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I love the following blogs. Like a lot. A lot.

You can visit her here. She has so many crafty wonderful ideas that I don’t want to share them with you because they would make great presents for everyone I know and if you saw it than I could not make it for you. But lets be honest. I finish nothing and so I will just share the heaven sent goodness with you and you can possibly make it yourself. I am pretty much sure she lives some where near me. I should find her and be her BFF.

I love Kelly from my happy little life. She is honest and good. She is LDS and open and proud of it. She is so fun to be around and so willing to do good. She does a service project every year for her birthday. She has great style and a sweet little girl. And chickens. I am so jealous of the greatness and beauty that is her life. Don’t get me wrong, she struggles and talks openly about it. But her genuine love for life shows up more than anything.

IS•LY is also a great crafty blog. She has so many simple and great ideas for things you have hanging out at home. She is one of my favorites in my reader. I hope over there as soon as I see a post from her. If you are the crafty type, you will love her as well.

I love Pink Picket Fence. She has great crafty tutorials as well. Take a peek around her blog. You are sure to find things you will love to make for your girls or little girls you know. It will make your little girly heart go pitter patter.

I love my mom. I love the lessons she has taught me. I love the strength she has given me. I love her. I love the way she loves my babies.

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I told Gentry it is shoesday. He told me to drop him off at jj’s work because he doesn’t want to look at shoes with me.

I can only imagine what his little mind is thinking right now. “I thought I had learned the days of the week song. And now my mom, who knows everything, tells me there is a Shoesday. Why didn’t that one get included in the song?”

I love the workings of his little mind.

Currently, I am working on finding him some shoes to wear for the summer. Do you like one or two?

I found this book before Christmas and got myself one and anyone else who loves a heart attack on a stick, seriously.

Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey.

Doesn’t it sound like love at first site, if you don’t believe me, get it from the library and take it for a test drive. You. will. need. it. BAD. The names are darling and the layout is a designers dream.

If you have ever needed creative or classic desserts this has them.

Yesterday for the baby blessing, JJ made Chocolate-Mayonnaise Cupcakes with Caramel Butterscotch Buttercream Frosting. Sigh. They were heavenly. Right Kateka?

Gooey Caramel Butter Bars. Tasty.

Ooh! Brown Sugar! and Almond Pound Cake. I want you.

Devil’s Food Cake with Chocolate Mousse Buttercreammm. Oh buttercream. How I love you.

Milky Way Tempura-on-a-Stick. We will be good friends.

Dark Chocolate Soup with Cinnamon-Toasted Pound-Cake Croutons. You sound like a fantastic dinner option.

I love this quote by dooce.com. Except mine would say:

I look back and think about all the life-altering chaos and craziness and absolute joy that has gone on in the past, and the fact that I was given a second chance to enjoy having a baby, and I could not be happier. I credit Gentry with making me a mother, and now I credit Amelia with showing me that the instinct has been their all along.

I love my family. When my family was falling apart, I depended on my aunts and uncles to help guide me and help me. They stepped up and encouraged me. They helped me see goodness when I could not see it myself. I remember calling my aunts and asking for help. The relationships we have developed as I have grown are so cherished by me. When I was my little boys age, I used to look at them and think how old they were. Now I feel like we are all the same age, they just have more knowledge of life and living than me.

I love the color (or absence of color) white.

It is soothing unlike any other color. I love waking up to a new snow and breathing the fresh crisp air. Just like I love waking up to white sandy beaches and breathing the salty sea air.

Or the clean smell of a bar of soap with and abundance of happy floating bubbles.

White calms my soul and cheers me.

I love the way they play together.

Above is not a great example of it. She is in the basket.

He wants to hold her all the time. She is happier if he is near. He asks to hold her everyday and if he hasn’t gotten to in a day, he will cry. He likes her best in just a onsie or a diaper. She does too.

She is getting heavier and harder for him to hold, but he still tries. He loves to love her.

This is JJ and potato blossoms. Potatoes fresh from the garden are so good. Did you know you can plant the ones that are growing legs in your pantry. That is what these blossoms are from.

I love The Seed Savers Exchange. They have a million kinds of seeds and a farm out in the middle of somewhere you can go and sample the produce. Oh, how I would love to be there during tomato season to taste all the amazing varieties. They have all sorts of them. Green ones, purple ones, striped ones. So much heavenly goodness.

This year I placed our order early so that I could get the peas that we love. Here is our current list of goodness:

Eden’s Gem Melons
Rosemary
Russian Tarragon
Jacob’s Cattle Gold Beans
Painted Pony Beans
Poona Kheera Cucumbers
Kenearly Yellow Eye Beans
Anise
Genovese Basil
Fin de Bagnol Beans
Amish Snap Peas
Blacktail Mountain Watermelon

I can hardly wait to get started this year.

Shoesday continues. Have you heard of 6pm.com. I heart them. Kateka hates when I say that.

6pm.com sells shoes that are not selling well at Zappos.com for a discounted price. I love to peruse their selection of Simple, Keens, Pikolino Boots and shoes for Gentry. Of course, Gentry has opinions about this sort of thing and wants to wear the ugliest thing available. Preferably with IronMan or blinking lights or the best option would be some hideous thing that contains both. It is a battle.

I would love to get him these cute Keens. He had some last summer that he never wore though. So maybe we can compromise and get a pair of semi-hideous Crocs.