life

Today was a beautiful day. Tomorrow we head back down to the shore and I am so excited to be on the beach. I've had so much time to think these past few days and reflect on so much, and I'm in a good place right now. Spending time with my family is the most important thing to me, and it really makes you realize what exactly is most important in life. Re-evaluating things, making plans, it's all been happening as I've been enjoying so much time outside. As trite as it is, I have to say it- there's so much beauty in the world when we just slow down and enjoy it. I know I am guilty of rushing through things so its nice to get a reminder to slow, slow it down. My birthday is in two days, our wedding anniversary is in three, and Hank's birthday is the next day. What a weekend coming up! I am going to keep enjoying myself, relaxing, and getting rid of those last little lingering negative thoughts in my head. I'm almost there. I'm finally at a point in my life where I love who I am, physically and emotionally, and it's an amazing feeling of accomplishment. Sure, the ups and downs come, but at 26 I am comfortable with me, and love my own company. These may be too much self-rambling for some of you, so thanks for reading if you did! I hope all of you are having a wonderful evening and loving the start to your summer!

Série de desenhos para tattoos, Luciano Hilario

Meu nome é Luciano Hilario, moro em Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro, faço séries para estúdios de tattoos e caricaturas. Trabalho também com retratos realistas!

Amo a arte da tattoo.

Luciano Hilário
E-mails: hilario.luciano@gmail.com ou luciano-hilario@hotmail.com

Green green grass

garden, originally uploaded by daniellehampton.

Hello blogger friends! I have been super busy these last few days so I haven't had that much time to blog, but I have managed to upload photos to my flickr. I am always so worried that my pictures will all get deleted so I am religious about uploading them the same day. Between all of us, we have taken a million photos of our trip thus far, and we still have two weeks to go! We are staying at my Aunt and Uncle's house and it's truly been heaven these past few days. Right now some of the fam is at a motorcycle exhibit but I can't wait 'til they get home- my Uncle Paul is a major photographer for the NY Times, and he's giving us pointers and a lesson on our new Nikon camera tonight! I'm so stoked. We've had the camera for awhile (Christmas) but the only thing it's been used for is photographing Hank's toys. So today we will get the rundown and I can't wait. This entire week has been chock full of great family time, trail runs, outdoor enjoyment, sailing, and eating amazing food. I can't even begin to go into all of the fun we've been having. I come to Vermont a lot, and everytime it's better and better. I could live here, for sure! I'm not going to post a million pictures in this entry (just one of me to say HI!) so go to my flicker to see the rest if you're so inclined! Tomorrow morning we are heading down to the beach house on the Jersey shore and I am so so excited for beach time for two weeks. I will try and blog a bit later about a more detailed rundown of the trip!

If you want to check out all of my vacation photos you can visit-

flickr.com/daniellehampton!

Bárbara do Lago, Tattoo de Borboleta, Escrita e Realista

Na segunda participação de Bárbara do Lago, a tatuadora enviou ao blog fotos de uma tatuagem realista, uma homenagem à Paranhos e uma borboleta.

mobile blogging

I don't mobile blog too often, but I'm in the car for another few hours so I thought, why not? We got into Newark last night around 1:30am and stayed at the Marriott by the airport. When we arrived in our room, one of my Dad's friends had sent up a cheese and fruit platter, with a bottle of wine. It was really sweet, the beds were super comfortable and the hotel was quiet. It was a nice place to rest our heads. When we first booked this trip, we didn't anticipate going up to Vermont right away so that's why we didn't elect to fly into Burlington like we usually do. Due to my all of my father's Asian travels and our vacations we always fly on points so it was too much of a headache to change it. So that is why we are currently driving through upstate NY! Hank flies into Burlington tonight and we will all be staying at my Aunt's beautiful lake house until Wednesday. Then we'll be down at the shore. My parents are leaving for the Carribbean next week too while we're still at the beach house in NJ.
I am just loving being back "home" so much. We moved to AZ when I was 14, so all of my memories growing up are from back here. If Hank and I didn't already have a wonderful life and his career in Prescott, I would love to live in Vermont or upstate NY. My uncle live up here in NY and I love where he lives. I'd want to get some land and just lead a simple life raising a family. I can't get enough of all of the green trees- it's the major thing I missed when we moved to AZ, but luckily Prescott has tons of forests and beauty as well. I am not a desert girl at all, and I guess I only lived in the desert for 4 years, because I went up to college at NAU as soon as I graduated high school. I've never realized just how short of a time span I actually lived in Mesa, weird. But anyway, I love it here!
I'm sitting here, watching the trees go by, listening to The Gaslight Anthem. I cannot get enough of this band- the sound, the lyrics, I love them. And plus, they're from New Brunswick, where I was born! :)
I'm going to take a little nap but I'm definitely going to be blogging and taking photos throughout this trip so stay tuned! Happy Memorial Weekend to all of you!

Birthday video

I just taught myself how to use IMovie on my Mac, and I made this silly/cute little video from photos and video clips from the evening. :)

Wonderful Weekend, Part 2

So after we got home well after 3am following the my bday party, we all headed to sleep pretty quickly. My sister was heading to Vegas the next morning so she had a long day ahead of her and needed sleep! Saturday morning Ambs and I woke up super late, around 11:30. I haven't done that in so long and it's weird to feel like the entire day had already gone by. It really reminded me of why I am such an early riser! We headed out to my hair appointment at Erika's so I could get my color freshened up for our trip, then we stopped by a couple shops on the way home. That night was Shirley's birthday party so we got back and started getting ready. I love that Shirl and I have birthdays so close to one another, we are already talking about the huge joint bash we're doing for our 30th! It' not for 3 years, but we are thinking a destination birthday of some sort! :)

So we got ready and headed out to Sens, which is a tapas restaurant in downtown Phoenix. We arrived and I got to see so many happy faces, including Emily, who is due to have her daughter in about a month! I am so excited, and everytime I am around her it gets me really excited to one day be in the same place. Shirley, Adam, Alana, Chad, Erin and Jeff decided to take the lightrail from Tempe so they arrived a bit late, but when they got there we started to decide what we wanted to order. I had actually never had tapas before so it was fun to look through all of our options. Between everyone's dishes I got to try quite a few things and they were all excellent. It was a really perfect place for a group dinner, and I could imagine it would be even more perfect for a date night! I can't wait to take Hank- there are a few really tasty veggie dishes I think he'd love. Shirley was glowing all night, basking in the birthday love, and she seemed to have a wonderful time. After dinner we walked over to the Roosevelt for a glass of wine/beer and hung out a bit more. Some of Jeff's coworkers were going out on Mill, so we all headed that way and ended up at Rula Bula. Totally cute bar with awesome live Irish music...but total d-bag central, which is granted being that we were in ASU-land. Amber and I took off to get some Mojo Yogurt (we hadn't tried it yet), and both the Isis and Earth Crisis shows were over so Hank and some friends came down to meet us. We walked around for awhile then ended up at Slices, where everyone who was at Rula Bula came down to have pizza too. All in all it was a wonderful evening, and what's better than celebrating the birth of your best friend?

Here are photos from the night -

obligatory photobooth pics, of course!




waiting for friends to arrive




Shirley and Emily (with Camryn in her belly!)


Shirley and her bf Adam


some of the girls


Sens


one of the dishes Amber ordered...yummy tofu


Erin and me




Stacey and Shirley


Emily, the beautiful Mom-to-be!


Amber and my yogurt later in the evening...I am a total fan of Mojo now (thanks Janay!)


outside Slices


the birthday girl...after a long night! :)