(25/365)

today was a day of explosive diarrhea diapers :( :( :( :( :( :(

my life as liz

this show is my favorite.

watch all of season one here.

i miss bridget.

(23/365)

i've got so much love in my life. today i am thankful for that.

(22/365)

this weekend was just lovely. it consisted of a super cute one year old's birthday party, party time in SLO, rings with my favorite people ever, wrestling, cuddling, dancing, LOTS of starbucks (we're trying to get to a gold card membership!!!!!!), bible study with some wonderful ladies, good talks, lots of love and laughin. and fun. and cheesy hilary duff movies. and love.

oh man, this girl. so much love.

our eagle free spirit rings!! zachary, tyler, riss, me! :)

(21/365)

today consisted of:
-more cartoon spiderman shows than i can count
-lots of apple juice and goldfish crackas
-micah wrestling me to the ground (he's 2....thats embarrassing)
-becoming a starbucks green cardholder
-iced coffee with milk and 2 pumps of classic
-a lovely solo drive up the coast (with my coffee and taylor swift)
-a litttle bit of fun with some of my favorites.
and that is all i would like to write.

besides this. i have so many blessings in my life, i am SOO thankfullllllllllll jesus. thanks for everything. i love you.

(20/365)

this week i have become a nanny. i take care of three kids, max (he's 12), anna (she's 5) and micah (he's 2). and they are sooo great. anna tells me daily that she loves me and she's sooo glad i'm her babysitter. we play neverending games of pretend and fairies on a sailboat. i get to watch all the best little kid shows/movies i used to watch when i was their age. i have light saber fights with max and chase micah around the yard. i get to take care of other people, the best kinda care i know how to take care with and it is my favorite thing ever. i am so lucky and blessed to have met this family and to have this job.

(19/365)

i am learning the peace that transcends alll understanding.

(17&18/365)

ok i dont even care that i'm doing two in one, I DONT EVEN CARE

WE HAVE A CAT!!!!! a cute cuddly soft fluffy adorable lovely wonderful girl kitty that we found in the street and we named her suki and she LOVES us and we really realllly love her, more than anything in our house so far.

2011 is shapin up to be one of my favorite years eva.

SHE'S SO CUTE

fill in the blank friday

so obviously today is not friday but i feel like doing this today. so here.

1.   I feel happy when: i'm craftin things with ariel or when i get to have coffee with my mama or when i get to do anything with my best friend zachary or when i can just sit and read the good old word of God with nothin else to do.

2.  I get silly when  i get real tired and then i just dont really even make sense.

3.  Something that makes me sad is  when people are very judgemental. and the fact that i am selfish and not very good at veganism. and getting old.

4.  Something that makes me annoyed is  bad drivers & when people are blatantly rude. & when people touch display window glass with their grimey fingeys.

5.  A time that I've been truly surprised was    when my besties from MN visited me:)

6.  I am so thankful for   best best friends, the blood of jesus, valentines day, lessons & trials, iced coffee, crafty things, love,.

7.  I feel loved when  well pretty much any time i'm with zach, or even talking to him. he tells me like a million times a day.

(16/365)

ok soo last night we were at the ER with jaqui til three in the a.m.!!!!!! she has kidney stones. but is feeling a lot better, praise the lord! she had such bad tummy pains, it was horrible. but definitely an adventure for us all!

also, philippians is rockin me lately. since thats the book that a)i memorized two years ago, b) our church is going through, i have also been reading it in devos and its so crazy how much i can STILL learn from it even after all we did with it in joshua! its so crazy! and God is totally rockin me through it. his word is timeless and i am soo thankful for that.

also, i start my new job tomorrow at ten in the morning! PRAISE THE LORD i have a job!!!!!!!!! i cant even believe it. and its a nanny job, aka the best kinda job there is! i'm soo thankful. i'm just a thankful selfish weenie now. (i am still working on the selfish part.....and its still hard.)

(15/365)

three things.

i have a job.

i am learning a lot.

i am trying to make everything not about myself and its hard. i'm a selfish little weenie.

(14/365)

praise jesus for adventures and a big big world for exploring

(13/365)

craft hour has been reinstated. all is as it should be.

these are a few things we're working on:

also, we are in the planning stages of an 80's prom valentines party!!!!!!!!!! more on that later.

also, modern family is the very funniest show i ever did watch.

(12/365)

these are things i have realized in the past week.
- God always knows
-he is always faithful
-he always provides
-i doubt him
-i do not deserve him
-i need to trust him

and that is all very humbling but awe-inspiring. there's always a lesson and for that i am thankful.

truth (11/365)

it is for freedom that Christ has set us free. galatians 5:1

(10/365)

so far i havent been doing very good with this one a day blog posting stufffff.  or the writing in the journal every day!!!!! whats wrong with me.
anyways. i wish my life was anthropologie. pretty much everything they have is like so cute its painful!!!!!

 check some more cute cutes out here

(9/365)

today we made lefsa. enough said.

(i got to wear a real live chef's hat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(8/365)

this day, january 8th 2011, was an extremely happy day in which: two of my dear friends got married, i got to see many other dear friends, i got to have some great conversation, i got to dance my pants off with my besties. (me & zach started a train on the dance floor and EVERYONE (that was dancing) joined!!!! supa fly)

twas a lovely, happy, rainy, love filled day.

lots a good things and one bad thing (7/365)

well last night i got to hang out with brooke and paul greg, two of my favorites. me and brooke ended up staying up alll night accidentally, it was soo great hangin out with her.
and this morning i got to have coffee with my mama and jaime!! (two more of my favorites) but while i was in saxby's coffee with them,  i realized that it was 10:06, three minutes past the time i had put in the parking meter. and. i SAW a meter man PUTTING A TICKET ON MY WINDSHIELD!! three minutes after!! THREE. gosh theyre stingy. so now i gotta pay the city of walnut creek $40....like it needs more money.
then i slept for like 4 hours. and then my auntie tami came!!!!!!!!!!!! she's visiting for the weekend, we're going to make lefsa!!! :) the best
also.... tomorrow=courtney & carter's wedding!!! soo happy for them two. plus there's going to be a lottt of joshua fam bam there! :)

i'm just quite emotional today.....

free amazon samplers!!! (6/365)

here are a bunch of freee amazon samplers!!!! my favorite is merge records 2010 sampler 

and here are some more!!! enjoy:)

Dangerbird

Digital-Bang Sub-pop

CMJ

Sarathan Indie

Sarathan Sunset

Barsuk

French Kiss Records

Peter Bradley Adams

the splendor of the King (5/365)

today i read the story of creation in genesis and this is a song that always comes to mind when i think about creation,  its called the earth is Yours by the Michael Gungor band and here is a video of them playing it in the woods, in the actual wonderful majestic glorious creation of the King. its soo great, check it out.

accomplishments AND new hair. yippeee (4/365)

today i:

-got registered/paid for alll my classes

-got my hairs did

-went to joannes and target for some much needed craft supplies

-had delicious swedish pancakes for din with my fam

-dyed my sistas hair.

it was a productive day i would have to say!

(i also got new red lipstick...which, i'll be honest, i am really beginning to love a lot. i will find any excuse to wear it)

my thought of the day: is god really outside of time? if he was, how could he get anything done WITHIN our realm of time? (i hope that makes sense to you.)

ps

i'm a vegetarian again.

new years resolutions (3/365)

so i've got a few of em.
1. get in shape. (and by that i mean get rid of the little tummy pooch i have)
2. get at least all B's this semester
3. get our Love, ellis etsy up and running
4. journal at least once every day
5. blog at least once every day

and since i'm on january 3 already, this will just have to be (3/365) and from here i will begin!

don't give up

photographers that take a 'don't give up' photo for people on their wedding day, check it out

i love the last one with their parents, so sweet.

focusing on yourself will never reveal your purpose. you were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense. only in God do we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance and our destiny. 

"we carry the treasure of the Gospel in these earthen vessels that are easily broken, because when we are most broken, Christ is most beautiful."
(see 2 corinthians 4:7-10) 


on the trip to MN, i listened to a bunch of reality podcasts and the one that really stuck out to me was the one by britt merrick, struck down but not destroyed. & he talks about his daughter daisy, who at that point had been going through chemotherapy for cancer, but they had just found out that the cancer was back and that she wasnt expected to live very much longer. and he was totally devastated. but he went on to teach about how when we are most broken, christ is most beautiful. and if you think about it, christ cant be beautiful to you UNTIL you are broken. he really isnt that big of a deal until you are down and out and on your last barely-hanging thread. or at least thats how it is in our culture. but there is something so incredibly beautiful about a humble, vulnerable, broken, humiliated person on their face before the God of the universe. and hearing britt talk about his 7 year old daughter fighting for her life and the horror of what they have had to go through, and having him say that they still find their joy in Christ Jesus, and that they still will bless the name of God and thank him for the trials, its a perfect example.
he went on to talk about the hundreds of blessings that have come as a result of this huge, major, horrible trial--daisy having a strong, real, deep faith in the Lord; himself becoming a better father and husband, same for his wife. and he talked about people becoming closer and bonding together in times of trials. people dont get close when things are all good, people form the tightest bonds in the hardest of times. and thinking about the very closest people to me in my life, that rings true.
but there is nothing bad enough on this earth that can separate us from the love of God, NOTHING. "for i am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in christ jesus our Lord." (romans 8:38-39). there is no trial that we can ever go through in which God is not there, guiding us every step of the way. nothing is too big for him, nothing surprises him or catches him off guard, he is always in control and always loving us. the bad stuff is not even worth comparing because the good in the kingdom of heaven far outweighs the evil of this world. "so we do not lose heart, though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. for this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison." (2 corinthians 4:16-17) and that is the most encouraging thing.


so praise God for trials and brokenness and times when i honestly do not believe i can bear it. praise God for his love. 

oh a lot.

welllll i guess i havent really been posting much on here lately! a lot has happened. lets see.

1. i got bangs

2. my family roadtripped across california, nevada, utah, wyoming, nebraska and iowa to get to minnesota. it was the most wonderful road trip with my fam ever. we had lots of laughing and movies and crafty things happening the whole way. and when we were there we got to see so many dear friends and all of our family (my grandparents and cousins whom i havent seen for 3 years!!!!!! i almost cried when i saw them)  and it was soo wonderful. even though we dont talk all the time, i truly truly love them and they are soo dear to my heart, all of them. we also got to welcome two new people into our family, our new uncles ryan and yesse!!!!! 

christmas was wonderful. we kept traditions alive--jakes pizza, veranika, going to the cabin, grandpa milo making blueberry pancakes, christmas eve service etc-- and made new ones as well!

3. i learned how to crochet!! zachary got me a ton of yarn and crochet hooks and instructions and i taught myself! and i've figured out (with a little help from my grandma ruthie) how to make beanies, scarves, and crocheted flowers! its all very exciting.

4. i got a lot of kitchen-y things for christmas--a brand new pancake griddle, a loose leaf tea infuser tea pot, a vacuum sealed coffee thermos (its magical i think, the stuff stays hot for like 8 hours literally! in subzero temperatures even, i tested it!!!!), a tea infuser thermos (from the ways<3), a fancy food processor, and i think thats all the kitchen-y stuff i got. but i also got a freakin ipod nano (the new touch one!!!), some crafty books, fabric, buttons, a tonnn of yo's from my great grandma fern (!), a really cool carpety purse that i cant quite explain and lots of good bath & body works stuff, from santa clause of course!

5. we got stranded in cheyenne, WY! interstate 80 was closed because of the snow and high wind speed (it was -12 and 50 mph winds!!!!!!!!!) so we had to stay there for new years! but it ended up being really fun. me and mallory went hot tubbing and swimming in the hotel pool and we also got a bunch of delicious & somewhat healthy snacky foods (like bread & cheese & grapes & pistachios) and lotsa party favors to ring in the new year (too bad me and mal were the only ones awake for the actual birth of 2011!!!!!) it was a lot of fun though.

6. and today we finally made it back to the beautiful golden state and let me tell ya, after braving the subzero temperatures of the icy tundra, i was soo happy to see the warm sunshine california had to offer! also, i got hot cheeto puffs because i couldnt find them ANYWHERE on our whole stinkin trip!!!! so that was a nice treat for me, if you will.

all in all,  it was a great holiday season for me and my family in a lot of different ways. 

i have soo infinitely much to be thankful for.