crap.

my camera is officially dead.

like forever.

:(

does anyone have a little (in decent condition & working) canon digital elph that they're looking to sell?

i don't know what to do without a camera. i'm so sad.

smile, it's fall!

this week, i want to

- use the crock pot (beef stew, yummmm)

- bake pumpkin chocolate chip cookies (thanks chloe & olivia)

- continue improving my tomato sauce recipe and make my delicious cavatappi bake. oh yumm.

- take pictures! (my hair is now dark brown & shorter for fall)

- keep up in french

- order photos to be printed so we can frame them & hang them on our walls (and then maybe i can actually show what our house is looking like these days)

- put things in the mail

- pretend it's cooler than it really is and take "brisk" walks with levi

- stay positive

what's on your to do list this week? any delicious pumpkin recipes to share with me?

a surprise for me

i totally forgot about these pictures we took about three weeks ago!

levi surprised me with a trip to the hollywood bowl to see pink martini!

i had never been to the hollywood bowl before, and now i want to go all the time. that place is so cool. you can bring all your own food and drink and picnic there. the sound is fantastic. and there is just something so romantic about listening to music under the stars.

red bulls on our way - we were sleepy. looks safe, huh? levi's got his eyes closed AND he's taking a picture while driving...don't worry, we were at a red light!

i think my favorite part was the lighting. i got so excited every time the lights turned colors. so pretty!

ugh - levi is ridiculously handsome - inside & out. i'm so lucky.

we missed the sing along sound of music a couple weeks ago (mostly because levi doesn't like musicals - i would have pushed the point further but we want to save money), but we will certainly be back soon! hollywood bowl, we love you!

this week, i...

...ate an entire box of fruit roll-ups all by myself.

...had to "reset" my mood every single day.

...didn't have a chance to respond to all your incredible emails. you have no idea how much they mean to me though. i keep rereading them.

...watched lily and gretel make friends! they play all the time now!

...almost lost my little gretel gremlin baby. she got out when we left, and levi didn't discover it until he got home and heard her crying under the front window. i cried when he told me.

...didn't study as much as i should have.

...wore foot undies. hehehe!

...went to a pretty intense yoga class with levi.

...lit my very last belgian waffle candle. and they're discontinued. boo! but i did make a funny mustache with the shadow from the light of the candle:

what did you do this week?

fall is flying by!

it's already october!

and without meaning to, levi and i have been testing out halloween costumes for the past week.

some of our favorites:

flapper

levi as a giant banana

me as a giant chicken...it was so hot in that thing.

truth be told, we most likely won't be dressing up this year.

sad, right?

but we don't really want to dress up if we can't do it right, and i don't think we really want to spend the money this year on dressing up as these two:

you just wait though! some day, levi and i will dress up as the adorable, semi-creepy, almost incestuous margot and richie tenenbaum.

it's perfect!