more hair envy

I LOVE her hair…I’m envisioning something like this for myself…

 

OK there might be a little wedding envy too…

*all phots via Tec Petaja…oh so lovely.

A yarn lover’s dream

I have a zillion things to blog about…but haven’t had the time (or energy…) but when I came across these images on Once Wed I just HAD to share…a wedding full of YARN!  Yes YARN!  (well actually it is an inspirational shoot…but if this is the inspiration…imagine how great the wedding will be!)

brace yourself for the greatest ring shot of all time…

brilliant no?!  I’m considering bringing a ball of purple Malabrigo along to the wedding just so I can score a similarly awesome ring shot!

I have an embarrassingly large stash full of random skeins of yarn…I can’t help it…there’s just something about the different colors and fibers that I can’t get enough of…I often wish I could just decorate our house with yarn balls…but we have cats…not such a good combo.  This wedding is pretty much a yarn-lovers dream no?

*all pics by Kellan Studios via Once Wed…go here to see more!

Garter-knit style!

My friend Christy just posted her wedding garter pattern on Ravelry!!

I’ll be sporting one on my wedding day…thanks to the talented knitter herself…we’re thinking purple ribbon or purple lace….hmmmmm….I haven’t decided yet!

So if you would like to knit a garter of your very own…or have someone knit it FOR you…head over to Yarn & Snow and get the pattern!!  OR if you’re on Ravelry… go here!

Gah…I wish I could just write super amazing patterns…yeah right I struggle enough just reading them…

 

Even my little sis…

likes corn pics…

pic via Becky Novacek’s blog

my little sister’s sr. pics just showed up in my google reader today!!  I stumbled upon Becky’s blog a while back…she is a photog from my tiny little hometown in Nebraska!  Super right!?  I emailed my  sis and told her she had to book her for her sr. pics…and I’m glad I did b/c they turned out awesome!  (of course she won’t admit that it was ME that pointed her in Becky’s direction…but I’m taking credit for it anyways)

Did I mention I like corn pics??

…because I do!

(the last one is my favorite!)

all pics via Jagger Photography…for more beautiful-ness from this wedding…go here and here!!

Happy Birthday to ME!

that’s right…it’s my birthday today!!  the big 2-7….eeeeeeek!  and although neither Nori or Mini brought me a cupcake* this morning…a year ago today Nori was wearing a little shinny ring around her neck!

So yes…it is also officially our one year engage-iversary!  Crazy how fast this year went by…guess it’s time to buckle down and get this wedding-thing going…only 7 more months!!

*Lance DID bring me lots of choc-chip pumpkin bread…carrot cake…AND tulips this morning!  He knows me all too well

The Other Half

OK so finally here are some pics from the race…overall it was really fun.  The first 7 miles went by quick with gorgeous views…then the hills started.  I believe we gained 200ft in a little over a mile and a half…yeah.  But we survived…and took some photos along the way!!  So I guess I will just let the pics do the rest of the talking…

Waiting for the race to start…it was cold!!

everyone getting ready at the start

rounding mile 2

pit stop at mile 4

looking ahead after mile 6

a nice guy stopped and offered to take our pic for us!

drummers bringing us into mile 12!

and we made it!  re-hydrating with some free Moab brews!

pretty views along the Colorado River!

Bib and Medal shot!

oh and I couldn’t forget the FREE pint glass we got for signing up early!!  (notice Mini giving it her approval!)

So there ya have it…the Moab Other Half.  Pretty neat race!  I have no idea what our next race will be…maybe the SLC 1/2 in April??

run this town tonight…

Welp we did it….we ran 13.1 along the Colorado River…it was beautiful!!  …and hilly…oh the hills…they kinda sucked but in the end we finished…and we drank some Moab brews.  All in all a great 13.1.  I’m a little sore now…tired…so I’ll leave you with a pic from the phone post race!

…yes I AM drinking 2 beers…don’t judge.

I’ll be sure to post more pics when we get back from Moab!

*ps…the title is from that Jay-Z & Rihanna song…I think I listened to it at least 5 times during the race..and thus it is the “song of the race” 

websites?

Sorry…this post will not be too exciting…

I’m just wondering if anyone out there has advice about who/what/where to go for an easy/but cool wedding website??  I realize the ‘knot’ has them…but I’m just ‘knot’ that into the knot…if ya know what I mean.  SOOOO…any ideas??   I’d love to hear what others have done for their websites…good and/or bad experiences.  What I really want to do is design one in iWeb (b/c I have it on my laptop and it looks super easy)…but I don’t think I want to publish it to a .Mac account…but I’m kinda clueless how the buying-a-domain-name-hosting thing goes…so any suggestions would be awesome! (you can email me or just post a comment) thanks ahead of time!!

mini love-book

So last Thursday…when our beloved huskers were down 12-0 against mizzou…Lance said he needed to get some air (he gets really into the games…) so I told him to go get the mail.  Well guess what he came back with…

A little album with some of our ‘love shoot’ pics from Khara!  Now I won’t say that getting this in the mail caused the huskers to come back in the 4th quarter and score  27 unanswered points and win…but it may have put me in a good mood…which kept me from giving up…and I’m pretty sure that’s why they won.

Anyways…our cute little album now has a home on our coffee table…along with two other little photo-books I’ve made on Shutterfly (i know…not nearly the quality as Khara’s but still….).  I like to refer to them as our ‘love-books’….Lance confuses them with coasters.

I love our new “mini love-book” …I’ve pry looked through it 25,000 times already.

Now i just need to order some big prints to frame and hang all over our little townhome!