it occurred to me once after being with the oliver family for well over 2 years that i had never seen my mother in law play her piano. i mean, i've watched her play with james here and there and heard her giving lessons but i had never sat down and watched her play a full piece. this seemed crazy to me and i was finally able to talk her into playing for us one night. she obliged with one of my all time favourites.



maybe it was the red wine but i am pretty sure it was the amazing beauty of this music and the absolute admiration i have for this incredibly talented woman that caused the tears james and i were both crying by the end of it. incredible.

i cannot stop watching this

0:40 is the best part! i am totally taking myself to this friday night. oh yes, that's how exciting it gets around these parts!

I Beed That Art!

this weekend as we waited to go into the wedding reception (which was p.i.m.p. btw), i came across the perfect moment to do something i have always wanted to do: Be That Art!

i think i got it bang on. oh yeah.

little things that make me happy

this adorable egg holder i have been coveting from anthropologie for months. yes this is the type of thing i can afford from anthropologie since anthropologie charges $75 for a door knob.

and of course, my little baby girls. they are honestly the BEST thing i have ever ever done for myself in my life. they actually make not having shel around easier which i never thought would be possible. it's not the same, but it's a lot better.

oh and tonight, this is also going to make me happy.

friday, friday, gotta get down on friday!

xoxo

Sofia & Theo (and Amy and Robyn!)

i was lucky enough to score myself a bday picnic invite from the other awesome band wives this week and with them comes theo & sof which is always the best. i cannot believe how big little theo is getting and sof is growing up so quickly too. although i did learn that she cannot yet sit up on her own. robyn, i promise i will not let your baby face plant ever again. seriously, that was a one time thing.

anyway! the food was incredible (amy please make me that sandwich again every day for the rest of my life!) and despite some criticisms from some men who shall remain nameless - i thought the sweet potato fries were perfection ;)

oh and there was also red wine thrown into the mix so really, this picnic cannot be topped. i even got little mr. tree smiling up a storm and confirmed, he is going to be a lady killer when he grows up. although i also suspect sofia will keep him in line.

and if you would like your day to be made by adorable babies (and they're hilarious mom's) then please, watch this. oh and sof's face at :17? i dare you not to laugh!

Jay Spectre

sometimes, i really REALLY miss Jay Spectre. this was the band that made me fall in love with Jimmy - and i cannot even count the number of times my friends and i filled up the dance floor at many, many different venues in and out of the city just given'r to those boys.

not to mention their album release party which was hands down still one of the best nights of our lives.



3:18 would be the moment that this happened:

but it was definitely seeing them on the other side of the world, in a tiny little club in north New Zealand that sealed the deal for me. oh man, that voice, does it me every time.

Lily & Tree

hey all you parents, aunts, uncles, godparents, friends! do you have or know kids who just love music and dancing around? do you also usually find kids music to be on the insanely annoying side?

well, check this out! a few of those crafty little Strumbella's and their lovely wives have put together the cutest little album, guaranteed to not make you want to bang your head against a wall! what more could you ask for?

had a strange week - lot's of high highs and really low lows. been able to hang out with some really solid friends lately and i am loving it. the people i have accumulated in my life are nothing if not amazing. i am a very lucky girl. went to a show, drank beers on a patio (or 2 or 3), went out for burgers, snuggled my kittens and cleaned my house. i am a very easy girl to please.

my momma's bday came and went so my week also involved some butler family fun time, which is always the thing that makes me feel the best. seeing mum feeling well and moving well is the best thing i can think of.

sadly, we had a huge loss this week and i am reeling from that. it's so hard when you know that all you can really do is sit back and wait for the people in your life that are hurting to be ready for you to come back in. but i will sit and wait for as long as it takes.

it's crazy how much you can love someone you never met, and will never be able to meet.

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone.
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling in the sky the message He is Dead,
Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever, I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun.
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

goodbye little one. we love you.

the anxiety dreams have begun again, and they're getting more and more intense. just your regular run on the mill stress stuff i guess - totally expected since the wedding is coming closer and closer - seriously i cannot believe that it's june already.

i also cannot believe that one week today i am going to be 30 years old. an entire decade has gone by and it's more than safe to say that this has been the one where everything has happened. relationships started and ended, jobs were begun and quit. apartments, bedrooms, beds - these have all changed many many times over the course of the past 10 years.

i am ready for it though i think. the closer i get the more i feel like i am finally in a space where i really know what's what in that crammed little attic of a mind of mine.

oh, and another thing my brain did last night is sub in this guy as the groom in the crazy mess of a wedding i was dreaming through.

ok, if it's just a dream... i guess that's ok ;)

best AD moment of all time.