when the dogs are away...

...the stuffed animals will play!

This is what happens when I'm delirious from boredom after sitting at work all day with absolutely N-O-T-H-I-N-G to do. I'm so over it right now.

too sexy for my...

For those of you who know us, get ready for hysteria. For those of you who don't...well, just trust me.....HYSTERICAL. A few weeks ago I had the greatest idea ever. I decided that it would be super fun (as well as beneficial to me) to go somewhere cool in downtown Birmingham to take photographs and to make Jordan tag along as my model!! And believe me, I had to do MUCH arm-twisting to convince her to go. The conversation went a little something like this:

Me: Hey, do you know what we should totally do on Sunday?

Jordan: What?

Me: We should go find someplace really cool and have a photo shoot, and YOU could be my model.....so I can practice with my camera!!

Jordan: ......(1.2 second pause).........OKAY!!!

Me: Sweet! Where should we go?

Jordan: I don't know. But, I CANNOT believe I let you talk me into this!

Right.

So, here are some of the photos from that day....and, again, if you know us, get ready to pee your pants! I could not stop giggling as I sorted through all of these on my computer! Such a fun time!

black, white, brown

Today is the last day of color week :(  While I will miss seeing everyone's beautiful colors posted each day, I can't help but feel a little relieved!  It was tougher than I had anticipated...but I had a great time.  I didn't exactly inherit the creative gene from my mom that my sister got, and this challenged me to no end.  Ironically, today...black, white & brown, which is the least colorful of all...was my favorite day!  Happy Color Week!

pink and red

orange you glad it's not green

I went after orange and yellow Wednesday with a vengeance today.  I was determined to redeem myself from yesterday's green debacle.  I don't really know if I succeeded, but I sure had fun trying! 

not easy being green

I thought that "green Tuesday" would be easy since literally EVERYTHING is green right now.....but it wasn't.  I wanted to find something green that wasn't grass or trees or grass....or, ummm...trees...you get the picture...but I couldn't find anything I liked.  I tried shooting the granny smith apples I had just bought...

...but I don't really like that.

So I tried shooting my bathroom wall..

...but, again, not so much.  So, in a desperate attempt to not use previously-posted-photos (which are green and I happen to like a lot), I broke down and went outside and (yawn) shot the grass...

Hopefully "orange & yellow Wednesday" will be a bit easier....but I'm not so sure! 

And here, as a final desperate (and oh-so-weak) attempt at green, I leave you with this..

(I know it's not exactly green....but it IS blue-GREEN! That counts......right?)

purple heart

Today is the first day of color week and today's colors are blues and purples....my favorite!! I'm gonna have to get on the ball to get photos for everyday....it's harder than I thought to find color pretty or interesting enough to photograph.  I found these purple hearts yesterday when I arrived at Mamaw's house for lunch...lucky!

splash of color

Christy from blythe and bonnie is hosting "color week" this week and I'm going to play along! Basically, what you do is take and post pictures showcasing the designated color of the day...gives me a fun reason to play with my camera...stay tuned.

spring away

Somehow I missed Spring this year.  One day I woke up and the dogwoods had bloomed and the wisteria was climbing everywhere.  I didn't take many photos of the things I saw (and really wanted pictures of) because when I passed them by I didn't have my camera and I just thought "I'll bring it tomorrow"....well, then I woke up and everything was green.  That's it.  Just green, green grass and LOTS of green trees, but no pretty flowers to be seen!  BOO! I missed it.  I swear it seems like Spring never even happened.  Even the weather jumped from freezing cold to swelteringly hot!  Oh well...maybe I'll catch it next year.  These are just some of my most recent favorite shots I took around my lake the other day.  The "pretty" yellow flower is only a weed....it's the only thing with color that i could find!

play time

This morning I had the pleasure of hanging out with Ellie while Libby went to a meeting.  I, of course, brought my camera to get a little practice and hopefully get a few good shots for Libby (she wants a cute photo for her birth announcements).  Each time I break out my camera on a real, live, moving subject, I am reminded how much I don't know what I'm doing with the settings on this camera!! Out of roughly 100 shots, I literally got a handful of semi-acceptable ones to use....most came out very blurry because little miss Ellie is quite the wiggle worm! (and I don't know how to set my camera to compensate for the movement!!!)  But regardless of how many good pictures I got, it was a lot of fun hanging out with Ellie and playing photo-shoot! 

whoa

The wait is finally over. The thing that I have been obsessing over for weeks...months, really...has finally arrived and I am SO excited!! My new camera!!! It was waiting for me on Sunday night when I got home from the beach. I tore into the box, got everything out and sat there staring. Whoa. I was/am completely overwhelmed. I started flipping through the instruction manual, hoping to calm my nerves, but that only succeeded in making me more nervous. Calm down, I told myself, You can totally do this!! You can learn how to use this camera! I know that this is true. I know that I can learn how to use this camera to its full potential, but the usually-dormant-impatient side of me has reared its ugly head and is screaming "But I want to know NOW!!!! I want to know how to do EVERYTHING perfectly RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I'm trying to reign in that impatience....I know that I will learn this camera because I really, really, REALLY want to. Maybe I'll go to Libby's house today and practice on Ellie...