Ten Mexican Loves

{10} Watching the sunset with toes in the ocean.

{9} This beauty

{8} The chance to give a cup of cold water

{7} Thrift shopping in Mexico?!  Whodu thunk.

Now how to get this chair in a carry-on. . .

 

{6} Dancing in the ocean

{5} Pink sparkly polish on dirty little fingers

{4} Splits in the ocean.  The ocean pretty much rocks, yo. 

{3} Unbroken sand dollars

{2} HIS love that is over

under

inside

around

covering us completely.

{1} This best friend in the whole world.  It's like we were made for each other.

Weekend Love V.6

{1} Check out this insanely amazing ugly-chair-remake.  Talent this girl has.  By the truckload.

{2} HolyMama.  Is this family just too insanely adorable?  Huh, yeah!?

Check out their perfectly adorable baby number two announcement.

{3} I am pretty obsessed with awesome parties.  Like this rainbow art party.  

Parties just make life so much more fun.

{4}  Red hair and lace.  Perfect perfect combination.

Baby fever full-blown right now

{5} I wanna make my own version of this.  It's so so good.

{6} Have you read this chica's blog?!  She is hilarious to the hight of HIII-larious.

So so real and awesome and fun.

{7} Much Love Illy pulls of some adorable messy buns.  

Then she went and posted a whole buffet of tutorials.  Check it out, Bun-Hun.

{8} I am craving this fan.  It is perfectly vintage and just adorable.

Feel free to send one to me, anyone.

{9}  This baby dress is too adorable for words.  But who the heck would pay $195 for it?!

Bet my sweet little bottom I could sew one for pennies. . . ish.

{10} Literally JUST found this beautiful food blog. 

Makes me want to become a kitchen goddess, then take photos of all the loveliness

{11} Why do all the cute stores have to be so dang expensive?!  Srsly.

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What has been your best find on the webs these days?!

Pictures of Mexico adventures tomoooorrrooow!!

xoxo

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What Love Looks Like

Currently I am spending time with my sister in Mexico. . . 

So to keep ya company, I've pulled out

an oldie-but-a-goodie from my trip to visit Seester at the end of summer.

Check back soon for new pictures of sister time in Mexico!

xoxo

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{originally posted on September 16, 2011}

It's been so special spending part of each day with the team as they go into the small community of Durango to tutor the adorable kiddos there.  It's real love in action.  

They come running from all directions.   Some in their tank tops and sandals, even though it's breezy outside.  Some with a used princess backpack.  All excited to have help with their homework.  All ready to give out big hugs.

{It's awesome that I'm an instant celebrity because I'm the sister of the bigger celebrity}

{my little mexican twin . . . with her matching nose freckles.}

 

It was so funny this afternoon.  We started taking lots of goober-self-photos at the back of the Missionary Van and afterwards realized that all the neighbors were watching.  Great.  We are now established as the awkwardly-awesome-obsessive-self-photographers.  Rep-Resent!!

I am so incredibly proud of my sister.  Do you see how beautiful and amazing she is?!  

It's been so special to watch what she does with the kids here.  

She is amazing.  And I'm proud to be her bestie.  And you should read her awesome blog.

Friday Files {edition sixteen}

:: I plan on consuming a large amount of tacos while I'm in Mexico with Tiff.  No matter what it does to my stomach or waist.

:: Our superscools clawfoot tub is a land mine of shampoo bottles, body soap and razors.  What's a girl to do when there is zipzeronada storage spots in the tub?!  Anywayza.  Consider yourself warned if you ever happen to be showering at our house.  We do not cover medical expenses from twisted ankles.

:: You know how they say you cannot change the person you marry?  Sure.  Easy to know that in your head.  A completely different story when you are learning to work together with two very different ways of doing things.  News flash!  This was how we spent most of our day on Tuesday.

:: When it's twenty degrees outside, it's hard to work out {e.i. run}  When you are not working out, it's hard to eat healthy.  Hello yummy cookies that melt in your mouth.

:: Several weeks ago I found a pile of thank you cards written and addressed from random wedding gifts people sent us.  Umm.  Hello.  Adam and Nicole here.  Remember us?  We got married 57 months ago.  Thanks for that gift.  PS.  Don't mind the crinkled edges on the envelope.  It just sat in a basket for six months.

::  Random bit of advice for the masses.  Why set your trash out on the curb every week when you can let it build up for several weeks and only exert a fraction of all that energy.  Geniuses, I tell ya.

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ExcitingPS

I have some supersawesome giveaways coming up.

Peoples.  

Do you know how many cool shops and businesses there are 

in this leetle thing we call the blogging community?!

Seriously, yo.

Come back soon for some awesome stuff.

xoxo

Sometimes You Need To Jump A Plane And Fly To Mexico

God made sisters for a reason.

This is one of the best reasons. . . 

When one sister is down

the other is there to pick you up.

My beautiful seester is having a 

pretty big crisis at the moment. . . 

and she's all alone in Mexico.

Thank you God for frequent flyer miles

and planes that head west every single day.

Pretty please won't you pray for me as I pack my bags with kleenex

chocolate

and

chickflicks

and head across the border tomorrow.

Cuz sometimes a sister just needs the other for a crying buddy.

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ATeenyPS

Stay close by cuz I have some awesome posts scheduled for you

along with a couple oldies that I'm pulling from the archives.

And maybe just maybe there will be some scenes from Mexico.

okloveyoubye

Mailing Love

Do you remember the good old days. . . 

Before internet 

and texting

and facebook

and skype

and . . . an . . .

Everyday when it got close to the time for the mail to come

I would keep an eye out for mailman

always watching, hoping, waiting

for envelopes or packages with my name on it.

Those were the good old days.

I am loving my words for this year.

Encourage.

Dreams.

It's been fun finding ways to practice this.

Letters created from white cards and little colored paper pieces

Packages sent to friends.

Little messages on facebook to brighten a friend's day.

Words to build up people around me.

Oh and yes.

I also have discovered how fun it is to sew on 

brown paper 

with pink thread.

You will find all the brown paper 

in our house sewed into a heap.

Can I come find to your house and use yours?!

Yums in the Tums

I kinda super love to eat.

Slightly sad, yet true story.

Maybe this is why Pinterest is my best buddy 

when it comes to cooking.

Today seemed like a good day to share some of the love.

So get your taste buds, tummies and running shoes ready

{cuz you're gonna need them after all this}

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{Italian Chicken Wraps}

Last night I made my own *modified recipe originally found here.

Dude.  Serious.awesome.food.

*I left out the veggie mix because our freezer is looking a bit bare at the moment. still mucho delish.

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{Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites}

Umm.  If you don't like cookie dough, I don't know if we can still be friends.

Kidding.  But seriously.

I slight modified this original recipe by dipping them complEEtely in chocolate.

Seriously.  No duh on that one.

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{Broccoli Chedder Soup}

This has become a fast fav in our house.

Especially on cold nights that call for cuddling and said soup.

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{Pumpkin Whoopie Pies}

Even though fall is teeechnically over, it's always a good time

for this pumpkiny sweetness.

Dude.  It's like fall in your mouth.

{and extra cushy on your tooshy}

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{Double Pumpkin Kissed Chocolate Chunk Cookies}

Speaking of pumpkin and cushy on your tooshy.

Dude. Pumpkin and chocolate are a deadly mix.

Make these dang cookies, yo.

Even if you must travel to Far Of Land Of Pumpkin and pick one yourseelf.

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{Spinach Strawberry Salad}

Now. I know you are probably all thinking

Gosh, what a fatty.  No wonder she needs to run.  Get off your bum, woman!

Let's pretend like I actually made this salad and the pure health and greenness

magically melted away the pounds from the previous 323,584 fattening recipes.

Thank you very muchly.

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Mmkay.  Now it's your turn to link me to your best recipe find of late.

And pretty pumpkin sugar please don't all post 

spinach/kale/fruit/vegan/carrot/soy

stuffs.  

Otherwise I will officially have to unlike you forever, K?

okloveyoubye.