me: how is it Thursday? (a bit of script)

you: [being ever practical] well, yesterday was Wednesday. And before that came Tuesday.

me: Yes, true. But still, it feels like Monday.

you: Is that a bad thing?

me: I don't see why it would be. I admit I was hoping this week would past by quickly.

you: Why would you wish that? It's one less week of summer, and no school.

me: point. But you see, I'm off to the beach this Sunday.

you: again? But weren't you there like last week?

me: that was a month ago.

you: and what of the photos from that trip? I don't remember seeing those.

me: well. umm. yeah.

you: mmh.hhmm.

me: I actually got them uploaded. And edited.

you: and.

me: well. They never quite made them onto the blog.

you: will I ever get to see those?

me: you still want to see them?

you: well, sure!

me: even when you're just going to see even more from the beach presently?

you: I don't see why that would bother me.

me: What a great person.

you: why. umm. thanks. I guess.

me: remind me to give you a promotion.

you: will do. [pause] you're reminded.

me: [being the forever confused blogger] huh?

the end.

the thing with big families is...

that it feels like you are celebrating a birthday every few weeks.

And you'd be just about right.

'cause it's...

me: haven't we already been over the 'birfday' stuff?

you: um. sure.

me: [ignoring you] yeah, well. birfday is loads more fun to say.

you: right.

me: blue llama!

what a simply epic photograph.

love the colors.

and the depth of field.

and how his feet are off the ground.

and that expression.

priceless.

right?

okay. So maybe it's one of the harder years of your life.

but it's a pretty fun one.

Oh darn. Now I sound sentimental.

I cannot wait until this guy has a girlfriend.

The teasing with neva' end.

so darn cute.

Happy birthday, short stuff!

{we have this thing that I call him short stuff and he calls me tall stuff.

it helps my self confidence.

and it'll be pretty funny when he's this big massive guy.

and then little me.

HAHA. HA. Ha. haha. ha. he. hem. uh. yeah. }

'k.that'sall.loveyoubye.

the day I discovered Zara

So my plan for today was to do a 'what-I'm-wearing' post...

but sister took the camera and my plans dissolved.

and yeah.

Instead of spending my day pleasantly modeling for you. and then editing. and then posting.

I caught up on many of your blogs. Which was wonderful.

In the process of doing that, I discovered Zara.

And there's no going back.

Most of their clothes have a very 'european' look

{which I adore}

So if you haven't figured it out by now, we aren't judging if you haven't...

we?...

you get the nearly intolerable pleasure of dreaming about clothes from a magical land donned Zara.  

{and did I mention that it's currently very affordable with the store wide sale being held presently?}

1. Striped Dress

2. Printed Tunic

3. Dress With Gathered Skirt

4. Dress With Cut Out Design

5. Wide Striped T-Shirt

6. Top With Button-Tab Sleeves

7. Two-Tone Sleeve Blouse

8. Loose Multi Colour Jumper

9. Double Breasted Linen Jacket

10. Two-Tone Dress

11. Skirt With Side Frill

12. Wide Printed Trousers

13. Faded Denim Shorts

14. Trousers With Stripe

Oh sweet bliss.

finally , exciting modifications (yes. modifications), and red TOMS.

So I'm pretty pumped right now.

There is finally internet in this house.

Yeah. And I'm doing a wild Indian dance while belting out the Hallelujah Chorus.

Enjoy imagining that one.

If you are an especially attentive reader, you may have noticed a few things

1. the banner has changed (it's now too big - working on that, and the font is different)

2. there are two new buttons on the side that look like this:

and this:

(still not sure how to get links to the ones up above, so you'll simply have to be satisfied with clicking on the ones to your right. They're much cooler anyway.)

3. The 'size' of the blog has changed, so most of my photographs have been thrown off

4. lettering that is not part of the post is now a dark navy blue.

5. 'recent comments' has disappeared (purposely) from my sidebar. (I felt like they were being clutterful. What a magnificent word.)

there are a few other obscure changes (because these totally aren't. *note the rain shower of sarcasm*.)but my favorites are my new 'buttons'.

They kinda' made my month.

That, and I love this photograph.  

oh, and this one too!