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we stopped at kilkenny castle in ireland. i set up my camera with self timer and set it on the lawn of the courtyard. it took a few attempts before we were in focus and the angle was right. this was the first attempt and for some reason i love it as much as the perfect one.

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we went from wales to ireland on this irish ferry which took four hours. four looooooong hours. we slept most of the way. me on the bench and johnathan upright in a chair. i woke up after about 2 hours and looked overhead. there were these mirrors on the ceiling.

it was so boring on the ferry, what did you expect me to do?

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we went to stonehenge which was about 45 minutes outside london in the middle of nowhere. we were just driving along when out of nowhere, the rocks appeared. we also went to this little town called salisbury. lastly, we went to the city of bath and saw the roman baths.

ended the day by crossing into wales spending the night in newport.

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we walked out of london heathrow airport to mild weather. i was expecting to be bogged down by humidity but was rather surprised when the weather closely resembled what we left at home, albeit it a bit cooler.

we checked into our hotel and our tour started that evening. we went to dinner at a pub along the river thames. then we took a guided night river cruise and saw all of london illuminated.

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standing in the airport in phoenix about 20 minutes before boarding our plane to london heathrow airport!

super duper excited. every other sentence out of my mouth was "can you believe we're actually doing this, babe?!"

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so mapquest said phoenix was 6 hours from where we live. i should have printed out the directions to our hotel but johnathan said he knew his way around phoenix and he knew the fastest way to get to phoenix.

well, we got past gallup and were headed down i-40 when he said he wasn't sure where to go. i just about strangled him! we had to stop at a gas station in holbrook and ask the attendant about the fastest way to get to phoenix. we arrive in phoenix and took the exit to the airport and had to go through the entire airport before finding the exit to our hotel.

our hotel was very nice, by the way.

NOTE

i won't be uploading pictures for about two weeks. sorry for those following daily. you'll just have to get your fix after the 20th. i'll upload for every day after the 20th- i'll still be accountable, dont worry.

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look at those big ole eyes! toni and the kids stayed the night last night. this is what i woke up to this morning. this little brat was eating breakfast. she looks everywhere when she eats and ends up getting her food all over her face.

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i'm sorry! i'm so not big on commentary today. i've gotten a few days behind on uploading. there's just so much to do before we leave town!

this was on the way home after a loooong day of running errands. i have no idea who josh bell is. i'm thinking it's probably not the cow.

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this is one of my favorite things in my house. i've had it for a long time.

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so everything just snowballed this week. i had this week all planned out on how i was going to handle each day but then *poof* it just goes haywire.

this hangs over our bed in our bedroom. as you can probably tell, i forgot to take a pic until right before bedtime.

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so bree and i had such a fun shoot yesterday. she had originally planned a paying shoot but they had to reschedule so she got another girl to play model for us.

we had a ballerina theme kind of shoot.

i had so many good ones and was like on a roll editing them that i got them all done this morning. this is my favorite from the bunch. my inspiration for the shoot was the gothic ballerina in the my chemical romance video "helena".

when i was editing this pic, mcr's "black parade" song was going round and round in my head. hence the title.

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i was finishing up a baby blanket i started last week. dang, but my kitty loves the yarn. i've sprayed it for getting into the yarn so much that if it's even near my yarn and i move, she takes off running for her life from the spray bottle.

kitty is getting smart. i went to get some more white yarn cuz i was running out. when i came back, this is what i found. luckily for me, my camera was practically in my hand ready to go.

notice the yarn in her mouth and the look in her eyes that say "why you looking at me like that? i totally belong here."

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it's been raining so much here, i love it! but there are some downsides to all the rain such as all the flash flooding. it flooded farmington the other night. the next day, as i was driving to the gym i saw all the businesses downtown having to remove the debris from their lots. so there were tractors all over the place.

here at our place, it just made the road muddy in some places. and drenched our local spider's houses. hope they had flood insurance.

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so we were strolling downtown aztec when this jumped out at me. johnathan waited patiently while i snapped away from every conceivable angle.

i chose this angle because it reminded me of alice in wonderland. we watched the movie a few weeks ago. it was alright, didn't much care for it though.

when i was little, i used to watch alice in wonderland the cartoon all the time. it was one of my sisters favorite movies but i hated it. i dont know why i watched it constantly but it scared me. i think i only watched it cuz it was anne's favorite cartoon. it scared me on so many levels. not like the "boo!" kind of scary but differently. i don't know, it was so long ago and i don't know how to explain it.

so for now, enjoy!