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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.

Always looking for retro

So I was looking at a wedding registry at crateandbarrel.com and they had a link to their children's website landofnod.com and I found these:
Aren't they to die for? They are for kids play rooms, but I want them for my personal luggage. I still don't have pro luggage and they are so perfect. They might be a little small, but they are cheap. $39 for the biggest one! I'm fighting the urge.