one of my all time favorite books

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whirlwind

wow, what a break so far...and i still have another week. i am truly enjoying my time off, so much relaxing and spending time with loved ones. and shopping! haha. in a way i am actually looking forward to going back to work on monday, i miss my kids and my girlfriends i work with. tomorrow we are heading to tucson so spend new years there, and so many of my girls are going, i am so excited! then we are checking out hank's mom's new 2nd home in scottsdale, visiting friends, and i am getting tattooed on friday...and lauren's birthday party is on saturday night. can't wait. so much good. i loved 2008 but 2009 is going to be a million times better. looking to the future...

here are some random photos from events over the past week!

out with the girls and sweaty from so much dancing!


adie and me at coyote joe's


this photo just makes me laugh because of amb's face. so pissed for some reason!


hank and me at my parents'. i think he looks so beautiful here. lucky me ;)


typical night out with the peters! erin is fixing jps hair. oh i love them.


the whole group for erin's grad dinner hosted by her parents


a delicious pomegranate martini. i'm such a light weight though i could only handle a few sips!


amber joy and me
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sometimes movies really make you think...

tonight i went and saw 'the curious case of benjamin button' and i left the theater feeling a mix of many different emotions. without giving anything away to friends who will be seeing it later this week, i will say that at first i felt incredibly depressed. sometimes if i think too much about life and death i start to feel horrible. i have this great love in my life, my soulmate, and i love him more than words could ever do justice. our love story is a great one, and when movies or books, or even moments in life, make me think about loss, i immediately think about hank and overthink the horrible possibility of loss through death. i avoid thinking about things like that because i am an emotional, sensitive person and i get too sad, but this movie brought up that topic constantly throughout its entirety- almost 3 hours. in fact, one of its themes was death. but life also. the idea of losing hank makes me physically ill. i feel sick just typing it out. but although the film does focus on death and losing loved ones, it also focuses on the here and now of life. how we can't go through life afraid of death, because then we miss life. it's a fine line. i love hank so much and i am so scared of losing him, but i can't fully live our life if i am afraid. so we take chances. we live life. and that is the beauty of it all. 'the curious case of benjamin button' made me think about scary things, but also opened my eyes and reminded me that yes life is short, but we make of it what we will. we have a choice everyday to be whoever or whatever we choose. if something bad happens, we can choose to dwell on it, or accept it and move forward; we can start again. throughout benjamin's life, we see him go through many of the changes and milestones we all go through. there was a part in the movie that focused on him and his love getting their first place, living with no furniture, and sleeping on a single mattress. it really put life into perspective for me because our first place was so small, we slept on a twin mattress for one year in a closet sized room turned into a makeshift bedroom, and had nothing. the movie reminded me that all of those things, all of the hard times, and how it's all a journey. it's all part of this amazing story. and looking where we are now, and looking where we were, i am so thankful i appreciated those silly times in our small one bedroom apartment, sleeping in such a small space, heating our apartment with the oven when our furnace broke, and loving each other when we had nothing. it's such a beautiful thing. i left feeling so sad but so happy at the same time. i found the film to be incredibly enlightening, inspiring, and made me appreciate my love with hank so much i can't really capture it on this screen. i believe in love and i believe in living life fully. and although this movie is incredibly sad, it also truly makes you believe that anything in life is possible and reminds you to never waste time in life, or take people for granted. go see it.Source URL: http://sweettattooforgirls.blogspot.com/2008/
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our amazing honeymoon

Moorea French Polynesia, originally uploaded by 5348 Franco.
miss you moorea- we can't wait to go back!
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4 hours of sleep face

4 hours of sleep face, originally uploaded by daniellehampton.
what a weekend! i need a weekend...from my weekend? thank goodness i have off for another week. tomorrow i am planning on having a great workout in the early am and relaxing all day long. amber joy and i may see benjamin button too, awesome. hank and i saw bedtime stories today and it was absolutely darling and the sweetest, most heart warming story. go see it! afterwards we went to costco and picked out this rad nikon dslr as part of our xmas present from hank's dad. it's sooo nice and it's going to be fun learning how to use it. we got the most amazing presents this year- i was blown away and i am so grateful. i love our family. so right now i am going to finish watching this episode of footballers wives, get ready for bed and get some sleep! this week is going to be wonderful.

xoxo
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there's nothing wrong with frozen yogurt when it's freezing outside

frozen yogurt with ambs, 12/28, originally uploaded by daniellehampton.
nothing at all!
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good morning!

last night was really fun, and i am so happy to wake up this morning and head to our third (belated) christmas with hank's dad and family. it's sunny outside so it almost tricks you into thinking it is going to be warm and nice but then you step outside to the freezing cold wind, yuck. summer can't come soon enough, i am definitely not a winter girl. anyway, happy sunday morning!Source URL: http://sweettattooforgirls.blogspot.com/2008/
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amber's birthday

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what a night!
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back from phx

at my parents', originally uploaded by daniellehampton.
and i am getting prepared for the next busy busy week. tomorrow (well, officially today) is amber's bday and we are having a little birthday celebration tonight. i am so excited. i love birthdays, i love parties, and i love amber! awesome.
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yay new blackberry!

yay new blackberry!, originally uploaded by daniellehampton.
i ordered this last week and it arrived yesterday! it is so much better than my 8703 model. i was contemplating getting the storm, but laur and hank have it and i really don't like it. i love my cute little pink one!
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merry christmas!

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thoughts on the new year

this past year was one of the best years of my life. i feel like i really grew a lot as a person and took more steps to becoming the person i envision myself being. i also got married to the love of my life, which was the best day of my life thus far. it's so weird to think back to 2004 when hank and i got together, i never would have thought that four and half years later we'd be married. crazy! so for that reason, i will always hold 2008 in a special place of my heart. we traveled a lot also, going very far out of the country and around the world, and also all over the us. last year i rang in the new year with hank and a few of my friends in tucson. i personally cannot stand tucson, or going to shows on new years eve, but it definitely was the company that night that made it amazing. this year i have to go to tucson again but i know it will be fun. originally i was going to join my friend andrea in paris for a girls' trip but i decided it would be best to stay here, even if it completely saddens me to not be able to be at the eiffel tower counting down 'til midnight. how amazing that would have been! when i knew that wasn't going to happen i also had really hoped to go to a party with dresses, champagne, and dancing, but if i want to kiss my hubby at midnight, tucson it is! and i will make the best of it, amber and adie are coming down with us and we always have the best time. haha, i am getting more excited as i type! now i just need to decide on whether or not i want to suffer the cold and wear a party dress and thick tights or just be comfy in jeans. hmmm...

i am really looking forward to 2009. this year should be bigger than last year even, with lots of changes and amazing things happening. lots of plans...and i am just so excited for all of the "new" and of our next big milestones as a couple!

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my homemade cherry pie baking in the oven!

i love cooking and baking so much! i can't wait to be a housewife and do this everyday. not pie though, because i don't want an obese hubby and or kids! haha. back to the kitchen...





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flats

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i wear flats most days to work so i am always looking for cute ones. i love these new ones i recently got- cute and cheap! i got them in black as well. i don't wear my nice shoes to work because in the past i have spilled printer ink, got whiteboard marker on them (how i don't know), or got stepped on by a muddy foot in our crowded hallway. last year i ruined my favorite white tory burch revas and i have been cautious every since. so yay for these, i don't care if they get trampled and they're still super cute.
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today is almost tomorrow

today was a really great day! i woke up very late and ended up just relaxing until lunchtime. i met up with adie and spent the afternoon with her- lunch and chit chats. i got home and dustin and caleb were over to cook and watch football, so of course i went upstairs because i can't stand watching sports! it's weird to me because i used to be a super competitive athlete but i just don't find enjoyment in watching them on tv. i don't mind basketball but football is just torture. so yes, i spent the evening organizing my closet and putting away a lot of new stuff from this past weekend, and also catching up on some letters/cards i need to mail out tomorrow. the boys ended up cooking homemade calzones. i had a bite of hank's and they actually tasted really great. so then i went to the gym and just got home an hour or so ago to an empty house- hank's at practice. so madeline and i are just being lazy hanging out in bed.

tomorrow i have so much baking to do. i was supposed to get started tonight but i decided to wait until tomorrow morning. we have 3 christmases to celebrate which means a million presents to wrap! i love christmas so much.

here's a video i just took of madeline burrowing to get comfy, she's so cute and lazy!

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good morning...this is my tired face

good morning...this is my tired face, originally uploaded by daniellehampton.
i just woke up and it is past 10am! how did that happen?! it is my first "official" day of break though- right now i should just be starting my 3rd period. it feels so good to know i am being paid to sit in bed, drink tea, and watch footballers wives! awesome.
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4 days!

ambiiie!, originally uploaded by daniellehampton.
until amber is hoooome!!!!!
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week-end

what a weekend! i am sad to be back in prescott but also happy to be home, it's a bittersweet thing. i didn't have time to see any friends while i was home but this week should be a lot better! my mom is doing totally great though, so that is good!

here are some photos from this weekend-

beautiful simba!


hank and me, he looks so irritated!


and my hair has grown a lot recently. it's half up obviously. yay hair! keep doing your thing!


there are a few more photos on my flickr too!

hank is off to practice now and i am going to watch some freaks and geeks!
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today was a really busy morning so far! i finished every last bit of our xmas shopping...awesome. my mom had surgery yesterday so i have been at home taking care of her and just laying low. she battled breast cancer last year and had a double mastectomy last spring, so this surgery was a follow up to remove some skin and stuff in that area. it always scares me when someone i love goes "under," so i am so happy she is okay. she is the most positive person i know and such an inspiration. so it's been really nice being at home with her.

everything else is going really well. it's hard to find things to write about everyday in here, my life isn't that exciting but i am trying to update everyday when i get online to do email or work. at the least it is fun to look back on and read! i just wish i didn't have to deal with weird creeps on flickr. i keep in touch with all of my far away friends through various internet mediums but i have been thinking about making everything private anyway, but i am not sure how to my this blog private to just my friends? does anyone know? the messages from dudes with "hot naked tattooed girls" as one of their groups need to stop. it makes me so sad and feel icky. soooo that's my rant about creeps on the internet. i have had a private myspace and lj for so long that now that i have a public flickr and this, it's strange how different it is!

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today was,

an incredibly satisfying day. it was another day i was on the computer a lot due to work and getting some projects done, so the lovely internet kept me entertained on breaks. i worked in the morning and then went lunch with some girlfriends and shopped a small bit. came home and snuggled with my hubby on the couch, watched top chef, and ate some dinner. did more computer work, worked out, and here i am. right here! tomorrow includes my last two hours of work for 2008 which is very/extremely/super exciting. bed for now, but i will leave you with photos i love. i don't know the sources of any of them, they are random finds from the world wide web so if you know the photographer or any information let me know so i can credit. i will say though, no credit goes to me! wa-la!

really and truly adorable!


a baby puppy, but not our baby puppy


happy birthday


very pretty.




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today was a good day.

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seriously.

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girl, i totally feel ya.

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keeping warm

today's outfit, originally uploaded by daniellehampton.
it snowed today so i decided to wear my super warm wool dress and long american apparel socks. they are thigh high, or butt high if you're small like me, and are the perfect wintertime solution to short dresses.
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madeline's first snow!

DSCF1699, originally uploaded by hch3.
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snow!

this was a bit earlier, it's snowing a lot harder now! this was taken from our front balcony. ps. i hate living here. it's way too big for hank and me. you can kind of get an idea of the size from the photo. it's one whole entire unit, with both garages. our townhouse is stand alone though. it has three bedrooms and four bathrooms. i wouldn't mind the size except the layout is horrible. 3 stories with one bedroom on the 1st floor, totally unattached from the inside of the home, you have to walk outside to get into it. weirdest place ever and biggest mistake to move here. oh well! one more month!



backyard!

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more ray caesar, for melissa

i love how creepy these are. here are a few of my favorites...









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breakfast! my most favorite cereal.

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good morning, sunday

good morning! i slept pretty well last night despite madeline wanting to play from 2am-5am. now i am just laying here in bed contemplating whether to go to the gym now or wait until 4pm or so when it clears out. hmmm, decisions. dustin just got here for the guys' weekly football and cooking marathon. i believe today's menus is homemade tamales and i may offer up a cheesecake made from scratch if i can find some almond extract! last night hank and i visited frys, albertsons and even walmart to get this last elusive ingredient but each place was sold out. seemed a bit weird to me. we thought it was just a fluke but then each store we visited we out of it. i have never had a problem buying it so it just seemed weird. besides the ingredient hunt, last night hank and i had a cute little dinner date. we were going to go to a nicer place (bin) but decided to go to good old hugos. i got a beam burrito and hank got the tamale plate. we followed it up with some frozen yogurt. sooo good. i am really looking forward to a long day of organizing and baking. it's been a perfect weekend and i am really very rested this morning. tomorrow marks the beginning of finals week at work and then i have 16 paid days off. being a teacher rules, seriously.



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lovely love

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saturday, almost sunday

this weekend has been great so far. i promised myself that i would have a really relaxing weekend and that is exactly what i'm doing. i made an impromptu trip to phoenix last night so erika could cut and color my hair this morning. i ended up doing lunch and shopping with meag afterwards (only uo and aa) so it turned into a much longer visit than anticipated, but was definitely a great time. so now i am wrapped up in blankets doing some internet shopping/browsing, talking on aim and bbm, and bascially being lazy. i woke up at 7 this morning and did spinning with my sister so its nice i got my workout out of the way early. it makes me feel better about doing absolutely nothing now. i am going to go to sleep, but i will leave you with some things to look at. i hope you are having a happy night too!

i love this illustration.


vampire rings! awesome. i forget what site these came from though but i do remember that they were $98 per single ring.


our new home's bedroom inspiration


there's a beautiful, happy summer time feel to this photo.


isn't this cute? it's the exact opposite of me but i still love it. my to do list is always jam packed, but that's how i like it!


i have had this photo saved for awhile, it is perfect to me.
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