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Before I started this recent blog binge, I hadn't written in a couple months. Which means there are a LOT of random pics/events/quotes that need to be dumped somewhere. Here they are!



i really am...

so chic.

my haul from the J. Crew Warehouse sale! that oversized mens hoodie may be the best thing i got...

temple time.

summertime chillin! long, good days. full of the pool.

MOVING IS THE WORST. i will miss this tender house so much :(

watched a lot of "SVU" because, well, Stabe. love these two.

Raja throwing shade, hahaha. this pic kills me.

me and G at Caity's wedding. no, we're not married.

Yankees/Orioles with R! back when i thought this was my last time to see Derek Jeter play in person before retiring.

"What is a weekend?"

friend fitness.

LRG at the Nats game for R's birthday! these are my people.

Mama and Papa Price celebrated their 37th wedding anniverary. with me, haha.

met H and Harrison several times around DC. just love him.

Kate Spade outlet haul.

dad started using emojis.

facetimed with my cutie nephews eating popsicles.

NAT STARTED KINDERGARTEN! and i started my awesome new schedule.

love this. <3

mom was out of town for dad's 60th birthday, so i splurged on good seats and took him to the Nats game :)

did a donut puzzle.

CRYING.

Marge just gets me.

sleepovers with Raja :)

legit a buck was walking through the Ogden's backyard. what???

went to an indoor trampoline place for Hannah Redford's birthday. SO FUN.

sneak peek at my new room...

a trip to Costco after school. she was lovin life.

So, so much has been going on the past four months or so. Things to do, obviously. But a lot of emotional, physical, mental stressors that have caused me to consistently pray to Heavenly Father for comfort and relief. I can not stress enough how much I have learned and how much growth I have gone through. How much I have endured and how much closer I am to my Savior. Through this whole experience, I came across this quote and loved it so much...No matter what we are enduring, HE IS THERE. He is aware of us. He knows we are suffering. Sometimes we feel His love and support, and sometimes we don't . But I know when we don't, it is because He knows things we do not...He knows these experiences will make us better, stronger people and that we have to go through them to become who He wants us to become. I am so blessed to have that knowledge and that testimony of Him.

Nats Playoffs 2014

Well...my boys did it again! NL EAST CHAMPS!!! After a year hiatus we were back in the postseason for the second time since moving to DC in 2005. After a 96 win season, national writers began saying the Nats were their favorite to win the World Series. The team was more stacked than two years ago. More experienced. Dominant pitching, explosive, consistent hitting, good defense...we looked poised to actually make a World Series run.

I of course immediately started planning on going to the home games. The Nats had home field advantage, which meant they would play games 1, 2 and 5 (if necessary) at Nats Park. I wasn't able to go to game 1 because I was working, but game 2 was on a Saturday at 5:30pm. I made plans to do what I did two years ago, and stand in line for standing room tickets the morning of game day.



the box office opened at 10am, so i got there around 6:30. it wasn't that cold, which was nice, and the brief drizzle didn't even bother me. R called me and we chatted for about an hour, and then when i told her the camera from Fox5 was panning by, she turned on the tv and saw me! hahaha.

i ran home to go get our couch out of the storage unit with Marissa and bring it back to Arlington. after THAT whole show was over (oy), R came over and i got ready for us to go to the game! i put on all red, because, that's the only way to go. we got there around 4:30, staked out a good place to stand on the top deck and waited for the game to start. it was windy and i was already getting a little chilly, but didn't think much of it...the game was fine, until the end when Drew Storen (again...) gave up a run. we were now tied at 1, and went in to extra innings.

now. extra innings is fine, but not in the postseason when all you want is for your team to win and get it over with. ESPECIALLY when it feels like -10000 degrees outside with a 300 mph wind gust. IT WAS SO COLD. people who weren't there don't get how miserable we were...we were anxious, which makes your mind and body exhausted, we were emotional, we were cold. it. was. awful. after the 8th, R and I had moved down to the lower concourse to find a place to stand that might shelter us from the wind. we eventually would move every inning or so to find a better place.

yes. we stood the whole time. with exception of the 15-18th innings, where we sat on the ground for the Giants half of the inning, and stood back up for the Nats half.

and then in the 18th, the Giants got a homerun and we never came back. it was devastating. we had been at the stadium for almost 8 hours, and left with a heartbreaking loss. down 0-2 in the best of 5 series. UGH. no words.

except...my boyfriend Rendon had a GREAT game. really the only National who was hitting at all, the entire series. love him.

And then, as you all know by now, we won game 3 in San Fran and lost game 4 last night, meaning we're done for the season.

This feels like a different heartbreak from 2012. That game 5 loss at Nats Park was completely awful. I will never forget how soul-crushing it was. We had made the playoffs for the first time since the team was in DC, we had that AMAZING game 4 walkoff homerun from Jayson Werth (to this day the most amazing baseball moment ive seen in person)...we were excited. This year, we had expectations. We KNEW we could win. We had the talent and discipline and experience. And it just didn't work...

But you know me. I will always always always love this team. always.