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cropped pants and tall boots?

February 15, 2009

I saw a girl wearing cropped pants and tall boots at the mall today. It is an odd look - I'm really not sure what to think of it. What do you think?

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fun price sheet idea

February 13, 2009

I thought this would be fun for a price sheet for my weddings - $10 each! It is silkscreened onto wood.

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Def Leppard - Photograph

February 11, 2009

It is funny that Chris wasn't into photography at all when we met. But two of his all time favorite songs reference photography! One is Paul Simon's Kodachrome and the other is Def Leppard's Photograph.

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LOST! Escalante National Monument

February 11, 2009

This is as close to lost as we have ever been on one of our trips. We were on our way to Tropic, Utah for the night and we were about 2 hours away on this unnamed road, here's the video for the details... We

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Horseshoe Bend

February 10, 2009

Just south of the dam for Lake Powell is the famous Horseshoe Bend. You may have seen this in photos but it is quite impressive in person. We sat and watched the boats in the river for a while and

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Lake Powell

February 9, 2009

Our next stop was Lake Powell, a which is a man made lake that is over 500 feet deep at it's deepest. The lake was made by damming up the Colorado River and it created an awesome recreation area for everyone

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china and dinnerware

February 9, 2009

My mom has several sets of china - I'm not sure why. But she likes all of them and when we got married I asked for one set (my favorite blue set) and she instead offered me the "fruit" set as I call

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Camping at Zion National Park

February 9, 2009

This was our camp site at Zion. We could have had several tents in our site, it was huge! But remember that it was 115 during the day on our trip, and at night it was 95 degrees, so it was pretty tough

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Zion National Park Video

February 6, 2009

There is a tunnel on the road through Zion that we wanted to show you so we turned on the video camera and put something together. The best part about leaving a camera running is that you get to hear how

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Duke

February 5, 2009

Duke is such a people dog. He loves to be around us ALL the time. If I move rooms, he follows me. He was wrapped up in a tight ball looking cute in my office today:

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Zion National Park

February 4, 2009

From our National Park trip last July, we left off at our arrival to Zion National Park. (Click on "Vacations" at the top of the page if you need to catch up) By far this was the most beautiful of the

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cake stands

February 4, 2009

I've got a thing for cake stands - not really sure where it comes from. We registered for a really cute one when we got married, but since someone bought us a random ugly one we kept it instead (didn't

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Sushi Candy

February 3, 2009

When we were in Lake Tahoe the girls had a spa morning at Squaw Valley. They had this magazine called Sunset with an ad for Safeway featuring Sushi candy. Here is the photo from the ad: Look closely

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jewelry - Nakamol Chicago

January 25, 2009

I look through a lot of magazines and I love ripping out things I want and finding them in stores or online. Magazines are good at finding unique jewelry by designers I haven't heard of I love seeing

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Understated Elegance

January 25, 2009

So I am sitting here on the couch in my PJs and watching an episode of Platinum Weddings. It seems like every time I watch this show the bride is saying "the theme of my wedding is understated elegance."

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John Wayne quote

January 23, 2009

This came to me in an email and I really liked it: "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life; Comes in to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands and

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Teeth Whitening in the Mall

January 20, 2009

It is so bizarre to see people getting their teeth whitened in the mall. What makes it even funnier is that their lips are all pulled back like they are standing in a wind tunnel, they are drooling and

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my favorite hair products

January 16, 2009

I have an obsession with beauty products - makeup, hair stuff, body stuff - you name it. So I thought I would review two of my often used products. The first one is my Kenra hair spray. I've had

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Plane crashes into Hudson

January 15, 2009

How can we watch football in HD and see the players' nosehairs yet the coverage for this plane crash into the Hudson is so poor? It looks like it was shot with a camera from 1982 - you can hardly tell

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Finally a faster blog!

January 14, 2009

You may have noticed how slow the blog was getting recently, and to be honest I am not really sure why it was slow. Our traffic was getting pretty high but it still didn't justify the site being as slow

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We are Sandra and Chris, and this is OurBigAdventure, the story of our experiences and favorite things all in one place so we can share them with you.

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