i have to share this.

Jordan's Aunt NanC (the same aunt in Seattle) emailed me a link to the work of an amazing photographer. I immediately fell in love. She was a black & white street photographer named Vivian Maier. Later today I was just bored and roaming around online and found a video about how her work was discovered and it is incredible. None of her work was seen until after she passed away. Watch the video!

film.

We had a ton of Starbucks during the week. Dont worry, just hot chocolate.

awesome find.

Jordan and I had some free time and decided to go to this secondhand store. i am thrilled that we did. Jordan is the best to go with to these places, he always finds the best stuff. He called me over and told me to open this little suitcase type thing. and i did and i flipped: a typewriter! I have been wanting one just for decoration in our home. I wont really be able to put it anywhere for a little while, but oh well. It smells terribly of smoke and it had a crap ton of cat hair in it. I thought I was gonna puke as I was cleaning it all, but it looks great now! And the smell will hopefully come out eventually. I am so happy.

Seriously, I'm in heaven. Who wants me to write them a letter?

Seattle Cats.

Thanks to Jordan's Uncle Thomas and Aunt NanC, we were invited to take a trip to Seattle. The main purpose was to watch their three children for the week while they went to South Africa and swim with sharks! So we spent the week watching these three little ones:

We got to go to the Sound of Music Sing Along which was very fun. I love that movie. The kids also love blowing bubble gum bubbles with Jordan. It's like tradition. So we made sure to have bubble gum for everyone. Jordan is the best at it.

We went down to this Sunday Market they have. It was fun to walk around at look at lots of vintage stuff. (These pictures are just from our walk to the market)

Ava with her friend, Bella.

The kids were in school during the day. So, Jordan and I were able to go around town and do fun things. We went to the Locks. I dont want to explain what that is, but basically it was a place for me to look at a lot of boats. which i actually really enjoy. hah.

We also went to a thrift store and a vintage mall, which was awesome. We love exploring around those places. I got this shirt with a bunch of bow ties on it, and some other things.

We went to the Space Needle. I was secretly nervous to go, but I'm glad we did. It was awesome.

We also went to the EMP, Experience Music Project. Jordan really liked going there. It is more for people that know how to play an instrument though. I was kinda helpless. But there was this awesome guitar sculpture(?)

I had to make sure we walked around the Seattle Temple grounds while we were there. I was sealed to my parents in that temple when I was just three. It was so cool to go there. I wish we could have done a session, but I didn't even think to bring my recommend. (Some know I don't even think to bring my recommend when I do need it. haha)

(i look like a man in the above picture)

While we were walking around, I said "When I was last here, I was just a wee lad." Jordan said, "You were a LAD?!" Haha, whoops. I am so smart.

Anyways, we had a ton of fun. Thanks so much to Thomas and NanC.

oh, dorothy. there's no place like home.

Jordan and I are currently in Seattle. Explanation and details of this trip will be saved for another post, but today I had the thought, "I am ready to go home." And then, I had an even more perplexing thought, "Where is home?"

In the last three weeks, we have packed up all of our belongings and shipped it to Texas. We have traveled in our tiny truck through Wyoming down to Denver. Only to soon after go through Kansas and Oklahoma to make our way to Texas, but more specifically to The Lamkin home (Jordan's parents). We were there for only a whole day before we flew to Seattle.

Majority of our things are still in boxes and will stay that way for several months to come. This next year for us is going to be so unstable, as far as living arrangements go, and it makes me uneasy. When I say "unstable" I just mean with all of our belongings in boxes and not being able to make our own "home" like I had been doing for the last eight months.

People keep asking me if I'm excited to live/move to Texas. Dont ask me that, please. Just because, at this point, I dont know how to answer it. I am not devastated and I'm not super ecstatic either. Honestly, I would probably feel a whole lot more confident about it all if we weren't mooching off of Jordan's parents by taking up space in their home and also living somewhat out of a suitcase for the next six months.

I know everything will be fine, I just don't do well with change.

(oh p.s. for friends that know Kamarie Lindahl Fernandes, she started a blog. follow her!! click here )