Ta-day

{camera phone adventures... mostly}

Guess what I busted out today???

Yup, three-quarter sleeves. As opposed to a long sleeve or turtle neck. We're not quite there...although people were lookin like Eskimos on campus today..bahaha. It totally, more like, finally became fall-ish here in Mesa town. *Brrrrr*

So to keep warm we journeyed over to

for a delightful overpriced (but delicious) cupcake

..or two or three. Seemed like the hip thing to do.

Oh and here, and here... why not.

(tell me one bad thing about Macs...we're getting serious about it and need input. plz? thanks)

Brody was loving life.

Mostly.

Here's what he loved the most- his socks with crocs. My kid is awesome. Or I guess I'm awesome since I'm the one who dresses him.

I had big elaborate plans to make a delicious steak dinner on our new BBQ. We have a gas BBQ out back: we were told upon move-in that it was a great working feature...nope, broke. So we bought a cheap one at Wal-mart. ha.

Since it got a lil late and our BBQ has still not been assembled, we did the next best thing...

Drive thru. Sweeeeeet.

I love ignoring homework and spending time with my boys. Today was Life is good.

Oh and I also dusted off these bad boys. Because I'm a pansy now and can't take the cold. Did I ever tell you I went to BYU-I and braved –25 degrees? I'm practically a legend here in AZ.

Peace out.

ps. the melted mess in my last post was one of those tweety bird ice cream bars. I'm really depressed no one knew that (lol). Remember those? Aah well.

19 hours

My brother Mike came to visit us from UCLA for a total of 19 hours. 8 of them were spent sleeping. It was awesome. Sure, it was a short trip but we lived it up! {The night he got here we went to a Halloween party at my friend Jessie's house but we neglected to bring our camera! Sad day!}

He totally brought his homework. Sweet.

The next day we went to the best place ever for lunch, can you tell where???

Surprised? Don't be. (I converted Mike. I plan on converting the entire world; it's going well so far.)

Tony had a softball tournament so we all went to watch. I mostly watched Brody; who made it a point to keep his distance.

At one point some dude was singing at the top of his lungs.

The best place to sit was way out here...

under this nice tree... since it was so hot.

(yes, that is a hairy bar of soap and blanket/towel. It literally did have hairs on it)

Does anyone else think this is funny/cute (especially cute)? 2 dollars to the person who knows what it is... because I sure do! (I'm just not sure why whoever it belonged to, let it go to waste.) Pity.

I dunno, it cracked me up for some reason.

Then we were done with the park and went to get Mikes favorite thing in Arizona (2nd to Joes).

And Brody's favorite thing.

Mike is such a great uncle. Side note: Brody is named after him. (B's middle name) Brody loves him, it's so cute to watch.

Once Brody was down for his nap Mike and I decided to carve my sad looking pumpkin.

I have a tendency to pick out the retarded pumpkin in the patch... I feel like it's going to get wasted if I don't buy it. haha!

My brother is so patient... I just wanted to hack into the thing.

btw, those jeans were my anniversary present from Tony... I know, right?

Can you tell what it is?

Mike had to catch his plane before we got to finish it...

here's the result, Mike!

(ninja turtle)

I believe a trip to visit family is worth it even if it's just a few hours. Now let's see if I can talk my due-any-day sister and her family to come drop by! Eh, eh??

Final Project

Thank you all again for volunteering to help with my photo assignment.  I figure you might be a tad curious about how it went so I thought I'd share it with you!  The project had to do with picking a type of light and focusing on maintaining that theme throughout the photographs.  AND it was to be taking portraits of people.  My absolute favorite time of day to shoot is during "the golden hour" which is hours before sunset.  So I chose natural evening light as my theme.  Which is why my editing is minimal.

Here is the final project!

Project title: "Evening Light".  Each individual photograph was titled with the time the picture was taken.  We were supposed to have 10 total submitted pictures, but I couldn't resist adding a few more:

     

Overall, my critique in class went awesome.  Thanks again to my helpers!

Tell me what you think! 

Monday

I said it before but I'll say it again: pack mule. Monday was different, I practically rolled out my sleeping bag at campus. That many hours at school should be outlawed.... but at least I had all the essentials to get me through it. [I can explain the working mother... I think. Somehow it came to my mailbox and somehow had my name on it. Don't you have to pay for those, usually?]

Biggest waste of a $1.50 if I ever saw one. That's all it came with! I got robbed.

As if my raisin jerky wasn't enough, I totally lost my iPod in the women's restroom while I was on the phone... wait... on the phone while.....--------????? Err..

But I was wrong!! I put it away and freaked for nothing. Did you know brain cells die when you give birth? That's what they tell me anyway, and I believe them.

Then I sat. Busily editing away.

Then I was off to a photo shoot (pictures will be in your near future)

I was out late enough that picking up Barros on the way home was a must. It didn't work out.. neither did Papa Johns or Pizza Mart (did you know a large pepperoni is $3.50 at Pizza Mart, on Mondays?... apparently the rest of Mesa knew because there was a line out the door and down the sidewalk. No. thank you.)

Oh and...0 miles to empty.

Hour later and with no food, I went home hungry and grumpy. To my husband and son who were both hungry and grumpy.

And that was my Monday. I'm working on loving Mondays. When I break it down, they are usually not bad at all. Let us all love Mondays... are you with me people?! (heh)

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Oh p.s. my Halloween costume is def not original, and not cool. Just so you know. Kind of like how 8 different girls wore the same dress as me to senior prom (it's true, I counted). In fact the more I look at it, the more I hate it. Just had to be said so no one is disappointed with the "big reveal". First of all, am I the only one who doesn't tell people what they are going to be? I thought everyone kept it secret. But anyway... There. There's my disclaimer. ha!