Plans For The Future

If you've read my recently added About Me tab you will know that I have a bucket list for myself. I have a things for lists lol. Me and my older sister in law put it together some months ago with plans of doing it all together. People have told me I am too young for a bucket list but I think it is the most fun project I've attempted so far.

I have made the goal to finish this up before I retire and see how far I get. I even put my list on popsicle sticks for fun.When I accomplish one I write the date on the back of the stick. I have successfully done 4 this year:

See a ballet

Shoot a gun

Caverns

ziplining

I was excited to start on my list so quickly! My husband finally let me put a hand on one of his many guns to use as my first weapon fired. Yes, I live in Texas and had never shot a gun before then lol. I don't really like them but I wanted to learn how to use at least a small one. I don't want to get in a position where I bring a knife to a gun fight ha! (horrible joke I know lol)

For Alyssa's 8th birthday we took a trip to San Antonio and saw the caverns there. It was pretty awesome. My little buddy has a huge thing for rocks. Let me just say she was in heaven. Lucky me they had ziplining there too so I took advantage of the situation. It was amazing!

For the ballet I saw my little second cousin in her ballet based off of a Pixar theme. I think it counts even though the ballet was for small children. It was super cute! Too bad I didn't get a picture of that. I want to go to a real one though with professional ballerinas. That kind of makes me wonder what a boy ballerina is called? Let me google that....

Cavalier is the answer I got. That's cool. Learning new stuff every day!

The last item I did off of my bucketlist was a couple of months ago so I haven't done anything in a while. But I am definitley on the lookout for more to add to the list :)

Anywho, I hope everyone had a wonderful Tuesday! I myself worked a double today totalling 16 hours of hard labor. I am pooped. But I thought I would write this out before hitting the sack. Hope the rest of your week is awesome!! 

Visiting Lil Sis + Flower Photography

The other day I got to see my little sis like I had hoped but things didn't go quite as planned. We were supposed to draw with chalk, which is hard to do when you don't have any chalk in the first place.We still had fun spending time together despite being chalkless. I feel like I haven't seen my little buddy in forever. I brought Zeus and Charlie along too. Alyssa has a little puppy that they love to play with, so it was an all around good time for everyone.

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Another thing on our bucket list was picking wildflowers. So we searched in her yard and stumbled upon the saddest group of yellow flowers (those aren't sunflowers are they??) I had ever seen lol.

We ended up not picking them afterall. They were mostly wilted and buried in tall grass that I did not want to find a stray snake in. Plus there was an extra large puddle of what looked like black water nearby that Zeus was very interested in. We had to spray him down after noticing his whole left half was covered in black guck.

Coincidentally he loved the water being sprayed in his face. Good thing too because before the day was over he had gotten into the black puddle again, requiring yet another spray down.

We found more flowers that I decided to take pictures of because these were clearly not meant to be picked.

I was getting picture taking happy with the last one. Those are just the berries on one of their many evergreen trees. 

After taking pics we decided to have a little scavenger hunt. Thinking up things to find was much harder than I had expected but Alyssa found everything on her little list. She is such a smarty for an 8 year old.

I took the time and actually edited these pictures. I even experimented with putting my name on them. After putting my name on them though, I realized people usually put watermarks on their photos, not just plain text. I am wondering if there is an easy way to watermark pictures. I want to do it to my good ones :). Any suggestions would be awesome since I don't seem to know what I am doing lol.

Happy First Day of Summer

It officially the first day of the summer but it has been hot in Texas since the beginning of last month! lol. I didn't realize the significance of today until I read another fellow bloggers post!

Me and little sis have barely put a dent in our little summer bucketlist sadly. My job makes it difficult since I only work in the afternoons. That wasn't the case in the beginning but change happened as usual, so we won't fret, just accomplish as much as we can.

This summer I do want to work on editing pictures and taking them too. There are techniques I am finding on Pinterest for picture taking that I am going to try out in my spare time.

An inspiration of mine is a friend I have known since grade school! Shannon is an amateur like me but has been at it for quite sometime. Check out her fan page for Qualls Photography on facebook. She is trying for giveaways and everything. I think you will really like her work! 

Anywho I am going to catch up on some youtube videos and enjoy the rest of my coffee while it is still early. I hope everyone has a great rest of the summer break, and if you work like me I hope you have a great summer period lol.

Cross It Off The Bucketlist

So me and Alyssa have been hanging out these past couple of days, which happened to be my days off. We decided to try our hand at camping. Apparently it isn't on our buckelist but I could have sworn it was.

Everything went pretty smoothly at first. The guys put up the tent because I certainly don't know how to put one up. This is literaly my first camping experience. I didn't want to tear it up so I left it to the professionals.

So it was all set up and we went to the fair for a little while to walk around and indulge in a funnel cake and a candy apple. When we got back me and my lil sis got our things together and made our way to the tent. Unfortunately there was a stray cat meowing its head off close by, freaking her out to the max. I guess scary campfire stories made it worse because no more than 20 minutes we were our there, she was ready to go back in the house. Yes we set up in the back yard lol. I wanted to be close to a bathroom if need be. 

Ah well. It was fun while it lasted. We were all surprised it wasn't me that wanted to come it. To be honest, I am not the biggest fan of the outdoors and I did not anticipate the bugs and other possible critters awaiting us  and our camping adventure. It's okay though, we set up in the living room and finished the night off with Despicable Me instead.

Day 1 Done

Today was a good day, I spent some time with my lil sis at the lake! That will count as a check on our bucketlist:
 1. Go to the lake
yay!!

We went around lunch time and hung out with family and got our tan on. I know I don't quite seem to need a tan but the sun felt great on the skin and I did get a wee bit darker when it was all said and done.

We even brought the doggies with us! Zeus (the great dane pictured below lol) was not too thrilled about the water at first. He is the most skiddish dog I have ever seen. But he warmed up to it and actually jumped around in the water, splashing everyone in his wake lol. It was fun watching my mom in law scream as she was hit with the cold water.

My husband took the opportunity to get a little tan too. He usually just burns. That's our little cousin Mikey with his too-cool-for-school glasses on. My husbands chest is now super pink. I can only imagine the pain he will go through in the morning. I have never burned before, so I can exactly empathize but I'm figuring it is pretty painfully.

All in all a fun day. I had a great day off. I am even slightly proud of my tan lol. Now I am suffering from heat exhaustion and am ready to hit the sack. I will show you those anticipated pictures I've taken in my next post :) You're gunna love em!!

Me and My Lil Sis + Our Bucketlist

This is my littlest sister, literally my sister in law, and she became my little bestie when she was 3. Well guess who is 8 now and still wants to hang out with her buddy! Alyssa is always down to hang with me because I actually play with her. I love kiddos and how their minds work and she surprises me all of the time.

This is us as at her school eating lunch. I haven't done that in a while but when I did she was always so excited.

She is a goofy little individual. I am not sure what I would do without my little buddy.

So we came up with our own little bucket list for the summer and I thought it would be a good idea to share it for anyone else looking for a challenge this summer. Vacation officially starts next thursday and first on our agenda is the lake! She has a little puppy and we thought it would be a great idea to take her's and my doggies to have a good time in the water and soak up some sun ourselves.

Anyways here is our agenda:

 We are actually substituting slow dancing with midieval times instead since we aren't exactly a couple lol.

Defo can't wait to get started. Its so funny, Alyssa actually put them in a certain order and that is why the lake is first. We will see how this all goes. Hopefully we can finish em all in 2 months (Ha! That is super sad if we don't)