un/inspired

i'm feeling so uninspired.

--i started a bootcamp thing and it is kicking my butt. all i want to do is sleeeeeep.
--drew has been working lots and lots.
--the rain has come back to visit us.
--i am in a cooking dinner rut. what in the world do you have for dinner? i feel like i can only have fajitas a few more times before I flip out.
--and laundry? does it seriously ever end? don't answer that.

anyways...

so in my BLAH Lindsay mood, I have decided to share with you three links that I have favorite-ed lately and just keep going back to.

1.) THIS PURSE

Better Life Bags. Just read their mission statement. They rent sewing machines and supplies to underpriviledges woman who make these bags. and the bags are freaking cute! On my birthday wish list for this year (drewwwww :)

We hire women, who otherwise cannot get jobs, to work for BLB.  We rent them a sewing machine and tools while teaching them a skill set that allows them to become a primary or secondary provider in their families.  Most of these women are first generation immigrants from countries such as Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, and Yemen, so we are also able to provide them with much needed fellowship and friendship as we visit their homes to deliver fabric and pick up orders.

2.) THESE BOOKS

these May books are all the rage in the bloggy world right now. You pick the cover, monograms,  the colors inside, the style, planner, mealplanner, notebook whatever!

3.) THIS STORY

our wedding photographer and her husband have been trying to adopt  another addition to their family. Her blog post from this weekend made my heart hurt, but left me inspired at the same time.


:)

eagle watching

drew had to go into work today so all week he was talking about how on Saturday he was going to do absolutley nothing and just watch college basketball on the couch. 

so saturday morning rolls around, Drew is still snoring away while I have already cleaned the house, eaten breakfast and was reading the newspaper. 

the front page just happened to talk about how today was one of the best eagle watching days of the year. They feed on salmon from the river around 11 AM...

hmmm....

so I decided to wake Drew up and tell him that this is a once a year opportunity to go see the eagles. 

i wish you could have seen the look he gave me when I proposed the idea. like i had just suggested the most horrible idea in the entire world.

He probably wouldn't want to do this ever, but it was 10 AM on saturday morning, raining outside and it was his ONE day off the whole week. and I wanted to go bird watching. hahahaha.

i won. 

off we went. 

it doesn't look like we were very close but it was amazing!

even drew had fun, even thought he won't admit it. :) 

cleaning house

the little house we live in has been passed down. even my parents lived in it right after they got married. My great aunts, uncles, cousins... same. 

most recently as I have mentioned, my auntie and her FOUR daughters called it home. 

a year ago our room was painted purple and covered with justin beiber posters and was home to two teenagers :)

i want to always remember what our first little home looked like as newlyweds. 

and since I spent the entire day yesterday cleaning, I figured it would be a good day to take some pictures. 

I HAVE HAD MY CAMERA FOR OVER TWO YEARS AND STILL CANNOT FIGURE OUT HOW TO USE IT. the lighting just throws me all off. so excuse the weird darkness. 

coming in to the master bedroom from the hallway. why hello cheap shelf that is connected in the middle. notice how the top half is a liiiitle crooked? ugh. 

 i am such a wuss and too scared to hang anything on the way above our bed. any ideas on something that wouldn't kill us if it fell?!

$15 dollar lamps and fun nightstands my mom found at a thrift store. amazing what a little paint can do. :) 

drew picked out our bedspread. :) i like the orange accent color. 

 fun bright carpet to cheer things up a bit. 

as you may have noticed I LOVE words. sayings, quotes anything. 

so this made its way into our room. I love it. :) 

so thankful for a "sturdy" :) home perfect for us right now :) 

10 years later

#10yearslater

photo cred: holly aprecio on our wedding day

okay. do yourself a favor. READ THIS ARTICLE from this month's Self Magazine.

read it.
read it.

it looks kinda long but it takes less than 5 minutes. i promise, promise, promise that you will be glad you did.

and to all my teacher friends:

make your students write letters and send them to them 10 years later? for me? okay :)

I think the biggest lesson I took from that letter was that I do have one obligation to myself, one that my 17-year-old naïve self somehow knew to articulate and my 27-year-old self suddenly understood: I need to love and respect my process of self-discovery. Because it's exactly that: aprocess. I should feel comfortable that my experiences are learning moments teaching me step-by-step how to love and embrace me, cellulite and all. That even if the progress is subtle, it's there, and I'm doing the best I can. And I think—no, I know—that's something to be proud of.

fidalgo bay

happenings

drew has mastered cinnamon rolls from the can. proud wife right here. 

i have been working VERY hard on growing out my hair. ha. it is finnnalllyyy longer than shoulder-length. wahooo. 

i have been busy trying to brighten up the house a little. spring? yes please. 

and drew has a new hobby. i find him peering out the blinds at deer in our yard. he is having "staring contests" with them. and these go on for at least 5 minutes at a time. Drew usually wins though. :) once again, proud wife. 

as you can see, the mcdonalds are nice and busy :)

funny boy

i love reading about funny things that kid's say.

ya know, stuff like this.

hung out with my friend's babies this last weekend and little miss evy was jumping on the chair saying, "im the queeeen, you are the PINcess." 

love it. 

buuut since I don't have any children, I don't have funny kid quotes to post so I can look back and laugh. 

but I do have something else. 

Drew-isms. 

Drew has been working out a lot lately ( i call him my trophy husband) and I think all the endorphins and extra energy has made him a little crazy and hyper. 

Like three times this week I laughed so hard I could not breath. 

Drew:" I could definitely wax your eyebrows. You don't need to go to a salon to do it. All I need is a stencil."

and he was serious. a stencil? :)

"Once we get our savings account up to where we want it, then I will relax."

me: "but what if we save, save, save and then get in a car accident and can never use it?"

drew: "you are living like YOLO and it is annoying."

he really said YOLO. that stands for you only live once. 

and this one isn't exactly something he said, but it still cracked me up. 

I started a little valentine decorating around the house and made this fun little valentine-y board.

today and yesterday i walked by it and started giggling when I saw what was written:

this one says:

i love you because:

you snore like a brown bear

and then:

i love you because:

you are bomb.com with emoticons :)

:)