we dined on some of the most amazing pizza ever!
at bella-bacino’s and giordano’s.
just thinking about it now..
my mouth is watering!
and, i’m not even a fan of pizza!
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was the destination for my spring break this year! {last year, was here.}
i love that my hubby so willingly whisked me off for spring break, two years in a row now, since i’ve returned to college!
love that man!
we had warm weather and really cold weather.
both were beautiful!
in the warm weather, we went running along the chicago river with amazing views of lake michigan. i was able to shop at my favorite kids store! we watched lots of this {dusty will be on his way to the big dance,
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As you can see… she picked up where she left off at the club in SLC and then slept on me all the way to San Fran. However, in San Francisco, what we were doing kicked in and she started enjoying the trip.
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was the time we were able to spend with good friends.
geoff & jenn were dear dear neighbors of ours for about four years before they moved to maui a year ago. they were incredibly generous to us on this trip {thank you!} and we loved seeing what life is like for them on the island.
it was so nice to catch up with their family, and take a peek into their new lifestyle…
we were able to celebrate crew’s birthday with them,
had lots of yummy meals,
went to a couple of movies,
spent time at the beach together and we {dusty and I,
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was beautiful.
we were lazy.
my husband and i breed laziness when we vacation.
we talked about doing all kinds of cool activities.
ziplining. hiking. etc.etc.
but talking is all we did.
along with sitting by the pool. sitting on the beach.
eating.
eating.
eating.
visited friends. we attempted paddle boarding. visited more friends.
movies. movies. movies.
sleep. sleep. sleep.
that about sums it up!
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my husband dislikes traveling with my camera bags{s}
so, this trip i opted to leave one camera bag home
my real polaroid camera.
instead, i used my polaroid iphone app,
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this wedding was the highlight of our philippines trip last week. we were able to share in the beautiful celebration of lovella mercado & jeremy salas. lovella has been a dear friend of our family for years. dusty has known her and her family for about 15 years, and i have known her for about 13 years. She even lived with dusty, kiana, myla and i back when we lived in the philippines for six months in pro look’s early years. lovella and jeremy are childhood friends, but actually started dating while they were both nurses in london. dusty and i met jeremy in london when we took our 10th anniversary european trip almost 4 years ago.
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