a dose of random

you have to admit it…he's a cutie.

plus, he totally posed for me.

i've never had anyone "photo bomb" one of my jumping photos, but it happened and i love it.

{see  the guys in the back?}

of course to be fair, here's their ocean shot.

and 

now who's jumping? the photo bombers of course.

is anyone watching jimmy fallon? seth meyers? did anyone see the premiere of "about a boy?" i have to tell you, i loved that first episode and can only hope the rest of the weeks are as good as that one was. final opinions of the olympics?

if you have 3 minutes to spare, this video totally cracked me up.

i need new tennis shoes desperately and usually wear nike or reebok. any suggestions for tennis shoes you love, that you can wear all day and still feel great in?

you're the wind beneath my wings

call me crazy, but i love to feed the seagulls. we show up with snacks and in turn, the ravenous beauties cluster around our heads and scare my hubby, which makes me laugh. a lot.

it's a win win for me :)

i actually had to darken these photos up a bit in order to share them. the sun was literally coming through their wings, making it look like i had photoshopped all of their craziness into the photos. so with lightroom, i used the "vsco" look and brought the coloring way down…which you know i love, so again…a win win for me.

sheesh…now i sound like charlie sheen….winning.

happy campers…i mean jumpers

happy campers

happy jumpers

{whatever}

just happy

~

valentines day and every day

i don't know who wrote the quote above,

but i want to thank them.

true colors

after my last post, i thought maybe i'd write a few posts all color related and call this one "white," but there are some adorable girls waiting for their jumping photo, and since they jumped for me, it's only fair of me to get their photo to them as quickly as i can.

i have so many sand piper photos {or whatever the tiny, full of caffeine, skittish beach birds are called} but i have never captured them flying, so finally getting them in the air is crossed off my bucket list. {kidding…that was never on my bucket list. snort} anyhow, it's amazing how their wing span makes them look at least twice as large as they actually are…something i had never noticed before.

and now, 

my favorite quote of the day.

"Don't sacrifice your peace trying to point out someone's true colors. 

Lack of character always reveals itself in the end."

mandy hale

green

i don't feel at all like i should be short on words, but i am. maybe it's because today is sunday and sunday is a day of rest? yes, let's just go with that. i'm resting. snort.

anyhow, i hope your weekend is turning out to be an amazing one, no matter what you're doing... even if you're doing nothing...and if you are doing nothing, i hope you're doing it with someone who means everything to you.

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our sweet baby girl is twenty six today and instead of celebrating with her, we're missing her like crazy. BUT in a "way to go and grab life by the horns" good way. she's been in australia since august and in may we'll be welcoming her back home with our arms wide open.

she actually celebrated her birthday yesterday, since she's a day of head of us, so the "wishes, glitter throwing and party hat wearing" fun has lasted for forty eight hours.

to say that we're proud of her would be such an understatement. she is living, loving, learning and fully embracing her independence in another country and all we know for sure is that after a life experience like this, she can do anything. well actually, she's always shown us that she can do whatever she puts her mind to, but now she can fly. her wings have grown above and beyond anything we ever imagined for her and believe me, we have really big imaginations.

so here's to you sweet girl. we love you more than you'll ever really know…which exceeds {by leaps and bounds} how much we miss you and man, we miss you soooooooo much!!!