A Few Fab Photos: Pool Party

Last weekend I practiced with taking photos during sunrise/sunset. It was pretty cool learning something new, but in the midst of that my little sister and I went to a little "pool party". It was just four of us but we had a good time.

This is my bestie Sam, the owner of that cutie dog named Rex. She invited us over for the party

My little sis had some swimming fun with Aden, my besties son.

She even showed off her little plankton tattoo.

I hope this weekend is just as fun. What are you're plans for this weekend? I mean it's a holiday so you must have something big planned lol :) Happy 4th of July!

Interview With An 8 Year Old

Me and Alyssa (my little sis in law) were sitting around one morning and I decided to interview her for fun. I saw some questions online that I thought would be fun to ask her a few. Her answers where simple but I want to see if anything changes when I ask her the same questions next year. Sounds fun huh?  Here are some of her answers.

What's Your Favorite Color:

RED AND ORANGE

What's Your Favorite T.V. Show

SCOOBY-DOO AND SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

Who Is Your Favorite Singer

CHRIS YOUNG AND JUSTIN BIEBER

What Is The Grossest Thing You Can Think Of

POOP

If You Could Be Any Animal What Would You Be

AN EAGLE

What Is Your Happiest Memory

WHEN MY DOGS, PUP AND LETTIE, SAVED ME FROM A CAR

-her dogs literally pushed her out of the way, how awesome is that

What Do You Do For Fun

HANG OUT WITH MY BUDDY

-that's me!

What Is Your Favorite Thing To Do In The Summer

GO SWIM WHEN IT'S HOT

What Is The Nicest Thing You've Done For Someone

WILLIAM COULDN'T WRITE HIS NAME SO I WROTE IT FOR HIM

-William is her classmate that has special needs. She watches him like a brother.

What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up

A HUNDRED DIFFERENT THINGS

-she was very indecisive with that one lol

Favorite Food

CHOCOLATE

I Love When Mom/Dad Cooks..

BEEFY NACHOS

One Word To Describe You

HAPPY

What Are Your Pets Names

SABRINA (puppy), NATHAN, NADIA, AND ROSE (her cats)

What Would You Do With A Million Dollars

SPEND IT

-apparently I asked a dumb question lol

She is a very interesting little girl that is has an answer for everything. Even the things you don't ask her about lol. I love her to death and love hanging out with her though. We have fun when we get together. There are times when I just want to sit around with the other adults but half the time she is not happy with that one bit. Undivided attention is her M.O.

Hope you enjoyed my little random questionnaire. I have the whole weekend off so I will be taking pictures for sure to share. Looking up aperture and shutter speed settings this time around! Pinterest is the best place ever for that. 

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.

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!!