"BUT MARY TREASURED UP ALL THESE THINGS AND PONDERED THEM IN HER HEART." LUKE 2:19

~ things i love with a capital P ~

PERSPECTIVE, pottery barn patio furniture displays, practically all track jackets, putting my hope in Christ alone, photography, pistachio nuts, parenting as a privilege, pairs of cute sunglasses, painful times deepening friendships, pink bubblegum ice cream (by the pint), perseverance, practical jokes, people, people i can trust, plumeria flowers, pearl earrings that were my grandma's, pantene smooth vitality conditioner, plopping clutter into the trash, pigtails all messed up after naptime on my girls, purel hand sanitizer, painting walls with color, pouring into people's lives, plush blankets, prioritizing, polished nails, pharmacies with 24hr drive-thrus, places where palm trees survive winter, packing away my 2009 "calendar", pacific northwest mountains & rivers, pie plates with fluted edges, purpose, puppies named bronson, preferring the word pacing vs. procrastinating, people who love to say i'm sorry more than they love to hear it, pocket-sized butterfingers, phone calls with special friends, piano music, patterned scarves, practicing not to presume things, planting flowers in pots, passion, penne pasta, panda bears reminding me of my love for HK & japan, pillows that are just right, praise & worship freeing people of pride & insecurities, paying for starbucks coffee with gift cards, putting on my running shoes, pomegranate mixed drinks, putting off dishes till company leaves, purses filled with lipgloss, people who can be vulnerable, parties for every occasion, politeness, plane rides to far away places, popcorn that's air-popped, paul marrying stephanie, pedicures, peaceful homes, price tags with a clearance sticker on them, pre-recorded tv watching, poverty prompting compassion, pieces of angel food cake & strawberries for breakfast, peeking in on my girls while they sleep, products from bath-n-body works, packs of trident spearmint gum, people who can laugh & be witty when life gets hard, paper plates in bulk, papa murphys garlic spinach chicken artichoke de-lite pizza, pretending my girls and i wrote 'put your arms around me' by natasha bedingfield for each other & singing/dancing to it each night after work to remind me to put grace & humor in EVERYTHING (towards myself & them) or it will feel like a really long work week, a very short life, and an inevitable amount of colorful language exposure that i couldn't possibly blame all on the playground...............

we're. crazy. about. these. songs.


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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Hallé Turns TWO! July 2008


This is Mommy, Daddy, and Hallé at her 2nd Birthday Party. A "Hello Kitty" theme that she fell in love with herself. Some of her special things she was into were her Singing ABC's fridge magnets that she is learning, a red cash register, princess dress up, (& a princess driveable car), and unbelievably A BIG GIRL Bed! She loves it and announces to all "see mine own new bed" anytime there are visitors. She liked playing pin the tail with stickers on the donkey and we filled pink balloons with candies and lipgloss' to sit on and pop....Hallé & Eden ran to the cake table and grabbed a plastic fork to "get to business on those balloons!" And of course "duck, duck, goose" was a must...which was turned into "princess, princess, ...FAIRY!" The biggest memory I will hold of Hallé turning two (besides crying when I saw her sleep in her big bed the first time!)..was that I let her and big sis help bake her choice---CHOCOLATE cake! Somehow when I pulled the cake out of the oven and turned it over on a cooling rack...there in the middle of the cake was half sticking out a plastic measuring spoon that we thanked God hadn't melted! I think I cried then as well, but from laughing! Unfortunately I have to note that Hallé cried on her Birthday too but it was because her mom and dad forgot to tell her how to exactly blow out a candle and when she didn't get it blown out the first time...she went in "closer" all the way to the flame and had a big blister on her lip for days! Sorry baby I love you.

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