airport: the means of uniting them

eh... or us? i don't know.

first thing's first. apparently from the evidence below, i'm the only one who thinks i'm funny. no surprises there. thanks for the courtesy laughs, family.

2nd, my mother looks like her sister vicki when she wears these glasses:

aaannnd, kind of important, my sister cami came home from an 18th month mission in finland. we came prepared to make cami's entry as triumphal as elder kessler's (if you haven't seen saturday's warrior, curse thee) by making a banner she could run through!

please note jess' face. and if you already have, note it again.

happy happy reunions:

please notice here that every person is smiling while they watch cami hugging rachel. which is so awesome! but even MORE awesome is that no one in my family or the friends that came to greet cami on thursday know who that short, dark-haired woman is. second to the right. but she's just as excited. Boom!

one more thing: cami kept staring at jess, rachel and me because we were being just a LITTLE bit loud and giggly because we were so excited. apparently finnish people don't act anywhere close to as loud as we did unless they are drunk. sometimes i love that about the u.s.. and usually it's always.

i only wish lauren could have been here. but we can only look forward to reunions next weekend. dee dee dee!!!

also! thanks hemsleys and lymans for the pics!

ironic.

i liked "into the wild." im glad i don't like it this much.

music in the car.

i'm to the point where i can pretty much hum the note of the next song in the gap between songs for all six of the cds in the fancy cd changer in my mother's mini van. i love that. it's like a genuine relationship between driver and cds that no ipod with shuffling abilities and song ADD could match.

plus it's stressful to get in someone's car and they hand you their ipod and you try to read their mind for what they want. no, i like listening to cds over and over again until the season's changed and it's time for new music.

South by Oleg Yakovlev

found here

goodbye beautiful clothes,

hello frumpy sister missionary.

You're welcome, jess and rach for good clothes.

also, found this when i googled "sister missionary lds"

hahahahahahahaha

i'm so excited.

on sunday i remembered:

this place in paris:

which sells these:

has a location here:

in london.

best. news. of my life.

love this gorgeous victorian crap.

WILLIAM MORRIS 

I <3 YOU

how often do you get out of housework by doing calligraphy?

only when hundreds of wedding announcements need to be addressed 

and you've been practicing your cursive since a year ago spring 

when you went to wordsworth's house and saw his journals 

and decided that if ever another person looks at your journal, 

you should have pretty handwriting. 

a little bit embarrassing? yes. 

turned out i was really just investing time 

into a skill that would be useful in the future?? YES.

this one is also only half a joke. we're really sending it