In the middle of the night...

I go walking in my sleep... from the mountains of faith to the rivers so deep...*Ahem* Sorry bout that... I got a little inspired by my posts title. Oh come on, you know you love Billy Joel... right?

So yeah its nearly 2am and I am pretty wide awake. Its all due to a nap I had around 7pm. I'm not really regretting it because I was exhausted and I did fall asleep in hubs arms while watching tv on the couch... aaaaah it was so blissful. This might be a little random but I have been funky lately... maybe its stress maybe its just my body being weird, who knows... all I know is I definitely have to go back in to see my doctor after we come back from Christmas vacation. Mother nature still hasn't shown up yet, which normally I would be head over heels estatic about but there are two problems with that... 1.) is I haven't had that crazy lunatic mother nature show up since mid October. And 2.) I have taken 2 tests with BFN's (Big Fat Negative's) :P
Now here's the big BUUUUUUUUUTTTT... I feel funky... I am exhausted everyday usually around 7'ish. The "girls" and I hope you know to which two I'm referring to have been full, perky, and exxxxxxxtreamly sensitive, like were talking I can't even put a sports bra on without being in pain. My nose is on high alert, were at the point where I cant even take out the trash without wanting to barf. Now, this is not a real big concern to me because believe it or not I get this way when I PMS only I normally crave chocolate like a fat kid at fat camp and have cramps along with all these other things. And again, but... this time there is no chocolate cravings, no cramping, no moodiness... just this funkiness. What can I make of it?... Not a damn clue... I almost wish I could get an appointment with the doc before we leave, but I know for sure that's next to impossible. Any of you care to guesstimate whats going on? Ever feel like this before and been pregnant? Ever get 2 negative results and still been pregnant (is that even possible?) ? Yeah, I know... WTF! but you gotta admit its weird. I do realize that I can make myself feel this way by wanting it so badly but in all honesty I don't think that is the case this time, I respectively will not complain when I am pregnant but I do NOT wish for nipple pain, like I have now... yeah its that bad! LOL!

In other news the munchkin had a GREAT birthday, in fact we partied it up, pretty much all weekend! I'll do a big post on that sometime soon, its just been nuts the past few days getting ready for our big haul down to Florida on Thursday.

I also took the big camera back out and did some more bokeh shots... this one I like in particular...
Mmmmm. Don't you just love cuppy cakes?! Ok that is all... nannoo nannoo I'm out like mork!

Christmas in the Park and a little Christmas Photography Fun

Last night we took the munchkin to the base to see "Christmas in the Park". Its a light display that the base does at the marina every year. They serve free hot dogs, and hot chocolate and candy. There is free raffles and door prizes. Santa comes to visit and you can take pictures with him as well. We even got a free dvd from him this year, which was Bridge to Terabithia. I had never seen it up until last night and let me just say at the end I was crying like a baby... now I wanna read the book. So here's a few pics from the nights festivities.

Forget the sleigh, Santa came riding in on a fire truck!

Santa and the munchkin are both sporting the "high waters" this season LOL!

And after we came home I decided I wanted to get a little creative with the Christmas tree and practice my Bokeh Photography skills. I looooooove Bokeh photos, they are just look so pretty to me. What is Bokeh? Pronounced Bou-Kei is the aesthetic quality of blur in an out of focus area of an image, its the way the lens renders out of focus points of light. You can also deliberately make bokeh by shallow focus techniques to create images with prominent out of focus regions.
The term comes from the Japanese word Boke, which means blur or haze.

Here's my practice Bokeh... hope you like it. :)

30 Days of Me: Day 12

Whatever tickles your fancy.

I have decided to share a secret with you... I aspire to be a great photographer some day... and travel the world taking beautiful photos that you'll buy as postcards.

Ok so the truth is... I have just finished my portfolio... well I think I'm done, unless I travel some place really cool soon and end up taking more photos. Now here comes the hard part... submitting my portfolio...EEEK! ZOMG! Can I will just admit that I'm terrified! Its not because I can't take criticism, on the contrary I enjoy it. It's just that its MY work. Its like someone taking a magnifying glass and looking over your whole body trying to find every flaw. Oh its sooo nerve wracking!-- I speak from experience. When I was in high school I was in advanced portfolio art classes and after high school I applied and submitted a portfolio to Chicago's Art Institute for furniture design. The good news was that I got accepted... the stupid news was I decided to get married for the first time. I was only 19. Woah... so yeah, needless to say I never went. :P And here I am butterflies in stomach all over again LOL! Anyway... I'll let you see a little preview of my work with a video... nicely put together by Animoto. Please enjoy and let me know your thoughts on my work.

30 Days of Me: Day 9

A photo you took:

I LOOOOOOOVE this photo... I think its one of my best. I took it last year around this time at Kackleberry Farm in Louisville Georgia. Hub's was busy away at ALS and mom came to visit for 2 weeks, I decided that we should take the munchkin to the fall farm and visit the pumpkin patch. We had so much fun that day hanging out getting lost in the corn and going for hay rides. She loves any chance she gets to be with her Omi (that's what she calls my mom, means Grandma in German) ;)

30 Days of Me: Day 7

A Photo that makes you happy.

I took this pic when the kiddo was about 2 years old. It was right after the hubs got his new ABU's and I wanted some updated photos ;) This is my favorite pic of my daughter and my husband. These two makes me ultimately happy :D

Just a Few

There is typically nothing going on as of lately. Hubs had his 3 week follow up with the doc for his surgery stuff about a week ago and all seems to be well, they wanted to do a few more tests while he was there but he just wasn’t up to it. Have no fear the doc will have his way when we go back for his 1 month visit. ;) As far we know operation baby is going very smoothly… and I cant lie… it has been fun ;) lol.

So seeing how baby has been on the brain, I cant help myself when I go into my fav. thrift stores and see the cutest little things… I reason with myself that its ok to buy it when its only .99 cents or $1.00… I try to refrain from buying much of anything, I don’t want to count my eggs before they hatch.

But… I did come across these little cuties when I was at the thrift store the other day.

I washed them and since there were only 3 I figured why waste the electricity and run the dryer when I have a nice little laundry line in back yard courtesy of my porch poles. ;) As I hung them up on the line I was reminded of my mother. I remember the times where I would often play in the back yard while she hung up the wash… yes there was quite a few years where we didn’t have a dryer. And since dad worked full time and most often had the only car we had trips to the laundry mat were not convenient. So with love I dedicate this photo to my Momma… for giving me a great childhood, and now that Im an adult and a mother I finally understand it all mom. Thanks.

Other than that Im just counting down the days mom and dad will be here to visit for their vacation. Tomorrow were headed to NOLA for the day, probably taking the kiddo to the Aquarium and hanging out around the French Quarter. Ill probably pick up some postcards as usual and Im gonna try to press a few pennies as well.

Speaking of postcards I got a few recently in the mail (I’ll post them at some point) 4 were from a trade I did with a girl from Virginia and then I got one Today from the Ukraine.

And speaking of mail my new addiction should be here soon (probably tomorrow) its my package of clothes! I have been doing some “Thred Up’ing” with www.thredup.com its an awesome website where you can pick out clothes that people want to trade and you can trade yours to get more boxes sent to you. I also have been looking into www.swaptree.com where you can trade books for movies, movies for cds and cds for books or any which 3 sequences you want. Im all for Collaborative Consumption if you couldn’t tell already. Whats mine is yours and whats yours is mine… its a good thing!

Photo Shoot Me

Photo shoot went better than I expected… and the pics turned out pretty freaking awesome if I do say so myself. Its been a while and I had only 1 working umbrella but never the less I got it done without too many shadows.