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birthday girl.

today is eleanor's second birthday!

(well...it's the anniversary of the day i brought her home last year and they said she was one year old then...so it's her birthday!)

 

 

 

 

 

this girl is the biggest mess i've ever seen.  but i sure do love her to pieces and i wouldn't trade her for a thing. 

and i realize that this is a bit of an overload of photos that are all basically the same but I DON'T CARE, i loved them all.  and trust me when i say i had many more.

xo, emily

p.s. i left my job and started a new one yesterday.  so.. that is also happening.  

livestrong austin marathon 2013

 

 

 

 

my lovely and amazing mother ran a marathon today!  this is her second marathon to date.  she is my absolute hero and i love her more than every single thing that there ever was.   

xo, emily

around

 

 

 

just a few photographs from the past couple days...

i noticed tonight that i am not sure i have ever once typed the word february without misspelling it (including the one in this very sentence).  not because i don't know exactly how to spell it without even thinking, but because my fingers cannot seem to do the F-E-B-R-U-A-R-Y motions without getting themselves twisted over eachother.  

anyway, i probably should go to bed.  have a great week!

xo, emily

p.s. i changed the layout to this blog the other night to have slightly larger photos, since it IS a mostly photo blog.  but, all past photos are now the wrong size (gasp!) so please ignore the visual nightmare happening on every previous page and let's just move forward.  

the foundation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

if you're ever passing though austin, i would recommend checking out the foundation (or castle hill graffiti). i hear it's new given-name is the hope outdoor gallery project but i don't think anyone calls it that.  this place is one of the coolest spots in austin.  over the last couple years, every inch of this place has been turned into a forever-changing outdoor art gallery.  go any week and watch it change and grow from the previous week.  your favorite piece might be gone but most likely a new one will pop up that catches your eye.  i don't know much about the story of this place or who owns it, but i hope it stays forever.  today i met so many nice folks and one guy even offered to hold my hand while i climbed to the top (i was silly and wore super-slippery cowboy boots).  one man was dangling his feet from the roof, reading a book.  and another girl (pictured above) did a pretty sweet jump for me.  lots of folks wandering around, taking photos and checking out the art.  you get a pretty great view of the austin skyline from the top level and there's also a castle behind you.  what's not to like?

maybe my need for documentation and organization drives this, but i think it would be so cool to take a photo of each of the panels each week or month and keep them archived somewhere.  it seems like someone should be keeping track of all this.  maybe i will volunteer? 

ok, goodnight for real.

xo, emily