Home Inspiration: Books

I have started 4 books this year and I have finished, oh, one. My husband is on his 35th book of the year. He is never without a book. He wakes up reading, he goes to sleep reading, he reads at work, he reads while I'm watching tv, he even will read in the shower. His reading obviously has led to a huge collection of books. We have a small library in our house and in his office, as well as, piles of books and I am a person where everything needs a space. Call it anal or type a personality but I get overwhelmed with clutter and I find books cluttery. However, I know they are important to my husband so I am always on the search of how to store books in a pleasing way. Here are a few ways I was looking at for displaying:

Color coordinating =)

Making a usually bland space functional.
Dark walls, thick white shelves, pops of unifying color makes this space interesting to me.
I need to figure this out because even though I only read sometimes I do believe this is true.

This made my day!

I've been fretting! But this just made my day!

Are you ready for some Fooooooooooootballlllllllllll?!!
Oh Peyton, I have missed you!

Childhood Classics

I hang out with teenagers a lot, its kind of my job. And because I hang out with them a lot sometimes I forget how much older I am than them...I am now officially a decade older than my seniors, boo and 15 years older than my youngest students, oh my! The age difference is very obvious when we start talking about our favorite childhood movies, television shows, or music. These are three classics from my childhood that they had never seen.

The Original Parent Trap

Troop Beverly Hills
Punky Brewster

If you haven't seen them, I totally recommend them! If they were also your childhood favorites, go watch again!

I am currently watching The Parent Trap with my teen girls and I can quote almost the whole thing, I must've watched it a ton. And they are enjoying it, though they keep comparing it to the Lohan version, like the Lohan version is the original, haha =)

Vacation Part Three: Ensenada Cruise

I am not spontaneous. I wish I was, but I'm not. Which is why when we decided to book a cruise with our cousins and friends the day after it was mentioned at my brothers wedding (because we had so much fun!), I was so proud of myself. I knew the eight of us would have a fabulous time and we would have a lot of time to just relax and actually talk without having to cut someone off to chase our kiddos but I didn't know I would have a constant stomachache from laughing so hard the entire weekend. Our 3 day Ensenada cruise was so amazing and was just the start to many vacations to come.

The eight!

Where we parked ourselves for most of the trip...top part of the lido deck with the best "views".

Laughter! I love seeing my husband laugh!
The couples:

Me and my Mr.

Jason and Tabitha

Chris and Courtney

Todd and Shawna

The girls

The boys:

Mr. Elephant

And finally, trying to channel the person to the cruise who brought us all together in the first place, my brother and his awesome smile. Love you brother =)

Happy 5 Year Anniversary!

Happy 5 Year Anniversary to My Mr! I love you more than when I said I do, best day eva! Thank you for the love, laughs, and joy you bring to our home. You are an incredible husband and father, pastor and friend! I am honored to be yours!

Five years ago on our wedding day (yes, this is a picture of a picture so not the highest quality, and yes, it was in a frame, can we say lazy!)

Here we are today (last weekend) on our cruise, Mr. is working his zoolander poses.
Here's to 55+ more years!

Vacation Part Two: San Diego

Part two of our va kay was in our favorite place to go as a family...San Diego. Hours of free entertainment (I'm surprised they haven't figured out a way to charge going to the beach), food from all our favorite college spots, and remembering all our favorite stories from Point Loma sharing them with Corbyn. Here's a glance into our week.

We played in the sand.

We filled our buckets with water and sand crabs.
We were buried with Popie and played super Corbyn.
We ate at Pizza Nova on the harbor, yum.
We finally took a picture with mom (I don't think we had taken an alone picture in 3 years, sad)
We learned how to make wishes into a fountain from Uncky Chris.
We tried to dig to China.
We built a sand fort with daddy.
We arrived at the beach every day by 9:30 and parked ourselves there till naptime even eating sand filled sandwiches on our towels.

We were very happy!

Oh San Diego, we love you, see you soon!

Vacation Part One: Lake Arrowhead

A great start to our vacation!

We had long dinners with lots of storytelling

We ate lots of delicious food next to our bestest buddy and even shared our food.
We were entertained by Gammie.
We had lots of time to read.

We dug and dug and dug annnnnd dug for worms (I am a worm finding expert).

We found lots of worms and even got brave enough to hold them.

We enjoyed nappy/snuggle time

We had dance parties on the balcony.
We sat and watched the hugemungous boats on the lake.
We had cousin cuddle time watching Toy Story 3.

We stayed in our jammies till noon.

We rode a chuga chuga choooo choooooo.

We saw amazing fireworks (my bropher took this one).

We celebrated.
We took lessons in posing for pictures from Corbyn.

We had fun with yaya and popie and had one very happy boy!

We had a fabulous time!