Taking Time Outs

Yesterday I looked cute,

my outfit was cute

my hair was doing

it thang ;)

and so when I got done with work

I didn't want to work out

and ruin my hair

I know, I know that is

so

girlie!

and I am not usually one of those girls.

However, as I was contemplating to work out

or to

not work out?

rachel called me

and told me

she aced

her test

yes!!

so I said let's celebrate

and I will take you out for

ice cream.

So last night instead of working out

and ruining my hair, duh!

We walked around downtown on a perfect

fall night

and ate ice cream.

Its important to make pit stops in life

and appreciate

the people

who are important to you.

It is important for you to tell them you

love

them

and show

them how precious they are to you.

(and skip working out once in awhile to eat homemade ice cream with hot fudge on it:)

glorious weekends

weekends always seem too short.

they always will even if we had another day off,

then we would want another.

I mean who wants to get up early and go to work

when

you could stay in your warm bed??

This weekend in colorado

was gorgeous!

So the pup and I went on a hike

this was the sunset on sunday eve.
she got tired and just laid down as soon as I stopped to take a picture :)

saturday night.

i went to go see trace bundy with melissa, ben, and erin

trace was amazing.

(he played pachelbel's canon for us:)

there is nothing like

sitting in a small venue

watching a great musician

share their love

and incredible talents

with others.

friday night

had girls over to my and rachel's house

we watching season opener of greys

which was weak.

but the company was not!

all in all

it was a great weekend!

Castles

So this weekend.

I went to see this castle.

with friends.

It was awesome and scary.

kisses.

boys jumping.

sarah clearly won!

boys on bridge that leads to nowhere and the only thing stopping you in a rope, from dropping 15o ft. fun :)

boys in the globe.

steve facing his fear :)

mel made it up into the globe!

rachel all the way on top

staircase that went all the way up, coming down these things were uber scary. no handrails and nothing kept you from falling all the way down.

sorry about some of the pics. blogger was being stupid :)

Earth

This video truly is amazing. It's video clips from the BBC's Planet Earth series, set to the sounds of Sigur Ros's "Hoppipolla." Wow. If you haven't seen it, please watch.

Love

The pic below of of my sweetie niece tootie a.k.a aubrey.

Went home to visit friend and fam in MI a few weeks ago.

If you want to see the rest click

Water

Today as I was getting ready for work

I looked down in my water and saw a bug

in my water.

I thought....

gross.

Then I had a realization.

my water was clean.

it was not brown.

just a little bug.

there are millions who drink brown water with bugs in it everyday.

I thought I am spoiled.

I don't even think about these things.

I did some research and found out

1.8 million children die every year as a result of diseases caused by unclean
water and poor sanitation.

That is beyond terrible. I don't a word for it.

But know we can do something here.

Miracles

My new baby niece Stella Janae Polavin was born today at 4:46am weighing 3lbs 8oz.

Her mommy has been on bed rest for the last 6 weeks in the hospital.

bless her heart.

We have all been praying for this little one

she is a miracle and has already had put up quite a

fight

to stay here.

She is determined like her momma and daddy.

Pray for continued development of her lungs and body.