fun times

My best friend Megan wears headbands all the time, so I got the idea to turn an Oatmeal box into a headband holder. I got a little artsy and painted swirls all over it.

After it was dry I tried to put my headbands on it to see how well it worked. My headbands slid right down. I was so sad that it wasn't going to work as well as I thought, but it was too late to make adjustments. I gave it to her and she loved it . She put her headbands on it and they fit perfectly. I forgot that I have a bigger head and I stretch my headbands out. haha

Ice Skating!

Our awesome friend Beth decided that we should all go ice skating together before we exchange gifts! So here we are having a grand old time.
The first picture is me and my ridiculous skating outfit. I went to American Apparel to get just the right leggings and the sweater is an ugly sweater my brother gave to me so I could have an ugly sweater party.
Second picture is Beth showing us her best fall. We held a little competition and she was a close second.
Third is all my awesome friends. We're great.

why i love the =w=

So I was searching videos for the classic Muppet head shake, I was inspired by the Chris Kattan shake, and I found one of my favorite Weezer videos. Watch Kermit when he freaks out. That's the classic Muppet shake that I love to do.

Another good reason to love Weezer.

And another reason to love Weezer: I think they love vintage too! Is it normal to love a band so much and feel like you connect on the all the right levels? Ya I didn't think so. haha

Last video. In this one they invited their fans out to break a bunch of world records. One was the most people playing air guitar at the same time.

modern christmas

Look at those LED lights! Yay energy saving! We look like kids from El Cajon. Kat I know you like your hoodies.

Hollywood

There she goes again! I love it when Megan laughs.

So these are pictures from when we took Megan's Florida friends around Hollywood. We were trying to pose sexily on the plastic jumbo chase lounge out side of the CPK in the plaza by the Chinese theater. Nikki knows what's up.
Kara and I doing our best. She's so cute!

Then there's me. As I looked up I saw a girl watching us in the building above. Laughing her head off.

Megan!

Me and my best friend! This is us all the time. Oh I love her and am so blessed to have her in my life.

This picture is from when we baked cookies on Tuesday. Thank you Bethany

'08 Christmas

These are some pictures from Nick's work Christmas Party last year. One of Nick's Doctor's loves Photography , so he brought his equipment and took pictures for every couple. Our favorite is the first one!

Kriss and Marisella

As a bridal shower gift to my Sister-in-law Marisella I offered to do her Christmas card pictures and cards. Here are two pictures from the shoot we did in Irvine State Park.

Simply Radical Service Weekend

I'm a youth leader at my church and last weekend we held a service-project-lock-in. It was put together to show the youth God's heart for people of other nations and people who haven't heard of Jesus yet.

The first night we dwelt on the Glory of God and how our lives are to be all about showing the Glory of God. We also spent time reading about different people groups in the world that haven't heard about God or Jesus and praying for them.

The next day we went to MFI a woman's recovery home and helped fix lights, door knobs, and weather striping. The first picture is from one of our girls painting their fences. Some of the kids were baby siting their children while their mothers were cleaning the home.

It was a great weekend!

Cookies!

So Every Tuesday we have "gender night." The guys hang out at Megan & Thomas' house and play video games while the ladies go to either Bethany's house, Tiffany's house or a mini adventure to hang out and chat.

Two weeks ago:
Our lovely host Bethany let us make a mess of her kitchen for a Tuesday night to make cookies! It's Christmas, so that means you bake lots and lots of cookies. Our group of ladies decided to make cookie dough one night and then the next Tuesday we will bake them and let all our guy friends eat them. It will be great to combine the two nights. So that mixing of groups is happening this Tuesday and I'm so super excited!

Friendsgiving!

So last year my hubby had the great idea of having all of our friends together for a day after thanksgiving meal with our friends. We started off with bringing all our left overs, but this year everyone made nice and new food. It was great! I'm so glad that Megan and Thomas were nice enough to put it together this year and host it! It will be a tradition for years to come.

She is so right!

I love this photographer! I just heard of Nicole Hill Gerulat today, but this video of her explaining trendy photography is so right on. Oh thank you Nicole. Here is her website. And she's a Brookie! Worst year of my life, but I learned so muc hand grew so much.

It's true

Hi Heather,
Yes, I'm sorry to tell you that we are closing Dec 24th. The reasons are numerous and varied, and I apologize for not letting you know when you called. However, we'll absolutely look forward to being of service any way we can until that point, so please come see us if there's anything we can do for you in the meantime.
Take care, and hopefully we'll see you soon,
Thanks again,
Tony


He got back to me pretty fast. Hopefully I'll snap away on my Diana+ in time to use their lab at least once.

Goodbye Intellicolor. I barely knew you.

It can't be so

So I've been trying to find a local place to develop my 120 film in-house and I finally found one. Intellicolor photo lab on Lime. I called them today to get the DL and he was happy that I found them and told me to come on down and forget all about Ritz, which takes two weeks to get my film back to me. Intellicolor could do it in a day! So exciting.



I decided to get more information on them , so I went to the their website. This picture is from their website. The guy on the phone didn't say anything about them closing in 15 days. I guess my happiness was short lived, but it was nice for the 10mins. I sent an e-mail asking if was really true. I'll keep you updated.

Ugly sweater party

So this is a picture of me two Christmases ago at a college ugly-Christmas-sweater party. I got some votes.

I'm going to take one of my high school gals from church to goodwill to find ugly sweaters for the high school Christmas party this Wednesday night! I'm so excited to spend some quality time with her.

man my hair was curly in that picture!

Women of Distinction

So every year my boss does an event called women of distinction where he honors 63 women in the 63rd district. So this year we wanted to run with the color theme of gold and black.

These are a few things I'm going to use in the design of it. Yes I'm designing again for these crazies, but only for our office, so there won't be so many hands in the pot.

So the mask feathers are what I'm going to use mostly. I hope I can pull it off. I'll probably have to steal a Wacom Tablet. I hope it turns out!

Published..kinda..no.. ya!

This is my awesome boss Asm. Bill Emmerson handing out turkey's to non-profit food banks and churches for Thanksgiving. I went with him and this is one of my pictures. It was published on a news blog. I know that's not the end all be all, but it's a start! If you click on the picture it will take you to the blog. YAY!

Joy

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This is a video from the National Dog Show that aired on Thanksgiving.

Whenever I see a dog it makes me happy. They are just so full of joy. They just want to love you and be loved in return. It's so easy for them to trust you and to guard you.

It just makes me want to be happy more often like a dog. I should just be thankful for the simple things in life. I want to be full of joy like a dog.

With God in control it shouldn't be that hard.

Breezer

So I am so excited for this Friday because I'm going to go to Ventura and visit Breezy! She is a friend I made while I was in photography school in Ventura. We worked together at the coffee bean and then we found out we went to the same school and loved Jesus. Now we are close friends. I actually think of her as a mentor. Breezy is so convicting in a good way. She is crazy fun and a self proclaimed "dirty hippie." She opened my eyes to the beautiful South Lake Tahoe. That's where she is originally from. If you want to check out her photography go to
http://www.breezyazevedo.com/blog/.

I'm going up to see her because she is bringing down her new boyfriend Alex from Oklahoma. I can't wait . I've heard great things!

my love!

Isn't he the cutest. I was going through my old film while I was cleaning my photography closet and found these. This is from when we went to Redding this summer with Megan and Thomas. We got out of the car and it smelled like cows and there were flies everywhere!
I love my Nick!

diana+

So I fianlly got some of my pictures to come out from my 120 diana+. I switched to ISO100 so more of my pictures should work out. I love playing with film. The lighting, the softness and depth of feild is so much better!

Christmas invites are in!

Nick and I are obsessed with Madmen so we themed our Christmas card after the intro of the show. It was acombined effort of Thomas, Nick and I. Oh and Megan was their doing the photo shoot keeping us entertained and she was helping us pose!
So what's the Love Christmas?
Ever since the first year Nick and I were dating we have thrown a Christmas party. We usually do it at Nick's parent's house, but this year we have our own house, that we rent/share with the O'fs. It's always a semi formal event. I love dinner parties that you get to dress up for! It's a tradition to play white elephant and we always do a pot luck. It's going to be grand. I think I'm going to post all my past Christmas outfits.

the postcard that gave me so much grief

So here it is. This is the final-ish version of the flyer I had to make for work. I think I did pretty good. The other office that was being so critical thought it was good and that I needed to change the tit;e to a different color to make it pop. That's OK I guess. :)

Gina's Wedding

So my husband and I went to a wedding last weekend and the favors were these super fancy candied apples! And yes that is glitter and there were delicious!

I was telling my friend Gina, who got married, that I've never been to a fancy wedding before and she said it wasn't fancy. The waiters came around and put our napkins on our laps, there were three courses, valet parking for free and it was at a golf club in Indian Wells. You tell me. It was a blast. Nick and I were on the dance floor all night. I work with Gina, so all four of my co-workers were there and one of them was drinking a little too much whiskey. He was on the dance floor with these crazy moves and at one point he took his shirt off. Haha so crazy and I hear someone has pictures of that marvelous moment.

did you hear about nubs?

Click the image to read the story about the Marine and the Iraqi dog that followed him around and finally he took home. It's really amazing.
This story explains exactly why I love dogs.

Pumpkin carving !

One of my good friend Bethany put on a little pumpkin carving party for a group of friends. The spread was amazing and the carving designs were fantastic. I was still sick and on a lot of drugs so I left my friend Eric carve my pumpkin for me.



This is the hilarious Bethany. She uses an actual knife to carve her pumpkins and she loves every second of it!




Jessica isn't too happy about removing the guts of the pumpkin.


Thomas using machinery to carve his x-iNferno pumpkin. That's the website/company he owns and operates.



Drinking and carving pumpkins goes so well together.


Corey putting the finishing touches on his Mario inspired design.

And Eric's masterpiece finished. yay the cool-aid man and on the top it says "oh yeah!"

The carving pumpkin tradition goes on.