Not all who wander are lost...

See that point at the top? That's our destination...

Um...I'm not posing. This is just how I stand naturally.
Yeah...this is how Brandon smiles naturally too.

I don't really get this picture. I don't get why I'm the leaning tower of Danielle. Whatev.

Hmmm? I'm missing a sock? Hmm. I wonder where that went.

Oh, one more thing, we went to Marysvale to stain Mom and Dad's shed, picnic tables, etc. and Chica had another fabulous find. Yep. Another deer leg.

BTW, I wasn't done posting about my graduation. I mean gradutation. I mean Temily. I mean Delphinium.

I know that post title meant pretty much nothing to most of you. But ONE of you found it hilarious and is giggling at your computer right now. That is until you get distracted by something sparkley on your computer desk. Ahem. Attention please Temily. Heeeeee. Ha.

Anyway, here are some more pics of graduation day.

Here are three of my awesome professors!

Of course we had to have a miniature model shoot in our gowns...

This one is my personal favorite. I mean...wow.

Is my sister beautiful...or is she beautiful?

Good thing there are only TWO crazy Llanos girls.

Best friends...best sisters :)

Tata y yo

We're...too sexy for this catwalk.

Me, Mom and Dave...thanks for the flowers Dave!

Mike and Bwandon...the proud spouses

My Aunt Khaki and Uncle Edweirdo :)...and Cass!

My parents and Tam and Dave gave me this gorgeous wine chiller...I love it!!

Cheers!

And it came to pass that I graduated. And it was good.

It was a happy day!

Graduation day was so amazing. It felt surreal and incredible to have my family and friends celebrating all day! I missed the Oregonian family but we will see each other soon enough :) I'm excited to join the real world and continue my path towards becoming an architect. Thank you everyone for your support while I was a crazy college student trying to juggle work and school. Thank you Brandon for being amazing as usual...I promise now I can do more dishes :) I love you. These pictures are all out of order and I'm not going to arrange them in order. Hmph.

We were treated to some tunes by the dudes.


Auntie Joan and my cousin Bridgette...they brought me some wine, cheese and tequila. Do they know me, or do they KNOW me? :)

Brandon, Dave and cousin Frank...also a recent graduate!

Mom and Dad - they are amazing :)

Tata - I'm a little teary because we were thinking of our sweet Nani

Brittany and I

Los tres mujeres

Joan, Bridgette, Stephaney and the kids , Penny and Frank came to celebrate!

Mom and Vicky treated us to their favorite childhood song...with actions and all :)

Thank you Mike, Emily, Hunter, Corrine and Elayna for the beautiful flowers!!

Thanks Tami-poo for playing the banjo! I love it!

My beautiful Mom

Making a wish...

Mike and I

My favorite quote ever + Photo(s) of the Week

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
~Hendry David Thoreau

Does it get any better than this?

This weekend has been amazing. Nothing to do but relax and do things around the house. We had a fabulous dinner while it was thunderstorming outside and I was able to get inspired enough to write a song too. Ahhhh....great weekend.

I don't know why I feel the urge to take pictures of our dinner sometimes, but seriously?! Does it get any better than this? BBQ'd salmon, brown rice and authentic Chilean pebre (or peude or peda or pude depending on who you ask). So yummy. Not to mention topping it off with a pre-dinner shot of tequila. Or two. Or maybe three :)

Chica is spoiled enough to have enjoyed some of the salmon feast as well :)

Brandon modeling his milk - please notice the pinky raise.

Quote(s) + Photo of the Week

Photo: May 2007 The Reichstag, Berlin

So...as I graduate and move back into the land of the living, I have been so excited to do normal things. You know, like cooking dinner. Doing the dishes. Cleaning a closet. Taking Chica for a walk. Getting my hair done. Chatting with a neighbor. Going to work. Washing the car. Reading a book for no other reason but that I WANT to. Ahhhhhhhh. I just can't wait to feel like a normal person again. So, my first thing on my agenda of things to do is to go buy some books that I have been dying to read. One of my favorite authors to date is Kurt Vonnegut and my next read will be Galapagos as recommended by my big bro Antonio. To get back into the Vonnegut frame of mind, I googled some of his greatest quotes and they reminded me why I love him so much. I thought I'd share a few....



"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!"—Mother Night, 1961



"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."—Player Piano, 1952



“Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the universe.”—Hocus Pocus, 1990



"I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty—and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima."—Bennington College address, 1970



"Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on."—"When I Was Twenty-One," Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons, 1974



"I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival."—quoted in The Observer, December 27, 1987