there are so many things i want to show you, piri.. like this.. this is called virginia beach..

i still have virginia beach on my mind and how it was so relaxing and perfect. 

the beach was something we had always wanted to show piri... among so many other things. 

we hope the little guy enjoyed it. by the looks of it, yes? 

we think so. 

a little film: "hello virginia beach! it's nice to meet you!"

on saturday, we packed up our little hatchback 

and took a three and a half hour trip to virginia beach!

i love my little family so much and 

decided to show you how much i love them with a little film. 

and with this, another "to do with piri" is scratched off the list! 

now on to playing in a big back yard!

hope you all had a spectacular weekend!

xoxo, 

jane

now playing: tunes for random dance parties in the kitchen

we love random dance parties in the kitchen.

sometimes piri joins in. with his favorite stuffed toy. 
wooden stirring spoons make for perfect mics or pretend drum sticks.

these are some tunes that get us movin and groovin.

happy friday!

01 // don't do me like that - tom petty and the heartbreakers

02 // old time rock and roll - graham blvd

03 // do you love me - contours 

04 // i wanna dance with somebody - whitney houston

05 // i want you back - jackson 5

06 // pack up - eliza doolittle

07 // rock & roll - eric hutchinson

08 // walking on sunshine - katrina and the waves

#throwbackthursday about a girl named jane

i was curious to see how i would look in a chronological order...

too bad i couldn't do a decade rewind {couldn't find pictures pre-2005}

^^^i took this picture on my birthday in 2005. i turned 27 years old and thought that age was kinda cool.^^^

^^^this was a warm summer day in 2006. piri had come to live with me in new york. it was a new chapter in my life. i turned 28 this year.^^^

^^^i turned 29 in 2007. it was also the year when i chopped my hair off. even though i told myself i would never do this again.. i grew my hair out and chopped it off again in 2009 right after my wedding.^^^

^^^2008 - the year i turned 30 and the year yangkyu proposed. this picture was right before our trip to bear mountain in new york. piri hated taking pictures then. he still hates it now.^^^

^^^i turned 31 in 2009, the year i got married. this was taken during our engagement shoot in times square.^^^

^^^starting yet another chapter in my life. we moved to washington dc 2010 and i turned 32 years old.^^^

^^^2011. the shortest my hair has been since college when i sported a boyish do. i'm still trying to grow my hair out to this day. i turned 33 this year. it was also the year we spent our 2nd anniversary in orlando.^^^

^^^i turned 34 in 2012 and finally decided to try lipstick.^^^

^^^it's 2013. i'll turn 35 this year. i remember when i turned 25. i told myself.. wow i'm closer to 30 than i am 20. i guess this time around, i'll be closer to 40 than 30.^^^

you know what i find out about myself as each year passes? 

i am still learning. 

i look back to how i was a year ago and can't believe how much i am still growing and maturing.

xoxo, 

jane

he's cute and spreads luck wherever he goes and we love this little guy to pieces

boy do we love this little guy to pieces.

and he brings us good luck. 

we took piri with us on our usual trips to open houses on sunday and

after months of looking, we finally found a place that felt like ours.

so.. we made an offer!

the townhome was awfully popular and we aren't getting our hopes up, 

but still making an offer was something so totally new and exciting. 

it was kinda of the highlight of our weekend!

xoxo, 

jane

life lately, according to my iphone

what the camera didn't, the phone did. 

xoxo, 

jane

ps - sending prayers to boston

i lost my head somewhere between last tuesday and friday, but it's in the right place now

or at least i think it's in the right place. 

it was so busy and tiring last week, i don't know what got me through. 

but the weekend brought wonderful things like: 

1. friends visiting from new york 

2. cherry blossom viewing

3. beautiful weather

4. good conversations and

5. laughter 

hope it was a lovely weekend on your end.

xoxo, 

jane

now playing: heard it on the tube

i used to always listen to music on the radio (listening to casey kasem's countdown on z100 over the weekend was like a religious ritual),
but now i hardly listen and have no idea what is current and new. 
instead, i rely on npr music, itunes and the tube.
below are a few tunes from commercials we are absolutely in love with.

01 // how i want ya (feat. lara wilson) - j-man (netflix)
02 // if it wasn't for you - various cruelties (zales)
03 // bright whites - kishi bashi (microsoft windows 8)
04 // bring me close - mindy gledhill (fruit of the loom)
05 // walking the dog - fun. (expedia)
06 // fallin' - connie francis (target)
07 // together - kina grannis (disney)
08 // sweet disposition - the temper trap feat. victoria bergsman (diet coke)

do you have any favorite songs you heard on tv? 
please share! would love to grow my music library.
happy weekend! 

xoxo, 
jane

it's good to be late from time to time because you get to find little gems like the maine avenue fish market

as mentioned in this post, i had said to yangkyu that he never plans surprise dates for me anymore. and so he went and booked tickets for us to spend an hour sailing with the wonderful folks over at dc harbor cruises.

we were supposed to be there by 11:45 am but the dc traffic got the better of us and we arrived just as it turned noon. thinking that we blew our tickets we delightfully surprised when we found out we were able to get on a waiting list for the next ship and had an hour and a half to pass. so we walked along the harbor until we stumbled across a little gem called the maine avenue fish market.

there we ordered some maryland crab soup and oysters and walked away with the biggest smiles you can imagine.

xoxo, 

jane