lindi.
#2  Tom and Ralph Willit after surgery
#3 Tom's "life coach" is what we call Deland. 
#4  Tom and his sister Elena taking a selfie.

We are so blessed to have such great friends!  I wish I had taken more pictures of all of us in the waiting room of the O.R. for two days.  We filled that up with friends, family, laughter, games, coloring, bitmoji making, food and treats.  I think those have been my most favorite days even though they were the hardest.


Monday, July 22, 2013

My House Obsession History

Did you know I am house obsessed?
I have been for as long as I can remember.
My Mom had this friend - Jenny Doan (who is now pretty famous I might add)
who had this house....sigh.
This house was amazing.  Like dream-a-little-dream amazing.
It wasn't in the perfect shape, it was out all by it's self on a lonely old highway, and it had a leaky upstairs claw foot bathtub that made water marks on the kitchen ceiling down below it.
But.....
I fell in love with that house.
I can still recall every nook and cranny.  Every secret little room hidden inside every closet.
I remember the built in white cabinets that held the china and was also a look through to the dining room.
My favorite was the servants ramp that went up from the kitchen to the second floor.  It was a ramp, like add a flattened cardboard box and you can slide down it kinda ramp.  Uh, yeah, we did that....a lot.
It had a very large grand mahogany staircase too.  But that wasn't near as fun.
I think it had seven bedrooms and only one bathroom on the second floor.  That's how they did it back then.
This dreamy house also had a very large laundry shoot that maybe, possibly, some children slid down instead of laundry.  Not me of course!  I would never do that.  (my three brothers may have though)

I would babysit kids while my Mom and Jenny went and played.  I think I had just as much fun playing as the Mom's did.  Talk about the best hide-and-go-seek house ever!
I remember it had huge eucalyptus trees that surrounded the property.  Every time I smell eucalyptus it brings me back to that house.  

Jenny's house was a cross between these two houses below.  
Dreamy huh?




I think the obsession was fueled by where I grew up.  
I mean I did have this house two blocks from my house, 
walking by it everyday on my way to school:


And the house in a town filled with houses just like it was not far away:


Oh and my favorite place...ever:


It seems I was destined to be a house lover. My Mom was and I have taught my girls to be. We love to drive around different neighborhoods to look at the houses and pretty landscaping.  It's a little harder here in Arizona.  We live in the land of cookie cutter homes and desert plants galore but sometimes, I find a gem here and there.  It makes my day!

Here are a few sites I like to look at when I need a little house obsession fix.
Enjoy!

Dwelling Gawker
Hooked on Houses
My new favorite - Tales from Carmel - up close and personal tours of houses in Carmel Ca.
My favorite little neighborhood that I can't get enough of - Agritopia
I even like this little blog - Tiny House Blog - because you never know when you may need to build a tiny house somewhere.  And man!  Can they fit a lot into a teeny tiny space.
The Lettered Cottage - has great ideas on adding charm to your house.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Love Week ♥Day 5♥

30 things i love

1.  shopping with a friend
2.  lemons
3.  street tacos
4.  pink - any shade
5.  my big blue eyes
6.  being a mom
7.  toffee and chocolate
8.  reading blogs
9.  my aunt janet
10. my kindle
11. my nephews and nieces
12. rain
13. flowering vines climbing on anything & everything
14. the smell of clean, dark, rich dirt
15. green bell peppers
16. better with you (the show)
17. lemon slushies  from sonic
18. perfect light when taking a picture
19. playing uno with tom and the girls
20. pesto
21. xoxo hugs and kisses from my sweeties
22. clouds
23. sharpie pens
24. kindness
25. anything homemade
26. lip gloss
27. white furniture
28. clean carpets
29. decorating blogs
30. fresh cool air

photo credit bent fork via tumblr

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

things for today

i love the smell of: clean laundry.
i love the sound of: the breeze in the trees.
i love the taste of: fresh basil.
i love the sight of: my roses starting to bloom.
i love the feel of: the warm sun on my bare shoulders while sitting by the pool.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

i love tuesday

i love the smell of: freshly cut green green grass.
i love the sound of: sara barelles.
i love the taste of: warm chocolate cake right out of the oven.
i love the sight of: my girls eyes when they crinkle and shine with a smile.
i love the feel of: my yummy bed after a very long day.


(thanks marta)