87 Photos to celebrate Marilyn Monroe's 87th Birthday!

Today is my idol's birthday! Marilyn Monroe would of turned 87yrs old today!

It's hard to believe that it's been 51 years since she passed away on August 5, 1962.... all alone in her room. The mystery behind her death seems to intertwine with so many other names and suspicions that the truth will never be heard.

Marilyn Monroe has always been a favorite of mine, I truly don't remember when I started idolizing Marilyn, I do know that I didn't start reading up on her story until about 5 years ago. Alan and I moved about 10 minutes from the local library and decided to not only get ourselves library cards but one for the kids also! I started checking out every book I could find on Marilyn Monroe and as soon as I was finished... I moved on to the next one. I would have to sort though the lies and opinions to figure out the true facts about the most misunderstood and mistreated woman/actress of all time! I quickly realized that some of the books written about Marilyn were almost all lies or the outside story from people looking in and not from Marilyn herself. I still have many more books to read when it comes to Marilyn Monroe books but my favorite so far is "Marilyn - The Last Take". It's the story behind Marilyn's last days alive. From sneaking around with JFK to her troubles with Twentieth Century Fox, her internal battles, her last birthday and much more! Her story is one that saddens me when I start to think about how people treated Marilyn. She went from being an unknown and unwanted scarlet to becoming the top star at Twentieth Century Fox and was making the studio more money than any other actress at that moment. But for some reason, it seemed like the studio didn't care how much the fans loved her, they wouldn't pay her a reasonable amount of money (Elizabeth Taylor was getting paid ALOT more than Marilyn Monroe while filming Cleopatra. Not only was the movie Cleopatra bringing down the studio with the cost of production but it was bringing down Marilyn as well.) It's truly a sad story and I'm glad life has changed a bit from when she was alive.

I will admit that because I have read so much about Marilyn and her life, I have gained a large interest in John F Kennedy, I guess you could add Bobby Kennedy in there as well but his life was no where near as interesting as Marilyn Monroe's and JFK's. I've also found myself curious about Jackie Kennedy (not too often since I believe that JFK and Marilyn would of been a great couple if they could of been out in the open about it... if only JFK's dad wouldn't of paid Jackie to stay with her husband and overlook the cheating, or as the story is told, maybe things would of been different.)

Frank Sinatra even crosses my mind sometimes.... That woman sure did have some interesting men in and out of her life!!

In honor if Marilyn's birthday, I have decided to put together 87 photos out of my large collection. I've collected these photos throughout the years and have no clue the exact location that I found any of my photos. The photos below are NOT in any special order and may bounce throughout her life. I hope you enjoy the photos and the memory of Marilyn Monroe.

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"Something's Got to Give"

RIP Marilyn Monroe!!! You will forever be missed and will always live on through your movies, photographs and in the hearts of fans all over the world!!

My hectic couple weeks...

WOW!!!!!!!!!!

The past couple weeks have been so hectic and has flew by so quick that I ended up getting behind on EVERYTHING!!!! No joke!
My house looks like Taz (the Tasmanian Devil) spent the night, I'm behind on clothes, dishes and the regular cleaning! I completely forgot about my daughters' picture money being due so it's going to be running a tad close to the last day of school before it's paid. The picture packages cost $40 so I owe the school (actually the Photography Company) $80 for pictures! Last Saturday was Jade's birthday!! She is now a big 6 year old!!! I started a birthday post for her but ended up getting distracted and never finished it :( I WILL get that post done, it don't matter if it's late or not, it'll give me time to round up a few of my favorite pictures of Jade to complete the post. Now that Jade is 6, I have two 6yr old daughters! Loran's birthday is not until the 2nd week of June, so for 2 weeks out of every year both of my daughters are the same age. (They are only 11 months apart) When people ask me how old my daughters are, during those 2 weeks, they always look at me funny when I say -for example- 6.... Loran and Jade are complete opposites and don't look the same age AT ALL! But Loran turns 7 in a couple weeks and I haven't even started planning the combined birthday party that plan on having!! (We had a cook-out with the neighbors on Jade's birthday but their true party with the family and everyone, will be together. They like it that way and it's easier on me!)

To top off my hectic couple weeks...... I sick all day Tuesday and yesterday was Field Day at the girls' school so Alan and I were volunteers. It was very hot and hectic but we had a BLAST helping out with Field Day. Alan and I helped out last year during Loran's first field day and I am sooo glad that we were able to help out this year as well, for Jade's first Field Day. I know so many of the kids in that school, a few are family, I enjoyed getting to see everyone and I got alot of pretty good pictures. My camera decided that it wasn't going to read my SIMs card this morning and I don't know if that means my card is messed up of my camera because I had just had my card hooked up to my computer before we left the house so I knew the card was working. So I ended up getting pretty upset but decided that I was going to try my best to take as many good pictures that I could with my phone, crossing my fingers that my phone wouldn't die on me now as well.... My phone is a whole different story..... Long story short -- I dropped my phone in my bath the other night and it bubbled! It has been in and out of a bowl of rice for a day or 2 and it made me proud today!!!!! It may have been messing up pretty bad when it first happened but it works now and I am VERY grateful. I would of been very upset if I wouldn't of been able to take pictures of the girls yesterday. I have many pictures from last year, I needed pictures from this year too! And I got them! You truly don't realize how happy I am about those photos, unless you know me and how I am about Photography and memories. I don't only take pictures of my girls when I'm at their school. I take pictures of every child that I know, especially if their parents wasn't able to make it. I try to make sure that everyone has atleast one picture of their child from the events that I attend. Memories and Photos are all we're going to have of our kids being little, once they grow up. It happens so fast! That's why I do my best to capture as many memories as I can, for everyone that I care about as well as myself. 

But ANYWAYS....... This post ended up being a huge mixed up rant of my past couple weeks along with how I feel about Photography. So I guess you can say that you know me a tad bit better now :-) Now that you've read all of this....

I want to say Thank You, because if you read the whole post then that says to me that your a true follower of mine and that warms my heart. You are awesome!

My random rant is complete.