This is my favorite movie scene of all time in case you were wondering. i remember being a little girl and loving this scene and always smiling whenever i heard this song on oldies 94.1
still brings me joy to this day.

not a lot has been going on around here. yesterday was the most fun i have ever had on Halloween. I think the last couple of years we have had high expectations for halloween and have gone out trying to make it the most exciting thing ever, but last night we just got together with a group of friends, told scary stories and ate fall time treats. It was perfect. 

i love this time of year, the weather is perfect. the air smells heavenly. and i just get so excited for fall/Christmas decorations and food!!

hope you had a good halloween!!!

Leibster award!

A Liebster is a German word meaning dearest, sweetest, cutest. The award is given to up-and-coming bloggers with less than 200 followers. I am flattered that Kacee Houle from her blog Down South tagged me in this. Its been a long time since i have done a fillout. and it is a cold rainy day. what better activity to do?!

Rules:

• Each person must post 11 things about themselves. 
• Answer the questions the nominator asked, and create 11 questions for your nominees to answer.
• Choose 11 people and link them in your post.
• Go to their page and tell them.
• No tag-backs.

11 things about moi!

1. top five favorite animals are (in no particular order): unicorns, kittens, horses, dolphins, and wolves. 

2. i once ran my car into the temple fence (it was a snowy day), it was right after i got baptized and everyone told me i was going to get excommunicated. 

3. many people think i am african american

4. my two loves in life are my husband and FOOD!

5. i want to live on a farm with miniature ponies that keep my grass trimmed nice and short and have chickens and goats and lots of kitties. 

6. i have been riding dirt bikes since age 6 and once had a dream of being a professional motocross racer. 

7. i am deathly afraid of lightning and have been in way to many near misses.

8. favorite movie is titanic and i can recite every single line for you.

9. i cry more than anyone you will ever meet. every movie, touching commercial, etc. that i see brings tears to my eyes. i think my husband is immune to it now. 

10. i have read the harry potter series over 25 times

11. i love my life and all the people in it. i feel so blessed every day for the life i have and the amazing people that are in it. 

Kacee's Questions for me

1. What is something you are most excited about in your life coming up in the near future? I know this is dumb, but i get really excited to sleep. so i am excited for tonight and the moment when my head hits the pillow. other than that i am excited for my husband's b-day!
2. What would a perfect food day be (what would your meals and snacks be)? without the consequences of feeling fat and sick after? i would want tikka marsala from tandori oven, yellow curry, my mom's egg rolls, pho, a cheese dog, bubble tea smoothie, maybe some mushroom ravioli with a Gorgonzola cheese sauce, and some zuppa toscana, or a tomato bisque. can you tell i worship food?
3. What is one of your quirks that people typically don't know about? I hate being called bud or pal.
4. What is a simple thing that makes you happy? being with my husband, cheesy, but true. also, the smell of fresh laundry.
5. What came first, the chicken or the egg? the cheggen
6. What is your favorite time of day? just before sunset when everything turns a pretty golden color.
7. What is one of your best memories? jumping up and down on my bed with justin while singing songs.
8. What is something you are proud of that you accomplished? learning how to show people i care about them. 
9. What is your favorite time of the year and why? spring and fall, cause it's not to hot, and not too cold... it's juuuuuuuuust right!
10. Who is someone you look up to? my mother-in-law merilyn and my mother because they are the most genuine, caring, toughest women i have ever met. 
11. What do you want to be when you 'grow up'? a mom, a happy person, a good wife, i would also like to do any sort of work helping people. 

My Questions for you!!!

1. Top five favorite animals?

2. if you were an animal what would you be?

3. Who has been the most influential person in your life other than your parents and significant other?

4. if you could do ANYTHING in the world for an occupation what would it be?

5. what would you do with a million dollars?

6. how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?

7. what is something nice that someone did for you today?

8. what's your favorite physical feature?

9. If you could live during a different era when would you want to live?

10. where were you when you found out micheal jackson died?

11. where is the furthest you have been away from home?

I TAG EVERYONE THAT READS THIS.... it's probably less than eleven, but i want YOU to do it!!! and leave me a comment so i can see your answers to my questions! :)

perfection

Why we are never leaving the house Pt. II

Pretty much the entire weekend was spent on the couch. I was sick. justin ran a marathon saturday (i was supposed to run it but he did it for me. true love. he ran a 3:25 without really training, the most he had ran before that was 13 miles. crazy boy). So we were both incapacitated on the couches all weekend. It was kind of a nice change of pace though, to just relax together. 

Here is a picture of justin in the marathon. I rode my bike next to him from mile 19 to the finish.

He is amazing. 

anywhoo, as promised. here is part II of "why we are never leaving the house"

Last saturday we decided we really needed to take advantage of the cooler weather and put our mountain bikes to use. We picked out a trail justin found online, it was about 16 miles long.

We got up there and it was such a blast, it was a steep climb, but we were feeling good. Then things took a turn for the worse.

i ran out of water about halfway up.

we took a wrong trail that ended up going straight up a huge mountain. 

then we had to go straight down a mountain to get to the destination: Old Ephraim's grave

(old ephraim is supposedly the last grizzly bear to live in Utah)

By this time i was super grouchy about not having anymore water (anyone who knows me, knows that lack of food and water is the worst possible thing that can happen to me). there were people picnicking at old ephraim's grave and i wanted to ask them for water, but justin felt weird about it. 

before we left a little kid went up to his mom and said:

little kid: Mom!! what should i do with the rest of my drink cause i can't take it on the 4-wheeler? should i just pour it out?

Mom: Yeah, just pour it out on the ground

he then proceeded to pour it out on the ground, i watched longingly, licking my parched lips. 

so then we took off, we had to ride a mile up the steepest road to connect to the other trail that would take us down to our car. we thought we found the right trail to go down on. it was so overgrown, and there were spots where you couldn't even see the trail because it was so faded. the whole time i was thinking "this seriously is the most ridiculous trail."

then we got to a point where we couldn't see the trail at all.

then i threw up from dehydration

then i started crying

then justin told me that he realized that if we were ever going hungry HE would have to be the one to keep my spirits up.

which was exactly what i wanted to hear right then....

so i took out the map and realized we were not even on a trail, we were on a ridge, and the trail we were supposed to be on was in a canyon below us. 

I told justin i thought we should just hike straight down the mountain.

So we did.

When we got to the bottom and finally got onto the right trail i was so so so happy. we got to a river and i just drank straight out of that thing. 

i didn't care about gardia at this point.

it tasted sooooo good.

then we went home and pigged out on snowcones and food.

what should have been a 4 hour bike ride turned into a 8 hour ride.

as always, i can say it's gonna be a good story for our kids to hear.

This was before i was grouchy.

Why we are never leaving the house

I think we are done being adventurous for a while.

between the last two weekends we have decided we are not cut out for any sort of adventurous activity.

we probably just shouldn't even leave the house.

seriously though.

Over labor day weekend we had planned on going backpacking in the Unitas. This was to be our last chance this summer and there was nothing that was going to stand in our way.

not even a weather forecast of rain all weekend. 

We decided we wanted to hike and camp at amethyst lake. we got up there at about 8:30 and set up camp in the dark. the whole hike to the lake was fabulous. 

it was so fun to just be on an adventure with only me and my husband. 

not to mention it was gorgeous!!

So we went to bed and the wind started howling. there were huge gusts of wind all night long. for some reason i was really scared and creeped out and couldn't sleep all night. i just had a weird feeling in my gut. 

7 am rolled around and it was raining. i woke up to thunder. 

justin looked outside the tent and said, "uh, kim, i don't want you to look outside.... we are like 10 feet under the clouds."

now begins my panic.

i am deathly afraid of lighting, and there we were camped upon the highest ridge. 

i just layed down and tried not to panic, but the flashes of light and booms of thunder just kept getting closer and closer.

justin tried his hardest to stay calm for me. bless his heart.

he said he thought we should get out of the tent and go to lower ground.

i said h to the ell no, am i getting out of the tent.

then a flash of lightning and boom of thunder happened simultaneously. So we put on our ponchos and ran down the mountain.

we would run, then lay down in a meadow until there was a flash of lightening.

then we would run and do the same thing. 

over and over. 

until finally we figured we were low enough and we layed in a meadow for 30 minutes as it started to hail.

by the time we got back to camp, we realized we had left the tent fly open. 

all our stuff was wet, we were soaked. 

so we made the best decision of the weekend and we decided to go to justin's grandparent's lake house at bear lake.

turns out someone died in the very spot we camped this summer because they got struck by lightening.

turns out everyone else knows not to camp where we camped. 

figures. 

Also, it turned into quite the sunny day when we left.

here's some pictures

The first glimpse of sunshine

such a beauty

happy to be alive

grouchy, soaked, justin.

this was on the hike up, so i was happy at this point.

soaked pants, soaked/muddy socks

all in all, it was a great experience. we learned a lot. but it really was a great memory that i will always have.

just wait for part II of "why we are never leaving the house" it gets even better.

 

the truth.

Everyone has been asking me if i am still running now that i have graduated. the answer is yes.

i mean i have been running. just not nearly as much as i used to. i took a good month and a half break.

but no more.

once i started to see my body changing and atrophying i decided i needed to figure out my feelings towards running.

you see, i love the competition of running, i love running with people and the social part of it.

i don't love running just to run.

it makes me tired. haha.

but i am working on it. I am trying to just enjoy it, and enjoy the feeling of working out again.

i don't think i will every be what i once was, and i think that's okay, but it is honestly hard for me to accept, and then i just don't want to run.

i know people who can just never let it go, running and competing after college is more important to them than working or family, etc.

I DON'T WANT TO BE THAT!!

I also don't want to be out of shape.

so i am trying to find a balance.

so this week i have been waking up at 6:30 to run before work.

i have started out with 30 minutes, and now i am up to 45.

i want to get to the point of running an hour in the morning. that would suffice.

i also want to get to the point where i LOVE running because it is beautiful and feels amazing.

i want to not feel guilty if i miss a day of running.

and i want to explore other forms of exercise and activities.

i miss my team.

pardon my drool

I could not help myself.

i had to share these with the world.

i am in LOVE with these dishes.

they are perfect and lovely.

someday i will have these in a vintage glass cabinet.

and they shall be my dishes for hosting classy dinners where we all dress up and the women wear gloves and we speak in British accents. yes, those dishes will do the job perfectly.

weekend update!

This weekend was full of spiritual things and family. We had the chance to go to the brigham city temple open house with some good friends. it did not disappoint.

the temple is amazing.

Afterwards we went to this old 1960's diner called peach city. it was nom nom nom. here we are with our friendz. we do have some.

It was a good night.

The next morning we had breakfast with my cousins from hawaii. my little cousin is going to utah state this fall. this breakfast was a big deal for me because my side of the family is not close at all and i have always hated that. it was so refreshing to have a pleasant meal with a sweet family i am reltaed to.

the rest of the weekend was full of birthday dinners for Justin's fam on saturday and sunday. always a fun time with fun people.

Justin and i had the pleasure of speaking in our ward on sunday. By pleasure, i mean that i was having anxiety all week about it and pretty much had a nervous breakdown before church. but  no big deal. I spoke about member missionary work and how that was the main factor in my conversion.

I am so so so scared to talk in front of people. when i first got baptized i swear i had to speak at every ward/stake conference, missionary fireside, mission prep class, etc. i was super glad when that phase finally ended.

This week all my fears came back again. But all in all, i think it went pretty well, aside from the fact that i was not planning on crying, and i did. but justin said there were a bunch of people in the audience that were crying. i think that means it was a success.

Justin's talk was amazing of course. everything he touches always is. hopefully our kids get his genes.

Happy Monday!

whenever i want you, all i have to do is dream.

this week is definitly a week that i will not be sad to see end. i feel a little, a lot defeated. its just one of those weeks i guess. we all have them. i am just not the best at pretending its not one of those weeks.

one thing that is really good at cheering me up (other than J) is dreaming, making plans, thinking about adventures. even if i know they are in reality never going to happen, sometimes it is just enough to get me out of a slump, and if anything appreciate just how beautiful this world is.

this post is dedicated to some of my dreams.

Greece has always been a dream of mine.

Havasupai? Maybe next summer?

Senegal's Lake Retba, or as the French refer to it Lac Rose, is pinker than any milkshake. Experts say the lake gives off its pink hue due to cyanobacteria, a harmless halophilic bacteria found in the water. Lake Retba has a high salt content, much like that of the Dead Sea, allowing people to float effortlessly in the massive pink water.

Waterton, Canada. One of the prettiest places in all the land. this is on my to do list for the next few years.

Patagonia. It is a dream of mine to backpack through south america and hit up patagonia.

Redwoods. i have always wanted to go for a run through these trees. word on the street is they don't let you drive your car through that famous tree anymore. stupid government.

This is a picture of the milky way over lake titicaca in peru. my dream is to go to the bolivia side. someday.

While i am dreaming i really want this cat. i wouldn't mind cuddling with this cutie. :)

some people think dreams are stupid because they mean you aren't appreciating the present yada, yada, yada. but to me dreams are important because it gives me something to work towards and get excited about, they keep me going through the rough times.

what are your dreams?

life

my whole educational career i couldn't wait to graduate from college. now that i am here its a little disappointing. Probably partly due to the fact that my degree was pretty useless, vague and i don't know what to do with it. so now i am working a desk job that i defiantly don't want to be my life long job, but for now it's okay. i always avoid my old professors when i see them at the grocery store because i don't want them to think i am a failure because i am not in africa saving children and bringing food and clean water to the desolate continent!!!
I have always planned on staying home with my kids to raise them and watch them grow. i know it sounds really cliche but it has always been really important to me. both of my parents worked (my mom worked the most) as i was growing up and i was always at a daycare or babysitter and it really bothered me. i know my parents were trying to show their love for me by providing for me, but i have always felt our relationship was hurt by not having a closer bond at an early age.
so anyways, i have always planned on staying home with my kids. it wasn't until recently when i realized... wait, i am graduated, and i am not going to have kids for a while, so what do i do? add to that the fact that once my kids are all in school, that's a good chunk of the day where i will be alone. i don't want that, not being productive kind of drives me crazy. i have realized i do need to do something for myself in this life to feel like i am making some sort of difference (not that having kids isn't making a difference. it totally is). i have tossed around lot of ideas, hair school, masters degree (but in what?), CNA, drug dealer, etc. I still don't know what to do, but right now i am looking into being a paralegal. i can get my certificate in one semester at weber state, so when justin goes to nursing school, i could do that then hopefully get a decent paying job. i don't know. this is just what i decided this morning, and anyone who knows me knows how quickly my ideas change.
all you need to know is i am so confused right now about what i am supposed to be doing. my mother in law gave me really, really good advice (she dropped out of college after she got married because of pressures from other people and regrets it all the time) she told me the biggest thing is to not worry about what people think about what i am doing or want to do. just do what makes me happy. i like that a lot. it's so hard for me, but i have begun to realize that is truly the only way to be happy.
ciao.

Justin and i have had a pretty great summer considering how busy it has been. i always get excited for summer break and have a huge list in my head of all the awesome things i want to do. normally life just gets too busy for all those things to happen and this summer followed through in being super busy as well.

the entire summer i had been looking forward to one week... lake powell. this little peice of heaven is one of my favorites on earth. there's something amazing about not knowing what time it is or what day it is. just doing what you want whenever you want. eating when you are hungry, waking up and going to sleep whenever you feel like it. it felt good to not have cell phone reception or internet. i honestly just felt so content. it could have been just because i was in one of the most beautiful places on earth, but i think it was because the focus was on the moment we were all having and enjoying the people there. my in-laws and a couple other families rented a houseboat and they all had 4 wakeboarding boats and some jet skis. so as you can guess, it was a blast. vacations are seriously what i look forward to most in life. i am writting this from my desk at work. it kills me a little everyday to be couped up inside at a desk, but funtimes with people i love make it totally worth it.

I had a very humbling experience this week. my husband and i ran the des news 10k. i was super pumped because i ran this once in high school and got second, but couldn't accept the $500 prize money because i was planning on running in college. so i swore to myself that i would run it when i graduated and makes some money. but then i got lazy, and didn't train very much, and never did speed work, and had too much fun during the summer.... so i started out in the front of the race... trying to stay in the top 3, but i got tired really quickly. my husband tried to "help" by pushing on my back and yelling at me to "catch up with those girls." i slapped his hand away and told him "NO, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!!! I DON'T CARE!!" he tried everything to motivate me in that race, he tried to make me angry, he tried being nice. none of it worked because it wasn't worth it to me anymore. i took off with one of my friends as she passed me and tried to stay with her, but after about a mile i stopped on a street corner and stood their until my husband caught up to me. he had been sick all week and i just felt like rather than running in my own pain and being miserable and hating my life, maybe we could run together and make it fun (running for fun is a whole new concept to me btw). so i waited for him and he caught up and was SO mad at me. i think he was mostly mad at me for giving up. everyone that i knew in that race passed me. EVERYONE: every high schooler i knew, every 45 year old mom, all of my old teammates. it was a humbling experience for sure. i know it sounds so so so dumb to people that it matters so much to me what other people think, but it does.


i want to run for fun. i want to run to stay in shape and to love it. i don't want to hate every step that i run and just count down the minutes till that's over. i don't know how to have fun with it anymore because it was always such a competition to me. i just wanted to win and winning was the most fun part. but now it doesn't matter and no one cares. and honestly i think it's just time for me to hang up the track spikes and enter a new chapter in my life. how can i find a healthy balance with something that i completely identified with before? i'm working on it.

but for now. here is a lovely feild by our house that we frolicked in this week. i love summer.

oh hey.

this article was awesome----> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2105432-1,00.html

This is something that is very hard for me and i try to fight it everyday.  i don't know if i am an introvert or a very self concious person, but i think i am a combination of both. i have a constant fear of being judged and of people not liking me. often in social situations i will run to the bathroom just to take a deep breath and give myself a pep-talk about how i need to be outgoing.  other times i just completely shut down and don't talk much and just listen to other people talk, i feel the most comfortable with this, but other people think i am sad or angry or something so i feel pressure to be "outgoing" and "fun."
i think this article is awesome becasue it shows how both introverts and extroverts have strengths of their own. and in a society where i was always told to "speak up" and felt like i couldn't get ahead because i am not super talkative, it helps to know that i am not completely alone. i have been trying to manage my quiteness because i know it comes off as rude and arrogant. i remember when i was in school (it feels good to say that) that before every presentation i would always tell myself i would rather run 15 miles than give that 5 minute presentation. it's hard!! i want to be normal, cool, not self concious, friendly, and outgoing. any tips? i feel like i have been fighting this my whole life. do i just accept it? blah.

I can't stand the heat. it kills me. call me a baby. i am. this summer is the worst though because we do not have an air conditioner in our house and we live on the 2nd floor, with lots of windows that allow the sun to shine through all day. the AC in justin's car is broken and that is the vehicle i drive. my work is hot. i'm always sweating. i never want to run. i went running at 9:30 last night and it was still freakishly hot. i am so so so grateful for people who have their sprinklers on when i run. instant cooling effect, but only lasts about 3 seconds after i get out of the water. i can't sleep at night because i am sweating so much. justin and i don't want cuddle ever because when we touch we get so hot. blah. i know i am a baby. and yes, i know arizona is like 115 and people survive that. whatever. it's hot and i hate it!

'Merica!!!

the fourth of july did not disappoint at all. even though the only fireworks i saw were from me peeking out the window and watching the fireworks that were being set off by our mexican neighbors in the street. it was a good good one.  we went up to bear lake tuesday night to justin's gma and gpa's beachfront house. we spearfished, swam, ate, relaxed, ate, ran, and enjoyed the company of the family. we slept under the stars and were awoken by a hummingbird hovering above us (it was wierd). in the morning we went boating to take advantage of the glassy water.  i love to watch people slolem ski. and i want to get better at it this year before our lake powell trip.  i got over my fear of wakeboarding and got a little bit of air over the wake before i crashed (i am such a baby). justin was very manly and went spearfishing for a couple of hours and proudly came back with this:

such a man i tell ya.

I had the best time bonding with my in-laws. they seriously are the best and i can't get enough of them.  i am getting better at my favorite water sport: wake surfing. this is seriously a love of mine. it is so relaxing and as close to real surfing as i can get in utah. my goal is to be able to do a 360. 

Watch out guys. that's gonna be me! sponsorship from billabong here i come! i wish.

ps. the reason we didn't really see fireworks is that we couldn't set them off at bear lake (i guess there is a fire danger or something....) and when we got to logan justin was feeling pretty sick and realized he maybe had a concusion from when he fell super hard wakeboarding. not fun for him.

DID YOU KNOW THIS?!?!?!

I feel a little betrayed. i feel like my whole educational career has been a lie. i have always prided myself on haveing better grammar than your average person, and finding this out threw me for a loop. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/01/space_invaders.html


allow me to nerd out.... did you know that it is unacceptable to do a double space after periods? if you did, then WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME? i feel like maybe someone early on in life told me that was the correct way to do it as a joke, and then i continued to do it and probably gave all my high school teachers and college professors a good laugh. "look at this girl, she still thinks that you are supposed to double space after periods, what a FOOL, mwahahahahaha (evil laughter)." I am sure that is what happend. they just kept getting a laugh out of it and didn't tell me.

i don't think you guys understand how devastating this really is to me. not just because i feel lied too and emberassed, but also because for the last 17 years i have been using extra energy after every sentence to put that extra space in when i didn't need to. that is energy that could have compiled to go towards something even greater! like playing a musical instrament, or running faster! i feel a little cheated. thanks for nothing!

This past weekend was a good one. i haven't been feeling very well lately, so i was glad that it wasn't full of exhausting activities, but rather it was filled with good company. i got to see these girls again, most of them i haven't seen since high school (5 years ago). elyse and i headed down saturday afternoon to have a bbq at maren's parents house. since the last time i saw these girls 3 of us have gotten married, 1 had a baby, 2 served missions, one has excelled tremendously academically and has a scholarship to grad school.  

 it's weird. cause everything's different. but still the same. i can't really explain it. but it was fun and i enjoyed it. i liked talking about high school and how dumb/funny/awesome we were. it was fun to talk about what other people are doing with their lives. i also made a tres leches cake for dessert. It was pretty divine and i took it too two different functions: my friend get together and a family dinner at my in-law's and it was a hit at both venues. Here is the link below.  seriously guys. it's the  best. http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2009/09/tres-leches-cake/

What did justin do while i was away? he has a test on tuesday that he was studying for. which means he was really at home posting new things on his blog. and guys! it's really good! if you haven't looked at it yet you should. sorry if i am annoying about it.

This week is looking to be a good one. it includes my favorite holliday, the start of the twilight concert series, the cruise in, friends band show in rexburg and hopefully ending up at heise hot springs to show justin around the place that i pretty much grew up at.

hope your fourth is magical. xoxo.

best day

Yesterday after work justin and i headed to hyrum dam where we were told we could rent paddle boards and explore the lake. i have always wanted to paddleboard and i love anything that makes me feel like a i am a native hawaiian, so i was stoked. it wasn't as hard as i thought it would be. except for the times justin thought it was funny to hit my board with his paddle and push my board out from under me. after a while anytime he was near me i would quickly get on my stomache and hold onto my board for dear life. i got him pretty good a couple times too. i think i ended up winning the pushing-of-the-board-battle, i'm sure he wouldn't openly agree (boy pride), but we all know who won. 

It was the most relaxing activity, we paddled to the other side of the lake and just layed on the boards in the water while bro's on jet skiis did circles around us. After about 45 minutes though i began feeling super naseous and thought i was going to throw up. I think i got sea sick!

We saw a couple with one of these sailboats and they looked like they were having so much fun. justin has always wanted one and i think it would be so awesome. too bad they cost an arm and a leg. i think it would be cool to make one. too bad i don't have those skillz. someday..... 

Music Blag

so yesterday i came home from work, dropped my stuff on the floor, and the mr. came up to me and gave me a hug with a sheepish smile.
justin: heyyyyy kim. so.. i decided to start a blog.
kim: hahaha what?
justin: a MUSIC blog. and i can post lots of stuff on there and if people like it a lot then i can also maybe make money! (he knows the way to my heart)

he has been hard at work on this since yesterday. i'm pretty impressed and proud to say the least.

here's the link:

http://thewolfandtheswan.wordpress.com/

since i have been with justin he has opend my eyes to a wide array of music and my musical taste has pretty much expanded to include any and every genre.  sometimes he wishes i would just go back to being the girl he met that only listened to folk music, but i can't, i am a changed woman.

so if you are looking for some new music or to expand your musical tastebuds check it out.

if you love me and you want to help us become rich and famous check it out!

ciao.

Magic.

This weekend was full of magical happenings (and magical food). it started off with this movie i have been wanting to see for months (ever since i saw the trailer).

let me tell ya... it did not disappoint. everytime i watch a wes anderson film it becomes my new favorite movie. and between margot in the royal tenenbaums and suzy in moonrise kingdom, i want to wear heavy amounts of eyeliner all the time, not to mention be super rebellious. ah, i am in love with this movie, this soundtrack and everything about it. 

the next day we went up near preston, idaho and floated down the oneida narrows river. omg. floating down rivers on my king kool is one of the greatest summer passtimes in existence.  there were rapids, there was a rock to jump off of, there were great great friends. best of everything right thurr.

 and nohohohhohohoh don't think for a second this was the end of the day.... we then headed to a magical little place called mink creek that i had only seen on people's facebooks and heard stories about from my husband.  I guess there is some middle school biology teacher that has a lot of land and he decided to build a series of treehouses that have hanging bridges that go from tree to tree, boardwalks underneath, rope swings, gazebos.... yeah, pretty magical right? i wish i had more pictures of the actual treehouses and swinging bridges, but i don't. the bridges were kind of scary and really steep, but awesome nonetheless.
 

acting out the sound of music gazebo scene of course.

did i mention the biology teacher guy likes to raise awesome animals. here is a baby racoon that just wanted to snuggle up. to bad it is going to grow up and probably get rabies.

blissful rope swing. could have stayed here all day.
P.S. happy 6 months to my bestest friend in the world and guy who makes me laugh even though i don't want to sometimes.