um, spring? [lowercase post]

wait, isn't spring supposed to be soon? i mean, i guess i still have a few months, but today we got 2 feet of snow. oh yeah. 2 feet. now, i know there's been more snow in colorado than that before, but not in a while. so, in honor of spring, i've searched through the archives and found a few spring-ish photos. i edited them up and i'm already feeling that spring breeze. just kidding. kind of.

{not perfect focus, but it's my favorite}

i did take some snow pictures today, but since it's the telephoto lens--and i don't exactly have a stable hand--they turned out blurry. *que the "aww"*

do you want spring to be here already?

Christmas is around the corner!

I am so upset and I expect to lose many followers from my scarce posting. Now that we're home from California and all settled in I should be posting lots more often.

Christmas is seriously not too far away, It's actually crazy. Wasn't it Christmas yesterday? No? Oh. Well then. I will start posting more vacation photos VERY soon. I will make myself a reminder each day to post.

I am in our church's Christmas play this year! I have about 60 lines. It's so much fun and we are doing the play on December 11th.

I go to youth group every Wednesday night and yesterday I became a student leader. Which basically means I get to help out each week at youth! I was pretty excited.

It is snowing outside currently, we have about 3 inches so far! Have you been getting snow?

Some other major news: Oh hey, we got puppies! 2 adorable, little, girl puppies! They are doxen poodle mixes. In fact, one puppy is sitting on my lap now. Their names are Oreo and Reese's.

My best friend Ellie is an amazing photographer and she posts much more often than I do. Please go check out her blog at: http://BLANK.blogspot.com

We are doing a co-op tomorrow about making crafts with milk-jugs. Do you guys have any ideas? :)

In the next post I will do photos I just haven't had the camera out as often as usual.

My school curriculum this year is on the computer and I get up each day at 7:00 to do it early each morning. It's called S.O.S. Have any of you ever heard of it?

Maddy broke her toes 2 days ago. Yipes. She hit it on our coffee table. Who knew a coffee table could be after you?

It doesn't feel like fall here...More like winter.

Thank you all for still following even though I've been gone for so long!

What's Happening?

I took an unexpected break from the blogging world, but I think I needed it. The past few weeks I have had no idea what to post. I am trying really hard to find things to post about. This post will be (hopefully!) the last scattered post for a while.

 First off, My amazing cousin, Maddy, is coming to stay with us for a while. She will most likely appear in plenty of my photos, and lots of posts. At least I hope she'll be in my pictures, to only think I haven't taken a headshot of her yet!

Second, I'm in California. Whoah. Wait. Rewind. Back up. *smacks forehead* I was so busy packing for the trip I forgot to tell people! We are visiting California for about a month. We haven't done much yet. We did go to a beautiful (and frankly, very clean) lake yesterday!

We had a blast. Excuse me and my weird faces.

California is such an amazing state! It is hot and humid, which is great compared the Colorado. The palm trees are especially beautiful.

On the way to California, we stopped at the Salt Flats in Utah! The salt looked like snow covering the land for miles, even better, it was sunrise. 

 

 

 Beautiful.

We've had so much fun so far on our travels, but there is much more to come. I hope I can re-boost my blog to healthy.

Tell me what you think of the photos!

"You smell that?"

"Take a deep breath through the nose. Really let that seep in. What are you getting? Because to me, that's summer." -Flynn Rider, Tangled.

 Oh Tangled, you never fail to make me laugh. Getting to the point of this post, it has been feeling like summer lately. I love it. There is nothing stopping you from running barefoot. It sounds so cliche, but it really is true. The warmth of the outdoors make the grass look more welcoming than ever. The sweet smell of summer illuminates the air, and make me want to jump for joy. Having friends to spend it with make it all the better. Splashing in puddles left over from the sprinklers cool water, climbing the branches of the blooming trees, and sitting on the fence, watching the sun fade away into night. It all seems so beautiful. When I go outside, I feel as if I am free. Free from everything. It feels perfect.

School is out for most everybody, people are graduated and moving on to be an adult. Summer is where you really can stop and smell the roses. Spin barefoot. Live life like today is your last day. Summer is where time freezes and you can be happy. Lately I think I have been smelling the roses more often. I go outside and immediately kick of my shoes (literally) and go have some fun. I made a friend this week in my neighborhood, and we both are enjoying summer very much. I have plenty of things planned for the summer and I figured I should let my blog in on some of it.

I am going to summer camp this Monday. I am immensely excited. I am going with my youth group up to camp for a week. Like I said before, I feel free outside. At this camp, there is no internet, no electronics and no phone service. I am going to have more fun than ever. I will take lots of pictures, and most of all, grow in Christ. We have two church services every day and I am very glad. People get saved at these services, and other people grow.

My cousins are coming, when I get back from camp. I saw them last year and we had so much fun. We laugh together and cry together. We are best friends. I stayed a week with them in there home before, and we had an awesome time. I expect this time will be even better.

I have much more planned for the summer and if I did sum it all up in the post, I could not describe how excited I am. Some absence on this blog will be necessary at some points, but I will never leave you hanging. Some posts may be short and sweet with one photo, and others will be long and laid out with many photos. All I have to say is,
This Summer, will be better than any other.
Are you excited for what summer has in store for you?

Dark Skies

The thick clouds are covering the skies, and they have been for the past week or so. The one good part about this is rain. Everything after rain is so fertile and green. I love rain. Everything about rain makes me happy. I love playing in it. Listening to it. Photographing it. Ahh rain.












What do you love about rainy days?

Oh, March

Oh, March, how your birds chirp at dawn.

Oh, March, how your sunrise paints the sky.

Oh, March, how tempting it is to play outdoors.

Oh, March, how sunny yet snowy it is.

Oh, March, how well created by God you are.

Boy, I'm ready for sun.

I have tried to wear shortsleeves all this month, and ended up having to change.

Blooming flowers.

Swinging.

Blowing hair.

Blowing bubbles.

Ice Cream.

Lately I have been longing for hopping in puddles after a rain storm, selling lemonade on the side of the road, taking pictures in the sun, swimming. Ahh. I can see it now.

Are you ready for Spring? Or better yet, Summer?

Weekly Photography Contest

Every week on my photography blog I have a photography contest called "I Didn't Blink".
This week's subject is "weather" it can represent weather, it can be what your weather is like. If you like photography, heading on over to the contest is greatly appreciated. {link below}

The picture above, I posted a few posts ago, and I adore it. It has been snowing and stopping every 5 minutes today. {Thought the picture above was taken last week}
So I hope you have the sudden urge to enter!
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