love is a gift.....

i hope this weekend finds you soaking up the love that surrounds you.

 too often, we take that love for granted and act as if it's never ending. 

let's not do that anymore. instead bathe in it. 

throw it up in the air and let it land on you like fairy dust.

dance in it. celebrate it. sit with it and really understand it.

listen to it. hold it tight.

love it.

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overwhelming perhaps....

this time of year gives us the opportunity to take hundreds of photos. which i do. 

and 

then my computer screams "what the heck are doing" as i continue to load more and more photos while watching my memory space go lower and lower.

but 

don't think for a moment that i'm complaining about having too many photos to play with or the opportunity to take them. 

winter will be here soon enough and that's when the real whining complaining begins. 

when i mentioned my son's 20th birthday a couple of weeks ago, i didn't have a recent photo of him that i loved. WHAT. me. the girl who has a camera attached to her hand didn't have a recent photo of her son. that's just wrong. yeah. whatever. like i said. i didn't have one that i liked.

anyhow

i snapped this one the other day as he was leaving for work. and i kind of love this one.

back to the hundreds, well thousands of photos. 

this one is from last year and i don't think i ever used it.

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that's just wrong. i think my new years resolution will be organizing all of my photos so that the ones i share here, with all of you, are from within the current year. 

the only problem with this is....well, i don't make new years resolutions

we ate dinner out last night and i snapped this with my cell phone 

while he was busy telling us about his cool keyboarding class 

where the teacher wants to be called by his first name. biff. 

ohhhh. farmer's market fresh mushrooms being sold by a fun guy.

peppers anyone

and

last but  not least in this post of true randomness....

this is how you dress when your badgers are playing a home game.

you throw on everything RED that you own and parade yourself up and down state street.

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now this is where i could go into a huge story about how we be beat the pants off of nebraska last weekend. whooped them actually and sent them home crying. 

but i won't do that. 

that's just mean.

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quilts and hot chocolate....

actually just a quilt and a sneak peek

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more photos over here

some people can juggle....

i've tried it and have found it impossible

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BUT

i do have the amazing talent of taking 

"christmas card photos gone wrong"

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i love....

i love my kids

and

i really love that my kids love each other

i love that they both inherited the ability to laugh at themselves

{a guarantee that they belong to me}

i love that she has a little brother and that he has a big sister

{secretly i kind of wish she had a sister, too and that he had a brother}

i love that they are both patient 

to a fault

{a guarantee that they belong to their father as they didn't get a lick of that from me}

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for anyone worrying, it's just a bb gun and their target was a water bottle

{sooc}

and spin me, too.....

sometimes

when life is taking us for a ride

all we can do is hold on

and

enjoy the wind in our hair

and

shout

"is that all you've got. spin me, too"

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last weekend 

we went to the apple orchard so i could play with my new lens. 

lucky for me, a girl that my hubby works with was there with her two daughters 

and they were pretty much game for anything i asked of them.

there are more, really fun photos, over here

i really mean it.....