Life {as told by my iPhone camera}

As most of you already know, I am a memory hoarder. I continually find myself being at a dinner with family or friends and taking in the moment, the feelings, the smells, and cherishing the moment. I love taking at pictures and looking at them later on and remembering the feelings of that moment. So when I stumbled on this website I squealed in excitement. Anyway here are some snaps from the last few weeks! It's been a busy and wonderful time. Xo

Hiking in Santa Barbara with Todd!

Life is all about balance, right?

My little crushing the 20 millionth egg  on my head on Easter

Girls night out in CA, but first a few selfies

Visiting with my best friend Vanessa and her babes

My dreamboat 

Hanging with friends and singing songs

Finally made it to The Getty Museum Gardens!

What? I'm just resting my hand..

lol

Can I just live here?

Went to an Angels game to see them win!!! But really they lost... : / 

See the guy sitting next to me, I took his drink because four innings went by and he didn't touch it and he was so sloshed. We couldn't stop laughing or wondering if he'd ever notice. He didn't. 

Sleepy 5a.m. flight back to NYC

Reason 101 why I love Philly, because whenever I'm here it looks just like this

Tracyyyyyyy

At the Global Citizens Festival and my friend Sabrina caught Pete Wentz's guitar pick!!!

Our day mostly looked like this

and this

but then Chris Martin came out and he waved to me when I scream his name (very loudly)...yup I almost died 

The first love of my life 

No Doubt!

Gwen

Driving upstate for a conference 

Biked 2.5 miles just to savor this little baby. I love Milk Bar's cereal milk ice-cream. 

Natural history museum 

That time my cousin Casey came to NY and we took 100 selfies

Family love

On Tuesday we wear green!

Spring is here!!!

FaceTime call on Mother's Day! 

Mornings with Penelope 

Word

Twinning at school

Fourth night practicing 'till 11p.m.

This moment was all worth it. 

Celebrated Penelope's 2nd birthday we had a bath and a lot of cuddles #CatPurrito

Everything Comes and Goes

I have spent a lot of time this summer questioning why certain situations happened and even at times feeling very overwhelmed, confused, angry, or hurt. But if this summer has taught me anything it has been two major things: Value every single day the people who you love and love you back because life is very unpredictable. Also no one is going to love you as much as you love yourself and as much as your family does. Even at 27 years old, I’m still being reminded how relationships and friends come and go, and while still so very important, they aren’t everything. Family remains my constant. The family I come from is right where I fit in and feel most like myself, most at home. It’s like you’ve seen everyone go through everything, and they’ve seen you go through it all too and they are still there, with their big smiles across their faces and their arms extended ready to embrace, because that’s family. It’s been a nice reminder for me. I sure love mine.

And I'm so happy to be back in New York, more than I’d like to admit, and wow have I missed it this trip. I love being out west for countless reasons, but it felt really good getting back to the city. (always a relief to feel that way, because sometimes I’m on the fence about living in New York. I guess we all go through stages where the grass looks mighty greener on the other side of the country!) Even though I still feel extremely overwhelmed and am trying to figure many things out, I'm trying to have the mentality that I just have to continue putting one foot in front of the other and allow time to heal all. I hate being a downer over here for you guys but here's hoping for brighter days ahead and thanks for stopping by...more cooking and cat post hopefully to come very soon! ;)

Life { according to my iPhone camera}

Here are a few photos from my adventures these last few months. Take a peek if you'd like.

   Spring in NYC has been quite lovely and my afternoon walks have been filled with a lot of this.

and a lot of this...

I packed up my bags and said goodbye to Penelope for a few days

to wake up to this  #Heaven #Cancun

 enjoyed some fun in the sun and spied on some saucy men in Cancun

and took some silly pictures of my friends as they slept

and celebrated a beautiful wedding with these girls #BostonBuddies

I came back and bought some fancy shoes and by fancy I mean some comfortable Crocs flats! #InHeaven 

Saw my favorite book this year on screen and cried my eyes out...for. the. whole. movie. 

then casually scared my students on the last day of school

got the most wonderful surprise from Richard!!! #SoulSister