Spontaneity

..."Carpe Diem"..."Seize the Day"..."You Only Live Once"...

Ive been trying this act.. and Ill say, I'm pretty impressed with myself! lol

-------Foto Friday

"TAKE 2"

So its that time again... Foto Friday

This week's feature is from back in College. Being in a photography school with a ton a friends in the business, we would always ask friends to model for us in return we would model for them. This particular photo shoot was for a Stock Photography Class and the subject that the photographer needed to portray was "Fun" so what better fun than a water balloon fight!!! We literally went to an open field filled up water balloons and had a good ol' fashion water balloon fight!! The picture shown was the last shot of the day.. they popped a HUGE water balloon over our heads and its probably one of my favorite pictures ive ever modeled for!!

::Friends Day::

Through it all she has been there, she has seen every tear, heard every cry and laughed beside me countless times.. shes what I call my "Frrriend" There is no other like her and her name is Amber "Stefani" Sullivan. We don't get to see eachother as often as we'd like.. due to crazy schedules and baby colies naps..lol.. so as often as we can, we declare any normal day a "Friends Day!!" This day might include nothing at all or a million and one things thrown into a 24 hr period... this particular one was one of my favorites... a "nothing" day!! Veg out on the couch, do a little goggling, snack on Nicole's snacks and catch a few terrible reality TV shows.

So in a few weeks their precious daughter is turning "1".. its unbelievable!!! So as a request from Nicole's grandpa.. we took a few snapshots of this adorable one.. here are a few that make me smile :)

::FOTO FRIDAY::

I follow a good handful of my friends blogs and my best friend Amber posted something about a month ago that struck my interest... and yes Im going to steal her idea..its okay I talked it over with her.. ;)

Foto Friday
- noun
1. Gives one a chance to look back on past and present photos.
2. Memories.
3. Lets you finally explain yourself for that 'one time'

So here's my 1st entry for Foto Friday......

3 words... "Spice Girls Concert"

One man's junk is another man's treasure...

Garage Sales......Antiquing...Estate Sales.. these are a few of my favorite thing ;) I LOVE when I driving by on a lazy Saturday afternoon to find there is a stocked full garage sale down the street from me.. or even miles away!! First of all I love being nosy.. seeing what other people have interests in...and second of all i LOVE finding one of a kind things, and what better place to do that at Garage Sales. But in all honesty most of the 'treasures' we find soon end up in your ::SALE:: piles... but for that moment in time.. its worth that $0.25-$5.00

It looks like its become a tradition in the Smith home to have a Garage Sale at least once a year.. and that time has rolled around again.. I just dont understand how much CRAP one can accumulate in just one year. When I moved home from school last year we packed up everything labeling "Room" "Attic" and "Sell" so it was a little easier to get through and decide what was going and staying. This time around we started from scratch, went from the back of the house forward. Starting in the garage.. moving to the back bedrooms and bathrooms (You'd never believe how many old floral arrangements and baskets I found in the bathroom cabinet.. 6??) to the Middle Bedroom!!! Ohhh the sight of opening that door to the "Storage Closet". If you cant find a place for something "Throw it in the middle bedroom" mom yells... or if you cant find something, have fun searching.. its like the needle in a haystack. So Mom and I tackled that last night. Clearing the boxes of miscellaneous junk out of the way was the first task then hitting the closet of moms "layaway" outfits while shes on her diet... lets just say I did her a favor by tossing 90% of it!! lol.. Oh the treasures we found. Pictures upon pictures.. man did I look tore up growing up!! hahaa.. to the Mickey Mouse hand gloves to Moon shoes... I had a tough time giving them up. lol. Then we hit the other side of the closet.. High School Formal and Bridesmaid dresses.. ohh man.. Time to sell!! How many times do you hear the famous quote "Its such a nice dress... ill shorten it and wear it again!!" lets be honest.. its time to let go! ;)

Let the selling begin.....

Celebrating 70 Years of Tsunami Living

"We've been spending most our lives living in Amish Paradise..." Those lyrics by weirdo Weird Al Yankovich sure came to mind while exploring 858 miles on Pennsylvania!! Recap of why we went to PA (cause its not a common place to Vacation...) My Grandma Beverly is turning 70 this October and we decided to celebrate earlier due to schedule conflicts around her actual birthday. All she wanted was to take her girls to PA and meet up with my Uncle Mike and explore, adventure and experience the true PA. Sooo.. 9 days, 9 women, 1 man, color coordinated days, Jarassic Park theme songs, 1 1/2 car rides, a 15 passenger van and 858 miles later we did just that!! There are over 700 pictures and too many to chose from to put up, so here is a sample including all our group pictures (I tried to get one from every day so make sure to notice that color corrdination!!)

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Monday

Monday

Tuesday

Thursday

Friday

Thank You Grandma for taking on this trip!! I had a blast spending time with each of the amazing women in our family as well as the Annoying Chet (Uncle Mike) ;)!!! And a special thanks to Auntie Wendy and Uncle Mike for opening their house to 7 other women and letting us invade your space!!! CHET... YOU ROCK!! You deserve an award for spending 9 days with 9 women!! And you spoiled us like no other... above and beyond!! Thank you for all you did. Love you all :)