Light in Motion

So I have this random fascination with moving lights. I know, sounds weird, but I love to take pictures of light in motion. Here are a few examples.

Bug Goes To School!!

Here are some pictures of Bug on her first day of Kindergarten!! She is going to Renaissance Academy, a charter school near where they live. She gets to wear uniforms!! They can wear yellow, navy blue, light blue, white, or red polo's and Khaki or Navy blue, pants, shorts, or skirts. She also has her plaid skort and jumper for formal days on Mondays. She looks so darn cute in her uniform!

Catch Up

I'm such a slacker!! I have so many pictures and so many things to write about!! I'll give a quick overview of the things that have happened and then I'll post pictures in other posts:)

So here are the many things that have happened in the last month!

• Bug started Kindergarten at Renaissance Academy!! Very exciting! She loves it and her teacher! She has made a few new friends in her class, and is always so happy to go to school!!
• Little Miss and I started our own little preschool for her, and she also loves it! I'm having a good time finding new ways to teach her things, and new things to teach her! It is good to have that one on one time to focus on her learning.
• Bug had her end of summer gymnastics recital. I was so proud of her! She is quite a talented and coordinated kid!! I don't think I could do at 5 what she does!
• Bug Learned how to tie her shoes!! I love that I don't have to do that for her any more. And every time she does it really, really well her face just lights up!! What a smart little girl!!
• I went to several awesome concerts in August! The radio station I listen to, 97.5 The Blaze, had a series of shows called Wednesday Rocks! Every Wed. in August they had a different concert. FREE CONCERTS!! They were a blast!! I have some pictures from the Shinedown concert. It was by far my favorite!!
• The summer ended!! But we had tons of fun this summer. I have so many pics of things we did this summer that I never got around to posting, so I'll be putting some of those up!

Well, I think that basically covers it!!

Yeah for random whims!!

So LeLe and I had a random whim to get imitation crab and just eat it! So we did! Well, sort of. :) Come to find out, you can only eat so much imitation crab plain! So we had 3/4th's of a package left and decided to find a recipe to use it. We found a few that looked good, but the ingredients were to expensive. We found a few others that sounded fantastic, but we're kinda lazy and they were a lot of work and time! So finally we decided on a crab pasta salad! It was fantastic!! Easy, inexpensive, and actually pretty healthy! So here is the recipe!

Crab Pasta Salad

INGREDIENTS
2 cups uncooked medium shell pasta
1 1/2 cups imitation crabmeat, chopped
1 cup broccoli florets
1/2 cup diced green pepper
1 cup halved cherry tomatoes
1/4 cup chopped green onions
1 1/4 cup meduim olives, halved
DRESSING:
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup creamy Italian salad dressing
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese

DIRECTIONSCook pasta according to package directions; drain and rinse in cold water. Place in a large bowl. Stir in crab, broccoli, green pepper, tomatoes and onions. Combining dressing ingredients; pour over salad and toss gently to coat. Cover and refrigerate for 2-4 hours before serving.

It only took us about 10 minutes to prepare the whole salad. It is super simple and very delicious! This is also a really good base to start with. You could also add cucumbers or peas. I think I might experiment with some other things. My sister even suggested spicing it up a bit for those who love spicy food.

Hope you enjoy this as much as we did!!

I've Been Tagged!! For the first time!!

Here's the deal: Post these rules on your blog list your 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 facts about yourself, and 3 current obsessions/collections.Then tag your friends at the end of your blog by leaving there names. Let them know you tagged them by leaving a comment on there blog.

3 Joys

Music, any kind

My Girls

Reading, anything and everything

3 Fears

Spiders

Being Alone

Dieing before accomplishing something worth telling people about

3Goals

To go back to school and get my degree in interior design

To get into better physical shape

To keep my life a little less chaotic :)

3 Facts about Myself

I actually like being single!!

I dream of traveling the world

I love my job more than anything else in my life!

3 Current Obsessions/collections

Twilight book series

Harry Potter book series

Jewelry

Tag...Amy, Kat

Yeah!! Progress!!

I've been putting this off for so long. Even though I have really wanted to do it, I just didnt know where to start!! So I'm taking the first step toward sanity while living in my parents house. I've decided to rearrange my room, and in fact, completely redo the interior! I'm going for an aqua and chocolate color palate. I've been looking for a bed spread in those colors, but I find that I am very picky about what I want!! Today and yesterday I did a lot of looking for that, but today I also decided to get a new computer desk!! I bought one and set it up in my room, and I love it!! It fits perfectly, and gives me so much more space to work with!! So, hopefully this week I'll find a comforter so I can pick paint colors and then I can get to the reall work! I'm excited!

Small world, Good memory!

So last night I was invited by one of my good friends to go to a movie in the park! We watched Field of Dreams. It has been far to long since I've watched it. I really enjoy that movie. But before we went to the movie, we met up with my friends cousin at her house. We were going with her and some of her room mates. I have only ever met one of her roommates, so it was nice to meet 2 more. So I met Annalisa(not sure if that's spelled right!) and she looked really familiar to me, but I just couldn't figure it out! Well, after the movie was over and we were all headed to get some desert it finally clicked! She was my Oakcrest Camp Counselor!! For those of you who don't know what that is, it is a girls camp in Utah that girls go to the summer after they turn 13. You go for a week, and just have fun! I seriously cant believe i recognized her! It has been 9 years since I went!! But we had fun talking about it. The reason her name didn't alert me to who she was is that all the counselors have "nicknames" that they go by rather than using their real names. Her name was "Sprite", and she was one of the things I loved most about Oakcrest! It was so fun to talk and get to know each other as adults. Kinda weird at first, but very cool! I'll try to scan in some of my pictures from camp and post them up here. But it may not happen any time soon since our family computer rolled over and died today, and that's what the scanner is hooked up to!!