last weekend this weekend

i feel like this is getting to be a habit of mine, being one week late reporting on the weekend before. i love the time to ponder on it, to look through the photos, to let the good times find a nice home of memory in my sappy summer mind.

i love this picture! it's all grainy like a painting but it's a photograph so it tricked you! the weather is like a new friend this summer. one who loves to change its mind. on the way to the cottage we drove through about 5 different weather systems, all of them moody and fairly fleeting.

you know that thing where old couples start to look like each other? sometimes i feel like that's already begun. maybe we make the same faces or we look the same kind of happy but he looks like family to me in a familiar face way.

here's our friend weather feeling happy! i'm definitely a fan of forest cottages over beach cottages if put me under oath to declare a favourite but beach cottages definitely have their undisputed charms. like how the lake can look like an ocean. and how the sand in your toes can take you to cuba.

my new bikini! it was 15 dollars from walmart and it has polka dots and stripes and i can't say i've ever worn either on a swimsuit and i love it! it's so punchy and coloured. it makes me want to drink orange pop from a straw.


the other charming thing about a beach cottage is the size of the sky when it's uninterrupted by trees. especially with our friend fickle cloud coverage, the weight was tangible and omnipresent. i definitely kept an eye out for the lord.

look how small jeremy is! and how big the world!

and then i grew out of some corn and farmer jeremy came along and picked me and i was sold at a roadside produce stand for 50 cents an ear.

this is the view from the cottage and more of that big big sky. we love that blue fellow and no one ever seems to live in it so next time we're just going to move in and see how long we can stay until our squatter status is challenged.

look how cute the chimney!

the beach has the best sunsets i bet you would go through a hundred bottles of wine watching them from your deck.

this is my very favourite dress from costa rica it was made by someone who sold handmade clothes in a market in a bar just off the beach and i tried on about eight that i loved and this one was my favourite. i almost didn't buy it and jeremy's sister told me i deserved it and i've loved her ever since. (robynn i mean not the dress). (but i love the dress also).

when we got back and it was january and we cried ourselves to sleep at night i used to put it on and feel instantly better.

look it's this shot! we have one of these from last year coming soon and it's just as cheesy don't worry. what is it with oceans/sunsets/being in love? it fills you so wonderfully full of fluff.

i love you sky.

this is a ballet move i can actually hover over the ground now. so can jared. who, by the way, was recently told by his ballet teacher in chicago that he should consider moving up a grade because it would be more at his level. (!!!). i couldn't be prouder if we had a kid and it was doing well in singing class.

my friends are so awesome and diversely talented. ballet dancer, radio host, mom of the year, climber of a mountain in vancouver... it's like i should soon be made famous by association!

then we'll all get rich and put half our money towards buying cottages on this beach and the other half towards inventing a machine that makes it be summer all year.

1 comment:

steph said...

I AM SO IN

the kissing picture made me cry