A Song Played At Your Wedding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riuXdXAOArY

Me And You by Kenny Chesney

A Photo of Me Recently

I am usually the one behind the camera so it was tough to find a recent one. This picture was taken on Christmas Day by Vincent. Jeremy & I were at my mother in law's house. I think you can tell how exhausted I am in this picture, but Jeremy looks really happy in this picture, probably at our photographer's antics.

Later Date

Day 9: A Photo I Took

This is a picture I took of Vincent sleeping. I love taking pictures of my kids sleeping. I do it all of the time. I don't know if it is odd or not. But there is just something about seeing them so peaceful and calm. Vincent always wakes up with the funniest dreams. I probably have at least 50 pictures of Vincent sleeping. He is such an amazing kid. He gives me lots of trouble but he gives you these amazing moments that make you forget about the others.

Day 8: To be completed at a later date.

Day 7: Five Things I Cannot Live Without

#1) My Family. My family is absolutely everything to me. I don't have a ton of girlfriends and my husband really is my best friend. I see my family every Sunday and usually another day during the week. My dad is amazing and is the most generous and loving person I know. I also love being a mom. I have amazing children. They have completely changed my world. I also love that in my patriarchal blessing it says that I will have 'obedient children'. I definitely am holding onto that during the hard times. Not all of my family is in this picture. My dad and Chani aren't here. And Capri. That is what makes us so close. We have to be. We have to make it. All of us. For her.


#2) Bubble Baths. I love taking baths. I never take showers. Baths are so relaxing and I love the hottest water. I know it isn't good to do when you're pregnant but I just can't help it.

#3) MEXICAN FOOD! I can't help it, I'm an Ellsworth. Jeremy will tell you, I really could eat it for every meal. He gets so tired of constant mexican restaurants. If I am having a hard day, Mexican Food can fix it all. I have favorite places and favorite foods. I love La Paloma in Safford. It's my all time favorite. I also love El Rey in Globe and in the valley I love Manuels, Serranos, and Tia Rosas, oh and Some Burros. Okay I need to stop, I'm getting hungry.

#4) Eternity. I love knowing that I can be with my family forever. Like one of my favorite quotes says, "I've never had the courage to believe in nothing." I don't know how I could make it through if I thought that this life was all there was.

#5) My cell phone. We are attached. I lose it all of the time, mostly because I let my kids play with it too. I am constantly on facebook. I love getting directions to everywhere I need to go and I especially love being able to be in constant contact with my husband during the day.

Day 6: A Day I Wish I Could Live Over

My Wedding Day

I got married to Jeremy on December 30th, 2006. It was a simple ceremony and I didn't even have a wedding dress but it was a wonderful day. There is nothing I would have changed about it. I was so happy to be marrying him and I cried for most of it. It was really nice having family there and I really enjoyed making our slideshow. I got to go to Jeremy's aunt's house and look through her photo albums for pictures of Jeremy, which I am really grateful to have. If I could change anything, it would be for us to have a real honeymoon. We are hoping to be able to do something this year, for our 5 year anniversary, but we will see. I just loved my wedding, even though it was simple and small, it was perfect.

Day 5: A Favorite Quote

Okay so back to that tattoo from Day 3. I have a tattoo from the little prince. I don't regret it. I don't regret any of that tattoos I have. I'm a funny mormon like that. Well, The Little Prince is honestly scripture to me. Of the many quotes I could pull out from The Little Prince this one is my favorite:

"Nothing's perfect," sighed the fox, "My life is monotonous. I hunt chickens. People hunt me. All chicken are just alike and all men are just alike. So I'm rather bored. But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different than all the rest. Other footsteps send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music. And then, look! You see those wheat fields over there? I don't eat bread. For me, wheat is of no use whatsoever. Wheat fields say nothing to me, which is sad. But you have hair the color of gold. So it will be wonderful once you've tamed me. The wheat, which is golden, will remind me of you. And I'll love the sound of the wind in the wheat."

Day 4: Favorite TV Show

This is a new show. It is in its third week. I love it. It is by David E. Kelley who also did Boston Legal and Ally McBeal. He is hilarious. Seriously awesome. Some of it is out there so it may not be for the super conservative but I love it.

Day 3: Favorite Book

I am not an avid reader. I have a few books that mean quite a bit to me. In fact I have a tattoo from one of my favorite books. Most of my favorite books have been passed down to me from my Dad.

When I was a young teenager I read Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach. This is a book that changes you and inspires you. It was always one of my favorites.

Fast forward to eight years later and I was hanging out with Jeremy in his apartment and saw another book by Richard Bach called Illusions. I had never heard of this book and to be honest didn't know Richard Bach had written other books. This was one of those things that told me this was the man for me.

For that Christmas, 2005, right after Vincent was born, Jeremy bought me "The Ferret Chronicles" a series by Richard Bach. There are several books. When Vincent was a few months old, we were reading one of the books to him. The book seemed to chronicle the journey that Jeremy and I had been on. On the first page it says:

Once there were two ferrets who lived by a country lane.

The lane led one way toward a dawn mountain, the other to a twilight sea. The two were friends, but the mountain called to him and the sea to her, called so strongly that neither cuold turn aside.

"I am sad," he told her, "that our paths must take us in such different directions."

"And I," she said, "that we cannot go our ways together."

The two held their love warmly in their hearts, but listened to their highest right and walked the lane toward its opposite ends.

After many adventures, they discovered that the path toward the dawn led over the mountain to the sea, and the path toward the twilight led across the sea to the mountain.

On the other side of te mountain, on the other side of the sea, the lovers met again, and their paths were one.

I loved this story so much that when my mom wrote a song for our wedding, she included lines from it.

Day 2: Favorite Movie

This challenge is tough for me, I have so many favorites of everything. Okay okay okay. Favorite movie.....I narrowed it down to four. And those were just what has come to my mind. After beginning this post I've now just decided to do the first two, that's what being a mom does to you!

#1 (in no particular order of course) ..... is National Treasure.

This movie is unrealistic and completely unplausible but I love it and let me tell you why. I saw this movie on my second date with my husband. I had experienced something truly traumatic the previous day and he just made it better. There was something about him even from the beginning. It was like our souls clicked. My heart and mind didn't entirely recognize it at the time but looking back, it really was special.

We got to the theatre late and had to sit in the very front row. I love history and this movie is full of it. I'm not even a big Nicholas Cage fan or anything but this movie is just so adventurous and exciting

Okay Movie #2: The Royal Tenenbaums. This one is also Jeremy related. When I was pregnant with Vincent I would spend entire days with Jeremy at his apartment. All that we did was watch those ridiculous court shows and watch movies. We watched this movie. It is so indie and just so us at the time. A lot of people don't like it, but I absolutely love it. That's all.

Day 1

I am attempting this 30 day challenge. No no no, scratch that. I am going to DO this 30 day challenge. Day 1 is favorite song. Songs mean a lot to me. I am usually an angry and sad music listener if that makes sense.

So my very favoritest song right now has to be Lemons by Amos the Transparent. This is a pretty unknown band. My husband discovered them on satellite radio and we became fans. This song he always associated with baby Julian who at the time was quite the baby still. We included it on his one year slideshow video.

There is a line that is my absolute fave. It says "protect those you love and listen to their words. no one's gonna let you get hurt, pretty bird".

The last part of why I love this song is whenever it comes on in the car Julian goes crazy. He smiles and shakes his fists and kicks his feet.

Listen to it. Become a fan. They are amazing.

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ9KTxFXcRQ