these friends of mine

sometimes i open my email and see treasures such as this:

which make me want to cry with delight (SO CUTE!) and pain (why am i not the one sitting next to that precious cargo!??) (PS this panda on a plane was so perfect because i just saw kung fu panda last night and it was awesome.)

my dear friend spencer (don't mind the creepy photo), who now has a stellar beard a lovely wife who bakes delicious things in a bakery, started sending me unbearably cute things a few years ago. i'm not sure why. but thankfully, the more and more cheesy i get, the more and more friends seem to send me unbearably cute/weird things. check these chicken police out from sharky shark:

or this from jared:

i am seriously so blessed!