And with this app I can make crap in my desk look cooler. It's magic.

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And with this app I can make crap in my desk look cooler. It's magic.

Here's one more.

I can't quite tell who is in this photo but I still love it. It looks like maybe Woodrum & Tyler. Or andera & proctor. Who knows? Feel free to tell me if you do.

Film

It just looks so good. I'm not saying these photographs are so good but they look so much cooler than the digital ones I've been taking. I don't want to edit them because I like the flaws. Sigh. I just miss film.
I got some film developed that I've had forever. I will put more up when I can.

Blogging from my phone...or trying. :) look what I found yesterday.

last night

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an unintentional girls night. it was actually lots of fun. we started by being good and going to function to help stop human trafficking. then off to a whiskey bar to have a little bourbon. followed by eating greasy food and loud public singing... we may have gone back to the whiskey bar but i don't want to make us sound like lushes. (just so you know daddy, we weren't drunk.) it was lovely. i'm glad to have these ladies in my life. we are really going to start looking for ways to help survivors of human trafficking here in our neck of the woods so if any of you out there in the wide world have any ideas please let me know. but until we find something and even when we do everyone should look into transitions global and the wonderful help is it being to some girls in cambodia and please support them.

the christmas eve gift.

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Every time I get in this thing I think about how amazing the people around me are & how blessed I am.

its the most wonderful time of the year

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i should be asleep right now. i am gonna have to sit down and really write something on here one of these days. :)

If love is a poison cup. Then drink it up. Cuz a sip or a spoonfull won't do. Won't do nothin' for you but mess you up. - M. Ward

the promised update

we'll start with this guy pictured bellow.  i have been able to spend more time with him lately and i really love it.  we took jack to football practice and got a little bored so we started watching some old episodes of aqua teen hunger force.  he thought it was the funniest thing ever.  i have hardly ever heard him laugh that hard.  

we try to have dinner together once a week.  last week we took it up a notch with some card tricks and serious stakes poker. :)  by serious stakes i mean laundry and picking funny outfits for the losers.  needless to say, i suck at poker and will not be getting my laundry done and if you see me some place with extra ridiculous clothes on... just let it happen.

bellow is my attempt at a group picture.  luke moved so that he was not in the picture so i hit him.  violence may not be the answer but it sure makes me feel better. haha.

this picture is kind of a mess but i really liked all the colors.  that canadian is so small and cute. :)

jack and macey made cupcakes like pros the other day.  i loved hearing them talk about what they were doing.

 check out that concentration.

this is nat's boyfriend.  haha.  i keep seeing him around town and i wanna be buddies with him.

 miss courtney greene had a birthday.  we had a great week partying it up.  i personalized this cake for her.  i call her gay all the time because of how girly she is but the truth is she is a magical lady and i'm glad she was born and my life gets to be around her's.

last weekend i got to hang out with this little lady.  she is so stinkin' cute.  

 the canadians had some cousins in for a visit.  they were just as entertaining as their stateside  cousins only in boy form.  especially because one is named tobias.   i pretty much just quoted arrested development at the kid all morning.  he was both amused and confused. :)

i was just walking past nat's room the other day and saw this out of the corner of my eye.  i thought it was confirming to some of my suspicions that smudge thinks she is a person.

i put this on facebook but not up here.  this is how fancy nat and i do mcdonalds drive through.  people are pretty jealous of us.  sorry planet earth but we are awesome.  i love you.

	This is why I like the tiny canadians. Their conversations go like this: lilah: I want to get out of the car seat. josephine: you can't. lilah: I can do it myself. josephine: no. Its too hard. Katie hates it. lilah: I hate stuff too. I hate lots of things. The way they talk just cracks me up. I laughed at this conversation so much. Partially because of how serious they both were & partially because everything is funnier when the voice saying it sounds like its been sucking helium out of balloons. i have lots of pictures &  updates coming. Sorry i've been slacking off again. :)

this will have to do for now.

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i found this today. there isn't much of what most of us call autumn here in florida. you have to learn to see the small pieces here and there that are hiding. i will say, this is the first year since i've moved to florida, that i can feel a little of it in the air. its been nice. maybe its because i've been here a while now. maybe i'm just making it up so i don't feel like i'm missing one of my very favorite things on the planet year after year. :) i don't guess it really matters because either way i win. i miss you daddy. its almost christmas.

the godfather

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i had to put this one up too. nat let her wear this hat and she loved it and walked around like she owned the place. :)

the vieira babies

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this picture is blurry but the face is awesome.

i got to hang out with the magical judah and eisley for a little bit today. these kids are so friggin' cute that it is ridiculous. in addition to their good looks they are lovely to be around. i would gladly keep them. ;)  they both cracked me up today because they usually don't pay attention when i take pictures of them.  this time they both made these faces.

i wish all of these people were my friends.  may it be so, Lord. :)  i heard some of the new weezer album today.  it sounds like i will like it.  they have always been a dear friend of mine so i will always love them regardless.  

i'm mostly just writing this right now because i'm trying to be better about writing in this blog.  i'm doing so good, right!!! :)    

new life

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the story goes like this. there once was a great battle. it had what all great battles have, fierce warriors, a soul in peril, dear friendships, bad guys, the good guys winning and a happy ending that was really just the beginning.

romance

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He is always romancin' us.

i'm still here.

hey babies, so i'll admit i'm not a good blogger. i said i'd try and i did. i suck at remembering to update. i would probably have had a little more fun with this is my computer wasn't one with a mind of its own. i'm not totally giving up. i have just gotten a flickr account as well. the photo blog thing makes more sense for me. and from my new magical phone i can upload pictures to it all the time if i want. :) its the most beautiful phone ever!!! look at it! try not to be too jealous. the big deal is, that it has everything an iphone has PLUS an 8 megapixel camera on it. 8! that's a lot for a cell phone. most stop at 5. by a freak of nature it was cheaper and i renewed my contract and dropped the price some more, and bobs your uncle, its mine. :) the two of us are quite happy together. i have named him machete and we are in love. haha. this is not the end of every day is christmas. i will still update on things here too. but the flickr will hopefully stay more up to date. if for nothing else than for my dear ol' dad. :) i am not sure what i made the whole url but it ends with katiejoellawins and my id is katie joella lawson. so, look it up if you are bored and into that sort of thing. i love you all very much and miss those of you far away from me. come see me soon. remember i live in florida with the ocean. its glorious. come on. :)

poladroid....you're gonna wanna download it....magical. :)

its been a while...

a new charge. benny!

something i didn't get to last time is... matt and janelle are getting married. hooray!

sorry, we've been drifting apart. i'll go to therapy. :) i'm still shopping for a new blog. this one really does make me want to punch a cute furry bunny (that just wants world peace) when i put more than one picture on it.....just keepin' it real. :) i have been pretty crazy busy for a while now. especially the last month. this week has been nuts and next week is gonna be pretty coo coo too. it is because of that that i don't really have much to write about or the time to write much. but i wanted to do something. so don't hate something is better than nothing. that's all for now hopefully i will get to this again before another two months.

one of the best nights ever!

here is the big party in out of order pictures. yes, this really happened. :)i do not know what jake is doing here but it looks crazy.i don't know why i even tried to put this in order it very much did not work and makes me want to punch a baby deer.

blurry and night vision but i like that people are shakin' it. :)

the pictures i got are all pretty dark and there are not very many. luckily, i stole some from sarah beth, kaitlyn, and eric. :) night-vision babies. i have no flash on the video camera. big gay jeff minni hotdog totally called me out on not updating this blog so i just had to get on here and try to make her happy. :) the last couple of weeks have been so sweet. my birthday was AMAZING. it was probably one of the best birthdays in the history of birthdays. the only thing that could have made it better is for the rest of my friends and family to be there. maybe that would have been toooooo awesome. that kind of party is probably reserved for heaven. :) everyone was so friggin' sweet to me and went above and beyond what i asked for. i couldn't believe my life the whole day was like a movie or a real awesome dream. no one would ever be lonely if everyone had friends like mine. i'm not trying to brag, that is the truth. believe it.

for starters sam sang happy birthday (almost) every hour for the first part of the day. i thought it was funny. i was really glad that my birthday fell on a saturday for many reasons but one was because of the people we hang out with on saturday mornings. even though sometimes i feel a little awkward its become one of my favorite things to do lately. they sang happy birthday to me too (i'm pretty sure sam started it.) our friends lauren and isaac came in for the weekend. it was good to see them and brother. that was like a birthday party for shark. he's two this month. that's kind of weird to think of. it seems like i've had him forever.

anyway, we had lunch and just hung out bein' awesome friends. :) i went home to shower and get ready. jeff came by and we headed over to the greene's early to help with anything that needed to be helped with. they were already done with the party goods. they had even made a stage for the jolly coffee house. it was so nice. i'm glad we were there early though because it gave us some time to actually hang out before all the people got there. the fergies came by for a bit to say happy birthday so i was pretty stoked about that as well.

before i knew it everyone was there. they all looked lovely in their ugly christmas sweaters. my friends do not disappoint when it comes to the ugly sweater party. the jolly coffee house party of the night was insane. they were so funny. i wish i would have taken more pictures but i didn't want to stop video taping and miss something. i will have to figure out a way to put some videos on here. its just too good to keep to myself. i don't think i have ever seen everyone so hyper at the same time. i wonder if its just because they had gotten hopped up due to the anticipation and the waiting. we had been planning for almost two months. that's a long time for us. :) the songs that everyone did exceeded my expectations. my face was sore by the end of the night from smiling and laughing. and as if that was not enough, after that we all went upstairs to hear the magical christmas cd that everyone made for me. HOLY CRAP!!! it was awesome. probably the best cd ever! it is funny and good. it is another thing i will have to figure out how to share with those of you that weren't there. its ridiculous. it has something like 20 songs on it and they are all wonderful in their own way. i couldn't believe that it actually happened. brendan did sooooooooooooooooooooooo much work on it. i couldn't ever thank him enough for the sweetness he gave me in this gift. i don't know if it would have happened without him. they all did such a friggin' good job. sam even sang on it. i am very proud of him and thankful for that because i know that he doesn't normally do things like that. it means a great deal. matt took time out of workin' to make that money for janelle. :) danny drove from the other side of the ditch several times, plus he wins at singing. :) i could go on forever. matt, danny, mikey,mere-death, al, jacob, janelle, judith, abby-doobie, micah, kathryn, luke and katie fair, the ever-so-wonderful sarah beth, eric, the swan, the little girl, and i'm sure i'm leaving someone out right now but know that i appreciate you too.

i can't believe i made it through the night without balling like a baby. it was crazy. afterwards we went back to the boys house and hung out playing silly games. it was just a beautiful night. it was to the point i started wondering if i was going to get hit by a bus the next day and the Lord was just letting me go out with a bang. haha. well, i'm still alive so He must have just wanted to give me an extra lovely birthday. thank you to everyone, near and far. you are all so wonderful and i am completely blessed by the fact you are in my life. i love you more than i could ever manage to communicate. i have more to go along with this but i'm over this thing for now. so, to be continued...