Merry Christmas

Here's my family's Christmas card for this year. Turned out pretty cute huh? Anyways. Merry Christmas!

A Vegas Weekend in Pictures

Bellagio water show

Fountain in front of the Venetian

Me & Turf. This guy was on America's Got Talent recently. He didn't win, so he went back to doing what he did before: Street Performances.

Sherese's Farewell

Celeste and I were just looking for a balloon. We didn't find one. So naturally we just tried on the masks instead.

Sunsets

If there is one thing in this world that will never get old, I'd say it's sunrises and sunsets.... really just the sky in general. Sometimes I pull over on the side of the road because the sky is so beautiful I would hate to miss the opportunity to preserve it through an image.

Photograms

This is just a little something we did in my photography class known as photograms. It was a super fun time. 

Loving my major!

So I started school a week ago, and may I just say that I am loving my major! (Art and Visual Communications) School really isn't so bad now that I just get to be creative all the time!
So, for the first assignment in my photography class we had to do self-portraits. Doesn't sound that hard right? Wrong! It took me two days to get one I liked. While I was out in the backyard taking my self portraits using a bar stool as a tripod, the sprinklers came on. Of course. Anyways, here are some of those:

Okay. Nextly, in my 2D design class, we're working on Positive/Negative assignment and I'm not even going to begin to try and describe what that is. Anyway. I had a design that I really liked for some reason, but it wouldn't work for the assignment, so I made a version of it digitally just for fun.

I never appreciated abstract art until I had to try and make some. It's harder than you would think. Anyway. That is all.

Stadium of Fire

Dress rehearsal on July 3rd.

Happy 4th!

Talking to Celeste who is all the way in Nebraska

Stadium of Fire Chorus Participants

Scotty McCreery! He is a real dream boat.

Scotty!

The Stadium

Waiting to go onstage for the finale

"Quick Amber! Make your, 'Oh my gosh! We're in the same stadium as Scotty McCreery' face."

Those would be the signatures of the Beach Boys. I didn't get them unfortunately. Someone sent them to me in an e-mail.

 Here we go with the story behind the photos. My sister talked me into taking part of the Stadium of Fire chorus. It was my first time ever at the Stadium of Fire. We got to hear the Beach Boys & Scotty McCreery live. It was a great night. I personally wouldn't do it again. I'm not a real fan of choir humor.

Me&Am

Yup. She's basically my new best friend. Poor Am...

Mustache?

What do you do when you're bored?

We like to put on 3D glasses without lenses, draw mustaches on our fingers with dry erase markers & take a picture. Or two pictures because we can't get our fingers to go straight. Just in case you were wondering.

YSA Super Summer in Gunlock: Part One

It all started at about 9 in the morning when we (me, am &jam) all left together in one very nice rental car. (Actually it started at 6 in the morning when Amber went to go do Heather's hair for her wedding, but that is a different story entirely). I must say that it felt like one of the shortest drives to Gunlock. At least for me. We stopped once on the way to eat because we all skipped breakfast and Jamie was "eating herself from the inside". So after about 4 and a half hours, we sure did make it to sweet Gunlock.

Somehow, we were among the first to arrive. (Apart from my own mother who went a day early to prepare the way). Since Amber is thoughtful and whatever, she wanted to wait around for everyone, or most everyone, to get there so she could help get them situated and settled. So it was a little boring, but we entertained ourselves for about 37 seconds while we took the photo seen above. Obviously Amber was too bust texting to take anymore pictures with me.

FINALLY, mostly everyone made it to Gunlock. Me and Jam were quite hungry, so we (Amber included) drove to Veyo to see what sort of options they had in regards to food. There was a Mexican food joint, a pie cafe, and a pizza parlor. Pizza looked like the best option. Naturally, in a small town such as Veyo, we were the only customers. But the advantage to this was that our waiter was extra friendly and very aware of our needs as customers. I told Amber that it was like the restaurant on Goonies. The type of place that hides dead bodies and what not. Anywho..... While waiting for our pizzas, Jam showed us some "fat" pictures on her iPhone that she took with the weird app, it basically just makes your face fat. You know the one. Well. I was lucky enough to get a gander at what I would look like if I gained 500 pounds.

Yes. That is what I would look like. Scary stuff. Amber and Jamie were laughing so hard I thought for sure they were going to pass out from not being able to breathe. I wonder what the guys at the pizza place thought of the random hideous outburst of laughter....? Amber got her picture too, but she would probably kill me if I posted it, so.... I won't.

Anyway.... After we were done eating in "Radiator Springs" aka Veyo, we headed back to Gunlock. In our absence there were some new arrivals including my dear sweet friend Whitney. Whit and I went for a walk and talked. And of course we took some pictures.

 Me, Am & Jam

 Me & Whit

 My momma, Am & Me

 Am, Me, & Whit

Dinner was served, after which a  large portion of our group went to Tuacahn to see Hairspray. Those of us not wishing to suffer through it had a lot of free time followed by an outdoor movie. Wondering how we spent our free time. Well we played the cowboy game. What else?

How does one play said cowboy game? Well. You put on a cowboy hat (the kind randomly found in the living room downstairs) and you talk in a hick accent for a few hours. That is all. And it was very fun. Anyway. Outdoor movie. August Rush. Makes me wanna be a musical prodigy real bad. Anyways... that is pretty much day 1 of this fun little getaway.

Sisters

I sure don't know what I'd do without em. Probably be bored ALL the time....

The Dirty Dash