A quote, for what it's worth

Gosh, I am a blogger and I can not lie! I can't keep myself away, so humor me anyway. I found this quote (how pinteresty! how artsy!) and cliche-ness aside, it was pretty great. Grateful today for grace, a loving heavenly father and let's be honest - pajamas!

Hebrews 4:16 Let us then with confidence draw 

near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy 

and find grace to help in time of need.

A little break because....

a random photo, because that's how it's done!

Good Morning all!

Just popping in for a sec to say that I'll be stepping back from blogging for a few weeks. Or course, you might have already noticed this but I'm here to make it official, so yay! I have just been going through a weird phase (not that unusual, considering my whole life has been pretty weird.) Nothing  bad or anything, don't get any silly ideas! But more along the lines of I can't figure out how to wear a chambray shirt and do I like pink or purple better?

Clearly, these issues need to be resolved!

So have a cheery few weeks, I have plans for this blog, but I fully belive that you should take breaks when you need to. And let's be honest, a few weeks of TV show marathons usually can cure just about anything!

If you need me, I'll be on the couch! XOXO

DUN DUN DUN, September!

And so, it' is September and I'm not sure how I feel about it. But! We are one month closer to fall leaves and Christmas so I guess I can handle it. MAYBE. But, have I told you about drama club? My dear mother decided it was high time I put my drama to good use (I swear, I'm not dramatic at all! Except about candles, grilled cheese and everything else in life. Sheesh!) and so here I am in drama. But then, there is this tiny thing called, oh I don't know, A BRITISH ACCENT, in which we must master and actually USE in public.

No comment.

So my main goal for September will to be survive, British accents and volleyball, thank you very much. Not like I'm complaining or anything! But, feel free to bring me cupcakes at any point and time, okey dokey?

-WORK ON BRITISH ACCENT

-Not miss any serves in a game

-post one outfit post (i have a feeling i might regret this, but we shall see!)

-play tennis

-get a succulent

-write more letters

- do fun things with friends.

And now, would you like some tea? Because I feel like when homeschoolers try and do British accents, that's all they say. That or some uber romantic line from Pride and Prejudice which I guess is fine by me.

Have a great day, and If it were possible to type in a British accent then I totally would. Cheers!

HI, LET ME BABBLE.

I've been meaning to write this post for probably thirty minutes, but I keep getting interrupted by the urge to listen to 80's music. And when the 80's call, you answer! 80's aside (and let's not forget this gem!) These are a few selfies from the first day of school! Well, if you want to get technical these are from the first day before the first day of school - details details! And the moral of the story is that if you wear the same outfit 2 days in a row, don't tell anyone. Except the Internet in my case. I always trust the NSA with my most devious secrets. Don't you!?

And on a side note, we have our first varsity volleyball game today which gives me mixed feelings of excitement and puke. But! I have noticed that when I am nervous I tend to get the blogging urge, if you know what I mean (which you probably don't, so anyway), and so I will probably whip out about 50 posts in 12 seconds. Yay for efficiency, I guess!

And before my death or I mean, I leave for Volleyball, let me leave you with some links because exploring the internet is fun!

▲▲ this shirt, OHMYGRACIOUS SOMEONE BUY IT FOR ME, THANKS.

▲▲ Scarlet peonies, I didn't even know such magic existed.

▲▲ of course, you internet know-it-all's know this is old news, but its a really interesting video!

▲▲ the styling in these photos are fab!

▲▲ my mom was looking for volleyball warm up songs and found this (and the greatest wedding processional of all time, for that matter!) read the comments, they are hilarious!

A fine day for...

best friends and horse movies. Oh yeaaaah!

Guys, let me be frank. Hot dog frank: my spring was REALLY terrible. I'm not really into sharing it here yet, which I am cool with, but in the meantime you may wonder and I will just say it was lame/awful. So thus, summer was extra wonderful.

Life has been looking up a lot more, and I'm so happy to finally be able to say that the sky is a little bluer and the laughs a little longer and the tears are few and far between. SO HAPPY.

So anyway! Onto our fun day! First of all, I was not aware of how hot it is here until today. I walked outside "HOW CAN PEOPLE LIVE HERE?" So apparently I've also involuntarily become a hermit because hello, AC is worth it. And also, a long sleeve shirt? Not my finest moment. But then again, the sweat marks were impressive!

▲▲ The "hey lets be cool and do a cheers photo!" fail. We apparently can not clink glasses to save our lives. Our excuse? "We were homeschooled!"

And no, these weren't staged a bit. Not pictured, how sweaty we were. But these dorky/obnoxiously cliche photos were totally worth it.

Thanks to Em for putting up with me for the day, you are a riot. and so are those horse movies.

PS: More photos (okay, one.) from our summery day on instagram..... @thegirlkryn.

Pinning patterns or some other cheezy saying...

First of all, is this a mood board or a collage or a pintastic something or other? Words like pinspired and pinspiration really bug me. I don't know why either, since I'm probably the most pinspired of all the peoples.

I noticed that a few of my pins matched (#yeah!) so...dun dun dun! A collage/moodboard/pinspiration collage or whatever floats your boat. But these colors are sooo good and a puppy with tinsel is makes it 10 million times better. You know it.

follow me on pinterest, and what colors have you been loving?

I feel like I should end this on a banana hashtag note....#bananas. There!

Northwest is best

Last weekend we went to Portland. Portland Oregon, which is about 18 million miles from where we live. And what does one take photos of when they travel 18 million miles, go to their cousins wedding and see family and such that they have not seen in at least 5 years?

Take cloud photos!

I seriously have about 80 cloud pictures and it's kind of sad isn't it? In their defense, they were rockin' clouds, but people are better! And weddings! I like weddings, but I guess not taking pictures of them?

On a side note, while visiting I had a very intense urge to pick blueberries. I don't even like blueberries though! Something about the nostalgia of it, I have no idea. However, my magical blueberry fest idea was quickly vetoed as traveling 18 million miles with 3 pounds of blueberries would really drain all the magic out of it.

It was so good to be back in the mountains and to see family and to not be sweating constantly. BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO LIVE IN 70 DEGREE WEATHER. Amen.

Photo dump, you asked for it. Didn't you?

▲▲ Good news folks, I was the winner of the artsy photo contest held in the Boston airport! On an unrelated note, I was the only one in it. Landslide victory if you ask me!

 ▲▲ Corn Hole! My advice, try not to play at like 10:00 at night, you might not be so pumped with your results.

▲▲ You know, I used to really hate posting pictures of me that were less than fabulous. But now in my ripe old age I have realized that no matter what, I look like I imagine myself too, so what the heck! Of course, a little more awkward photo discretion might be appreciated by you, but feast your eyes on Cousin Katie and Cousin Kellyn. Seriously, all the good looking genes in this family went right over my head and into these girls. No fair. No fair AT ALL.

▲▲ A family photo! Or the best we've got. We are a bunch of weird munchkins.

And now my brother is off to college in the bestest state and I am starting school and summer is outta here. But it was a very nice adventure for the last weekend of bliss and things of that nature. Bliss is also not showering for a week, thank you very much.

Cheers to families and weddings and 18 million mile trips and cloud photos of course! It's been the greatest summer ever lived.