Thanksgiving Breeeeaaak!

Thanksgiving break was wonderful! Good food, good company, good weather :) It was just fantastic! We spent most of the week out at Jared's parents house and Keri, Josh and Paisley came up. It was really nice to see everybody and to get to play with my Paiser! She is such a funny kid! Thanksgiving day was spent hanging out and slowly getting dinner ready throughout the day.

 Here's Jared cutting the turkey! He doesn't like pictures so he just grimaces in most of them :) What a stud.

 The Dinner Table- all set and ready for food! Unfortunately, I was too excited to eat and I forgot to get a picture of the table full of food haha so just imagine it I guess :) It was delicious!

Georgia cooking like crazy! There was so much food for only 6 people (and a kid haha)!

Paisley just loves smiling for the camera! She is such a cutie! It was a lot of fun being able to play with her all week. I miss little kids a lot.

Keri and I went to see Breaking Dawn Part 1 the day after Thanksgiving. It was sooo good! Haha I know I may sound lame to some people, but I really do like the Twilight series. It was really fun seeing it with someone else that appreciates it :) I tried to get Jared to go with me but he said it would be better to wait for Keri. And he was right! It was fun to spend some girl time together!

Well, Thanksgiving was a success! I wrote in my journal the extended list of things I am thankful for but I ought to at least put my top 3 on here. I am thankful for my husband- he does so much for me and is always so calm and wonderful :), my family- they are always so supportive, loving and thoughtful, I couldn't get by without the wonderufl family that I have, and third is my faith- I am so grateful for the experiences in my life that have lead me closer to my Savior.

I hope everyone's Thanksgiving was wonderful and you can all think of what you're most thankful for!

The Week in Review

It's almost Thanksgiving! One more day of classes then I am free for a week! Wahoo!  Here's the most recent goings on:

 Bart drove a four wheeler haha It was pretty scary/awesome! You can see that he is in his back brace and can see the top of his foot brace on the one foot and he has another on the other. He stayed in first gear and just rolled down the hill haha it was pretty awesome. I would have been way too scared to do that a month after my back surgery! Then again, four wheelers freak me out now already sooo... :D Ya, that was pretty sweet.

Jared had a project for his Outdoor Rec class yesterday. This is his group! They put on a 5K run called "Race at a Pilgrim's Pace". The runners were supposed to dress up like pilgrims but nobody did. To be fair, it was extremely windy and cold. There were 11 runners though! It was a pretty good turnout. The first one done won a $30 gift card to Lin's for Thanksgiving. I went and took pictures of the event for them to put in their presentation. It was pretty fun! While I was out, I found something for my photography project!

Isn't she a beaut? Haha for my project, I'm taking macro shots of decaying/peeling yellow things. It started out as wanting to take happy, fun yellow pictures but since it is fall, there are few happy bright colors around so I went the decaying route. I've found a lot of awesome old equipment though! Here's one of my faves from this machine.

The rust is beaded and looks really cool. I probably looked pretty funny taking close up pictures of this machine on the side of the road haha oh well! It was pretty fun and I got some good ones.

And Jared took me to "In Time" last night! I've been wanting to see that for a long time and we finally went! It was a really good movie! Maybe it's because I've been in need of a good escape but I just got so sucked into that movie, I even cried at one point! It was such a cool idea and I really enjoyed it. Kudos to Jared for taking me out :) It was just what I needed!

The rest of this week was taken up with classes, work and staring at a blank page trying to be inspired which resulted in me just getting onto pinterest and finding other projects I want to do... hmmm, I can't wait 'til I'm done with school and get to create what I want to :) Well, that was the week! I'll try to be better with posting this week since there will actually be events to report on. Happy Early Thanksgiving!

Welcome to the Family, Autumn Judy Young!

Aaaw!!! :DDDD That's my gigantic smile! She is so adorable! Her full name is Autumn Judy Young. She was born earlier today. She weighs 7 lbs 8 oz and is 19.5 inches long. What a lucky little girl! She has the best parents and the best four older sisters who are going to take such good care of her and love her so much! I'm so happy she is finally here! I haven't talked to anyone up there yet but I'm sure all went well and everyone's doing fine. I'll have more updates on it tomorrow! I'm just gonna dream of holding my sweet little niece tonight :) I can't wait to see her!

My Morning Post

I'm not sure what it was, if it was DST or the fact that Thanksgiving and it's pumpkiny gloriousness is right around the corner, but last week just felt... odd. I had artists block bad, which was covered by a poetry writing frenzy but that didn't help me with my drawing... It made things difficult since I had a big project due today but THANK GOODNESS my professor believes in 'Mercy Moments' and I now have until Dec. 5 to finish that project, along with the next project. But still, usually my writers/artists block ends with crazy amounts of creativity oozing out of my pores so hopefully my brain keeps following it's cycle.

My sister is having her baby today! I am so excited! I'm always nervous when someone's having a baby because there are so many crazy things that can happen but I just keep praying for her and I know she's going to be okay. I can't wait to meet my new little niece! The last I heard they hadn't settled on a name so I'm anticipating the Name Reveal haha it's one of my favorite things about new babies. I loooove names and everything that is attached to them. I think names are so important. So, by this afternoon I should have another niece! So much fun.

Mom is on her way up today so I get to see her for a few minutes which I'm really excited for too. I feel like it's been forever but that's because I'm used to going down there every other weekend. We haven't had the time or resources to go down for awhile which bums me out but what do you do? I'll write later tonight!

Feeling... Unfocused

Today has been full of all sorts of strange emotions. I have been craving creativity lately and wanting badly to paint and write and create but I don't seem to have any good ideas... It's kind of driving me crazy! Especially because I have projects where I have to do something in particular and I am having noooo good ideas for it but I keep having good ideas for other projects! Haha isn't that the way it goes? Well here are a couple self-portraits I took for my photography class. I played with them on befunky.com because I like the look better. Maybe I'll post the originals later :)

This is my favorite of the two. I loooove my handed down typewriter :) Thank you Grandpa! And Mom and Dad haha

And this was Mom's camera that she found in storage. Thanks for letting me have this Mom! I love old cameras soooo much! I wish I had more money to devote to collecting them because there are some awesome ones out there.

 Check out my handsome man! He just got this coat and is loving it! He's such a stud! Pardon the messy background haha we cleaned later.

I'm trying desperately to keep myself awake right now. Daylights Saving Time is kicking my trash! I wanna go to bed at like 8 o'clock! Well, I hope you all have a Happy Wiiindsday tomorrow! Tout mon amour!

Lovely Randomness

So these pictures didn't have enough story to have their own entry so I figured I'd throw them all together and share the little quips!

This is my Grandpa Seely's old typewriter that Dad brought back from Canada for me. I just love it and decided to do a painting of a typewriter.











This is my first sketch. I really liked it and my friend Rachel also really liked it so I gave it to her haha. It was pretty fun!

And this is my final project! I'm not in love with it but the colors are fun haha :)

The yummy olives we picked a little bit ago! They're sooo good and Mom gave us a whole gallon! Wahoo! Homemade/grown olives are perhaps one of the greatest things on earth, right next to pomegranates and pumpkin pie :)

Took this tonight! It has been snowing for the last few days and has been so beautiful! I wish that I could have had more time to get out and get some good pictures but we'll have snow for a quite a while longer so I'll get my chance! So much fun and I'm just loving life!