-what does 24 taste like?

awesome: meeting up with little brother and girlfriend for dinner at culinary dropout in scottsdale.

nawesome: wearing almost the same outfit as supermodel girlfriend and realizing that my 9 extra years of life and the 1o extra summer fun lbs are actually noticeable.

awesome: the fancy carnival food- warm pretzels, monkey bread, burgers, fries

nawesome: not getting to have one bite because of the new detox diet audrey's put me on. my dandelion root tea was not better than the havarti burger.
awesome: my little brother

nawesome: his inability to talk about anything but ironman 2010.
awesome: taking pictures all night with a super bright annoying flash in a nice restaurant.

nawesome: not getting a single focused one of me and the Lew.

happy birthday binker.

i love your face.

and not just because we have identical bone structure.

-the biggest of bears- a video montage

Untitled from heather Lewis on Vimeo.

-aaaaooooooooooooooo

yippee for over exposed family mountain pictures!!!!

big bear, ca is for winners.

here's a picture of the juiciest hunk of meat that really knows how to satisfy this woman:

here's another picture of the juiciest hunk of meat that really knows how to satisfy this woman:

and besides the whole labor day weekend excuse for a getaway,

it was fera's firtieth birthday!

(more fun than saying thera's thirtieth birthday)

and NOTHING proves your maturity as you enter your 4th decade more than

trying on a wolf shirt at the zoo, trash talking through a late night game of "up and down" and eating 4 desserts.

and she can kick AND stretch.

video of the festivities to be posted soon.

-busting out of summer

welcome to town jackie/woman who created jonelle!!

it was fun to get together with friends for our going back to preschool dinner at olive and ivy.

that's so lame.

we actually haven't hung out in a month and neither of us wanted to host and mess up our houses.

here's the nugs:

brody and ade & brooks and breana

we wanted a picture together just the 2 of us and what were we thinking?

our kids can't go 30 seconds without having to grab us with their greasy paws.

this was a great summer.

and i have the extra 10lbs to prove it.

i SWEAR this dress fit me in june.

and yes- i did know it was gaping as i left the house but i decided i was just going to pretend it wasn't that noticeable.

and then i saw the pictures.

and brandon's disapproving look.

no more brownies for this broad.

-the fam

here's my little boy watching cartoons at the end of our bed with his pal- a little ray of sunshine. quick! grab the camera!!

i love the dust particles......

poor ade.

mornings are so hard for him because he has to say goodbye to his daddy when he leaves for work. and the only comfort he has is his big dumb mom. :(

-super cute blogger of the universe

(found in the 2008 archives)

this is carolyn.

her blog makes me very happy.

she's quirky, creative and extremely hyperverbal.

lately, she's been an expert on tickling my fancy with pictures of her baby posed like this:

for a good time, visit her blog .

and then you will know the extent of things that make me smile.

arizona lewis loves team boo.

-cracking chrysalis

shhhh.

heather's learning how to be quiet.

it's been an interesting process- this whole idea of learning to keep it in, with hold, listen.

but guess what i'm starting to hear?

my heart, my breath and the wheels in my head turning.

and i can feel the love that surrounds me that's been drowned out by the noise of my previous existence.

an excerpt from my favorite story- "the whispering rabbit":

"come here, little rabbit," said the wise old groundhog, "and i will whisper to you how to wake up the bumblebee [you swallowed]".

"you have to make the littlest noise that you can possibly make because a bumblebee doesn't bother about big noises. he is a very little bee and he is only interested in little noises"

"like a loud whisper?" asked the rabbit.

"too loud," said the groundhog, and popped back into his hole.

"a little noise," whispered the rabbit, and he started making little rabbit noises- he made a noise as quiet as the sound of a bird's wing cutting the air, but the bee didn't wake up. so the little rabbit made the sound of snow falling, but the bee didn't wake up.

so the little rabbit made the sound of a bug breathing and a fly sneezing and grass rustling and a fireman thinking. still the bee didn't wake up. so the rabbit sat and thought of all the little sounds he could think of- what could they be?

a sound quiet as snow melting, quiet as a flower growing, quiet as an egg, quiet as- and suddenly he knew the little noise that he would make- and he made it.

it was like a little click made hundreds of miles away by a bumblebee in an apple tree in full bloom on a mountaintop. it was the very small click of a bee swallowing some honey from an apple blossom.

and at that the bee woke up.

this lewis home sounds like 2 silly little boys.

and there's nothing i love more than listening to every second of it.