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Petrified National Forest National Park  2013 I have been thinking. Thinking about how I want this year to look. What I would like to experience. Taking honest stock of who I am and what our family is about. What Clay and I are about. I find myself feeling the happiest when I am exploring or making with my family. But that always isn't compatible with our kids interests and activities. Our schedules have seemed to consume our life. Something I'd like to change in the new year. Maybe it is tell tale of where we live (ahem, Los Angeles).  The need to get into nature. The need to escape through art. Breathe. Think. Like, think deeply. It's been awhile.  It has been 19 months of just full - on go go go. I cannot tell you how weary I am. I see it in the eyes of my children too but maybe that's just a glazed over teenage look, ha. So, we have got to connect more to creation, that seems to make us all flow a little better.  (that was my short answer, at least. the long answ

Happy New Year! (our annual family selfie) the daytime"lit" San Diego temple We took a day trip down to San Diego and while waiting on my Dad,  so we drove down to the temple.   Clay and I walked around wondering where all the time had gone and reminisced about our wedding day.  Fun fact: we did consider eloping.  Then my little sister told me I couldn't do that to her.  (dang it!) It could have been so easy.   But we are glad we shared that day with family and friends.  We talked about how the minute we saw one another in the temple (before our sealing)  every anxious thought washed away.  We held hands as the peace and calm of the temple set in.  Clay grabbed my hand and clasped a bracelet on my wrist that matched my wedding band.  How romantic 💓  It was so special to us.  I knew we had been placed in the right place at the right time to find one another. So, last week it was special to be there where it all started