sugar & spice

and everything nice.

that's what little girls are made of.

my nieces are models.

my sister's a photographer.

i love to play dress up.

this is the outcome.

more pictures of the 9 bott kids to come.

just be, november 11, 7:00 to 9:00 pm

it's that time of year again! time for christmas shopping and personal endeavors. it's time for another just be trunk show at jeni's. we are having just be and a few other companies and vendors there. please come. i'm making cupcakes. invite anyone (just not crazy kids please). jeni's address is below linked to mapquest. just be EXCITED! and keep posted for the newest just be models (my nieces!)

343 Quail Run Road

Farmington, UT

desires...some selfish i'll admit

shoes, jcrew, banana republic, mom's homemade bread, new car smell, sleeping in, flying first class, night out on the town, learning to snowboard, room service, playing the piano, playing the guitar, a first then second hot date, to be a good runner, backstage passes, art gallery, museums, the MET, fresh baked cookies, homemade ice cream, broadway tickets, fresh flowers, wide-open spaces, having all the answers, guardian angel, volunteering in Costa Rica, PhD, world peace, a white picket fence, string of black pearls, 3-day weekends, 6-pack abs, mountain biking, massage, perfect teeth, good friends, organized closets, season tickets to the Utes, cooking classes, truth, blue skies, a raise, positive attitude 100% of the time, front row Jazz play off tickets, a personal assistant, road trip, sushi, personal trainer, photographic memory, Sundays, minty breath at all times. . .

bend it like beckham

the amazing new rio tinto stadium

baby g & trishy

i'm his favorite non-related aunt

jess, erin, me liz, baby g

and just an fyi, the guy behind me is unfortunately married...

i wish beckham would have been there! some of my friends and myself went to the last REAL game at the new stadium. it's an amazing place. since they used funds that should have gone to jordan school district i vowed never to go there. that lasted until the second game. when we got there trish, colin and garrett lewis were right in front of me! yay! it was a great game. we won 3 to 1.

my first ever tag...the i am tag

I am: a teacher
I am: a friend
I think: about being "sick" on november 4th so i don't have to decide who to vote for

I know: i want to keep learning
I want: a family of my own someday
I have: amazing friends 
I dislike: contention
I miss: my mom
I fear: finally finding the man of my dreams and something bad happening to him
I feel: very blessed
I hear: my sisters music 
I smell: my juicy couture perfume  
I crave: fresh peaches
I cry: almost everyday 

I usually: sleep in
I search: for antiques 
I wonder: about my future
I regret: not moving away for college, quitting piano lessons
I love: my family
I care: about each kid in my class, and all kids for that matter
I always: like books better than movies 
I worry: about everything, too much
I am not: good at saving money (but am getting much better)
I remember: laying in bed talking with my mom
I believe: in my church 
I sing: to my class, i make up songs for everything
I don't always: do things right when other people think i should 
I argue: when i know i'm right
I write: in my journal almost everyday 
I win: dawnell in racquetball (in my dreams)

I lose: no weight

I wish: i was smarter  
I listen: to books on tape on my way to work
I can usually be found: reading in bed at night
I am scared: of change
I need: 3 more pay checks to be out of debt
I forget: how much i love to shop
I am happy: almost all of the time
I tag: jess, trish, dawnell shan, amy (if you're bored while waiting to have a baby), anyone else who reads my blog...consider yourself tagged.

the rat pack

one of my best purchases ever (before i met dave ramsey of course) was season tickets to capital theater. last night was the first show, the rat pack. it was a night filled with frank sinatra, sammy davis junior, and dean martin. my favorite line of the night was from sammy, "them white guys are all the same to me". i laughed really hard.

breast cancer awareness month

Huntsman Cancer Institute 

American Cancer Society

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Susan G. Komen for the Cure

Think Before You Pink

Breast Cancer Facts & Figures

don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened

kristine tolman bott

may 5, 1953-september 26, 2005

three years ago today the best woman in the world, my mom, passed away. she taught me so much. she was the best example of kindness, charity, hard work, unconditional love, faith, and of course how to cook, how to make and keep a home, how to shop til you drop, and how to love every second of this precious time we have on earth. all that i am, that is good, is because of her. there is not a day that goes by that i don't think of her.

warming up at the cabin

new york

race for the cure

i carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)

i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear;

and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) i fear

no fate (for you are my fate you sweet) i want

no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and they sky of the sky of a tree called life;

which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

-ee cummings

i am in love with fall

bright tights

FRESH PEACHES!!!

hot chocolate from hatch 

family chocolates, the

dark chocolate is my favorite

the moon going down over midway in fall

one of my favorite br jackets

fire roasted tomato soup 

from paradise bakery

boots!

i am on a new budget thanks to dave ramsey

but i scrounged up the money for one new

fall item. i fell in love with this sweater

when i saw it at hip and humble.

light scarves

my fall just be bags came out 

of the closet september 1

fall leaves

my favorite weather