#40: A few of my favorite things

I'm a little behind on posting.  I'm a terrible blogger.

But because I'd love to win this contest, here is a link so you can enter too!  Its for this super cute camera (and we all know how much I love taking pictures).  How cute is this little thing?

The contest is through a website called The Plaid Barn which brings daily craft deals for things like buttons, stickers and washi tape.  I want everything all the time.

Other things that I love right now:

Erin Condren EVERYTHING.  I ordered the "Life Planner".  It just shipped today.  I CANNOT WAIT TO ORGANIZE MY LIFE IN IT.  Look at all the things in this planner:

Check out her website- everything is so colorful, amazing and oh-so-beautiful!  Again, I want to buy everything.

THE OLYMPICS!  I mean, can we talk about how AWESOME Missy Franklin is?  Look at this girl!

You gotta love her for being 17-years-old, living in Colorado and staying there to train to be around her friends because "why fix what isn't broken?"  She blows me away.

The girl I sponsor- her name is Cherry May, she is wonderful and I just got a letter from her.  She likes to play jacks and badminton with her sister and dancing in the school (per her letter).  I have so many things I want to say to her but I don't know where to start!  I got the inspiration to sponsor a child from my favorite blog, Today's Letters.  It is written by a truly inspirational and in-love couple who I aspire to be like someday.

And finally, party themes.  I had a bonfire this weekend and decided at the last minute to make it Olympic themed so I made Olympic ring colored Jell-O shots and around the world appetizers.  It was so much fun and so delicious.

#39: Thoughts

I stepped on the dog's tail as we descended the stairs into my basement room last night.  It was dark and he was hesitating and I felt bad but he was in my way.  There is a tuft of tail hair on the stairs still.  Oops.

Things I love about the Basilica Block Party:
1. Running into friends you haven't seen in a while
2. The opportunity to see 9 bands in one night (if you plan accordingly)
3. Making friends with random strangers named Yuder (whose real name is Ryan) and his buddy who paid JoElla & Kylie $40 to go get 4 beers (that cost $24 total).  They pocketed the rest.
4. Getting up close and personal with the bands.

That's Tyrone Wells.

5. Being able to stand closer to the stage than you could at any regular show because everything is general admission and everyone is so chill.

I saw Moonrise Kingdom last night by myself.  I decided I needed to do something for myself and basically turned off the highway in a spur of the moment decision.  The movie was good- very Wes Anderson- but I think I liked the trailers better. There is a movie coming out soon that Ben Affleck directed and, of course, stars in because when you can't find the right person for a role, you may as well just do it yourself, right Ben?

Jaci, Kasi and I picked out our bridesmaids dresses for Jaci's wedding on May 29.  Trudy was working and Allison was unavailable to attend.  It took us about 25 minutes to find the right dress.  It was a miracle that got better two weeks later when the dress went on sale for like 50% off.  I ordered mine and assumed the girls did too.  I found out two weeks ago that Allison didn't get her dress in time and all of the dresses across the company were sold out except for one.  That one dress (surprisingly waiting for us in Richfield) was too big for her but she went in to see if they could size it down.  I tried so hard to stay out of this since it wasn't my fault or my problem but I ended up going in when the dress didn't fit Allison to see if they could size it down for me.  The good news is that they can.  Problem solved, Mary to the rescue.  These are the kinds of problems I deal with.  Good grief.  Today I'm off to pick up the dress that I ordered in the first place that is now Allison's dress.  I want to bring it over to her house today so I don't have to keep it and so I can see the baby but I don't want to talk about how much it costs and how I'm expecting her to pay for it... Ugh.