Portland & babies.
I went to Portland after the Seattle trip. I took a train and read “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett. It was a great book! You should probably read this book.
MY SISTER HAD A BABY! it’s very exciting! she’s the first in our family so i guess she wins, right! first place sara! Mostly I went to Portland to meet this Leo baby. He was born on April 4. he came about one month early and it’s a really great story. Sara & Andy were in Seattle at her friends roller derby bout and her water broke! they didn’t want to have the baby anywhere but portland so they drove all the way home but didn’t call anyone cause they didn’t want anyone to tell them to go to the nearest hospital. This story might be better when sara tells it. Everything worked out, he was yellow or something. and maybe now he’s not.
he’s small, very small. but not like so small he has to be in the hospital. just small cause he is a baby. i was scared to pick him up right away.
I took photos of him being a baby. The one where he is on the side table…andy was right there. and i think he even caught him. like it’s that far to really fall! Sara was pretty relaxed about being a new mom i think. we went grocery shopping and out to breakfast. where i had a bloody mary, my new favorite hobby! She got her hair cut and I would walk around the halls of the building putting leo in cute locations for photos.
i heart portland!
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Seattle!
I went to Seattle last week. There are some parts about me that really hate seattle. I used to live there (for really only one year.) and i had this terrible job at the one hour photo place, i didn’t make any friends, and i felt lost everytime I would try to drive in the city. Randy lives in Seattle right now because he’s going to school so i visit him sometimes. I think i liked it this time more than any other time i’ve ever been there. The weather was nice for at least 2 days! and we went for bike rides, had fun adventures, and even played outdoor ping pong. man, madison should get some outdoor ping pong. i would be there all the time! 
Tina moves to North Carolina. it’s oh so sad.
Tina moved to Charlette, North Carolina. She works at the Adams Outdoor billboard company as a art director. that’s super fancy. She got to have a billboard in her town welcoming her…as you can see below. I’m super jealous cause maybe it’s a dream of mine to get on a billboard and i don’t see that happening if tina doesn’t live here. I could’ve been so many people on a billboard: maybe a doctor’s assistant or like a watering a plant, a customer eating a hamburger! really, i’m so versatile. oh, right, this isn’t about me, it’s about tina.
So it’s sad she moved cause we had some good times together. I started looking for photos to go along with this billboard and i found about 46 photos to put up. But i thought that might be weird…this already is a little weird. but there are so many fun times. we did this Door Country trip and then that awesome night at the woody annes bar and there were so many halloween photos that didn’t make it up. it’s her favorite holiday. i should interview her for this blog posting!
Tina loves North Carolina and that’s good but i was expecting her to hate and move back maybe. she’s into okra and trying to say, “ya’ all” now.
I took the billboard photo, that’s fun. her worker friend Curtis designed it. go team!
Hometown christmas!
I was in Edgerton, Mn for christmas! it was snowy and cold. We were snowed in on christmas but the other days we got out and did some fun things. like bowling and going into town for coffee. oh, and the bakery! If you are ever in the area you should visit my parents. They will like it. You might drink some coffee if you stop by in the morning or some miller lights if it’s in the evening. ox sv
It’s hannah!
My friend Hannah is going to have a baby and it’s very exciting! I was going to post the pregnant photo of hannah on the railroad tracks and then i thought i could put a couple more up because I usually take her photo when we are hanging out. Sometimes I like the photos.
The one on the railroad tracks was taken during work. It worked out really well that the window washers were there. I had him hold the background. he was very cooperative. He is not the dad of the baby. That is David. I guess he isn’t in in any of the photos. You would like him. I think he can do the splits. I’ve heard.
Pitchfork!
I took a trip to the chicago to go to the pitchfork music festival with some friends.
highlights from the trip include:
1. justin got a really awesome parking spot in chicago so we did some tailgating before going into the show.
2. dancing
3. getting backstage with my smooth moves! backstage is sorta fun cause I got there but then kinda lonely b/c i was alone.
4. jenny does her make up and then we did a cute little photo shoot in her urban garden!
5. I found some new bands i’m going to get into like Matt & Kim and Beirut.
6. When Jenny was returning a salad at a coffeeshop because it was all moldy this cute bird came to the table!
bike dancers!
Last night Randy & I went to see these bike dancers! they had super cute outfits and did a synchronized dance with bikes. is anything cooler than that? probably not. They also promoted group dancing. i like that.
you can see their website here: http://www.sprockettes.org
Strawberries + awesome = daqueries
Kristal, Tina, & I went to pick some strawberries and then make some of the most delicious daqueries ever. There were some adventures and photo taking. 2 of my favorite activies!
Chris Klinge!
Chris Klinge and I did some photo testing at the studio the other day. We used a ring flash from our photographer friend Chris Hynes. First we went to st. vinny’s to buy some fun outfits. it turns out they don’t have much fun stuff for boys. or at least in the chris klinge size. i maybe had him wearing this awesome lepard print outfit and in the middle of shooting he told me I was not allowed to use those photos. what a party pooper huh?
The photo of me is shot by Chis klinge:
http://www.giraffeboyproductions.com/
Green Bay, Wisconsin is probably awesome.
Jennyface and I went on vacation to Green Bay about a month ago. i haven’t been very good about blogging so it’s a little late. I guess not that anyone would really know except there is snow in some of the photos. Hightlights of the trip were the amusement park, iced coffee, and the goodwill. I always forget to bring extra shoes and when i hang out with jennyface my shoes always get wet and i buy a new pair at the goodwill. this has happened twice. wet feet are a drag.
we also went to a cheese contest and sampled fancy cheeses and went to the packers tourist store. that’s fun.
it’s a bear!
morning time for the bear!
the bear was just at the salon last week and the girls there suggested he switch to a fuller volume shampoo.
the bear usually bikes to work but today he’s running a little behind
the bear has a job as a part time model. he’s so good looking!
it’s time for a smoke break and a red bull!
back to work!
the cute girl bear who works in accounting is to the waving to the bear! the bear has been trying to talk to her for 4 weeks now.
work is done and the bear is excited! skate boarding and baking are some of the bears favorite activities.
the bear can’t decide between a tea or a coffee drink. he did just fill up his coffee card last week so this drink today is free!
he got a mocha! it’s coffee and chocolate. what could be better?
even bears have to do laundry. duh!
the bear feels like everyone is pressuring him into reading “the secret” but mostly all he wants to do is read some magazines.
the bear lost his phone out the bars the other night. he’s going to call home to see if the orange & white is going to be around. the call went something like this, “oh, orange & white, are you really still watching afternoon judge shows?” ” well, i’ll be home soon! lt’s hang out!”
“orange and white i love you.” says the bear. “we have the best times!” oh, by the way, “have you seen my phone around?”
sometimes the bear things, “i wish i had more friends, i can’t believe i don’t really have a full time job like all my bear friends.” but then he thinks, “the cute girl bear waved at me and i’m going to have a delicious salad when i get home!”
the bear goes to a art show he heard about from of the guys at work. he had a cookie at the show with sprinkles on it.
Gary goes on a trip!
oh how cute! gary is going on a trip.
Minneapolis
I went to minneapolis last weekend to hang out sister theresa and her/my friends. There were a lot of people around so we spend our time waiting…i think we were waiting. I got home and looked at my photos and noticed most of the photos were of people sitting on couches or chairs. there must have been a lot of sitting i suppose.
it’s a pasta party!!
Roller Skating!
we went rollerskating on saturday night! it’s sorta like dancing with wheels. what could be more fun. i wish i would’ve taken more fun photos but i was so busy rollerskating!
justin took some of these photos. like the ones of me and then some others.
Hometown.
I went to the hometown last week, Nov 11th-ish. there was snow! we would play some games like scrabble and then sometimes we would go into town and go to the bakery.
My dad is really into cutting down trees with his chainsaw and looking for deer out the window.
My mom is into reading the water meter and baking.
jenny and her friend renee came chicago to madison on holiday. we went to darlington, wi and spent most of our time at the bargin nook. it was a very awesome trip.
bunnies, bunnies, bunnies!
I was thinking it might be really cute if there was a little song to go along with these photos.
Tina’s neighbor moved them to her yard b/c he thought her dog would eat them. i’m going to say that is just not very nice.
Orange & white is probably the cutest!
seriously….probably the cutest
Pink and Shaving!
I watched this movie about annie leibowitz and after i was was done watching it Randy was shaving. Annie Leibowitz is this really awesome photographer and then when i do something like watch this really awesome movie about her and then start to think….i should be taking photos all the time! So i took some photos of Randy shaving. And then the next day i brought my camera along to a craft fair that Tina and I went to thinking I was still so inspired….i left my camera in Tina’s car b/c i thought it was too heavy. I was inspired for at least 4-7 hours.
Halloween ’08
I dressed up as lydia from beetlejuice on thurs and then a robot on fri. The robot was a hassle, i had no peripheral vision and felt like i was in the way mosty. but sometimes i would do this robot dance and it was very roboty.
randy is a unicorn!
the karate kid’s & Mr. Miyagi!
cyndi lauder dances with a unicorn. why not?
justin is a uw band flute player!
tina loves halloween more than anyone.
she has a fog machine. thats full on.
professor plum.
Photos of jenny
after the corn maze justin took a photo of jenny in the water. he has this light and the battery pack is sorta worn like a fanny pack. so they were both in the water with the electricity and i thought jenny and justin were for sure going to be electricuted. they weren’t.
it’s a corn maze!
we went to the corn maze. it was fun. justin would say things like, “look at the beautiful landscapes.” and then maybe i would say something like, “uh huh.”
they are like a band. a corn maze folk sing’n band.
drive in!
we went to the drive in on August 22! It was very awesome, well mostly the snacks were awesome. we got nachos. we saw the tropic thunder movie. it was sometimes funny. it looks like i’m more about the snacks than the movie. it might be true.
photo show!
i’m in this photo show at the common wealth gallery.
you should probably bike down there b/c it’s very romantic with the fall foliage.
