Weekly Update

I told you I really only have time to write one post a week.

A few things that have happened.

Patrick and I are no longer Nursery leaders. I'm a little sad and happy about that.

Audrey has pink eye...and maybe an ear infection. I had to stay home on Monday because she can't go to daycare until 24 hours after she started the medication. I took her to the doctor on Sunday. And no she did not go to primary. We did the sacrament meeting thing and then went home...she was looking ill and I didn't want her to get the others sick.

The on Tuesday morning her eye was still pussing, EWE, and Patrick didn't think that would be a good thing to have at daycare. So he took the morning shift and I took the afternoon.

We have to put eye drops in 3 times a day. It's been tough she HATES it, and I mean HATES it.

Saturday was the Riverton Competition. The girls took 3rd.

Here is the video..



It was a really bad competition. We were stuck between the 25 AF girls and the 25 Davis girls. I guess both teams, just a few of them...not all the girls, were being a little mean to the Orem Girls and said some stuff to them. I don't want to go into detail but that's just not cool. Be nice people....it's a competition not a WAR.

Then on top of that the music "skipped" and the kid turned it off 5 seconds into it. And then he didn't properly restart them and the Timing and Penalties Judge had to tell him to restart over and over. He did it wrong 4 times. On the 5th time he got it. That would Ice even the best performers. Even though it was a tough start. I thought it was a pretty good show, but we still have loads to do.

Patrick is still stressed to no end. We are past midterms and only have 5 more weeks. BYU's finals start on April 16th. The spring and summer terms are going to be a breeze compared to this winter semester. We can't wait.

Nothing else is happening. I'm starting to think about the summer and marching band and what I am going to do about a guard. All 4 of my girls are seniors. I'm starting fresh this next year. I'm going to have to do some serious recruiting.

I think that's it.

Assignment #6

I'm like 2 weeks behind...but that's okay.

For this assignment we met at a studio in the area. I believe it's my teachers studio.

Click on the picture below to link to his site. He really is great.


Anyway, We met at his studio and learned about lighting, and posing, and broad light and short light, and angle of incident light...and it goes on and on, I think I learned more in this class than any other. We also had the chance to use the studios lights. It was pretty cool. I got the put a receiver thingy in the hot shoe, that made the lights go off. (I keep calling it a horse shoe...why? I don't know.)

These are the 5 Images that I am turning in.

This girl was hard to work with...and, as you can see, she wore this GIANT sweater that didn't give her a flattering figure. It's only suppose to be a head and shoulders shot. Good thing I stayed back, the sweater made it look bad. And I had to turn this into a Black and white because it looked weird with a white background and a black outfit. The only color was coming from her face. It was odd. Can you tell I was not too fond of her. And this was the best image of the 15 I have of her. It was annoying.

This is my favorite

This is Whitney. She was really nice and super easy to work with. She was willing to move around and listen to what you asked her to do. I really liked her.

The last image of her was the "One chance" photo. We had to position her and then set the camera to the proper setting and take the shot. It was to prove we understand lighting and camera setting...I still don't. But I think I did a pretty good job.

This was Maria or Marie, I can't remember. She gave funny faces, you would to if you had to have 13 people take the same picture of you, but was really nice.

What do you think?

I'm a little proud.

Week 5 Assignment

Our assignment for week 5 was to bring in 3 images.

A landscape

An architectural image

and a portrait

and we would then convert them to black and white....rather learn to properly convert the image to a black and white.

Obviously the color image is the original and the black and white is the one I created and then printed at Costco. It was part of the assignment.

This was my portrait

I really do think the black and white turned out really nice. I don't think it turned out as nice in the print. I think I need to tweak it a little more to get the look I'm going for.

This is my Landscape. I think the print of this turned out amazing. You can almost see the texture of the grass. I love it. Grandma I hope you like it too.

And this is my architecture image.

Again the print did not come out the way I wanted it. It felt very flat. But I think the Black and White here looks amazing. I think you see the name a little better with the black and white image.

What do you think?

Weekly Update

Turns out I was way off on my Olympic Hockey Bracket. But....like I said all I really cared about was that we, as in the USA, would go to the final game.

It was such and intense game. I loved it.

It was funny to see all the comments made on Facebook about it. I bet 80% of those who commented about the game don't watch Hockey on a regular basis and don't even have a team to route for.

My favorite was from a friend of mine and I quote "BOO team USA!!! they played like idiots!!! Practically gave the gold away...."

What I love about this comment is that she took some very basic viewer comments, that everyone says for any sport and applied them to the game. I bet she never watches Hockey. I would bet $100 on that fact.

I totally disagree. Without getting into detail about it....because what she said pissed me off to no end. I don't think they played very well at first....note Canada was up 2-0 at one point. But the fact that the US ended up tying the game at 24 seconds left is pretty amazing. The odds were against us going into overtime. I'm making this too long....I just think it was funny that I ended up calling her out on it. I love calling people out on things. Don't you?

P.S. I love Hockey....Go RED WINGS....Colorado Avalanche SUCK!!! that was for Amy and Matt. :) I'm just kidding. Love you.

I figure since life is getting just too hecktic. I would give you weekly updates for now on.

Last night we went up to Salt Lake to visit Betsy, who we have not seen in over 2 years. Audrey loved playing with Cozy. I hope we are able to visit more often so Audrey gets to have another playmate.

Audrey loves to sing. Right now her favorite songs are...and I believe they are in order.

• twinkle twinkle little star
• the wheels on the bus
• the Eensy Weensy spider (seriously how is that spelt? I found like 4 variation trying to make sure I was spelling it correct.)
  
• Baby Bumble Bee
• Teasing Mr. Crocodile
• Speckled frogs

I can't think of any others. She learns them all from Daycare. Yeah, we had to enroll Audrey in Daycare full time.

She was at Colleens for the fall for about 6-7 hours a week and then figured for the spring semester I could take time off work and work late so that Patrick could go to class and I would be home with her, but after trying that for like a week, we figured we needed to enroll her in daycare full time. So she's been there for a while now and loves it. She is a Panda. Sorry Colleen.

They potty training is becoming a disaster. She sort of refuses to learn. We had ended up having her be undieless for most of Sunday. Just so she would be forced to learn. It worked for a little while. We did have one accident.

I'm going to do it every evening from now on. Hopefully she learns. I really want to be done with changing a baby and have a BIG GIRL!

She has learned how to turn on and watch a DVD. We moved our old, old, old giant tv into her room and bought a $20 DVD player. She will put a movie in and turn the volume down really low so that I can't hear it during her nap times. It's pretty funny. I just laugh, go in and turn it off. She's not cried that I've turned it off yet...she just giggles about being caught. She can be so cute sometimes.

What are some other things that happened this week?

We finally booked tickets for our summer plans. We are going to Washington D.C. from May 26th-June 3rd. Then from there we fly to Texas for Matts graduation. I then come home on June 9th and Audrey will stay for another week or so. Poor Patrick he won't see me for 2 weeks and won't see Audrey for at least 3....or never....I'm sure Dad and Veniece would be content to have her for the rest of her life.

I'm really excited about the trip.

Next week is Grandpa's 80th Birthday party. Katherine is not going, and Patrick can't because of his classes. I'm really not interested in driving 10 hours by myself. Is there anyone from the Utah area that wouldn't mind giving me and Audrey a ride? Otherwise I think we are going to miss it. I am so sad about that. I hope everyone has a grand time.

Wow, my weekly update was pretty long. Sorry I don't think they will be as long next time.

and by the way I turn 26 in a month....not excited about that. I'll officially be closer to 30 than 20. Sad day!