enJOY it by Elise Blaha Cripe

we made a video.

e & p @ waterfront from elise blaha on Vimeo.

I was enamored with these cute videos from Ruby of Cakies and decided to do something similar when Paul and I went to The Waterfront for the last time this year. (Obviously we'll be back the next time we're together in San Diego.)

The entire video was shot using the iSupr8 app on my iPhone then put together and set to music in iMovie. Song is Magic by Rabbit.

Cannot wait to give this app more use on some upcoming adventures (that means with you girls in NYC, gtrain).

week in the life / friday.

FRIDAY : wake up at 7:30 after a rough nights sleep. too much anticipation for Paul to get home and way too much HTML code in my head, I think. cereal & blueberries for breakfast. get right back to work on the new blog design. more progress! am a fan of how it is starting to come together. and I think I've got a way to tie it into the web redesign too. clean the house like a crazy person - bathrooms and vacuuming too. watch the season premiere of Project Runway. am interested. but not interested enough to keep watching through the judges deliberation. realize I have not watched the actual "you're in and you're out" scene since the show switched from Bravo to Lifetime. go down to the gym and run 2.25 miles. slowly getting back on the running horse. terrified that I have committed to another half. back upstairs for a shower. make lunch : egg scramble & cottage cheese. deal with emails. make dough for cinnamon pull apart bread. go to the post office while dough is rising. come home and work on next step of cinnamon bread and get it in the oven. do some computer work. change the sheets on the bed. pull bread out of the oven. looks amazing. photograph (for 40 loaves project) and try a piece. heaven. back to the computer. go for a long walk around the neighborhood. pick up a hamburger from Burger Lounge on the walk home. (see, it's not all fruit and healthy food around here.) eat dinner and get a text from Paul that he'll more than likely be missing his connecting flight due to the failure that is American Airlines. can't even get upset about this bump in the road which is alarming. am now so accustomed to the endless SNAFUs. watch some tv. dream about new hairstyles. get a call from Paul that he is indeed stuck in Dallas overnight and the best they can do is get him to LAX early tomorrow morning. feel awful for him. make plans to pick him up there. type this post and then will fall into bed exhausted.

and that wraps up my week in the life! I am still planning on putting these photos and words into some sort of album. I have an idea for it, but I'm not sure if it's going to work. I have more thoughts on this project that I'll be sharing eventually, but for now... I just want tonight to be over and to be with Paul. I have a few posts scheduled for next week so check back.

have a great weekend.

today's the day.

Paul gets home from a month long training session in Mississippi late tonight.

I am going to soak him up and squeeze him tight and celebrate all weekend long.

This will be our last weekend together in San Diego. Immediately after his deployment, we will be moving north (to the Ventura area) because he'll be stationed at Port Hueheme. It's likely I'll actually make the move solo (well, with the military movers help) so this is really it. Tomorrow there will be two barstools with our names on them at Waterfront and I'll be the girl crying into my beer.

Just kidding. There is to be no crying. Only confetti and joy this weekend.

Next week, we'll staying up by Port Hueneme for Paul to get all the i's dotted, t's crossed and corners tucked in. We expect that will take until Friday just kidding, they are now saying Saturday oh wait, maybe Sunday or back to Friday? some day in the near future and then it will be just me, him, some luggage and an airport.

And then, yes then, the tears will be allowed to flow.

Thank you so much for your words and thoughts and prayers this summer as we have prepped for this adventure. We've had a lot of false starts and I know it's been a little confusing as I've tried to share bits and pieces. I'm living it and most days I'm totally confused.

This is really it though. The end of the beginning or the beginning of the end. Or just the start of the middle.

Deep breath.

*photo circa spring 2007. it's us, before we were living together, before we were engaged, before we were married. and it feels like YESTERDAY. fingers crossed this deployment goes just as quickly.

week in the life / thursday.

THURSDAY : wake up @ 8am. check email and flipboard on iPad in bed. microwave oatmeal. oatmeal explodes. toss it and start over. remember to make coffee! add honey and blueberries to oatmeal. enjoy while responding to emails. software wants to update. let computer do it's thing and clean the kitchen. work on a blog post for next week. drive to a 10:15 Bar Method class. it's totally intense. stop at Trader Joe's after class. Trader Joe's has revolutionized grocery shopping for me; no longer hate it with a passion. pick up steak (for this weekend), milk, cheese, cereal and peaches. drop off some old photo albums at goodwill. drive home. finish previously mentioned blog post while eating a peach and cereal for lunch. take a shower. work on big stationery order with a print, trim & fold assembly line. package order. deal with more email. start brainstorming for new blog design. five hours later, still brainstorming and starting to code. even drawing designs through dinner. losing my mind. it's not looking good yet. but will get there. hopefully. eat a banana and blueberries. upload photos, type this post and vow to never to return to the computer again.*

*except really, I'll be back at it tomorrow.

so happy.

I mentioned this photoshoot a few weeks ago, but today, I am so happy to share some of the results! I met with The Goodness for some new "headshots" for a couple upcoming projects as well as a blog and website makeover. I wanted about 20 photos. And I wound up with 114. I am so excited to get working on the new site and now I have no reason to delay. Hoping to re-launch in late August (eek!) - but in the meantime, here are some sneaks of the photos! Thank you Geoff and Lisa! Love you guys.