maria. the rockstar.

this is my friend maria. if any of you reading this were at my wedding, she and my other mucho talented friend, jonah, sang that song by ingrid michaelson, the way i am. she lives in utah right now. she doesn't belong in utah and i miss her. she laughs at me every time i tell her she's going to be famous. she will.

the boy is in!

after quite some time, pj has made it back to the second grade (insert cheers and huge sigh of relief). he started at the hollywood schoolhouse on thursday and has already made several friends. poor kid has been seriously lacking in people, age 8. we are becoming pros at finding our way around, via metro. LA has a great subway system that we catch 3 blocks from home and drops us about the same at our respective schools. the stop where we get off for pj's school is right on hollywood blvd. next door to the kodak theatre. we're kind of like celebrities. oh, wait.

i'm not sure what building that is with the rugrats pictures, but it's not the school. in case you were wondering.

bunnies + chocolate

= lauren's favorite holiday. well, not completely true, but a close 2nd, tied with thanksgiving. the girl loves to eat. i digress, it's easter time and i am pretty happy about it. my last post, a little dramatic, already described how i'm feeling as of late, but that is completely unrelated to holidays. holidays are a whole different ball game. i love them and all the food, decorating, family goodness that they entail. along with the traditional bunny cake, i'm thinking about replicating these bad boys.
class break is over, more on easter to come...

happy.

what do you do when your life takes a turn and so many things you've longed for for so long come to you and when you try and think of things that would make it better, very few come to mind and instead of searching for things to look forward to you're just happy. every day. burst, i think.

Do You Realize?

that you have the most beautiful face... -flaming lips

100th Post

celebrating 100 insights into these diaz people's lives. hope you've enjoyed! stick around, why don'tcha?

A Gem

this post is alternately titled "i heart npr." did you know that if you ever want to find something you've heard on npr, you can go to their website npr.org and tell them about it and they will find it for you? genius. did you know that even if you were mistaken and the program you were listening to wasn't on npr, but another delightful program called this american life, that the lovely folks at npr will still find it for you and send you the link? quite thoughtful. coo coo cachoo, npr, i'm now an even bigger fan and maybe i'll throw a couple of my extra pennies your way during your fundraising marathons.

i digress... a couple months ago i was driving in the car listening to what i thought was npr, but was actually this american life. i became so engrossed in the story that i sat in the parking lot of the grocery store until it was over. so, if you have 16 of your minutes to spare and want to be entertained, check out this gem. Babies Buying Babies was the story that caught me, but after scowering her website, i'm also looking forward to her book The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance coming out this year.