just dance

i think this may be one of my favorite series of photos, ever :)

this is my little brother and my cousin - dancing - on top of my dad's boat, memorial day weekend.

they were singing their own version of some song, and wow were they funny.

it sings :D

hellooo new washing machine :D

isn't it gorgeous?

and the best part about it?

it sings - when you turn it on, turn it off, and when the load is finished washing it sings a long song :D

AND - it doesn't eat my clothes!

WOOHOO :D

I Heart Faces - From A Distance

so this week's i[heart]faces challenge is "from a distance" and this photo i snapped last weekend at the lake-house came to mind.

i was standing on the dock shooting the kids swimming and stuff, when i glanced up and saw my little cousin Isaiah walking down to the lake hand-in-hand with my grandma. i thought it was so cute, but to my dismay, i had my 50mm on my camera so i knew i could not get the close-up shot i instantly knew i wanted.

but knowing that it was way to cute to pass up - i snapped it anyway.

i LOVE that they had almost reached the end of their little walk when it looks like they've stopped because Isaiah saw something and was pointing to it.

i also LOVE that my grandma is holding a racquetball racket. how random is that? haha.

be sure to head over to i[heart]faces to see more "from a distance" photos!

biking

since the weather has been soo nice the last week - i've gone green and been riding my bike to work every day.

[gone green - pfft - not really, just trying to save some money on gas, that stuff is so crazy expensive!]

and it works out great. it only takes me about 5 minutes to get to work on my bike and i'm lovin' it.

plus, when i'm riding down the road, with the sun shining down and the wind blowing in my hair - i can pretend like i'm riding a super cool motorcycle, and not the bike i've had since i was 12 :)

life

my garden is alive!

amy & i planted everything last week and when we got home from the lake monday night, the seeds had sprouted!

everything i've ever tried to grow from seeds has only survived so long and then died. i mean, maybe i was only 10 years old the last time i planted seeds, but that left a nice impression that growing anything from seeds was impossible.

but one of the ladies i work with at the bank convinced me that it was possible [and wayy lighter on the wallet] so i decided to give it a try. and lo & behold it worked! i'm soo excited!

so, here are a few of my little baby plants :D

my beans were the first things to appear and are the largest plants in my garden so far -

next, size wise, would be my baby cucumbers :)

this is my baby lettuce! can't wait to see how this turns out!

and these are my baby tomatoes! obviously, once they get a little bigger i'll have to thin them out quite a bit, but i'm so excited that they're growing !!

amy & i also dug up two flower beds in front of my house where i also planted seeds.

and so far the only ones to make an obvious appearance are these ones - don't ask me what they are because i can't remember, they look pretty on the package though!! :P

and then just tonight, larissa dropped off some hosta plants from her garden - apparently these guys get quite large and like to take things over, so i'll have to keep an eye on them - but they will definitely take up some of the empty space while i wait for some of my other flowers to grow :)

hehe - this is not a plant :)

this is our little abby-girl, who apparently thinks she can hide in the grass :D 

sneaky puppy.

and here she isn't being not so sneaky, but just her normal adorable self :)