farewell.

Today, I'm donning the last of my summer whites and spending off the season.


















Tonight is the very last night of Dancing in the Park! We'll be doing salsa and other latin dances, no partner required, from 7-9PM under the stars.

It's been a dream job this summer, and would love to see anyone out dancing who hasn't been able to before this season (and an impromptu goodbye session). Come and dance!

kisses.

Fall beauty goal: wear more lipstick.

“The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.”- Emil Ludwig

tire.

Sometimes the best weekends are the ones that aren't planned. Sitting by the pool, eating fresh peaches and impromptu dates.

However, what about the times that we can't plan for? Well, as much as we're shaken up, it can (and often is anyway) an opportunity to learn something brand new.

Yesterday, one of the girls got a flat tire. As girls in bikinis stood there and looked at the car, we did the first thing we hadn't done in quite awhile...be quiet.

Multiple phone calls to fathers, friends and stealing a nearby (male) neighbour, we watched with bated breath and wide eyes how to change a tire.

Even at those moments when we think we're all grown up, it's moments like that which spin our heads around and show us how much there is still to figure out. Some might see it as a challenge. I think we saw it as a benefit - there's still time to be youthful, even in our maturity.

I leave you with a little treat - my two favourite British singers Lissie and Ellie Goulding.

Thanks for a lovely last weekend Kelowna, I've pulled out my suitcases and am mentally packing already!

ryan.

I'm still in absolute, stupid, crazy love with Ryan Gosling.

inadvertently.

As I soak up the last few days of B.C. sun, friends and family, I'm finding myself reflecting on what kind of summer this was.

Every year, whether it be determined by calender, seasons, events, etc., I've learned something about myself or my world.

When I first came back to Kelowna this summer, I knew that it would most likely be my last year living at home, full-time, in a family unit. Through we had our struggles as three university siblings, two crazy dogs and parents trying to figure us out, I think we all learned how to be a family...again.

It's not the same family unit that we had during our (gasp) 18 years of living at home all together, but more mature, different and unique in its own way. We've become the family that we're going to be for the rest of our lives as my brothers, parents and I move across the world and country.

The actual home structure may not be here forever, but that's okay.

For my girlfriends and I, this summer changed the dynamic between many of our relationships.

As one of my best friends and I laid out on the beach the other day discussing the usual...fall fashion, men, last weekend, men, wine, school, family and men, I couldn't help but wonder what had changed for all of us this summer.

mermaid.

I wish more than anything in the world that I was a mermaid.

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.