***While this may not be the best picture I've ever taken, I'm proud because I did everything on Manual setting and I even edited a little in photoshop!
Thursday, March 8, 2012
March Photo Challenge Day 8
***While this may not be the best picture I've ever taken, I'm proud because I did everything on Manual setting and I even edited a little in photoshop!
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
March Photo Challenge Days 4,5, and 6
Soo..I forgot to post pics to my blog of my picture of the day...
Day 3- the theme was soil...I didn't do this one...
Day 4- food - Will's birthday dinner at my parent's house
Day 5- tool- the tool I use daily
Day 3- the theme was soil...I didn't do this one...
Day 4- food - Will's birthday dinner at my parent's house
Day 6- compare- apples to oranges!
Friday, March 2, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
March Photo Challenge
I've read about these before and I've always wanted to do one so here we go- I'm doing a photo challenge! I've taken one photography class and I'm taking another one this weekend, so I'm totally gonna be using my camera more and more!
Here is the link if you want to join me! Facebook Photo Challenge
Day 1's theme was green, so here is my green!
Here is the link if you want to join me! Facebook Photo Challenge
Late Valentine's Day
Apparently I never published this...
Valentine's Day, the actual day, was pretty quiet over here. Since we had just returned from Austin, we decided to just celebrate Valentine's Day at home making dinner and opening a bottle of wine we got at one of the vineyards on NYE.
This weekend on the other hand...we celebrated!
Will decided to have people over for a Valentine's themed party. I was quite proud of him...he decorated everything by himself (I only had to re-arrange a few things), cleaned his house, had plenty of wine and even had activities! I didn't take any pictures, but here is a little recap!
For the first hour or so, we did nothing but chat, drink wine and eat (note to self- next time eat more, drink less). Since we had friends over who had never met, we did cheezy introductions and had a lot of fun laughing at stories.
After everyone knew each other, we wrote each other Valentine's cards that had little funny stories on them! Will had this valentine's mailbox that we put all the cards in, then one by one, pulled them out and read them outloud. After someone read the card, everyone tried to guess who the card was to and who it was from. There were sweet cards, funny cards, inside jokes, even a husband who forgot to write a card to his wife!
I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard! It was great joining our friends together and just hanging out. I did take a few "post party" pictures of valentine's so I will leave you with those!
Chris knows!
Valentine's Day, the actual day, was pretty quiet over here. Since we had just returned from Austin, we decided to just celebrate Valentine's Day at home making dinner and opening a bottle of wine we got at one of the vineyards on NYE.
This weekend on the other hand...we celebrated!
Will decided to have people over for a Valentine's themed party. I was quite proud of him...he decorated everything by himself (I only had to re-arrange a few things), cleaned his house, had plenty of wine and even had activities! I didn't take any pictures, but here is a little recap!
For the first hour or so, we did nothing but chat, drink wine and eat (note to self- next time eat more, drink less). Since we had friends over who had never met, we did cheezy introductions and had a lot of fun laughing at stories.
After everyone knew each other, we wrote each other Valentine's cards that had little funny stories on them! Will had this valentine's mailbox that we put all the cards in, then one by one, pulled them out and read them outloud. After someone read the card, everyone tried to guess who the card was to and who it was from. There were sweet cards, funny cards, inside jokes, even a husband who forgot to write a card to his wife!
I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard! It was great joining our friends together and just hanging out. I did take a few "post party" pictures of valentine's so I will leave you with those!
Chris knows! Monday, February 6, 2012
Keep Austin Weird
One of my Christmas presents this year was tickets to my favorite musical, Wicked!
After work on Friday, we packed the car and headed to Austin! Traffic wasn't bad on the way down and we were in Austin before we knew it! Our hotel was in a part of town where there was little parking and quite a few cars! I may or may not have been stressing out in the passenger seat for the last 10 minutes of the drive.
After getting checked into the hotel, we had dinner at a little diner called The Snack Bar in front of the hotel. We met Will's parents for dinner and they took his dog back to their house for the weekend. After perusing the menu, I decided that I wasn't NOT in an adventurous mood (yep, it was one of "those" places) and ordered a cheeseburger. Will was feeling like ordering something new, and ordered lentil Soup, then was surprised when he didn't like it. Really?!? It's lentil soup...what's to love?!? Just goes to show you that my theory of "when in doubt, order a burger" works!
Saturday, we walked up and down Congress Street (mostly because I didn't want to move the car again), and wasted time going in and out of antique shops and boutiques. My major score of the weekend was a black coat that was originally $150, marked down to $50! We ate brunch and bloody marys at the fabulous Congress Street Cafe...it made up for the mediocre food from the night before. We also stopped by Hey Cupcake for some amazing cupcakes! We walked around a little bit more, then went back to the hotel to rest for a bit before the theatre!
Wicked started at 8, and we got to the theatre around 7:20, so we got to people watch ( which means I judged people based on what they are wearing). Wicked was as wonderful as it was the first 2 times!
After Wicked, I had promised to take Will for Amy's Ice Cream, this local ice cream shop that he raved about. Well the valet decided just to leave my car on the street and we had to hunt down the keys...those valet people aren't the brightest bunch...they wouldn't give us the key to MY car. They wanted proof it was my car, I asked it the valet ticket we had with the number that matched the tag on the key was enough proof...idiots...
We didn't think we would make it to Amy's after the valet fiasco, but when we drove by it was still open...after hours! We parked the car at the hotel and ran across the street, he got his Amy's Ice Cream as promised!
We woke up on Sunday morning and had a nice long breakfast at IHOP with his parents and sister and then headed back to Dallas to make Mark and Greer's Super Bowl party! All in all it was a great weekend!
After work on Friday, we packed the car and headed to Austin! Traffic wasn't bad on the way down and we were in Austin before we knew it! Our hotel was in a part of town where there was little parking and quite a few cars! I may or may not have been stressing out in the passenger seat for the last 10 minutes of the drive.
After getting checked into the hotel, we had dinner at a little diner called The Snack Bar in front of the hotel. We met Will's parents for dinner and they took his dog back to their house for the weekend. After perusing the menu, I decided that I wasn't NOT in an adventurous mood (yep, it was one of "those" places) and ordered a cheeseburger. Will was feeling like ordering something new, and ordered lentil Soup, then was surprised when he didn't like it. Really?!? It's lentil soup...what's to love?!? Just goes to show you that my theory of "when in doubt, order a burger" works!
Saturday, we walked up and down Congress Street (mostly because I didn't want to move the car again), and wasted time going in and out of antique shops and boutiques. My major score of the weekend was a black coat that was originally $150, marked down to $50! We ate brunch and bloody marys at the fabulous Congress Street Cafe...it made up for the mediocre food from the night before. We also stopped by Hey Cupcake for some amazing cupcakes! We walked around a little bit more, then went back to the hotel to rest for a bit before the theatre!
Wicked started at 8, and we got to the theatre around 7:20, so we got to people watch ( which means I judged people based on what they are wearing). Wicked was as wonderful as it was the first 2 times!
After Wicked, I had promised to take Will for Amy's Ice Cream, this local ice cream shop that he raved about. Well the valet decided just to leave my car on the street and we had to hunt down the keys...those valet people aren't the brightest bunch...they wouldn't give us the key to MY car. They wanted proof it was my car, I asked it the valet ticket we had with the number that matched the tag on the key was enough proof...idiots...
We didn't think we would make it to Amy's after the valet fiasco, but when we drove by it was still open...after hours! We parked the car at the hotel and ran across the street, he got his Amy's Ice Cream as promised!
We woke up on Sunday morning and had a nice long breakfast at IHOP with his parents and sister and then headed back to Dallas to make Mark and Greer's Super Bowl party! All in all it was a great weekend!
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