Chasing Bluebirds

retrofest

i have been BONKERS over on facebook with all the catching up and retrofesting. here are a few things i dug out of my many many boxes of stuff in the garage. first up, the cover of a slam book (remember these? i sure didnt! i will post more about slam books soon, they are rad!!)

my 6th grade crush eddie lowell, swoon! ha ha! the band "abash" had their own business cards, handed out in high school, classy! photo booth love i took tons and tons of these "portraits"... i am totally madonna'd out! i love this "halltree" my dad made, custom! "poodle" (everyone had nicknames for some reason) hanging on my parents couch with my brother wearing a POT PLANT on his shirt???? what the?? maybe its a palm tree... oh and dudley dog, the most loved dog i have ever known poodle skim boarding, ouch! blair! me and cleaver (love the butts and the sleeping bag covered in ???) me and laurie (cleavers little sis) at camp yallani of course! me and steph, my best high school friend... thats it for now. i am sure i will have lots more of this. i am on a roll...

time warp london (part 3)

the london zoo!

the cool ass penguin cage that was under construction when we were there, hoping to see it all fixed up regents park hyde park, our favorite! thanks for indulging me on a trip back to london, seems like so long ago!

time warp london (part 2)

more from that london trip oh so long ago....

this may go on for awhile, loving these photos!

time warp london trip (part 1)

emily had to get pictures together for a school project, of course looking at old photos brought back a lot of memories! here are a few from our england trip... look at baby lizzie?? can't believe it!

365 project

this photo a day has been harder than i thought it would be but also more rewarding than i originally thought. some photos are not so interesting, but you can see some patterns forming, shadows in the mornings, sunsets on the commute home, bright sun and clouds on my lunch time walks. not many pictures of kids and family until the weekends. here are some out takes, some days i have more than a few i like, other days i haven't taken a single picture this was a cute picture emily brought home from school, with a neat stand to hold it... can you say camp fire project? well i have to work today, gotta pay the bills! looking forward to Lazy J ranch next weekend. i am going with two other mothers and about 6 or 7 girls from our camp fire group for three days. hoping to get a lot of projects and reading done, they say we are just there for back up support and not actually doing anything. i bet its going to be cold though!

whew!

thought this tree had seen it's last day, hoping they dont take it out tomorrow...

fingers crossed

kick ass dolls

these are the kickingness of ass dolls i have ever seen. oh man!!!!

damn it if these are the coolest, go check them out yourself and see.

official rainbow chaser

this rainbow arcs beautifully across our house and ends... at my neighbors house

good morning

a little bit of this a little bit of that actually A LOT of this and that, hoping for 3 feet of snow in the mountains. pretty sure that wish will come true. happy presidents day! (who cares what day it is, i am off!)

walking to the garden

i can make out an "A" in this, but not sure of the rest. someone wrote with a bird of paradise flower... twisted into the fence the garden was so lovely today, we have a big storm coming in the bananaberry plot lisa's sweet plot. i am still in a major state of mourning, can't shake the grief right now. hoping to get over it with the passing of time. in some ways i dont want to forget how important friends and family are, how precious life is, how we need to reach out to people because you never know when they may be taken from you. ahhh life!!!