^^ Bachelorette Festivities
^^ I kinda like this one :)
^^ The beautiful bride! So thankful I got to be a part of her special day.
^^ Took maternity photos for Joe and Katie
Friday, May 31, 2013
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Project Life 2013 | Week Seventeen
Welcome to Project Life Week Seventeen. I’m so loving this project and how it is evolving and getting better through out the year.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
May 28
3 years
1095.75 days
26298 hours
1577880 minutes
94672800 seconds
Do you have one of those days that you can point to and say, “That is when it all changed. That day changed my life forever.”
Mine was May 28, 2010. Three years ago I was told my dad had Multiple Myeloma. Three years ago I was told my dad was in kidney failure and would need dialysis 3+ times a week. Three years ago I was told my dad had a broken back and fractures in his skull, hip, and leg bones. Three years ago I was told by both doctors and nurses that they were shocked my dad was still alive.
Within those three years, I have seen my dad through 1 diagnosis, about 7 bone morrow biopsies, 2 bone morrow transplants, 3 dialysis treatments, 2 hospital stays due to colds, 1 gangrene gall bladder, about 10 radiation treatments, and more chemotherapy treatments than I could ever begin to count.
Yes, those three years have been the hardest years I’ve ever had to live through. But they also gave me something back in return. They have shown me to be grateful in the smallest moments of life. They have created memories that I will have forever. They have seen a lot of tears, but they have seen just as much laughter too. They have given me time that I might not have had otherwise.
The Story
The Beginning:
May 28, 2010
The Background:
In December of 2009, my dad graduated from nursing school. Throughout school, he kept saying he wanted to work in the OR, ER, or critical care unit. He enjoyed the blood and guts of the operating room, but once he graduated he didn't go out looking for a job. Mom and I became concerned and we later learned that he wanted to work on his nursing skills before he chose a specialty. In March of 2010 he finally went to the hospital and he was offered a job on the spot, which they never do.
Problems:
Everything started off great. Dad had awesome mentors and he enjoyed the work. But after a few weeks he started to get pain in his legs and back. We figured it was from working 14 hour nights, standing on his feet, lifting people, etc. Dad would work 3-4 days and then have the rest of the week off, but the pain got so bad that dad wouldn't leave his bed unless it was a day he worked. After his 8th week of orientation mom told him he couldn't go back to work until he went to the doctor. We knew something was wrong and we knew he needed to be looked at.
On May 27, 2010 dad finally went to see our regular family doctor. I wasn’t in town for this, but was told that dad couldn't hold up his own leg. The doctor knew something was up so he did some blood work and scheduled an MRI for June. 3 hours later mom got a phone call from the doctor's office saying my dad was in acute kidney failure and had to get to the hospital right away. So they packed up and headed to the hospital not knowing the worst was still to come.
During this time I was in Kansas City, where I went to school. I was planning on staying there for the summer with the hope of getting a job. When I heard my dad was in the hospital I decided to drive home the next morning. My dad was never a person who got sick and had never had a hospital stay except when he got his wisdom teeth pulled when he was a kid. (Back then they did that in the hospital.)
That Morning:
May 28, 2010.
I remember it was a Friday and I woke up kind of early. I had an allergy flair up the day before and was feeling pretty miserable and just wanted to go home and be with my family. The entire hour ride home I played different scenarios in my head. If this happens I’ll move back home. Maybe I’ll just move home for the summer and move back to KC when the fall semester starts again. If that happens I’ll just stay home for a week or two and then go back to KC, the list kept on…By the end of my ride, I felt pretty confident that the outcome would be ok because that’s how it always is. The next thing I knew I was arriving at the hospital. But as I pulled into the parking lot I got this horrible sickening feeling in my stomach. Something was wrong and my mom wasn't telling me everything. I even told her that as I picked her up from the parking lot to go run a few errands she wanted to do. She didn't say anything to my comment and it was soon forgotten as we went about our normal chit chat.
At the Hospital:
When we got back to the hospital dad was in a prep room for surgery to have a central line put in. It was the smallest room and he barely fit on the table. Once we did all the normal greetings, things got a little more serious. I remember dad put his hand on my right arm and told me, “It’s bad. I have cancer.” They found out early this morning. I was stunned and I immediately started crying. My dad cried with me. I was 21 years old, and it was the first time I ever saw my dad cry.
The next few hours were a blur...literally. Everything happened through rounds of tears. We didn't know what type of cancer he had. We didn't know what the life span was. We didn't know if he would choose to fight. We didn't know anything. All we could do was wait.
As time went on we learned dad had stage 3 Multiple Myeloma. There is no stage 4 in this type of cancer. But the important thing was to fix dad's kidneys first, and then we would work on fixing the cancer. For those who don't know, kidneys functioning level is determined by a protein called creatine. Normal is around 1.0, 12.0 is critical. Dad was at 11.98. According to his doctors there wasn't much hope that dad's kidneys would come back and if they did it most likely wouldn't be to normal level. In fact, he had less than a 5% chance. We were told he would need to have dialysis 3 times (minimum) a week for the rest of his life. As far as the cancer goes, he needed to have a transplant once the cancer came down to a certain point and when his kidneys got better. Our oncologist said he hoped dad's creatine would be around 3 or 3.5 when the transplant would take place, but we wouldn't worry too much about that right now. So they started dad on dialysis right away for about 6-7 hours every day. By the third day they stopped because his kidneys responded so well and they wanted to see if his kidneys could hold their own. They did. After a few weeks, his kidneys came to a normal range and daddy never had dialysis again.
Dad also had bone scans done and we found out he had some fractures in his legs, back, and skull. This happened because all the protein and calcium was leaking out of his bones and going into his blood. This is the main reason he was in kidney failure, because your kidneys filter your blood and there were enormous amounts of calcium and protein in his blood system. These fractures were also part of the reason he was in so much pain when he was working.
Fighting Cancer:
Once dad's kidneys came back we were able to fight the cancer full force. He started chemotherapy a few days after he was admitted into the hospital and slowly worked up to a stronger and larger dose of chemo by the middle of the summer. By October he was able to have a bone morrow stem cell transplant. I won't go into much details of the transplant process, but it was the roughest thing I have ever seen. Basically the transplant process kills your entire immune system. Dad had to go into isolation (from other people-mom and I were able to be around him) for 100 days. Daddy lost all of his hair (except for his eyebrows and eye lashes) and lost about 50-60 pounds and became incredibly weak. For about a month the only way he could get from one place to the other was in a wheelchair. It wasn’t until Christmas time that he was strong enough to come out of his room on his own.
Follow Up:
In February 2011, he hit his 100 day mark (from the transplant) and his cancer progression was reassigned. They found a little bit of the cancer left in his body so his prognosis was 'pretty good' partial remission, not complete remission. He went back on a low dose of chemo, which they do even if the patient is in complete remission--studies have shown that it prolongs life. He also began his inoculation (he has to get all the basic shots a baby gets, up to the 2 year shot). In May of 2011 they found that there is only a teeny tiny line of cancer still in his body.
Year One
May 28, 2011
It has been exactly one year. My little family has been through so much. We experienced numerous trials and triumphs. And most importantly we experienced many, many miracles. I moved home immediately after dad was diagnosed and spent many evenings watching movies with him through his recovery time. We have also become great friends with our doctors. They have experienced all the hardships and joys right along with us. But most importantly we are all still here, fighting together as a team. A friend of mine once told me that God doesn't play by numbers. She couldn't have been more right. We have overcome what science has told us. Because according to science, my dad wouldn't be here today.
The Story Continues:
The rest of the year went fairly smoothly. In June we all came down with a horrible cold and it sent dad into the hospital for 3-4 days. (I’m glad we all got a cold because that meant that the bug dad had was actually bad and not just a little something that he couldn’t fight off.) Dad continued to take a chemo medication in pill form each day. He experienced a few side effects, but nothing too major.
In August 2011, we found out the cancer was almost non-detectable and he was in a deeper stage of remission than before. However, this news was bittersweet because the day we found this out was the same day we had to bury dad’s younger brother and best friend, who passed away in a bicycle accident.
[Side note: November 2011, my Grandpa H. passed away. A week after his funeral my aunt (dad’s older brother’s wife) was diagnosed with a brain tumor. January 2012, my Grandpa B passed away.]
Year Two
May 28, 2012
In May 2012 dad was sick with a gangrene gall bladder, which was not cancer related (we don't think). Dad's white count became so low that they had to take him off of his maintenance chemo in order for his white count to go up and for him to heal completely from the surgery. We went through weeks of waiting and not knowing what the next step would be.
Transplant #2 (with a lot more details of what the transplant process looks like-I documented it while we were going through the process rather than looking back on it months later like I did with transplant #1):
In July 2012, we were getting ready for transplant #2. After the first transplant, dad said he would never have another transplant because the first was so horrible, but surprisingly he wasn’t ready to give up and agreed to transplant #2 (without me or mom pushing it).
We did struggle with the timing of this transplant. My Grandma H’s heath declined drastically and dad thought mom should be there for her mother. (Transplant patients have to have a 24 hour care giver and that would be mom.) Just days before mom and dad were to leave to harvest cells, my grandma H passed away. Once her funeral was taken care of we went into full transplant mode.
The last week of July, my parents left to live at Hope Lodge while dad underwent treatment for his second bone morrow stem cell transplant. (He had his first one on October 14, 2010.) Hope Lodge is a place where patients can stay for free while getting treatment for cancer. You live in a room with 2 twin beds, a small closet and dresser, and a bathroom. You share a main kitchen with all the other patients who are getting bone morrow transplants and you get a small cubby in the fridge, the freezer, and in the pantry to house all of your food during your stay. You live on the honor system that no one steals your food, however, that does happen sometimes. It is like living in a college dorm, except half the people there are bald and there are various types of sanitation rules you must follow for the safety of the patents and you pray to God that everyone is doing their part to keep the place clean.
It is rough living.
Instead of having treatment done at a hospital, it is done in a separate building called the cancer center. It is white and clean, and every door has a sink and sanitation dispensers. Before you enter the BMT (bone morrow transplant) section you must wash or sanitize your hands before entering. The reason for all of this is because BMT patients do not have an immune system. For us regular folk, you get a cold, you feel miserable for a day, and you’re back to normal the next day. BMT patients can’t fight a cold. It has the potential to become something severe and they can’t fight it and win. This is the main reason BMT patients don’t have their treatment done at a hospital. Hospitals are covered in germs and have just about everything imaginable floating around their halls. Not a good place for BMT patients. Sometimes BMT patients have to go to the hospital, but they are in a special section that is closed off from the public.
The transplant process looks something like this. 2-5 days to harvest cells, 2 days of intensive chemo, 1 day off, transplant day, 28 days to engraft your own cells, 100 days (from transplant day) to recover fully from the transplant.
Confusing, right?
On July 23, 2012, mom and dad went to KC to harvest more cells. For dad’s cancer and this particular transplant they don’t use a donor. These patients have a much greater, positive, outcome from using their own cells rather than someone else’s. Because of this, they must harvest their own cells. Patients are hooked up to a machine that looks like a dialysis machine and they sit there for hours while harvesting. This process can take 2-5 days depending on how many cells they can get from your body each day. Before dad’s first transplant back in 2010, dad harvested cells and got enough for 2 transplants. Even though he had enough for this transplant, he was healthy enough to try again for a potential third transplant. (New advancements have shown some people can undergo 3 in their life…this wasn’t true 2 years ago.) Dad harvested for 2 days and they got more than they needed (enough for almost 2 additional transplants.) He got to come back home for the rest of the week before the transplant actually took place.
Then the following Sunday they left again, but this time for a much longer period of time. On July 30th and 31st, dad had the really bad chemo. This isn’t just any kind of chemo, it is the kind that takes you as close to death as possible without actually killing you. (Some people aren’t so lucky…) These days actually aren’t too bad because it takes about 5 days to feel the side effects.
Then he got a day off to relax and let is his body have a break.
And then the big day came. On August 2nd, dad walked into a secluded part of the hospital to receive his cells. This must be done in the hospital in case something goes wrong and then after a few hours he is released and goes back to Hope Lodge. There is no surgery involved. They just push his cells back into his body through his central line. (I was lucky enough to experience the transplant process during his first transplant, but I had to work during this one and mom got to experience it this time (she was sick during the first one). It is such a bizarre thing to watch and BMT patients have a very distinctive smell to them after receiving their cells.
Dad slept most of the time in the days following the transplant. Each day he went to the cancer center to have his blood checked. There was a set of days where his potassium got low and he would have a few bags of potassium…one day he got 4!
For about 2-3 weeks after the transplant he got really sick. He tired to eat but he couldn’t keep any of it down (or in). (This is the complete opposite from his first transplant. During that one he refused to eat and never got sick. It is important that he eats because he needs the nutrients from the food to help him stay healthy.) There was one day where his temperature reached 100.5 and he had to go to the hospital. Thankfully the doctors didn’t see this as too alarming and he was only there a few hours and got to come back to Hope Lodge. (You have to call the doctor if you get a temperature of 100.5 of higher just to make sure you don’t have or are getting an infection.)
They check various things in his blood before they declare him healthy enough to go home. White count, platelets, ANC, among other things. The biggest number they are concerned with is the ANC. It shows if his cells have engrafted and if his body is starting to produce good healthy cells on their own. Once that hits 20, the doctors let you go home (as long as everything else is going well.) This time it took him a little longer for his blood work to be ‘good.’ On the 21st his ANC was at 15 and by the 23rd it only got to 16. Dad was anxious to go home and the doctor said if he gets to 17 or 18 by Saturday then he would let him go home….even if he wasn’t at 20. On August 25th, he had his blood checked again and he was at 17 and they let him come home!
When he got home he was pretty much confined to his bedroom (except going to the doctor). He slept most of the day, but that is normal. While he might not agree with me (or anyone else), the second transplant went much better than the first transplant. During his first transplant in 2010 he wouldn’t eat. It was hard to get even 2 bites down. He couldn’t get out of bed and had to use a urinal. He could barely walk and used a walker in the house (when leaving to go to the doctor) and used a wheelchair at the cancer center. After the second transplant in 2012 he ate, not hefty amounts, but enough. (He could eat a whole hotdog or hamburger and a few cookies or peanut butter cups.) He could get up to shower, go to the bathroom, and walk around. He could walk into the cancer center without any help (and shocked all the doctors and nurses too)! It was a major accomplishment.
In November 2012, we went back to dad’s 100 day evaluation. This time he was declared in “deep remission”, just a small trace of cancer was still in his body. There were a few concerns about some chromosome issues, but overall things were good. The following February 2013 dad went in for his 180 day check up and this time he was told he was in total complete remission! Since his cancer is in his blood, he will never get rid of it 100%, but right now it is not detectible in any of the tests they use to find Multiple Myeloma.
Year Three
May 28, 2013
[Year 3 photo coming soon. Dad has been sick and we haven't been able to get a photo taken.]
At year three, things are great! Wonderful even! Dad is the healthiest he has been since his diagnosis, and probably before the diagnosis too. We are beginning to plan our first family vacation since I graduated high school. We are back to living semi-normal lives and it feels amazing!
May 28 is an important day in my family. It is a day of remembering and a day of celebrating. Remembering how fragile life is. Celebrating that there is still life left to live.
Monday, May 27, 2013
101 in 1001 Update | 1 Year
Wow, I am one year into this project. To be honest, I feel like I’ve been working on this list much longer than a year. I don’t know if that is a good thing or bad…
I think I’ve made some decent progress. I didn’t realize how many tasks I put on this list weren’t a do one and done. A lot of these are works in progress. I mean, I told myself I had to watch 409 Oscar movies. And there are a lot of projects that take an entire year to accomplish. It definitely takes a hit in the motivation area. But I’m getting there…slowly…. In fact, I have Memorial Week off from work and hope to mark at least 3 more tasks off by the end of this month.
To makes things a little worse, I have already started a new 101 list that currently has 64 tasks on it (and I’m more excited about working on that list than the one I am currently working on.) However, there are still some things that are on this list that I want to accomplish so my second list will have to wait till 2015 (when the first 1001 days is over). Unless if ‘Get Married’ happens before 2015, then this list might go out the window. (I think it would be fun to make a list with my spouse for our first few years of marriage.) But that is still a ways off so I’m going to stick to my original list.
Here is a 1 year update:
Completed:
1. Get a job :: May 7, 2012
2. Develop a bill station :: May 27, 2012
3. Put flowers on the graves of my deceased family members :: May 28, 2012
4. Grow carrots :: June 16, 2012
5. Plant a tree for Earth Day :: June 24, 2012
6. Make a playlist of 26 songs A-Z :: June 30, 2012
7. Play bingo :: July 6, 2012
8. Search for a rainbow on a rainy day :: August 8, 2012
9. Watch 5 Disney movies to discover what I missed during my childhood :: August 12, 2012
10. Buy a new lens for my camera :: August 21, 2012
11. Photograph a wedding :: August 25, 2012
12. Buy a new phone :: September 21, 2012
13. Have a Godfather marathon :: October 27, 2012
14. Learn to make cheesecake :: October 28, 2012
15. Go wine tasting :: November 3, 2012
16. Vote in the next election :: November 6, 2012
17. Don’t eat fast foot for a month :: November 27, 2012
18. Send Christmas Cards :: December 21, 2012
19. Have a game night with family :: December 21, 2012
20. Watch all the Best Picture Oscar Movies :: December 28, 2012
21. Take one photo a day for a year :: December 31, 2012
22. Go to the Kansas City Aquarium :: January 12, 2013
23. Get a Massage :: March 23, 2013
24. Visit a State I’ve Never Been to Before :: March 26, 2013
25. Go to the Omaha Zoo :: March 26, 2013
26. Visit a butterfly sanctuary :: March 26, 2013
27. Grow tulips :: March 27, 2013
28. Don’t eat sweets for 2 weeks :: April 15, 2013
29. Answer the 50 Questions that Will Free Your Mind :: April 19, 2013
30. Ride a roller coaster :: May 11, 2013
In Progress:
Create and keep a gratitude journal for 1 year (147/365)
Do 10 projects from my Pinterest Board 5/10 (5 projects done; 5 projects planned)
Do Ali Edwards’s One Little Word Project in 2013 (4/12)
Do Project Life in 2013 (17/52)
Make a collection of 25 black and white photos (3/25)
Read 50 books (10/50)
Take an online class 31 : Things by Ali Edwards (link). Stories are written, need to take photos and put pages together. Now I’m not sure if I will actually follow through with this one.
Try 40 new recipes (10/40)
Visit 5 museums (2/5)
Watch all the Best Actor Oscar Movies 80/85
Watch all the Best Actress Oscar Movies 26/85
Watch all the Best Supporting Actor Oscar Movies 25/77
Watch all the Best Supporting Actress Oscar Movies 24/77
Still to Go:
Adopt an animal
Be in a parade
Build a blanket fort and sleep in it
Clean out the garage
Complete a 5000 piece puzzle
Do Week in the Life (2013,2014)
Donate blood
Donate hair to Locks of Love
Eat 3 things I’ve never tired before
Embrace my natural curly hair for a week
Find a personally inspirational quote and work in into a piece of art
Get married
Go back to Washington DC with the family
Go horseback riding
Go on a family vacation
Go on a hike
Go on a picnic
Go to a concert
Go to a drive in Movie Theater
Go to a fireworks show on the Fourth of July
Go to a high school football game
Go to a midnight showing of a movie
Go to a show in Branson
Go to a tulip festival
Go to Shatto Dairy farm with the family
Go to World War I museum in Kansas City
Go whale watching
Have a John Hughes movie marathon
Have a pancake dinner reunion
Have a yard sale
Learn how to mow the lawn on the tractor
Make a quilt
Make my own ice cream
Make pizza from scratch
Meal Plan
Paint a piece of furniture
Paint a wall an outrageous color
Paint the front porch
Pay for the person behind me at a drive-thru
Pick strawberries
Read a chapter in the bible every night for a week
Research my family tree
See a Cirque de Soleil show
See the Pacific Ocean
Send a letter to someone living outside of the United States
Start an herb garden
Stay up and watch the sunrise on New Year’s
Take a cake decorating class
Take a hot air balloon ride
Take a pottery class
Take a yoga class
Travel to Hawaii
Try 5 new local restaurants
Visit a lighthouse
Visit a waterfall
Visit Mall of America again
Visit my childhood home
Visit the Northwest
Volunteer at a soup kitchen
Please go here if you'd like to follow my journey!
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Summer Bucket List
1. BBQ
2. Celebrate 3 Years
3. Clean the garage.
4. Find a personally inspirational quote and work it into a piece of art
5. Fireworks show on the Fourth of July
6. Float Trip
7. Go on a family vacation
8. Go to a concert
9. Go to the beach
10. Lenander Wedding
11. Learn Yoga
12. Make my own ice cream
13. Make pizza from scratch
14. McConnell Wedding
15. Paint a piece of furniture
16. Parties on the Parkway concert
17. Pick strawberries
18. Picnic at the park
19. Royals Game with friends
20. See a show in Branson
21. Shatto Dairy Farm
22. Take a hike
23. Visit a lighthouse
24. Watch a sunset
25. World War I Museum
If you want to join along, click here.
Monday, May 20, 2013
At the Park
Week Twenty
May 12, 2013
On Mother’s Day we took a drive up to the park to feed the birds. I guess they had been fed earlier in the day and weren’t very interested, but the fish seemed to like it. We stayed there for a little bit, taking everything in. The sunshine, the gentle breeze, being together. It was a perfect end to a perfect day.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Project Life 2013 | Week Fifteen and Sixteen
Welcome to Project Life Weeks Fifteen and Sixteen!
This weeks pages were a little different with each week getting only half a spread. Either week 15 wasn’t very exciting or I just didn’t collect many photos and ‘stuff’, I’m not really sure what happened, but that’s ok!
Week 15 is pretty basic. I added my ‘Right Now’ photo. Added a basic life photo of breakfast for dinner. I also bought a new purse and wallet that I’m in love with and added the care card as a filler to document my new purchase! Week 15’s song was Feels Like This by Matt Wertz. His new EP came out the week before. So good! You should check it out!
These weeks also had a few inserts. The first one being my 12of12 insert. So love having these added to my project life.
The other insert is dad’s March Madness bracket. I love having little pieces like this added. I need to make sure to collect more!
On the back of this insert I added a news update about the Boston Marathon Bombing. I was hoping to cut out a newspaper article, but didn’t think about it right after the bombings so I had to search online.
Week Sixteen is pretty basic too. My favorite part is the ‘This Week” notes that added to sum up what we did this week. I had more to show for week 16, but didn’t have enough page pockets so some things had to get cut and this card was a perfect way to document the missed things all in one place.
Instead of using a date card, I used a photo. I really like doing this and have been doing it more in the later weeks. I love doing this project and seeing what I like verses what I’m not loving and this is definitely something I’m loving. Maybe next year I’ll take out all the blank date cards and just use photos instead!
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Currently : May 2013
Feeling a little empty.
Looking forward to having Memorial week off.
Dreaming of being someplace else.
Needing to finish up the last 4 weeks of my project life album.
Missing some of my creative flow.
Finishing up some projects.
Planning on simplifying my life.
Wondering where the weekends go.
Thinking about giving myself a new photography prompt.
Listening to Count Me In by Early Winters over and over again.
Loving the light breeze from the ceiling fan.
Glad that my shows are coming to an end (temporarily) so I can focus on my movie lists on my 101 project.
Excited for Kristin’s wedding in 2 weeks.
Watching Abby chase bubbles.
Wearing more skirts than normal and
Enjoying how they make me feel.
Painting my scrapbooking table.
Embracing the frustrations.
Soaking in the sun.
Monday, May 13, 2013
Kristin’s Bachelorette Day
Week Nineteen
May 11, 2013
May 11, 2013
Today we celebrated Kristin’s last days of being a single woman. We started our day out at Worlds of Fun amusement park and rode roller coasters. Then we spent the early evening eating pizza and hanging out, and then ended our night going out. It was a fabulous day with the fabulous people I call my friends!
Sunday, May 12, 2013
12of12 | May 2013
02. Our view from the hotel.
03. Breakfast.
04. Hello new fisheye lens
05. "Did someone say bubbles?!"
06. Bubbles!!!!
07. Resting with my girl.
08. Such a beautiful day.
09. My best friend, my mom. Happy Mother's Day!
10. Dinner prep.
11. Mom and Dad.
12. Family outing to the park.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Monday, May 6, 2013
Monday Listicles :: Ten Things That I Love That Cost Nothing
01. My mom and our evening walks.
02. My dad and our long conversations.
03. My dog and her love for playing with bubbles.
04. My friend Brandi and our friendship that picks up right where it left off.
05. My high school girl friends and our friendship that didn’t alter even after we all went to different collages.
06. Getting random text messages through out the day from a certain someone
07. Snail mail. Both sending it and receiving it.
08. Sunsets and their ability to make me feel grateful.
09. Being able to see life differently because of my camera (which definitely cost a lot more than nothing.)
10. Having time with my family after almost losing my dad to cancer 3 years ago.
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
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