Modern Day Ruins

I have a strange love for abandoned buildings. There were a few deserted homes and buildings around town that I would go explore when I was younger. No matter how old they were, it always seemed like you were walking into a different time. I'm especially intrigued when "stuff" is just left behind. What happened to cause these people who lived or worked there to just leave without taking all there crap?

Awhile back I got kinda obsessed at looking at websites showing the abandoned houses and buildings in Detroit. Check out 100 Abandoned Houses or Forgotten Detroit for hauntingly beautiful pictures of buildings that were just....left.  

Some of these homes are so gorgeous now, can you imagine what they looked like in their prime?

I don't know about you, but seeing these once grand buildings left to rot breaks my heart.

To help save these incredible buildings from destruction, you can donate to Preservation Nation here.

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I don't know about you, but I do some of my best photography with my iPhone. Thousands of candid photos of my kids, caught in everyday moments. I'm a little embarrassed to say that currently I have 3,943 pictures on my phones camera roll. Ridiculous  And then what happens to all those priceless memories? Nothing. They sit on my phone, rarely to be seen again. Sure I've had good intentions of printing them out, but good intentions don't get anything done.

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No joke. For $2.99 a month you get to choose 100 pictures, straight from your phone, to have printed and mailed to you. The free app links directly to your phones photo album, and lets you choose which photos, and how many of each, you want printed. It's super easy to use, and is all done on your phone.

 I downloaded the app, choose my pictures, and a week later I had this beautiful little album of my photos! Its so cute I almost don't want to even take the pictures out. I think these would make awesome little keepsake albums for grandparents, you could choose 100 pictures from the whole past year and have a flip book of how the kids have grown! The app even adds the date and time to each. Or for people who fancy themselves as iPhone photographers, it would be an awesome way to have all your cool pictures in one place.

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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? -Ernest Hemmingway

I haven't been sleeping much lately.

Between Brooks spitting his paci out, then immediately realizing he urgently wants it back, and Lincoln thinking that 1, 3, and 5 am are the best times to ask the days most important questions, 

I'm averaging about 4.5 hours a night.

 You know whats worse than having the piss scared out of you by waking up to find a 4 year old staring at you in the dark? 

That 4 year old wanting to discuss, at depth, what happens if you mix milk and water together.

The fuck? This isn't science class and I'm not Bill Nye, 

GO BACK TO SLEEP!!

But seeing the love these 2 have for each other is almost...ALMOST...worth being awake for.

Just kidding, I'd pick the sleep any day. 

Wordless Wednesday

Just some images that I'm crushing on...

Hope you all have a wonderful and relaxing Thanksgiving! 

Here's to passing out at the table

♥

Wordless Wednesday

The past week in iphone photos

And some images from the interwebs that are stuck in my head.

Prepare yourself...

For an INSANE amount of pictures.

We just got new family pictures done, which was way over due. 

On the 30th, Richard and I will have been doing it for 10 years (just kidding, mom, we waited for marriage, duh.), and we have like 2 pictures of us together. 

It's sad, just gross and sad, really.

So here you go, an incredibly long post of pictures of me and my boys.

I'm obsessed with them. Every. Single. One!

Richard's sister's husband's sister-what does that make her to us?? Like sister-in-law twice removed? Or probably just nothing. Just a pal, I guess-whatever. Anyways, she took them and I love them.

That is all, just wanted to share!

♥♥♥