our thanksgiving photos.

the moth.

^^i like him. he took me to the Moth Story Slam at headliners. i have been begging to go for months now, but we weren't able to manage until now. i listen to the Moth on NPR, and have always found it very interesting. the thought of listening to local stories, sounded so awesome. and it was, we laughed a lot- it is a really fun event. there were not enough volunteers to go up and share a story about this week's theme- "Office"; i really almost did it (i have wanted to for a while now) but was not expecting to do it tonight and the stories are much much better when they are planned. they are actually supposed to be planned. but my office is an interesting place, so i regret not planning to do it. but we plan to go back soon and i can't wait!

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^^dressing up. my favorite! 

 ^^headliners

^^jonas & tons of concert posters

^^weird photo of my boots and tights and part of jonas' leg with some guy mixed in when i moved the camera. ha.

over the weekend..

^^friday we had a date night with pizza, ice cream and Home Alone. it is one excellent christmas movie :)

 

^^saturday i ran a 5K with these girls at Keeneland. it was a little cold but beautiful out there! we had breakfast and sat by a fireplace and we were still cold !

^^my niece hates when i have left hair in my brush (so does jonas). the two of them are the only ones that clean it. so she took some eyelash glue and made a beard. hilarious. i love that girl.

^^i randomly got to have dinner with my dad saturday night. it was nice and he had my nephew. he was so tired, he would not wake up for chick fil a or Chuck E Cheese. love him.

^^then we saw Catching Fire. it was so great. Jennifer Lawrence looked awesome, i wanted to steal some of her looks, but that would be ridiculous.

i always wanted to be a tenenbaum.

our neighborhood reminds me of 111 Archer Avenue.  i can hear Mark Mothersbaugh in my head when i look at these photos. also, there is a photo of the new pizza place in our neighborhood. we recommend it. highly.

date night at smashburger.

fridays have unofficially become date night. 
and we barely made it to this one because jonas works late.
i am pretty sure we annoyed the staff by arriving just in time before they closed.
also, they spelled jonas --"johnis". it made us laugh.
on the way home, jonas *almost* got a ticket for running a red light.
it was his first time being pulled over. we were blessed to get out of that one. yay :)
hooray for last minute dates & nice police officers !

fresh flowers.

there are buds and blooms all around my home.
in november!
i made the hot pink bouquet, courtesy of the bush in our yard- i was pretty proud of it.
i also picked up some garden roses. they make my heart swoon.
i cannot wait to have a little garden someday so i can always have a vase full of lovelies.

sushi night.

 there is just something about sharing late night sushi with your love.

happiness ='s romantic nights like that. 

a little nashville.

recently, i asked one of my coworkers if she also stays up at night thinking of what needs to be done for families that she works with at the funeral home. of course, she does, but i just needed to know that i was not crazy- or maybe some advice about not taking thinking about work at home. i am not sure that i will ever be able to forget about it at home and i really wish that i could. not that i do not want to do an excellent job, or give our families what they need, but i have got to learn to keep it there. constant worrying just makes me feel exhausted (so does running laps around the funeral home, ha). unfortunately, jonas is tired all the time too. he works a lot of overtime, not because we need it, but because he cares about being loyal and hard working. he goes where he is needed. i really admire that about him and i am proud of the two of us. right now in our life, we are learning to balance and spend more time on what is really important. i believe it can be done. somehow. for some much needed quality time,  we took a very last minute trip to nashville on monday night after work and tuesday. we made ourselves leave work on time and rushed home to book a hotel and pack. i am a huge priceline fan, but i disappointed jonas a little because hotel preston did not have an indoor pool. i felt really bad because it was his one request, but i did the bidding thing. anyway, on the way to Nashville, we listened to general conference and had time to talk about what we heard. we made it to our first stop -- Edley's bbq. it is my favorite bbq place- oh if we ever get one in louisville..yes, that would be great. my sister and i had edley's a couple times when we went to nashville a few months back... after dinner, we went back to the hotel and laid down and fell asleep..at like 9:30. we were just so tired. however, i did feel quite content falling asleep there, cozy with my husband. it was really nice, even if i did wake up at 5am. here are a few photos of our time in nashville. it was the perfect kind of fall day with the clearest blue skies:::

one of our main intentions for nashville was a temple session. we found out too late that the temple is closed for two weeks, but we spent some time on the grounds:::

we also visited the Parthenon. we know this from Percy Jackson,  the first movie we saw together. it was in German and Jonas had to translate :)   :::

we also visited the American Pickers store, a show that Jonas has watched a few times:::

a family portrait.

Jonas' sister, Noomi, had this made for us.  :)

november.

"I am grateful for what I am and have.

My thanksgiving is perpetual.

It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing

definite- only a sense of existence."

 -Henry David Thoreau-

i found that in Real Simple magazine and really liked it. also, image credit.