u.s.a. meets native american

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absolutely, positively, LOVE this. to the point where i want to abandon the "4 siblings with gold iphone cases" idea that we are talking about and get this as my iphone case. can't tell you how suiting it is for me. i don't know who the artist is but i wish i did! that way i could see their others pieces. when i see this i see someone combining the first people who lived on the american continent mixed with the united states. a perfect blend of the past and the present. as for the symbols - they are many different tribes symbols and not just one tribes. it's bringing together many different people and all under the flag.

excitement

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for years and years my family has been obsessed with les miserables. we have all read the book and seen all the movies and always listen to the music. we all did something for the two times our high school did the school edition of the musical. matti was marius, mika was gavroche, and kirsi, my mom, and i did the hair and makeup for everyone.

so needless to say with all this history kirsi and i literally peed our pants when we found out they were making the first every movie rendition of the musical. i squealed i was so excited! then we found out who the cast was and honestly i think its all very fitting. the other day they released the first official trailer for the movie. needless to say kirsi and i got excited all over again. its going to be so good!






                                        

it's gonna be big folks.

glitz and glam

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absolutely, positively, MUST try this as soon as i get home where my vast collection of glitter and sparkles are. of course i'll be trying the gold first. it just screams of glitz and glam. i found this picture on pinterest and ever since have been obsessed with it. but now i just need an occasion to be so dolled up. besides, it doesn't exactly match the yoga pants and big sweater look i have going on at the moment. or maybe this is exactly the thing to spruce up my current grunge look.

brave

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 i am SO stinkin' excited for disney's pixar's first ever princess. her name is merida and she is scottish. it's going to be so golden i cannot wait! i have been watching the trailers for months now. the tie is getting closer and closer at hand. i only wish they would have a midnight showing. i would be all over that. it's funny, when i always get so excited for something it's usually a kiddy thing. ex: disneyland, tangled, the princess and the frog, grandparents coming to visit, dessert. that last one is especially true. but what can i say? these things just speak to me. all i'm sayin' is there's nothing quite like fighting a gaggle of 6 year old girls for the first row of the first showing of a cartoon princess movie, or the hannah montana movie. 

favorite line of the whole movie: "if you had the chance to change your fate, would you?". it just sends shivers up my spine.

i am the lion

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 have you every been on a spiritual journey? go ahead, ask what kind of weird things i do in college. well, let me tell you. a spiritual journey is where you meditate and find your other half, your totem, your power animal. the other day when i was at my friends jess and tawn's house we went on the journey to find ours. technically you are supposed to have incense burning and the lights off, but  we didn't have any incense and we didn't want to turn off the lights; however, after much intense meditation we all discovered our power animals. jess was a cougar, tawn was jaguar, and i was the lion. maybe one day, if you're lucky, i'll tell you how i discovered my power animal, but here is everything the lion stands for.

"when you walk, walk like the lion. be proud to be who you are, exactly as you are. hold your head high. look each person in the eye and silently say to yourself: i am the lion.

the lion will fill  you with courage, the courage to be who you are and show it to the world. he will teach you how to roar our with your power, displaying your talents and announcing your presence. he will teach you to have the courage to be yourself, always and in all ways to know the deep truth, that you are exactly  as you should be. after all, you are the lion.

the lion is power, but power contained. he will teach you the strength of quiet command. he will teach you to hold yourself with such presence that merely being around you will fill others with respect and awe.

know and be the quiet strength of complete confidence. speak calmly and with authority. act from a place of personal truth and wisdom, a wisdom that comes from the quiet times you spend just being and feeling your deep connection with all that is.

 walk with grace and strength. hold your head high and once in a while, give out a resounding, magnificent roar. after all, you are the lion."

be inspired

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hi, i'm leena and i have a dirty big secret. i'm addicted to pinterest. i find myself pinning more than i find myself on facebook. but i can't help it. it's just so inspiring to me. sometimes you just need it for a little inspiration, or a lot of inspiration. i can't help but get ideas for my future house, plan my wedding even when i'm not even dating, but mostly i find myself looking up quotes and pictures.

werk it

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i found this picture on pinterest. every time i look at it i bust up laughing as if it were the first time. no joke. i think it is hilarious and everyone should see it. this kid reminds me of a couple different people i know. this bunch looks like a group of home schoolers, being a home schooled child i feel safe in my statement. it just looks like a nest of misfits who find solitude in one another. i also love the ratio of girls to boys. 5 to 10.  love. it. all.

what are your thoughts?

she's only my best friend

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as you probably already know, savanah is my best friend. i haven't seen her in 5 months. it's torture. we try to skype as often as possible, but that is too hard because of the time difference and our busy schedules. the planets are not aligning in our favor. to make up for this we try our hardest to send love notes to each other via facebook. these entail anything from how much we miss each other or notes to reassure us that we will live through whatever woe just happened. we post these as often as about every other day. some of my favorites include these.

can't wait till were reunited.

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

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they say "absence makes the heart grow fonder", but im not entirely sure how i feel about that. sometimes i believe it and sometimes i dont; however, right now i believe it. i miss my family. i miss my best friend savanah. i miss nipomo. i miss cheap food. i miss strawberries. i miss california's beaches. i miss the mustard fields. i miss driving (never thought i would say that). i miss all my friends back home. i miss spending saturday nights with my favorite kids i babysit. i miss my dog fluffly. i miss it all so much right now. i have been in hawaii for 5 months. i am however excited to announce that i will be home in exactly 14 days! i can not remember the last time i was this excited. i have been having a count down for the last 30 days. i cannot wait to be home and be with everything and everyone i love.

only 14 more days.

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I am the best babysitter ever. Why, you may ask? Well because the other day when I was watching lil Abbs and Charlie they couldn't fall asleep. When they came to get me to read more stories to them I agreed. But as hard as Abbs tried I wouldn't read her "awesome shark book!" to her. Oh, no no. Instead the girls listened to me reading the Book of Mormon :) Yup, thats right. Worked like a charm. Girls were out sooner than expected :)