129/365

we went out to dinner with my dad the last night. this was my fav pic from that. he just looks soooo good! i love it when he does that thing with his eyebrow when he looks at me. *sighs*

anyway, it was a good dinner. the waitress asked us if we had just gotten married. she was a little surprised that we'd been married for seven years. she said we seem like newlyweds. ♥

128/365

this is our neighbors little boy. he has the most amazing colored eyes and fittingly enough, his name is orion.

we went next door cuz johnathan wanted to help the guy with his deck a little bit. this little guy was out there, too and kept getting into the nails.

seriously, i couldn't get over the color of his eyes. the editing i did on the picture kind of down plays the color a bit but the real thing is beautiful.

brown eyes? so over-rated.

127/365

there are times when i can barely get a picture i think is good enough for my picture of the day. then there are other times when i have like 5 or 6 really good ones and the choosing is so hard to do. last night was one of those times when i had several good pictures. i dont know why i decided to go with this picture. maybe cuz i'm stuck at home all day and have to wait another month before we can actually go somewhere...?

(by the way, these aren't our license plates. there was a place downtown that had has a bunch of these up on their fence).

126/365

this is my new favorite. i found this mask in the office this evening. i took all kinds of pictures of it before putting it on. i dont think anything else need be said about it except i'll be looking for an outfit to go with it for halloween.

125/365

there was this thing going on last night across the river called "blues, brews, & bbq." what drew us over was the music. we could hear it wafting over the river to our house. so we stopped by and it was pretty cool. they had this stage set up and this really amazing blues band playing. the lead singers voice was pretty much awesome.

there were a lot of drunk people dancing and i'd have like to sit there longer watching them make fools of themselves. the thing about drunk people is they generally don't mind making fools of themselves.

they had a bunch of stands set up and whatnot. this was my favorite picture of the night- the twisted tater.

124/365

i got these vines from a nursery in durango called "native roots" last week. they've been sitting in pots on the deck the whole time since i was waiting for johnathan to finish staining the deck and put up the trellises as skirting.

i had originally scouted these vines out specifically because they grow very well around these parts. so i checked out prices at the nursery and went back at the end of the week. i got them for half the price because of some sale they were having.

needless to say, i rock. =)

so i finally found the energy to get off my lazy behind and plant them yesterday. the guy at the nursery said they could grow up to five feet in one month. we'll see what they look like by fall. hopefully they take.

123/365

we've been sitting outside for the past couple of nights. it's been soooooo nice, i cant believe it and i don't want it to end. it's been cloudy with a hint of rain in the air and a bit breezy. a nice cool breeze that keeps the mosquitos away.

anyway, i was sitting there playing with my camera, experimenting with shooting at night. i ended up with this picture which i thought was pretty cool. the lights are from the softball fields (there was a game going on and we could hear the cheering in the distance). just the whole ambiance of the picture is amazing.

122/365

a few friends of mine who live out in california now came by to see us the other night. they were home because their mom was having a sqaw dance and they had to help out.

anyway, one of them had a baby last year and this is the first time i've seen her since she was born. i can't believe how big she's gotten. i dont know why i'm always so surprised to see kids and babies get big since the last time i'd seen them. i dont know why i expect them to still be the same size.

so the baby in the picture's name is "palis." when johnathan and i first heard it, we kinda just looked at each other and said "o-kay." when you ask the couple how the picked the name, they say the dad heard it in a dream.

.... again, "o-kay."

i love the pose the baby is in. can't get enough of it.

121/365

so today was my daddy's birthday. i didn't go to class but i spent all day with him. it was just a review day because tomorrow is our final exam and the professor said we weren't required to be there.

so i spent the day being my dad's taxi service. i meant to get up early today and go to the gym in farmington to work out... but i didn't. i wanted sleep a little bit more, okay? but daddy had doctor's appts to go to and his car isn't running so good (why am i not surprised?) so i took him to his appts.

we had gotten him this little cake yesterday. i think he thought we forgot about his birthday because we didn't say anything to him about it all day.

i took a few pictures and couldnt settle on just one. i think i'm entitled to more than one considering the occasion, don't you?

120/365

we are so bad about judging whether a cat is a boy or a girl. we're always mistaken and this new kitty is no exception.

so we've been calling it a "he" this whole time. my sister said if it had junk on the outside it was a boy. obviously, we don't know what junk is and have been calling poor kitty a boy this whole time. we found out "he" was really a boy.

how did we find out? he came out from the couch (his special hiding place... at least until he's too big to crawl under there which won't be too much longer). anyway, he came out wearing a bow!

no, not really. toni came over and she double checked and told us he was a girl. the bow was my little touch. hey, don't judge those who dress up their animals. i mean, look at how cuuuute she is!

119/365

i was watering the plants this morning and saw this little guy when i went to turn the spout off. it's weird cuz i saw a cup with pinnochio on it yesterday and was just thinking about jiminy cricket.

in fact, i was thinking "it'd be cool to take a pic and call it 'jiminy cricket'". funny how things like that can sometimes work out.

118/365

i've had this song stuck in my head called "my love". (here's the link if you want to listen... )

we were walking the mall yesterday and i was singing it in my head. it's such a pretty song. anyway, i saw this and i thought it totally matched the song.

so, of course, i bought it.

117/365

my neice, riya, begged me to take her to see eclipse today. i hadn't planned on going to watch it again (even though i desperately wanted to after seeing it during the midnight screening on tuesday night).

i met up with toni, riya, and the baby today for lunch. they came in specifically to have lunch with me since i wanted to go to a chinese restuarant they like that johnathan can't stand.

anyway, riya and i started talking about twilight and she begged and begged. so we stopped by the theaters to see how crowded it was and we ended up buying tickets. the movie was still just as good but the crowd pissed me off. there were like three babies in there that kept crying. okay, seriously, why the hell are you bringing your baby to a theater? then phones kept ringing left and right and TWICE two different people next to us answered their freaking phone in the middle of the movie! THEN there was a stupid peanut gallery sitting right behind us. two older ladies and one of them had to keep explaining what was happening in the movie and why to the other because only one of them had read the books, or watched the other movies. and it wasn't like whispering but like full blown conversations. then the retarded one kept asking "what did he/she say/do/mean?"

ugh. just ugh.

aaanyway, i love that riya is wearing her twilight shirt. okay. i need to get a twilight shirt now. official fan here.

116/365

so roxy and kitty have been getting along a little bit better now. they play and chase each other around. roxy seems unsure of herself a lot of the time, like she doesn't quite know how to play with something that small. it almost seems like she's afraid of hurting kitty. sometimes, when kitty takes her by surprise, roxy freaks out and gets scared.

anyway, here she is all pooped out after a run in with kitty. of course kitty was still raring to go.

115/365

we bought this water fountain over the weekend. i think i really got it for a steal. it's plastic, but like... the heavy kind of plastic. totally doesn't look plastic though.

$15.... i rock once again.