Woot for the Weekend!

This weekend was way chill. I spent a lot of time reading...

We get the National Geographic every month and this month's is all about the Titanic. It's pretty interesting and has a lot of awesome pictures. It's one of my favorite magazines, one I hope to write for someday! Then I've been scanning It's Just My Nature by Carol Tuttle, a personality profile book. It's really cool and I'm trying to decide if I'm a Type 2 or Type 1, I think a mixture of both. Then I started The Hunger Games again, since the movie just came out. I read it once a long time ago so I want to read it again before I see the movie. It's pretty good so far!

I loooove this cardigan! It's so comfy and perfect for lounging on a Sunday!

We spent the day hanging out with Keri and Paisley and Jared's parents at their house, watching movies and eating lots of yummy food! It was cloudy and cold looking outside, so lounging inside was such a wonderful thing! It's been such a great day! I'm really not wanting to go back to responsibility tomorrow :( But what can you do? It can't always be the weekend I guess!

Photo Hunting, The Grind, Being a Deer

Yesterday I had the day off, so I went out to take some photos for my class. I felt so artsy eating breakfast on the road and searching for photo ops. I like working with people more than inanimate objects but I have a hard time enlisting subjects to willingly have their photo taken :/

So off to Enoch I went! I drove around forever trying to find something interesting but it was all just houses and old farm equipment (which I am sick of photographing), after about a half hour of nothing, I headed to Parowan. Again, nothing, a bunch of houses. I'm nervous to photograph people's homes or things in their yards because I'd have to ask permission (or be shot at haha) and you never know who lives there, dunno why but it just creeps me right out, so I don't do it. I gave up on Parowan and decided to head back to Cedar. On my way down the freeway I saw my sign. Literally, it was a huge sign saying "SUNSHINE- CLOSED". An old, abandoned gas station called Sunshine was just chilling there, waiting for me to take pictures of it. There's an old shop on the premises too, so I shot it. This was my favorite from that series:  

I apologize for the editing, I don't have photoshop yet so I'm just using an online one. I do like this filter though.

 On the side of the gas station, there was a brick wall caved in like someone had run their car into it, then tagged the brick. It's pretty awesome looking and would be a fun background for outfit pictures:

You can kind of see the indention in this picture where the bricks look all wavy

After some successful shooting, my tummy reminded me to eat something so I headed to Cedar to find a nice, quiet cafe to munch at while I reviewed my pictures and made a game plan for new ideas. I hadn't been to The Grind in a long time (like, 4 years) and the last I was there it was just a coffee place. But I saw their sign said cafe so I thought, mm why not? I am so glad I went! It is perfectly built for lounging, munching DELISH bagel sandwiches, sipping smoothies and working on creative endeavors. If we had the money, I would eat there every day, just to get some quiet time in without having to be at home. Here's what I got: a turkey club with havarti cheese and some awesome sauce I don't remember the name of.

Plus, it came with probably the most delicious potato salad I've ever had. I am so excited I found a nice little hang out! Lunch was made even better when Jared got off work early and joined me! We perused the book store that's attached (Braun Books) then went our ways again. I had to develop the film I took today and I am happy to say that they turned out amazing! A couple are pretty blurry but I was kind of expecting it, so not much of a loss there. Once I get them scanned and cleaned up, I'll throw 'em up on the blog. The Holga pictures are interesting but I don't know if I'm sold on it, I like color too much and not spending $5 for 12 pictures I'm not sure will come out right haha.

Jared's sister, Keri and her daughter, Paisley came to visit, so we spent the evening in Kanarraville eating homemade chicken strips and french fries (Pais's favorites) and catching up. I was lucky enough to find a deer antler hat (like the BK crowns) and hid while Paisley hunted me with a cork/pop gun! It was so much fun! I was a pretty stupid deer and got shot about 20 times throughout the evening!

Needless to say, today has been an amazing day! If every day were like today, I would probably be the happiest person on the Earth. Seriously. I am making it a goal now to have more days like today and thoroughly enjoy my time!

3 Glorious Years!

Jared and I just celebrated our 3 year anniversary!! It's so crazy! I can't believe it's been 3 years! Luckily it's spring break this week so we got to have lots of time to ourselves! For the day, we went to the Las Vegas Temple (more and more gorgeous every time we go), then went shopping! It was alot of fun and we got some pretty cool things! I'll do some outfit posts later :) Let's just say I got a mint blouse and a yellow striped cardigan that I loooove!

We stayed at my parents that night then headed out to Whitney Pockets the next day. Whitney Pockets is outside of Mesquite towards Lake Mead. It's usually pretty crowded with groups of people on four-wheelers but luckily my Dad gave us directions to a secret camp that got us away from all the people! It was fantastic!

view from our tent- without the rain fly, it's practically all mesh! So nice!

Such a sweet little camping spot! It was shady most of the day so we could nap and not sweat :)

Climbing up above the water tank/dam thing, we wanted to make it to the top of the mountain but needed ropes :/

Up close of a barrel cactus. Love the colors!

I just love us :D

We found an awesome arch so of course we had to climb up to it!

I was sooo terrified standing on it but it was worth it!

At camp!

 It was such a lovely camping spot (thanks Dad for the directions to the 'secret' spot!) and the weather was amazing! We got to hike a lot, eat yummy dutch oven, and build a shade for our cooler with our jean blanket! Haha it was so great to get away from work and school and just be together for a few days.

Also, that place is right under a route for planes headed to Las Vegas so we laid there at night and watched all the lights go by. We tried to block them out and only look at the stars but we ended up just making up stories of aliens instead. It was so gorgeous though and made me want to move out to the middle of nowhere where I can see stars every day!

It was the best anniversary and such a good reminder that we have to take some time to just be together so that we can grow and have fun together. I'm so excited for more camping to come this summer!!

New Music!

I just saw a really cool music video and had to share it with everyone! It's called Needing/Getting by OK Go. Some things people do amaze me! It must have taken so long to put this together! Enjoy!

Also, I just discovered spotify.com and it is awesome :) It's helping me find other bands that are similar to the ones I already like and I am really excited to expand my music library! Today has been a somewhat lazy Saturday. We were planning on going to the rock climbing wall this morning but the PE Building was closed! So that threw us off and we have just been hanging out haha! I did get my hair cut at Hello Gorgeous though! They did a great job and I'm definitely going back!

I'm currently watching Transformers 2 on TV, listening to Fun. on spotify and reading Aspire by Kevin Hall... I might hit a media overload here pretty quick but it makes things interesting!

Well I hope everyone is having a great weekend! And if your Spring Break is next week, like mine is, then travel safely and have crazy adventures!

Saturday Tunes with the Tanner's

So, Jared and I have both developed obsessions with two different songs. We usually develop obsessions for bands but in the last couple days we each have listened to our new fave like 20 million times. So I thought I'd share with you!

My favorite is the song We Are Young by Fun. I LOVE the acoustic version, but the original is great too so here's both videos. :) Enjoy!

Such a fun song! Makes me happy! :) Except it is a littler disconcerting that as he's singing about being young and making the most of our time and the first video is all about people basically beating each other up in slow motion... interesting.

Jared's favorite song is Tokyo Moon by Windmill. The music video's really cute haha it's one of my new faves too!

We've just been spending our Saturday being together and eating some yummy chocolatey goodness from the Cedar Candy & Nut shop! We also went to Chronicle in the new discount theater. It was pretty sweet, made me not want super powers haha. Hope everyone's Saturday is amazing!

Half of a Chicken- Literally

So I'll get to my title in a minute, but I first I want to tell you about our new hobby. We went to  Joann's yesterday looking for buttons for Jared's survival bracelets, and I swiftly perused the scrapbooking section and only bought 4 things out of the $1 bin! Anyways, we're in the checkout line, chatting about all the cool, creative things in the store, when we looked at each other- "crocheting?" "definitely." So we got out of line and found all the stuff for beginner crocheters!!

Our new hobby materials!

 We're so excited! Jared is already a lot better than I am but it'll still be a fun hobby to learn together! Jared has those craftsman hands and mine are soooo clumsy! Mine are made more for wielding a pen than threading yarn through my fingers. But I'm determined to succeed! I'll probably make a beanie first but I really want to make a pair of gloves with the fold-back mitten part. It's always fun to learn something new!

We couldn't figure out what we wanted for dinner tonight, so we ended up going to Winger's! They had a deal going on- 2 entrees and endless salad for $18 so we decided to do that. We each ate like 3 bowls of salad, which tasted soooo good! Then our entrees came... Jared ordered their fish tacos (which were huge!) and I ordered.... half a chicken. That's right. The waiter was surprised too haha! I figured if I'm paying that much, I'm going to get as much food as possible to take home. And wow was I rewarded. Does anyone seriously eat this much in one sitting??

I should have gotten myself in the picture- the plate is about as long as my forearm. I don't know, it just seemed like a ton of food! It was good though! I think the thing I enjoyed most really was being to say that I ordered half a chicken for dinner. I didn't realize it was going to look like half a chicken though! I hate eating meat off the bone so it was a little unnerving, but I did eat some of it at the restaurant. I'll have to cringe through pulling it all off tomorrow so I can eat it while I'm not looking at an animal's bone. Just freaks me out :)

So, that was our eventful day haha nothing too crazy but I did love seeing my neighbors face when we came home and I told her I had half a chicken for dinner! It just sounds bizarre... like I'm a medieval king gnawing on a turkey leg or something. Well, hope you all had a wonderful evening! Hopefully tomorrow will hold all sorts of exciting adventures! Until then...

Recent Holga Photos

These are still in progress works, a bit of editing still needs to happen and maybe some rescanning of the film, but here are some of my favorite photos taken with my Holga camera so far!

 

 

 

 

An old gas tank in Kanarraville, UT

Stairs to a slide in Kanarraville, UT

Old fashioned garage in Kanarraville, UT

Old run down barn in Kanarraville, UT

Slide steps at a park in Kanarraville, UT

It's been an interesting experience shooting with film, especially when it comes out sort of different than a normal picture would. It's taking quite a bit of effort on my end to look for shapes instead of colors haha I'm always taking pictures of things with intense colors, so black and white is a whole new way of viewing things. It's great though, I feel like I'm actually learning something and not just taking the same old kind of pictures I usually do.

Hopefully the ones I shot today will turn out good! I'm excited to see the results!