Christmas Snow Flakes

It is snowing out! Started with a mixture of rain and snow yesterday and then the light fluffy flakes began to fall yesterday afternoon! How magical to have snow around Christmas time! I grew up in Savannah, GA so we rarely had snow much less snow falling on Christmas. I plan to take some pictures today but until then here are a few from last year. Today I plan to wrap gifts, listen to Christmas music and watch snow flakes fall! Have a happy weekend!

Sophie loves the snow!
Love,Emma

Showing Off!

Biggest apologies for falling off the face of the Earth for a few days! Everyone's comments have been just so unbelievably kind and flattering! You guys really make me so giddy! I especially enjoyed the stories of animal friends that were shared. I was so shocked by some of them! Everything from baby bears to elephants and rabbits, I loved them all! Thank you!
Okay, so where was I? I flew down to Macon, GA (about an hour and a half, maybe) south of Atlanta, GA to watch my 'mazing mother show in the Region 12 Arabian Horse Show. This was a big deal for her and only her second show cantering! She did a beautiful job and we had such a fun time! I love being around a horse show. Plus! There was a dog show (obedience and whatever the other is called. "best of breed" stuff) on the same grounds and my mom used to show golden retrievers so she showed me around and explained what was going on. Anyways, I am back and will have much to post this weekend and next week. Have a lovely Friday night!

mom and Godiva

♥ Emma

E is for...

Easter Egg!

I have fond memories of Easter eggs at my gramma Charlotte's house when I was young. My brother, sister, mom, and I would go over a few days before and my gramma would have the egss boiled and ready. We would poke small holes in them and blow out the white and the yolk. We didn't dye them though, we drew on them. It was so interesting to see what everyone would come up with. She had markers in all sorts of colors and sizes and when we were done we had a bowel full of unique, personal, and colorful eggs! She kept many of them over the years with dates on them. I loved going over on Easter and looking back at all the drawings. These memories and egg drawings are precious to me now because Charlotte is gone and I miss her everyday! I am thankful for the memories that simple markers, eggs, and family can make!

as always click on the photos for the source!
I hope your weekend is full mamory making moments! ♥Emma

Dollhouse

Aren't dollhouses so sweet!? I had one at my Grammas house when I was little. I thought it was grand and dreamy. Little furniture set up as if a real home and you get a wonderful peek into the undisturbed rooms. If this captivated you as a little one then the work of Saskatchewan artist Heather Benning will thrill you and bring little childhood feelings back to your heart!

In an old abandoned farmhouse Heather has painstakingly recreated it's life from the 1960's when it was originally abandoned. One entire wall has been replaced with Plexiglas to embrace the dollhouse feel. I would image you could feel like a tiny person standing at it's step.

I found this life size dollhouse through Bliss.

I hope you day is a real life dream! ♥emma

Good Morning!

Good Morning, Good Morning! I very happy this morning because today is my last day of work this week! I have a short week because I am going to visit my parents in Savannah, Ga! I love Savannah and the azaleas should be making their way out ALL over the place! Plus my lovely mother will be in a horse show on Sat so that will be a little horse fix for me!

{picture I took last year in Savannah}

Have a lovely Day!♥ Emma

My tumultuous feelings over Time Lapse Lifeline (Maria Taylor)

{Okay, this becomes a bit more than the song but it just kept coming out.}

This song for me is about wanting to do things differently. Wanting to have lived more. To have taken more moments of my life and to have them burned into my heart and my thoughts so that they could be clear and crisp for remembering. I hear it and I feel the tears, and the emotions they carry, at the back of my eyes and sitting in my throat. I have regrets, but even more than the feeling of regrets I have the realization that all the different stages of a life hold with them unique and special moments that do not move on with you. You know, those details that only childhood can bring, or college, or a first part-time job, a first kiss, a road trip with a friend, meeting the one, all those special steps with the one, you get it. I mean sure we have those memories (at least the ones we can recall) but I know those once-in-a-lifetime little moments and laughs and loves do not repeat themselves. This makes me sad. To think of those years and moments gone, except for what my mind strings together into a memory, is just sad.

from HERE

At the same time, I hear this song and think to myself what a wonderful thing to have the realization to take a breath in those moments and try as I might to store them away accurately for later. I think about all the amazing and once-in-a-lifetime moments that are yet to come, ones that I have not even been able to fathom and create in my imagination. That I have, at every turn, the opportunity for something new and brilliant and worthwhile to happen to me or for me to make happen! I have that, right ahead of me! How thrilling! So I am also happy and excited and filled with hope!


I want to be "new like spring!"

Maria Taylor HERE!



Okay and how fantastic is this video! I mean take away hitting the guy with water balloons and bashing in mailboxes and you have one magical day! The ladies out in party dresses (I would love to run around all day in party dresses, jumping in pools), the sun, the pool, carefree, magic!

♥Emma

The Horse Ride - a true story

Sunlight shown down through the few maple trees in the field between wood and wood. It lite up her hair gold and made the grass glow a kelly green.


The two horses waded through the thin blades in the small clearing. She led the way on hers, the one more confident. His followed, and he was happy to see the light in her hair.

The morning dew shined the tips of their toes and made her shiver a bit in the shade.

He could see though that she felt content, swaying her hips in a circular motion to the horses four beat walk. As the horse stretched his neck down to quickly break off a piece of the sweet grass with only a slight hesitation in his step, he heard her laugh.

He watched, content to still be following, as she raised her chin and watched the sky moving above them, clouds stretching and bending in the blue.

He was happy to follow so that he would be able to see her face when she turned and said, "This is my favorite day!" And he smiled back as she turned and led them into the shadows of leaves and branches.

(click on the image for the sources I had otherwise they were found on weheartit, and I would love a source if you know it!)

Thank you everyone so very much for your Birthday Wishes! It made my day all the more sweet!
I have decided that the 3 words super, duper, and cute are now banned from my posts for the rest of March. I have used it in the last 3 and that is just too much! I don't use them that much in real life to have posted them so excessively.
I also realized that I did not tag anyone. This will be my b day wish, I will not not tag, but I hope others will join in this jaunt down picture folder lane.
And as it turned out I did not get my I Need It size of ice cream. They were closed! Can you believe it! So I went to Starbucks instead. It turned out very neat because the girl overheard me speaking with my dad and upgraded me to a Venti! And she drew a little red balloon with a "Happy Birthday" on the cup! A White Chocolate Mocha satisfied my sweet tooth.
Have a very nice Day! ♥Emma

A Frolic by the Lake

Since it is raining I thought I woud post some pictures of a fun day Bear, Sophie and I had last weekend when it was a tad warmer and the sun was out! We were just sitting around Sunday afternoon and decided to bum it with hats and all and go to a lake nearby to give Sophie some much needed frolicking time.

Do Not be alarmed! This is what happens when she gets super duper excited! And for some reason Bear throwing rocks into the lake was very very thrilling!

She had a very good time!

And so did we!

Maybe we can do more of this next weekend! ♥emma

Without a Word

This song was actually on a mix tape that my sweets made for me very early on in our relationship. He put it together so that I would know how he felt about me, about us. Each song expressed different emotions and told different stories that he wanted to share. When I listened to the cd I thought it was so moving and emotional. It was perfect, it fit me. I thought this song was so different and it told me a lot about him, as I was still (am) learning. Even now this song (and the entire cd he made) chokes me, it just grabs my heart and takes my breath and I know who I am with!
The song is written phonetically to portray the human voice as an instrument. The words are not real, they are a made up language by the writer Karl Jenkins. Ironically, the title Adiemus (which to Karl's knowledge was made up) literally means "we will draw near" in Latin (with slight spelling differences)! How beautiful to think such a moving song was chosen to say something to me without really using any actual words! Bear (I call him Bear) has said from the start of our relationship, just as the song title states, that we would be together, he just knew it. He knew that we would draw near and I never want to be apart! I love you Bear!
picture overload coming right up!

MySpace Music Playlist at MixPod.com

#1 by captiainecroc #4 by klairy #5 by sandig.urbanspace

#6 by Katarinka #9 by Pia via A Cup of Jo

# 10 by cordellia

the rest are from weheartit (and i was unable to trace back further than another blog) and movie stills

I hope to carry on Love posts. It won't be everyday, since I am dying to post some things I have found, but it surely lifts spirits and makes the world seem brighter, therefore I must! Just remember, One of the loveliest parts of love is the falling. The new butterflies and that first kiss. Not being able to wipe that smile of bliss from your lips. The first touch of your hand in theirs and how you fit so perfectly. That smile and look from someone when you can see they are falling for you too. This is a wonderful part of love, so if on this Valentines day you are without a sweetheart, just remember you are lucky because those moments and those feelings are still ahead of you! And if you are with someone today, I hope you look back and recall those special flutters and twinkling eyes! Enjoy your day and Love you all! ♥emma