I'M A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE! | #classof2015

[spring 2015 - due to a technical difficulty, this post was reposted and reappeared in your feeds. whoops.] 

HELLO WORLD, I'M A GRADUATE NOW.

Graduation happened in a whirlwind. I actually didn't even have time to make a list to pack by and I basically ended up tossing my clothes in a bag, grabbing my camera, chargers, and laptop and leaving for Florida. But finally, after 12 years of textbooks and crying over math (let's be real okay?) and essay writing and exams and 5 years of online classes with teachers I hadn't met, but have made me in ways I don't fully know yet... it's over. accomplished. finished.

Florida was marvelous and I got some stellar froyo, white beaches, and sandy toes along with a diploma, so you know, the deal wasn't really terrible. ;) In total, we drove through eleven states (and maybe it's just me, but I'm 99% sure that nobody in Alabama and Mississippi actually use turning signals). And we tried new foods, like crayfish in mass amounts, and discovered the glory of booking hotels through the internet, "wait, what is that smell?". I also got to meet sweet Grace after almost five years of being blogging friends and we spent a few hours talking nonstop- she's such a dear heart!

This post is missing so much and these are just a few photos, but I'm publishing it anyways because wow. it's real and it all happened. wow wow wow. 

also two thoughts: I'm a free bird. whatta time to be aliveeeee. 

xoxo. -marcia

a rainy roadtrip.

[some rainy frames from the our quick little roadtrip to nebraska last week] 

"it will come sometime. some beautiful morning she will wake up and find it is tomorrow. not today, but tomorrow.  and then things will happen, wonderful things."

- l.m.montgomery

xoxo. -m

a zoo day | photo essay

FEBRUARY NINETEENTH, TWENTY FIFTEEN

our february zoo day was a bright and sunny, and a high of sixty-five degrees. (and two days later we had over 10 inches snow. trust colorado weather to blow your mind.) we tramped around the zoo, counting pregnant ladies and the number of double strollers and laughing at innocent children reading the signs and saying "mom, look. there's wild ass." (insert laughing/crying emoticon)

there were kangaroos and lazy cheetas and stinky ape dens. we ducked in a out of building avoiding the melting snow through the roof slats, (for the record, getting hit by a clump of snow right on the nose-piece of your glasses isn't the most pleasant experience.) and i almost tripped over a goose.

we met up with friends and missed others due to dead cellphones and going in opposite directions. the peacocks shamelessly flirted with each other and we made hump-day jokes at the camel, although it was thursday. 

i think i have decided that the elephants were my favorite and that it was all great fun, but i'm chill with not going to the zoo for another five years.xoxo. -marcia

currently + life stuff.

life lately. oh man. it's so crazy how waiting was the theme in my life and then suddenly the chapter closes and it seems as though everything is happening so quickly, i can't catch up. 2015 has already been a wild adventure and it has a ton more in store. a month ago, i turned seventeen. i'm going to be flying to washington in april for the delight retreat and meeting some absolutely incredible women. i'm in my last quarter of high school, which means when the second weekend in may comes around, i'm going to be a graduate and in florida. crazy things are bound to be happening this summer and just wow, applications are on my "to do list" along with a research paper, a poem i need to memorize, and working on new job stuff. this is life. and despite the bittersweet moments, this life is living, breathing, wild, adventurous, and full of endless possibilities. 

all photos via my instagram

listening:
we got a love - lennon & maisy stella
this is living - hillsong young & free
no longer slaves - bethel music
heartbreak dreamer - mat kearney
we'll keep running forever - joshua radin

reading:

bittersweet - shauna niequist

what katie ate - katie quinn davies

emily of new moon - l.m montgomery (reread)

quoting:

+   "keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate the soul and body as faithfully as you can." -lousia may alcott

+   "we are becoming by grace what God is by nature." -st. athanasius

+   "i believe still today what i have always believed: that God is good, that the world He made is extraordinary, and that His comfort is like nothing else on earth." -shauna niequist

how has life been for you? spill all the details. :wink: (no really i'd love to know!)

xoxo.-marcia 

winter adventures | a photo essay

it's been a while, i know i know.  my laptop crashed a few weeks ago and i'm just now finally getting my old programs re-installed and getting around to photo editing again. life has been full of surprises and new adventures and old friends and midterms. but, it's good to be back in this little space of mine.

we are currently living in the mountains until spring and over president's day, the national park we currently live about two miles from, had a free day in the park. so even though it was snowing all day and our car has terrible snow capabilities, we grabbed our coats and coffee mugs and drove 20 mph through a whole loop and saw a lot of elk and frosted pine trees and mini mountain sheep along the road.good times, good times.xoxo. -m