sweet nothings of the present

I am currently reading Gone with the Wind by Margret Mitchell and I am loving it. I fall in love with the movie every time I watch it, that now I want to fall in love with the book.

I also am loving Of Monsters and Men, they are a band from Iceland and probably my favorite song of theirs is Love Love Love. 

Lastly, I love these cookies.

they are delicious!

These are my sweet nothings at the time. Enjoy.

megan's about ready to pop!

This is at Megan's last baby shower! She is quite the cute pregnant lady because you can only tell that she is pregnant by looking at her belly. Aka she is tiny everywhere else, not fair!

Well, this is some of the Kakadelas' girls at Megan's ward shower. So excited for the baby to come!!

awesome sweet nothings

Nobody is perfect. Sometimes it is hard not to compare yourself to others, what they have, or what they do, etc.. Why not start focusing on what in your life is awesome! 

I like to tell my friends that I am awesome! ha

And I know parts of me are.

Okay so once a week I am going to try and share a few of my favorite things in life right then. Aka the sweet nothings in my life, about maybe one to five awesome things, hopefully I'll be good at this new goal of mine!

my life in pictures

these ones of vegas make me miss summer aka my tan a lot

 hawaii friends and i had to document our little gathering in utah.

 CZ the birthday girl! its not too often we all get together (just minus melis)

 cescret lake

 it's a secret shhhhhh

 oh when in seattle… she kicked me in the face, woah woah woah thats what i do

 the troll under the bridge, i was so excited to get to see this place

 oh ya know just trying to reenact 10 things i hate about you

 eww gum wall. thats my gum right over there.

 one of my favorite places of all time. love love love!

little treasures part two

my thomas grandparents were such adventurers! they traveled so much and i just love it. my grandpa thomas had a boat and a plane and pretty much i think he was always on the move. i love that even at the age of 75 they were still always going on adventures and doing so much. after my grandmother died about a year and half ago there were just a few of these little treasures that i wanted to keep. these old passports are a little treasure because they remind me of something i want. i want my life to be an adventure and i want to find someone who also thinks life is an adventure!

things to keep in mind…

my greatest adventure is you. - from the movie UP

and even as peter pan once said.. "to die would be an awfully great adventure."

little treasures

This letter is a little treasure of mine. It is a love/i'm sorry/tender letter that my grandpa wrote to my grandma when they were going steady. This letter is hidden away in one of my boxes and it holds a special place in my heart. I did not know my grandpa thomas as well as I would have wanted to, but when I read this letter I feel like I get to know a side of him that a grandchild wouldn't normally know. He really loved my grandma. He wrote her love letters like this, he told her how swell she was, he told her how much she meant to him, he fought for her. This is a little treasure that has become one of my most precious possessions. 

Love and kisses,

Russell

While I was home

As I get older it seems that I spend less and less time and home, but honestly that is all I want to do. So while I was home for a couple of weeks I had so much fun spending time with family and friends.

Here I am with beautiful Alyssa at her wedding. She was the cutest, I am so happy for her!

I am just loving my Dad's cheeeesy smile here.

 Sister love.

 Cousin and best friend love.

The next night we had a birthday dinner for miss Haley before she went off to NYC. I think I pose more when I take pictures with Haley. I have to keep up.

Yeah apparently we don't like each other.

 One of the cutest boys ever. Love it when the Haddocks come to visit.

 And then June came and life was just even that much better!

 If you check out my sister's blog too, June loves to put on my Mom's shower cap. I think she looks like the little mushroom character from Mario Brothers.

 June just putting the finishing touches on Bella. They both just look beautiful!

 June is obsessed with Grandpa. And I think she is hilarious when she does the awkward laying on him. Pretty much I just find her hilarious.