LIFE LATELY...

1. Love, love here we are. Pablo Neruda.

2. Childhood at it's best.

3. Easter 2014.

4. Jump if you are happy.

5. Husband, best friend, business partner, my everything!

6. The next generation of fashion designers.

7. Dressing room diaries // Part. 1

8. Dressing room diaries // Part. 2

9. I only exist because of them.

10. The way Azul sees us.

11. On our way.

12. Up, up and away.

13. Niece + My man dancing = explosion of happiness in my heart.

“On a roll” or “in a rut”?

An unbroken serious of events, and a lot of people are able to recognize these moments, and also refer to them as “on the grind” or “in a groove” ,“Bad patch”, “bad streak” some people are “counting their blessings” or are “out of luck”. 

It is extremely easy for humans to complain, revolt, bitch and whine when things are not going our way, but when things are going our way, we find ourselves oblivious to the moment which makes it almost impossible to recognize it.

In my opinion, this behavior is dangerous in both fronts, it is out of balance. When we are flying high, if we don’t recognize the moment we might get too high and miss the real moment.  If we get too low, it becomes almost an addiction to continue to beat that drum, and to stay on that blue bus.

Our behavior on both fronts can become egocentric, egotistical, and pompous.  To dare and have the audacity to convince ourselves (if you find yourself “in a roll” or “in a rut”) that everyone or everything is looking or pointing at you, or that the world is revolving around you? How naïve and ignorant.

We must remind ourselves that the mind can play tricks on us. We are minute beings, insignificant in comparison to the 300 billion plus stars, 200 plus planets (yes I googled this, so blame google) and 7 billion plus humans living on planet earth.

We must take a step back, no matter what.  Look around, find the patterns. Be glad all the time, not just when is a “good streak” but when you are “in a rut”.  Are you breathing? Check, are you full? Check, do you have a roof over your head? Check, are your loved ones breathing? Check.

Be careful to not fly too high and not indulge on the marmalade of low.

I am not nor have I ever been a great person, but my daily mission is to breathe in the day for the day.  I try to improve from yesterday, and analyze my decision a little bit more today so it will not impact my family in any negative way.  Try to put my ego aside, be selfless and be more humble than yesterday and hope to be even more tomorrow.

I am glad that I wrote this, I am even more glad that you read it.

P.S. no matter what, we need to get off the bus once in a while to see where we are because if it is sunny or rainy out, you want to experience and appreciate the moment and the lessons learned.

@mner

MY DEAR CHILDREN...

My dear children, this is your father. The year is twenty fourteen. I am not sure how old you will be when you read this but I wanted to make sure you know how I feel about you and I want you to never forget it.

Isabella, Luca and Azul., your eyes are filled with innocence and your spirits are still intact, you are pure, you are perfect.

My dear Bella, when you run tours me and kiss me and hug me, I feel like the luckiest man alive, I breathe with purpose because of you. You are nine years old, you love to dance, you love Taylor Swift, you love to prank me and scare me half to death, and you are an amazing sister.  You love to sleep with Frida (your dog) you love when we are all sitting down having dinner or breakfast, you love to make me coffee, you love to dress your little sister, you love to fight and jump on the beds with your brother Luca.  You had a boyfriend for a brief three days. You ended it after our request from you mother and I, you listened so well like a good girls that trusts her parents should.  You are a bright and strong girl. Never let anyone let you believe otherwise.  At such a young age you show great signs of taking the responsibility of a big sister, I know you are going to do a great job. The trust that we have attained to this point I promise to cultivate it and cherish it.  I love you, and if there is no you than there is no me. 

My wild child Azul, you are a merely three years old, you are a burning flame of life, an un-detainable force of nature, you are an identical, authentic and original version of your beautiful mother.  You love all children’s shows but you only have patients to watch 5 minutes of them and then you must move on to you next act.  To the disapproval of your mother you love steak, and bacon, and chicken, and pretty much anything else. At such a young age I can tell you are going to live life passionately and I promise you to be there at every step you take and make sure you live a full life.  I love the way you dance and the way smile, your eyes are hypnotizing, your soft skin next to my face feels like heaven.  I have a feeling you will keep me on my toes but that is ok my darling, life is meant to be lived and not life live you.

My Luca, my Luca, my Luca,  My heart belongs to you my boy.  You are older than your sister by four minutes but you act like it was years. Your heart is so big, it helps mine beat harder.  Your kindness tours humanity is crystal clear. You love and that’s the only thing you know my boy.  Your humor is intact.  Your charm is sweeping. I love you with every ounce of my being.  You tender human, never change.  You don’t seek anything more than just human instinctive reaction.  I cannot wait to see you grow and see you develop into the man you are bound to be. it seems like nothing bothers you much and that is a simple trick of life that many try to gain throughout life and you already have that in you at such a young age.  I love you my boy.  My sweet darling boy.

When I go to work and when dwell on my dreams and inspirations I end up at the same destination and you are there with me. I love you and I will always love you.  Life will give you great and bright days, and life will give you pain and dark days but never forget that everything has a solution, except of death and that there is always a tomorrow. Never stop dreaming, never stop exploring you future.  Live life in the moment, never the past and never too far from the future.  Contemplate mortality at least once a day for five moments to never forget that we are fragile beings and everything can end at any moment. Be kind and peaceful, always look at life in a positive light. Any other way is just a waste of time

Your loving father, Amner


*ALL PHOTOS TAKEN BY JOELLE BLOMBERG.

OUR WEDDING: PART DOS.

 

 

Photos taken by Figment Art Photo.

OUR WEDDING: PART UNO.

I hope that you are ready to see a lot of wedding photos, because I have a lot to share from the best day of my life.

The morning of the wedding we woke up bright and early, there was something on the air the day, something different it's hard to explain, there was so much love, excitement, I was nervous but at the same time ready to become Amner's wife. He went and got me my favorite coffee while the kids and I got ready the kids keep asking me "where we go mami?" I told them that mami and papi were getting married they didn't understand me so to get them excited I told them we were going to have a party and then they started jumping up and down, that made me even happier.

At 11:25 Amner put the kids on the car, when he turn to the door and saw me, he had this look that I never seen before, he told me that I look gorgeous, he tells me that all the time but it was the way he was looking at me that made it oh so very special!

So here they are the photos of the most amazing day, the day filled with nerves, with family, with friends, with so much love. The day were we finally united our hearts FOREVER.

Before I leave you, let's talk  about a few things, first I had no idea I was making all those facial expressions, second and I kind of hate to accept this one but when Amner was saying his vows I started to cry, I saw our life together flash before my eyes, it was crazy emotional and I had a terrible time trying to say my vows, because I couldn't hold the tears and the third one is that your first kiss as husband and wife is a hell lot better than they make it look in the movies.

We want to thank all of our family and our beautiful friends for being part of our crazy 2 week engagement and our love celebration. Also thank you to a very special and beautiful lady, Joelle for being such a talented photographer, thank you for all of our beautiful photos.

Well, for now that is it! I will be back tomorrow with part dos and maybe tres.

Have a beautiful Tuesday!

XO

LAU.

*All photos taken by Joelle Blomberg Figment Art Photography