do you ever.

Do you ever have those days when you plan to wake up and 8:30, but you wake up at 11?

I did today.

Do you ever plan on getting in the shower, but everyone else beat you to it so you're in your p.j.s until 2, waiting for the hot water?

I did today.

Do you ever stay in your p.j.s all day and clean your room REALLY SLOWLY.... mostly because you have a mirror and you're listening to "cleaning music"?....ya right... 

(Is cleaning music a distraction to anyone else?)

I did today.

Do you ever shower at 4 and start school at 5?

I did today. 

I took this picture while in my room today.

Do you ever do that?

the art of merry-making.

Recipe for a Merry Heart.

Step 1. Take three girls.

Step 2. Add quite a bit of coffee and candy.

Step 3. Mix in a whole season of Robin Hood.

Step 4. Talk.

Step 5. Laugh.

Step 6. Repeat steps  4-5. 

Step 7. Crash at 4 in the morning and don't move until at least 11.

Step 8. Try to ignore all the noise going on around you.

(Tip: If you completed steps 1-7 whole heartedly this should be no problem).

Step 9. Around noon the next day take a walk to Dutch Bros, and get another coffee. You might not last all day otherwise. :)

Step 10. Repeat this recipe as often as possible. 

“A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.” – Proverbs 17:22 

Photo shoot :)

Joelle and I went out to the road yesterday and snapped a few pictures. It was FREEZING so we only took a few. ;) Here's one.

I really like how they turned out. :) For it being our first photo shoot ever... I was pretty happy. 

Hopefully I'll have time to put up the rest in the next couple of days. 

<3

vintage~ness.

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

A pinch of salt, lot's of love.. and lot's and lot's of tofu.

"Here are your perfectly normal pancakes kids"! 

"It's both of ours... cuz we live together". 

=)

sing off.

OH. MY. GOSH.

Conversing

Sometimes the conversations that my family has crack me up. Not necessarily because they contain funny content, but because it's just plain funny how a family can carry on a dinner conversation entirely on (the other night...) ...the amounts of caffeine in a cup of coffee. 

*At the dinner table tonight*

Mom: "Dawson was a great help at the grocery store this morning but he... uh.. he was a bit excited about his upcoming birthday. He was a bit chit-chatty".

Dawson: "Ya I was chittery. Sorry..."

*While reading a Christmas book after dinner*

Dad: "...and then Laura opened her new doll. She had a blue and pink calico dress, and Laura let all the other children play with her. 

Dawson: That was nice.

Mom: *Having almost fallen asleep... sleepily says* "Mmmm... what was nice?"

Dad: She shared her baby doll with the others. 

Joelle: It wasn't a baby doll. Just a doll. There's a difference. 

Everyone: *laughs*

Dad: *Starts reading again* For Christmas breakfast baby Ma made each baby child a baby pancake man... 

Joelle: Daaad... there seriously is a difference.