I just posted a few of my pictures from my Diana F+ experimentation @ Powell this summer. You can see a few more at my Acade-me site if you are interested.
I have a lot to learn in this medium!
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Powell via Diana F+
I just posted a few of my pictures from my Diana F+ experimentation @ Powell this summer. You can see a few more at my Acade-me site if you are interested.
I have a lot to learn in this medium!
Monday, August 22, 2011
Pacific Festival 2011
Well, dear friends, if you are a pal of mine, then you know that I love music. And some of my favorite artists were performing at a Festival this year at Irvine Lake in CA.
Now, I am not too keen on attending festivals in general because I am old and like my comforts. I don't want to camp or stand in the sun for three days and fight crowds of trendy, drunk kids to see my band from far away. But when this presented itself, Scott and I decided to give it a go. There were just too many good artists there + it was smaller + it was one day + it was close.
Were there annoying drunk trendies? Of course. But it was worth it to see:
CUT COPY, Calvin Harris, The Bag Raiders, The Twelves, Classixx, Fred Falke, Toro Y Moi, The Black Lips, !!! and more.... It was great fun. I danced like a leetle gurl!
This is a pic of Calvin Harris laughing at a joke I told him before he, like, hit his turntables since we are close like that*.
*Not really. This is a pic (that is NOT mine) from the event site. Bummer. Would have made a good story, huh.
Same with this one below. Don't you love the rainbow fade they put in the image? Coolish.
This is the stage where the Twelves, Fred Falke and Classixx all played. Great fun was had here, especially when the Twelves played 'Otto's Journey' by Mylo. Oh man! I busted out some freakish moves then!
It was a nice location, small stages and not too far from each other, which I was grateful for.
The food truck village for yummy gourmet eats!
And the best part was ending the show with Cut Copy. They sounded fabulous as always and were so fun. They even pulled out a few songs from Bright Like Neon Love. Wow- so fun! I love, love, love that not only is Scott with me, but he's singing and jumping as much as me! (well, almost- he doesn't look as embarrassing as I do). What an awesome husband is he.
We were up sooooooo late. CC was supposed to start at midnight but they didn't come on until 1:30. Then they played for over an hour and then the fun was over and we had to endure the parking lot traffic for an hour out of there, then drive to our hotel! Ugh. You do the math. It was great fun but I was going to scream if I saw the dawn.
Luckily we made a nice weekend out of it so we slept in late, ate late, went to church late and relaxed all day and didn't have to return until Monday.
A great date weekend w/ my hubs!
Now, I am not too keen on attending festivals in general because I am old and like my comforts. I don't want to camp or stand in the sun for three days and fight crowds of trendy, drunk kids to see my band from far away. But when this presented itself, Scott and I decided to give it a go. There were just too many good artists there + it was smaller + it was one day + it was close.
Were there annoying drunk trendies? Of course. But it was worth it to see:
CUT COPY, Calvin Harris, The Bag Raiders, The Twelves, Classixx, Fred Falke, Toro Y Moi, The Black Lips, !!! and more.... It was great fun. I danced like a leetle gurl!
This is a pic of Calvin Harris laughing at a joke I told him before he, like, hit his turntables since we are close like that*.
*Not really. This is a pic (that is NOT mine) from the event site. Bummer. Would have made a good story, huh.
Same with this one below. Don't you love the rainbow fade they put in the image? Coolish.
This is the stage where the Twelves, Fred Falke and Classixx all played. Great fun was had here, especially when the Twelves played 'Otto's Journey' by Mylo. Oh man! I busted out some freakish moves then!
It was a nice location, small stages and not too far from each other, which I was grateful for.
The food truck village for yummy gourmet eats!
And the best part was ending the show with Cut Copy. They sounded fabulous as always and were so fun. They even pulled out a few songs from Bright Like Neon Love. Wow- so fun! I love, love, love that not only is Scott with me, but he's singing and jumping as much as me! (well, almost- he doesn't look as embarrassing as I do). What an awesome husband is he.
We were up sooooooo late. CC was supposed to start at midnight but they didn't come on until 1:30. Then they played for over an hour and then the fun was over and we had to endure the parking lot traffic for an hour out of there, then drive to our hotel! Ugh. You do the math. It was great fun but I was going to scream if I saw the dawn.
Luckily we made a nice weekend out of it so we slept in late, ate late, went to church late and relaxed all day and didn't have to return until Monday.
A great date weekend w/ my hubs!
Climbing
There is a rock wall at our new local gym and our kids absolutely love the rock wall. We have only been a handful of times but when we go, they never fatigue. I don't know how they do it. And they get higher and higher...
This last time I giggled to myself because it was a little weird to have all my kids old enough, and brave enough to enjoy this and have each on a different wall at the same time. I created those kids. Uh oh.
Like how Luke has posed all casually?
Lake Powell 2011
Well, I am finally posting about our trip nearly a month ago. We had such a wonderful time. I feel like we all relaxed more this year, so I don't have any synchronized swimming vids for you this time (oh, I know you are so sad) but I did take some fun snaps! Here's a briefing of some of our activities:
This year I took my Diana F camera to test it out and get some rad shots like these. I took these with a cool iphone app called 'Hipstamatic'. Guess what? I think they are cooler than my Diana F shots. I'll post those soon so you can agree. Cuz ya will. But that's okay. These are groovy.
Is this place BEAUTIFUL OR WHAT?
This was our beach way up lake in Dungeon Canyon.
We did some horrendous puzzling. Yes. I chose that one. It's a stain glass by Frank Lloyd Wright about saguaros. He put the devil in it, he did. El Diablo!!
Our new little niece accompanied the all-adult trip this year. Boy, she was cute. I miss that little thing!
We got some crafty time in on the top of the boat Sunday and custom stenciled some tea towels. Good times.
As always, explore we must! This was Driftwood Canyon. Nice and narrow back and forth, back and forth. Even a great spot for cliff diving! (which I didn't do because I'm lazy now)
We even found a super wee frog.
The best part of these trips is being with my family. My Dad always gives our family a great Sunday meeting reminding us about respecting our spouses and marriages, honoring our callings and responsibilities in life and shares valuable experiences with us. This wisdom we hear every year is one of the highlights.
Another amazing year with my favorite people ever. Thank you Mom & Dad for hosting us and all you do for this trip and to my fabulous siblings for coming, cooking and dancing :). Loves forever.
This year I took my Diana F camera to test it out and get some rad shots like these. I took these with a cool iphone app called 'Hipstamatic'. Guess what? I think they are cooler than my Diana F shots. I'll post those soon so you can agree. Cuz ya will. But that's okay. These are groovy.
Is this place BEAUTIFUL OR WHAT?
This was our beach way up lake in Dungeon Canyon.
We did some horrendous puzzling. Yes. I chose that one. It's a stain glass by Frank Lloyd Wright about saguaros. He put the devil in it, he did. El Diablo!!
Our new little niece accompanied the all-adult trip this year. Boy, she was cute. I miss that little thing!
We got some crafty time in on the top of the boat Sunday and custom stenciled some tea towels. Good times.
As always, explore we must! This was Driftwood Canyon. Nice and narrow back and forth, back and forth. Even a great spot for cliff diving! (which I didn't do because I'm lazy now)
We even found a super wee frog.
The best part of these trips is being with my family. My Dad always gives our family a great Sunday meeting reminding us about respecting our spouses and marriages, honoring our callings and responsibilities in life and shares valuable experiences with us. This wisdom we hear every year is one of the highlights.
Another amazing year with my favorite people ever. Thank you Mom & Dad for hosting us and all you do for this trip and to my fabulous siblings for coming, cooking and dancing :). Loves forever.
My Elliet
It's the last of the single digits for this little girl. Elliet turned nine in July! I am enjoying her more and more as she grows, even though I am aware that part of these changes include a departure from little kid I have raised all this time. But we literally are walking that in-between. This summer she read Harry Potter 1 & 2 (each in about a week!) and got an expander (she gets her braces next week!! Double Oy). And on the other hand, she still plays stuffed animals with the twins and doing pretend play.
It's a nice phase.
I love this girl.
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