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i am officially done getting hurt. you heard me! no more hydrogen peroxide. no more polysporin. no more bandaids! you hear me injury-gods? i have had band-aids of one sort or another on me for over a week...and i've had it!

now, if you don't mind, i'm going to glue my toenail together and hope that the cut on my finger (from the litter box, of all disgusting and germ-ridden places) doesn't cause my finger to fall off.

harumph!!

(but...do you want to know something cooooooool? when i hydro-peroxided my finger, the bubbles made the skin on my cut move up and down. i know! it was like watching discovery channel but way awesomer! ok, injury-gods, i'll give you that one. but please, please, please...give it a rest for awhile...)

*when there is all ocean and no shore*

if i saw you
if i saw you in sleep
if i saw you in sleep and wept it is only because my words had run out long ago

in the language of saline i want to tell you specifics
the whens and wheres
the whys
i open my mouth, my lips form the sounds but they are all silent

if i dreamt you
if i dreamt you upon waking
if i dreamt you upon waking and never found you again of what use would any of this be

in the enveloping darkness, in specks of light i find i can't help but dance and spin as if what pulls me and pushes me is slowly coming to the surface
as if it is my tides that have changed, are changing, will change

from minute one

this is the first picture of us. it was taken just a couple of months after we met and a week after we said 'i love you' for the first time...

july 18, 2003















this is the only picture of us from the night we got engaged...notice how relieved/exhausted my husb-to-be is after it's all over with :)

september 4, 2005







this is the day we became husband and wife. i knew this day would come from the moment that we met. i just didn't know how perfect it would be...

august 6, 2006



















this picture was taken earlier today in our beautiful backyard. this weekend marked 6 years since the fateful night that we met. to celebrate, we have been spending the weekend cleaning out closets, watching basketball, and saying things like, "six years ago i was thinking about you right now!" so much has changed (look at that first picture of us!!, ben graduated college, we've lived in 3 different cities, adopted our boys, i got my masters, we bought a house) but plenty has stayed the same...i'm still as crazy about this guy as the night i met him. i still look at him in disbelief...this really happened...we're really together...this is the life of which i had only dreamed. and it is real. and it is so beautiful...

may 24, 2009

here is to six more years, my love. and six years after that...and six years after that...and...

you have no idea what you're in for...part three

aloooooooooooooooooha!

i'm finding it's still hard to put our trip into words. it was beautiful, peaceful, relaxing, exciting, romantic and fun...

ok, so that wasn't too hard!

our days were filled with sunshine and sand. when ben got his way i would go in the water (hey, it was cold!) and the rest of the time i'd be sunning and crosswording. now THAT is the life.

when we weren't sunning...let's see...we went ziplining in the mountains above the lahaina/ka'anapali area (so much fun...i recommend it...as in, highly)...we partook in a delicious lunch ritual i like to call pb&j...we hiked a coastal trail that took us through lava fields and along a cliff overlooking thundering waves...we swam with huge sea turtles and snorkeled with the fishes...but perhaps the thing we did most consistently (which was also maybe my favorite activity of all) was give our fellow beachgoers nicknames and make up stories about where they could be from and what their life stories entailed...(ok yes there was a lot of whispering, so what??) and that was all just a teeny tiny part of it.

this vacation really was the perfect getaway that we needed. it was a nice break from our jobs and, what i've termed, the "stresses of domesticity" (read: laundry, dishes, waking up at 3am to one of the cats barfing over the side of the bed, etc.). when we were leaving, i couldn't wait to get there. and when we were on our way back, i couldn't wait to get home. i don't think you could ask for better timing...

so i will leave you with a sunset view from our lanai. we were lucky enough to see eight whole, beautiful, unique sunsets during our trip. this is just one shot of one of them...but my favorite of them all. (hey, nothing but the best for you!!)

ben is THE premier sunset photographer
(sunset over molokai, april 30, 2009)

you have no idea what you're in for...part two

as it turns out, ziplining is also for lovers
(overlooking lahaina & ka'anapali)
(we heart eco-adventures)

i'm not sure that there exists a picture that better captures us

how is one to say goodbye to such a beautiful place without leaving a bit of one's own heart behind? (on our way to be on our way home)

you have no idea what you're in for...part one

maui is for lovers

we needed a vacation. like, badly.

nature's pedicure

location location location (aka: our view)

faceblog :)

emily b is against dieting and for ice cream sandwiches
is all headache and no sunlight (for 4 days! good god...)
wishes she could paint bathrooms...effortlessly
is daydreaming about home improvement
has been lazy about blogging lately (but mostly out of sheer exhaustion)
loves nothing more than comments from her sweet sis-in-law-to-be :)
has a CUTE new haircut...pics to follow!
is losing her maui tan :(
is sorry for staying away so long..time has been flying by..
says three-day weekends are freakin awesome!!
promises multiple blogs in the next few days (pinky promise!)

xoxoxo

and you thought i was never coming back

oh my pets, don't fret! i am here, was here all along, in fact. i just haven't quite wrapped my head around blogging about our trip to maui. yet. i will. i promise! there is just so much to say! when i think of what to write, in what order, in what words...i hear buzzing sounds in my head. i know. crazy. SO. this is just a friendly hello. to say that i/we are back in the real world of things. working. loving. buying pink shoes...

warning! tangent ahead:

i love steve madden heavenly skimmer flats. (you can find them at dsw) i own them in red, black and gray. ever since i bought the red ones (a year ago?) i have wished (oh how i have wished) for them in pink. they are the PERFECT shoe to have in pink. like for sure. SO. i gave up. because said shoe warehouse has carried this shoe for a while with no color options in sight. BUT. i happened upon dsw's site today and...be still my overjoyed heart...there they were. in pink. i could barely breathe. it was an answer to a prayer. and it felt a little awkward. like i had a lot of power or something. (all of a sudden the shoe comes in pink? after i have fretted about it for a year?! it seems most likely i have something to do with this.) so, they will be arriving any day now. well, 3-5 days i suppose. but i can wait. seems patience got me the pink shoes to begin with.

an.y.who.

i am home. i am tan. and i will be back shortly with more words and hopefully a few pics for y'all.