thrifting finds | favorites

thrift stores are some of my favorite things in the entire world. 

gahh I love them, because you never know what you will find.

these are just some of my favorite thrift store findings::

a vintage camera // honestly, I would read on other blogs how they found these cameras at thrift stores and I thought I would never find one. Well, I was shopping with my best friend and right there it was for $1 //

The Wind in the Willows // a vintage hardcover with full page color pictures, the end //

The Complete Book of Etiquette //  2 in. thick (I just measured) etiquette book. honestly it has everything down to what to say at a funeral // 

 Sense and Sensibility // the screen play

My Fair Lady // the play

Anne of Green Gables series // all of my except the last one

well, those are my favorite thrifting finds, what are yours?

awkward and awesome // no. 4 //

[[a collaboration]]

awkward:

- missing a step when you are running down the stairs. crash boom.

- being stared by a person. and every time you look over you make that awkward eye contact

- walking and texting at the same time and literally walk smack-dab into a tree branch

-having a little packet sample of what I thought was lotion.. so I proceed to lather it on my face and happen to read "Controls up to 100% frizz for 24hr shine". Let's just say it wasn't made for my face. fail

- coming home to a letter that says you are missing 27 hr and 45 mins of PE. all because of a mistake you made on a form. honestly.
-when people pronounce Colorado wrong and say Colorada. honestly peoples.. its 'O'
- that moment when someone uses the incorrect grammar of me and I and you have to urge yourself not to correct them.
- trying to sneeze quietly. fail. the end
- the fact that I just discovered I named my last awkward/awesome post no. 2 it is no. 3
- writing awkard/awesome posts in my head, but forgetting everything once I get to the computer
- walking right smack-dab in the middle of a huge spider web.. yuck.
- acting silly- frantically shaking hands in the air and shrieking "omg omg"
- finals. I was doing my final in Bible and the question was "Who was Ester's husband" and I was like "What husband? She had a husband!?!" and then I realized..... err yes, she was married.
- the fact that I edited this just to put a picture in... honestly,

awesome

- home sweet home! :)

- organizing my pictures, they were such a mess

- Antonio, Hector, and Estebon : honestly, they are little sunshine pockets

- the last His Little Feet concert for this batch of choir kids was last week. It was beautiful and in a way bittersweet.... I'm going to miss those kiddos
- and the fact that all 14 of the His Little Feet kids got baptized the day of the last concert!

- just the fact of how different the East is from the West.. honestly,  it's like night and day.

- the girl party I had with my cousin and her best friend... we watched movies till past midnight, drank root beer, slept out on the trampoline... it was a party!
- finding some amazing hairstyles on youtube!
- wearing head scarves.. oh yes, yes, yes.
- the 4th of July picnic... volleyball, friends, waterfights, dr.pepper, yeah.. that kind of stuff
- talking about awkward moments with besties!

amish country

on our trip we visited friends in Amish Country. and I got to pretend to be a tourist take pictures. :) 

most of them were taken through windows or as we were driving, and these were some of the best. 

and just sayin' they [the amish] make the best strawberry pie and homemade ice cream I've ever tasted. 

the end. 

p.s. giveaway here!

a walk at sunset...

 before we left on our trip, Trish and I went on a walk down to the lakes (or more like ponds) we had to hurry because it was getting dark really quickly, but the sunset was gorgeous. 

well, all Colorado sunsets are pretty epic! 

I was pretty happy to get a little bit of sun-flare on the first one.

Honestly, sun-flare is one of the hardest things for me to catch, I only have a few picture with it. 

Any tips? 

p.s. there is a gorgeous hair clip giveaway over ::here::
p.p.s. a giveaway for an Amazon gift card is over ::here::

five plus three = eight

well, as the title says 5 + 3 = 8.  

Last week we added 3 more boys to our family, Antonio [age 6] Hector [age 4] Estebon [age 3].

It's been quite the adventure.. to say the least, but they are the most darling boys. 

Last night, I was whipping up some mashed potatoes in the mixer when the boys came inside. They smelled the corn that was cooking and Estebon came over to inform me: 

"You aren't suppose to mix corn up in the mixer, 

that isn't how you do it." 

they are hilarious.

[sorry about the poor picture quality, hopefully I'll get around to getting some better ones taken.]

[and excuse the fact that Hector is missing in all but the first picture, he was kind of throwing a fit. :P]