one question

will you 

marry me

i am sorry to say, but at this point we had been engaged for a little less than a week. we reenacted for leah. i always thought i would want someone to take pictures of my boyfriend proposing to me, but when it happened i was glad it was just us. last weekend we went down to charleston for memorial day and my sister’s birthday. on monday we went out on the beach all day. michael asked if i wanted to go downtown and grab a bit to eat before we hit the road. so we did. he was acting so weird the whole time. then we stopped and got some ice cream and he asks me if i want to take a walk by the water (which is so not michael) we end up sitting down and talking and i kept asking him if he was ready to go and he kept saying he just wanted to sit there a little longer. then finally he said we could go, but he said he had a question before we left. then i knew. he got down on his knee and asked me. i was so shocked and happy i started laughing. way to ruin the moment morgan.

dirty blonde

summer

hair

growing up my hair got so light in the summer and ever since i have been dying it dark it has just been a disaster when it gets sun. i have never had a good experience trying to go back lighter with my hair color, but i decided to try it one more time. i went to this girl megan at theory salon that all the girls i work with go to. they rant and rave over how well she does color, so i decided to try it out. i showed her a picture of what i wanted, and i think we should all know by now when you show your hair dresser a picture, it probably is not going to look like that. well i underestimated her. she is amazing. she made it look natural and she could tell i was super low maintenance with my hair so she made it to where my roots are completely my natural color and it blends to the lighter color at my ends. it took her like four hours because of this crazy technique she used to do it, but like she said as she was doing it, it was well worth it in the end.

lemon(or lime)ade

the warm weather is here. my go to drink in the spring and summer is lemonade. i am obsessed with it and i crave it everyday. when i was younger my brother, sister and i had lemonade stands in the summer all the time.

a fun way to serve it to your guests is to put sugar on the rim of the glass or you can use a mortal and pestle to crush up lemon head candies and have that on the rim of the glass. thinly slice lemons and then put a few slices in the glass with the chilled lemonade and ice cubes.

another spring and summer favorite is limeade, especially cherry or strawberry limeade from sonic.

my spoon is too big

my brother left me a voice mail saying “my spoon is too big” in a creepy voice like three or four times. it was funny, but i had no idea what he was talking about. so when i told him i did not get it when i was talking to him, he told me to you tube it. it is funny, but i do not like the banana’s voice. it gets on my nerves. for the you tube video click here.

takin it to the beach

pick

one

i can not decide between these two beach totes by virginia johnson. one is yellow with purple paper airplanes and the other is navy with white elephants. help me decide.

a town

welcome

to atlanta

heading to atlanta tomorrow to see bubbie. i am pretty pumped.

side note

i love my boyfriend so much

susan boyle

britians

got talent

my mom told me to look this up. i think it has been all over the news. you have got to watch this you tube. 

click here

exposed

margaret feinberg sent me her book, the sacred echo and i have been meaning to read and blog about it. when i received it in the mail work was super crazy and then i moved. well needless to say the book, along with all my other books were packed away. i have just now gotten it out and so i began reading it this morning. i will start out with the section titled exposed. 

in this section margaret starts out by saying she was never much of a pray-er. if anything a yo-yo pray-er. there were many attempts such as praying standing, sitting, lying, a prayer notebook, a prayer photo box, but none of them stuck around. then she ended up making a prayer list in the back of her bible on the extra sheets. it is hard to lose your bible and that way its always right there. she started wondering why she was praying for all these things and people over and over when god already knows what he is going to do and already knows the words that are going to come out from her mouth before she even lets them out. then she started thinking of jesus’ parable of the tenacious widow who demanded justice. the judge finally caved, not because of her arguments, or the eloquence of her speech, or the testimony of her witness. he gave in because was a nag and wore him down. just like margaret says, i want god to not only hear my prayers, but to act on them. when god speaks to me i want to be confident to recognize his voice and then obey.

“i want a relationship with god where prayer is as natural as breathing.”

“i want my every inhale infused with his presence, my every exhale an extension of his love.”

margaret talks about when you feel or hear something and wonder if its god. questions like that take her to the story of elijah. in 1 kings 19, elijah hits rock bottom and is ready to throw in the towel. god asks elijah what he is doing here. he does not hold back with his response. his life is on the line, yet god does not answer any of his concerns. then god instructs him to go stand on the side of a mountain and wait. he is thousands of feet above sea level and the wind picks up. hurricane force winds are ripping the rock formations surrounding him. he hears an earthquake. the shaking finally stops. then there is fire all around, smoke fills the air. then it all vanished. god draws near, in the quiet sound of a whisper. he was not in the wind, the earthquake or the fire. that got elijah’s attention and kept it. this time when god asks elijah what he is doing here, elijah answers somewhat the same, but god replies with specific instruction and companionship. you have to be able to hear gods whispers. he comes close and breathes into your soul.

not only do you need to listen for his whispers, but his echos. the things he says over and over. he says it so much you can not avoid it. to hear from the god, the main source and authority is the bible. it is like gods megaphone to his children. it is something you should spend time doing daily. god does not just talk to us through the bible though. he has talked to people through many methods. he is creative and he is persistent in getting our attention and communicating with us.

poor bunny

see if the

easter bunny

ever visits

me again

so let me start out by saying i have never hit an animal with my car. last night i was driving and a rabbit ran out in the road. i tried so hard to stop, but i hit it. michael was in the car behind me and he said it looked bad. when he left he drove past where it happened and said he did not see the rabbit. well this morning i drove by and some black crows caught my eye. i looked over and they were at the dead rabbit. like i said i have never even hit an animal before, and the first thing i ever hit is a bunny rabbit on easter. that is wrong. so wrong.

takin it back

my

goodies

leah and i were talking and she said goodies and it made me think of this song. a few summers ago we were completely obsessed. i must say, i am still digging it. go here to see the video.

go all out

out with the old

and in with the new

well here is the way i see it. if you are going to cut it all off, you might as well change the color.

my nose really likes that

gardenia

my new favorite diptyque scent is gardenia. im obsessed. well that is until i get a new favorite.

such a fan

dekooning

fan

perfect fit

balmain

spring 2009 runway look

acid washed ripped jeans

we just got in our newest line, balmain. i have no other word to describe it besides extraordinary or any of its synonyms. check out their website. for those who are not into fashion, you probably will not understand at all.

i hope you dance

when you get the chance

to sit it out or dance

i hope you dance

my mom gave me a book a long time ago that had all the lyrics to the song i hope you dance as well as pictures to go along with what the lyrics said. it also a copy of the cd in the back. not only is lee ann womack’s voice beautiful so are the words. you can hear the song here.

take me back

playing

house

i love these pictures from a past issue of W. very artistic. and they look so vintage. it makes me want to go back and live in a different decade.

parts to a whole

sit,

please

how great is this stool. i love it.

i like this.

lady gaga

russian roulette

is not the same

without a gun

i am loving lady gaga. my friend jordan told me about her a while back. way before she was on the radio all the time and by all i mean all. i listen to to her songs over and over and over. speaking of listening to songs way too much, another song leah and i keep playing is beautiful by akon. how do we not get sick of songs, i am not sure. another one you should check out is this. black and gold by sam sparro.