Living Creatively.

2010...our year in pictures

Our family has been really blessed in 2010!  So many wonderful memories!  I was looking back at all that happened this year and I put together a slideshow!  I hope this montage will help me always remeber the good things that surround me...there really is a lot!!!!  Happy New Year!!!

 

a love story x4

LOVE STORY #1...In September, my little sister, Lauren married her longtime love, Blaine.  The day was like a fairytale.  They should have been on the cover of every wedding magazine.  Just breathtaking. I was honored to be in the bridal party and Kayla sang as Lauren came down the aisle.  My motherly pride was in full swing.  Here are a few pictures from the day...

LOVE STORY #2...My brother Andy just got engaged and we couldn't be happier for him.  Candice is a doll.  She is the perfect addition to our family. Way to go Andy!!  We now have another wedding to look forward to next year.  ...some pictures from their engagement party...

LOVE STORY #3...Brian & Lea.  Theirs is a story of lost loves reunited.  High school sweethearts, soul mates....whatever you call them, they couldn't be more perfect for each other.  They each have a child from previous relationships and now...drumroll please...they are expecting a little bundle of their own.  I'm excited for them and just adore Lea....and Brian, too!

And last but certainly not least...my love story. 

It's the story about finding the love of my life when I least expected it and wasn't looking for it.   I never knew love could be like this.  He is amazing!  He is my best friend.  He makes me laugh...makes me think...and never makes me feel like I need to be anyone but me.  I love who the person he is and the person I am when I'm with him.  He's my rock.  I love you Kevin.

You'll be hearing more about us...don't you worry!

listen:: Jar of Hearts

Words could never explain just how much I relate to the haunting vocals and lyrics to this beautiful song.  Christina Perri puts her heart on her sleeve as she writes, plays and sings.  You can just feel her emotions and if you've ever been through a gutwrenching heartbreak....you can almost feel her pain and ultimately her triumph!  Beautiful!  I think I've listened to it about 25 times in a row...no joke!

{the lyrics}

i know i can’t take one more step towards you
cause all thats waiting is regret
don’t you know i’m not your ghost anymore
you lost the love i loved the most

i learned to live, half alive
and now you want me one more time

and who do you think you are?
runnin’ ’round leaving scars
collecting your jar of hearts
tearing love apart
you’re gonna catch a cold
from the ice inside your soul
so don’t come back for me
who do you think you are?

i hear you’re asking all around
if i am anywhere to be found
but i have grown too strong
to ever fall back in your arms

and i've learned to live, half alive
and now you want me one more time

and who do you think you are?
runnin’ ’round leaving scars
collecting your jar of hearts
and tearing love apart
you’re gonna catch a cold
from the ice inside your soul
so don’t come back for me
who do you think you are?

and it took so long just to feel alright
remember how to put back the light in my eyes
i wish i had missed the first time that we kissed
cause you broke all your promises
and now you’re back
you don’t get to get me back

and who do you think you are?
running around leaving scars
collecting your jar of hearts
and tearing love apart
you’re gonna catch a cold
from the ice inside your soul
so don’t come back for me
don't come back at all

who do you think you are?
who do you think you are?
who do you think you are?

{k} i carry your heart with me {s}

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)

i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)

i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet)

i want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

- ee cummings

Sometimes a poem says what you're feeling so perfectly.  {i love you k} thank you for being there for me today....and everyday.