"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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Monday, March 8, 2010

Whose That Chick With Rockin' Kicks?

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's off to our 2nd Home we Go...
This is us last Saturday 03.06.10 cracking out the bikes for the first time and taking our first visit to the Sprinkler Park...(minus visiting the sprinklers to Hallé's massive disappointment.  She had a swimsuit on under her clothes in case I was wrong about the water not being turned on yet!???)
if we can do a weirdo face...
and get to take a picture of you afterwards...
then sure, we'll do a cheesy posed smile...
enjoying her need for speed before she got a flat.... 
Curses to desert Goat Heads!


Saturday we brought Hallé's bike but since she decided she only wanted to ride it in the grass (meaning-me push her while hunched over);on Sunday I opted for the scooter to come with us on our desperately needed Day II-escape to the park.
I love this place....I could (and do) spend hours here; with my kids and alone.  It has the most beautiful rose and flower gardens, walk paths, benchs,  tennis courts, (goal: i will go make a fool of myself at some point on those courts this year~please feel free to volunteer if you think you're worse than me!~), SUNSHINE,  and best of all if you time it just right and go there when your kids are hungry (appx. every 30minutes) then in the summer there is this man with the most endearing yet annoying little old ice cream truck who is a persistent lip reader...he can see me about 150yds away say: "no, no ice cream today girls" and sure enough he'll pull into a parking spot and blast away the hypnotizing fog horn melodies.  Sometimes we're lucky and it's not the genre: "FIESTA"
So for this trip to celebrate the park getting it's first of many weekends of love from us; we stopped at Baskin Robbins and could have probably bought half his ice cream truck for the same price.... it matters not...nobody else sells Pink Bubble Gum ice cream....AND ...it was essential on many levels.
Thanks Hallé for the detailed instructions about exactly where our hands needed to be for your photo shoot..."sure is a good thing nobody was standing around watching this take place"
I took these last two pictures to remind me of this moment and Hallé's beaming smile.  Moments before,  a stranger to Hallé's left had just walked up and said...and i quote..."GIRLFRIEND...you are ROCKIN' those boots,
you show that park them awesome  rockin' boots!" 
They were Eden's pink sparkly boots. She also wore them everyday and everywhere...I'm not sure which of the 3 of us have loved them more?
~ THE END ~

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