travel plans, yes!!!

with everything going on in boston, i haven't felt right to share my plans for 2013. now that things are starting to settle down, i would love to tell you guys that i will be volunteering with project abroad in sri lanka in october. i am beyond excited for this adventure because: 1. i have never been to sri lanka 2. i will be able to spend my vacation helping and playing with kids 3. i am going to SRI freaking LANKA!!! 4. i am working on having a 23 hour lay over in....DUBAI!! this year will be an exciting one, since i haven't really traveled since coming back from africa, i have the following trips planned: - spain, in sept or nov, my sister will be studying abroad in madrid and i cant wait to have vino and papas bravas with her in one of my favorite countries in the world. - bali/thailand, my good friend bbergh, will be celebrating her 30th there and i of course already bought my ticket..not really but in my head i am already there. - chicago, in august to see my little amanda tie the knot - south carolina, to see my little tiffany tie the knot - maybe london to visit a great friend studying abroad - miami, in june for some R&R i think that's it...for now. have a wonderful monday loves.

standing strong with Boston

Boston my heart goes out to you and all.

Monica Alejandra Barabosa Alverez

today you joined God, your uncle, my cousin and so many others. i still cannot believe that you are gone. i cried at my desk today as i read the facebook postings about you. i love you dearly and as my mom said i wont be sad, i will be happy because i will remember all those amazing times we had in tamazula. you went from being the annoying little sister to one of my closest friends. i love you, i hope you knew that.

Guess who kept her word????

here is my photo dump!! enjoy and thanks for stopping by. ;)

ohhhh hey!!

Where has the time gone? I have no clue..sorry about the lack of post but as you can see my new friend tori hooked a girl up!! Check out her blog its pretty freaking amazing …it is sort of awesome and I love her work! What is the easiest way to update you guys on the last couple of months…. Well my sister came in February and we had a blast, we hit up the lulu lemon warehouse sale, celebrated V’s birthday and she got to see NYC for the first time. March is my month since its my birth month and I had the most amazing birthday!! I had a great weekend and I was reminded how lucky I am, I love my friends. Here are some pictures (tomorrow) And can you tell me what it is snowing AGAIN in MARCH!! The end of March, I mean come on mother nature…I know I am from the Chi (holler) but come on!! The time has come it is Spring. Also on a music note..since I consider myself a music critic, the new JT album is pretty freaking fantastic! I love the song Mirrors, it has been on repeat since I downloaded the cd, by the way does that sound odd to anyone else? Downloaded versus bought a cd?? Anyway its been on repeat and I realized yesterday that the reason I love it is because I am a hopeless romantic. The line where he sings, it was easy coming back to you once I figured it out..you were right here all along.” One day..one day. I am also super excited because I have something in the works once I confirm the details I will share it on here…because it will blow my mind if it all goes through and I think it may blow your mind as well! Happy Monday all and I will be posting more frequently from now on, pictures coming soon...tomorrow..lol

i have been doing so much lately let me catch you up: i got the most amazing tree ever let me show you...see....pretty freaking amaze-balls if you ask me. here is a before and after picture. Happy

holy crap a month since i have written?? what am i doing? after dallas, that same friday i flew over to chicago, to see my little sister run her first marathon. she was amazing!!! i love her she is so stinking cute and she did it. I jumped in at mile 17 and ran with her till 25 then ran from there to mile 26 to document her getting to the finish. i felt so lucky that she let me jump in with her. i came back to nyc (thankfully) and have been hanging out in new york, going out with my girls and enjoying life, then well you know we got hit by hurricane sandy, which was super scary. thankfully we never lost power here in brooklyn, and i heard from so many friends (thank you). here are some pictures of my favorite moments.

this last one is on my block after sandy, it was really scary here. i was able to volunteer on friday, before they cancelled the marathon with team for kids. it was so hard telling so many runners that they were no longer able to run. sunday i volunteered at the armory in brooklyn.