Trash the dress

Last summer Jeniece introduced me to 'trashing the dress'. Which essentially means that you go to a location and take pictures that have the potential to ruin your wedding dress, but provide a setting for some amazing pictures.

These pictures are from the International Peace Gardens down the street from my house. I love the umbrella that Jeniece brought with us.

The second set was at the Great Salt Lake. We started on the beach and moved into the water. You'd be surprised how long the walk to the water was. I do have to give Jeniece kudos on the second shot and I even remembered to point my toes. =)

Walking into the water, I had to pass a lot of gross flies an I was worried that they were going to ruin the shots somehow. Jeniece had brought a stool with us to help set up some great shots. It was so hard to stay on that stool and I kept slipping off.

The last one was our 'artistic' shot. We had bough a pair of cheap sunglasses and spray painted them silver and found some foil stuff that was fun. I don't know that it turned out that great, but it was defiantly a lot of fun.

Bang, Bang baby

Okay, so while Jeniece and Taylor were out having fun in California, I went out shooting with some friends from work.
It's the second time that I've gone with them, and I have to say that I feel pretty tough when I go. Mostly because guns are dangerous and if you act stupid bad things can happen. Luckily, the guys that I go with are REALLY big on the not being stupid part.

I wasn't the only girl there though. One of my co workers, Danny, was there with his girlfriend and Nate's fresh RM's girlfriend was there too.

I kept making Eva (eh-vah) try and shoot different types of guns. And Ellen is tough stuff. She was willing to shoot one of the guns that scare me.

She shot the WWII rifle that Nate brought. It can hold either two or eight bullets, is heavy, looks like it kicks like a mule, and after the final bullet is shot the clip pops out.




The 'kick' everyone thought was so smooth. Are you kidding me?

Ellen shocked when the clip popped out after her last shot.

It was amazing fun and makes me consider taking the concealed weapons permit class, but I think that there are still some things that I need to consider before doing that.

Getting things together

I don't know how anyone does it. You seem to have all of the time in the world to work and play during high school. You even seem to find time to spend hours on end with the your boyfriend or girlfriend. Everything changes when you get married though. You seem to have more things that need to be done than hours in they day. I'd like to say that I have it all under control, but every so often it sneaks away from me and I end up stressed by things that are my 'to do' list.
Fielding and I are both working on getting back to school. I'm in my second semester back at school and have found that it is no easy task to balance work, school, and personal time. I think that I'm going to have to cut back on credits next semester so that I can accommodate some work courses.
Fielding in the meantime is trying out one class to see how it goes. I don't know what the plans are yet, but I guess we'll just have to figure out where to go when we get closer.
Outside of school, we're getting really excited about our summer vacation in Havasupai. There are so many things that we are excited for.We bough me an AWESOME new internally framed hiking backpack. It is my favorite color -ORANGE!
Granted to say that there are some other items that we want to buy for the trip (camera lens and shoes), there is one major thing that we need to work on before we go...FITNESS. We have to make it through a twelve mile hike before we get to our campsite. We're trying to eat healthier and Fielding is hitting the gym. It's killing me! Not because I don't wan to be healthy, but because I like food.
Oh well, I guess that that is everything. If you're interested in joining us for the trip, just let me know. =)