Macro Photo Contest

I entered two photos into Pictureline's macro photo contest on Facebook. Voting is July 22nd- 30th! The spider one is my favorite. :D

Orange Hunting

Yesterday I went on a hunt for orange things to photograph. I was amazed at how hard it was to find that color where I live. Pretty much I got pictures of traffic cones and barrels. And Arby's Orange Cream Shake. Yumm! My toenails were orange too. :)

May: Moab, Job, Airshow

I spent the first weekend in May in Moab with a group
of friends. So much fun to finally see the arches!

I also got a new job at Lowe's! Woohoo!!! It can be pretty fun. I can get monies now!

At the end of May Scott took me to see the airshow at Hill AFB. It was my first
 airshow ever and I thought it was so fun! It seriously made me want to become a
 pilot, but then I want to try everything so no surprise there. :D

April Updates

Now that I have finished all the Europe posts I can catch up on what's been going on since I got back! The two biggest things that happened were birthdays. I love birthdays!

First up we have Scott. Happy Birthday Scott!!!

The next birthday was Kadin's, my best friend's baby who turned a year old! Woohoo! He's getting so big. :)

Europe 2012: Beach!

While in Italy we stayed at Villa Emilia, a cute little villa right next to the Mediterranean Sea. That was where we spent our Easter and all the nights in between seeing all the places we went. We even got to play on the beach!!! It was actually a bit chilly to go out in a swimsuit, but I just love how oceans and seas sound. I really wish that someday I can live near an ocean. We found an old boat that had washed up on the beach. I thought that was really cool even though we couldn't do anything with it but take pictures. While staying here I was totally inspired to write a novel. It was just so picturesque!

I didn't take this picture, but this is where we stayed. It was so nice. :D

Me in the washed up boat.

Europe 2012: Cinque Terre

The last place I was able to see before I left Italy was Cinque Terre, five cute little towns clinging to the cliffs. It was beautiful. I wish I had been able to hike to each little town, but my family and I got there a little later in the day so we drove around and saw what we could. Most of those towns are accessible by train or walking  trails only, but we got pretty far with the big fat Honda Odyssey.

Europe 2012: Roma!

Rome was quite an adventure! My family, Scott and I all took a tour that left early in the morning. we woke up at three to drive an hour from our villa to Camp Darby. We were all exhausted that whole day! It took a few hours to get there by bus and I slept most of the way. I wish I had been able to stay awake to see the landscape as we passed. Once there the tour guide couldn't say, "watch out for pick-pocketers and gypsies" enough and that the African guys selling fake stuff in the streets were really nice. Honestly, it was hard to fit all of Rome in a day. It's pretty much impossible. My way of seeing it was to skim over it all. I dragged my family all over Rome that day using our feet and the City Sightseeing buses a few times. (Those buses are not cheap!) Here are a few pics of the places we were able to see that day. :)

St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. Yeah, I was here.

Trevi Fountain

Pantheon

Pantheon again :D

Victor Emmanuel Monument 

The Colosseum! 

The Colosseum again!