easy like sunday morning.

and then there are days like this one.
where goodness is commenced with an early morning text from neighbors:

bacon and eggs. come on down.

and we do…in comfy sweats and pillow-flattened hair.
we push our jammied girl (with cowboy boots, mind you) on her tricycle down the block to meet her brothers from their sleepover.
and their house smells like bacon. …and happiness.
and we drink coffee and breathe fresh air from open doors while kids run amuck.
and suddenly our dogs are there too, so there’s just this giant mess of beautiful chaos while we eat eggs. and argentinian sausage. and good, well-done bacon. and heavenly biscuits straight from the oven with butter and honey.
and it was so unplanned…so spontaneous….so come-as-you-are…
…so delightful.
thank you, dave & charlotte. mwahh.

but as delight usually goes…there was more in store.

like sunshine that rained its love right into our yard this afternoon and begged for us to just be.

so we did. with a garden hose and ribbons of cold water that kept her happy for hours.

and i’m a deep person and all…
but, seriously… i couldn’t not drink it in.
couldn’t not just sit there and think that this was a positively beautiful moment. the way she smiled with all trillion of her spaced-out little teeth. the way those sweet little yellow straps kept slipping down her willowy shoulders.

the saggy butt of her bikini bottoms that were pleasantly garnished with loads of mud and grass. squelching and squirching our toes into muddy puddles. watching her attempt to tote a heavy bucket of water just a few steps…and happily wincing when the water splashed her face. hose drinking. sun basking. and just…being.

and when it’s all said and done…i want to dissect it. label it with all the words and feelings i can muster so that it has more relevance in my memories than just a day. it was a special day.
they all are, really…but there are some that just stand out a little more precious than the rest.

…and then, i even had the blessing of taking pictures of a beautiful family…on a perfect sunset evening downtown.

another sweet nugget of a weekend.
amidst a little house painting, some much-needed deep cleaning (fyi: mopsticks make great karaoke mikes), a saturday night wedding, and some sweet time with brett’s mom…i realized…

…that i forgot how much i love tracy chapman.
…that i really want an exact replica of lainey’s yellow bikini in my size.
…that i love my camera so much, i’d make out with it if i could.

…that i’m thankful for a beautiful girl…a beautiful family…and a beautiful life.

~ enjoying the just-enough-sap things. ~k