A Little Trip

I seem to be averaging blogging about 1 time a week . . .means my readership has gone down from 7 to 2! And those people don't check often! {smirk} Things have been wild around here. We got news last week that I'd get to accompany Andy on a business trip. Never done that before. Never had the guts to even think of asking Mom and Dad to take care of all 3 of the kids for multiple days. But when I saw this place I couldn't resist! We're only staying there one or 2 days (right now, just 1 night. . . hoping for a cancellation), then we're moving on to the site of where his meetings are. I'm a happy gal! Of course, this has lead to much frenzy . . . over an hour at the PO getting a passport, massive cleaning of the house, as Mom and Dad will be staying here, not to mention just the normal things I do. Hoping to get caught up sometime before I leave!

PSA for the day

After calling the same unnamed (for fear of who it would bring to my blog! I made that mistake one time when using another word for "unclothed" when speaking of art . . .got the weirdo comments in droves!) catalog THREE times to have my name removed from their list (who knows where they bought it from! Domestications?), I've found this wonderful little form. It's the Form 1500 at the post office . . .and everyone needs this little gem! The Supreme Court did a good thing . . .making sure we could decide what fit the description for the usage of this form, and didn't leave it up to the USPS. You can say you don't want a golf catalog if you want to . . .and the USPS can't argue you on it!

I'm personally looking forward to being able to start criminal or civil sanctions against the above said company if I get another one of their catalogs! There are just some catalogs I feel should be REQUESTED and not just sent to because the company bought your info.

In other happenings . . .did you know that you can do modern dance with the song "Old Time Religion"? tehehe . . . I saw it in action last night with Alaina!

Ian took the TAKS yesterday . . .. from what I asked him, his content sounded like it was well thought out. I'm just hoping he used his best handwriting! And Allison's reading Little House books by herself! YIPPEE . . . .she was stunned last week to learn that there was a TV show as well! tehehe

I haven't fallen off the face of the earth!

I know . . .I've had several of you emailing asking where I'm at. I'm here! Finished up the photography class. . .and I gotta say, I guess I just am that good! ( think I mentioned that last time . . .or I thought I did, but I don't see that post. HMMMMM)

We had to do action shots for my last class. He wanted both showing movement and freezing movement. I took in about 12 . . .some new, some old. The second and third ones here are ones I took at soccer practice last week. First was from Princesses on Ice in November. He really liked the Belle one and the one of Alaina running . . .and said I'd gotten down the perfect timing with the soccer pictures.



In other news . .. finished a big project, that took up a great deal of my free time. Took Andy to Bob's Friday for his birthday (we've never been to Bob's twice in 14 days!) and to see Firewall.

We've had the cold/sinus infection stuff around here. Would be why I haven't posted.

Oh, and the latest Alaina-ism . . .she told me today she was "going out of my mind!" tehehe

Happy Valentine's Day!

Hoping all is well with you all and that you have an enjoyable day. I've been swamped. . . between a soccer game, a birthday party, a banquet for Andy and Allie, playing dominoes with my sister and BIL, taking pictures up at the school for Allie's V-day party, colorizing them, organizing the shindig, and taking pictures for my photography class I haven't had a moment to get the regular stuff done (you know .. . housecleaning, cooking).

So, Andy and Allie had a father/daughter banquet for the YMCA Adventure Princesses . .. or whatever they're calling it this year! Took me an hour to get Allie's hair done. Messed with different exposures and tried a little f-stop stuff (still need some help with that!). Here's one of the pictures:

Ian had a soccer game Saturday afternoon. We were hoping that since it was late afternoon, it might warm up some. NOOOOOO . . . I think it was the coldest day we've had this winter. And on top of that, the winds were strong! I heard that Sunday the winds were 40 mph. I know Saturday had to be that fast. I took NO pictures. . . never happens! But I had to bundle up the girls and myself so we could survive watching the game. They did win 5-1. Go Jags!

So, last Friday I took pictures of Allison's class for their Valentine's Day scrapbooks (they put their valentines in a handmade little book and their pictures were to be on the cover). Then I made a second photo for them to take home to Mom and Dad. Here's Allie's:

Finally, class assignment for this time was landscapes and architexture. SOOOOOO not interested in these topics. I finally came up with these. Thinking the first one is a VERY weak landscape!

A shortie . . .

Don't have a lot of time. Since my last post, I've taken more pictures, received Girl scout cookies (if you ordered, I'll be emailing you soon!), made a trip to Arkansas, and followed a UPS man through a shopping center! Yep, I was soooooo trying to avoid a mailboxes, etc I've had a box to be returned in my van for a week! Saw a brown truck from across the parking lot and winded and stalked until I got the UPS guy. Mission accomplished! Alaina's home with a virus today, I have tutu's to finish, gotta take some pics with said tutu's then it's time for Photography class! I just wanted to stop and take a minute to post. . ..

Insecurities

First off . . .to those that asked. Allie danced on Monday. Mom said she smiled and danced the entire time. Hardly missed a step. @@ . . .what do I know? ROFL Glad she did though. And she was so pleased with the rose Mom and Dad gave her afterwards. I'm sure I'll have to pull the dead flower out of there sometime next week . . .when it finally dies.

So, onto insecurities. I've had the first 2 of my photography classes this week. Our first assignment was self portraits (YUCK!). So I spent over 2 hours taking pics . . .I think I took somewhere in the realm of 150! I pulled the ones I thought were fairly good and took them in (we were supposed to take between 2-5). He showed all of them up on the big screen, and asked questions, shown were there could've been improvements, etc. He got to mine, said something about it being good to do closeups (I had a pic of my hands scrapbooking), said "Very nice pictures" and moved on. No asking about ISO, if I shot with or without a flash. So, of course, that leaves me to wondering how good they really were. Are they that horrible that he didn't even want to start discussing them? {sigh} I don't know. This Tuesday we're supposed to bring in portraits. Will see what I can do about getting some people together for that.

Here are a couple of them . . .



Excited . . .tonight the 6 of us grown-up kids (my sister and her husband, my brother and his wife, and the 2 of us) are going to Bob's Steak and Chop for dinner. YIPPEE . . . . I do find it funny that they have "glazed carrot" on their menu. Nope, not a typo. For $2.95 you can get one huge glazed carrot. tehehe