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!