Sugar Cookies

As you can see I've been doing a little baking. :) Matt and I had two Christmas parties to go to Saturday night and I really wanted to bring something fun so I got Matt's mom's sugar cookie receipe and whipped these up on saturday. My mom was up for a visit so she was actually with me the whole time and helped greatly in making these little beauties.

This first image is of the huge cookie we made for just Matt. These are his favortie holiday treat and he's been eating them his whole life so mom actually made the suggestion to make a really huge one for him (mainly to keep his paws off the ones for the party) and give it to him when he got back from his bike ride. It was really cute. I told him to close his eyes and then when he opened them the cookie was right there. I think the cookie was about 6in in diameter. LOL

The Cosby Show

Why is it that I love this show so much? I couldn't really tell you except that I watch it everyday during my lunch break and I'm asking for the DVD box set for Christmas. :) It probably wouldn't be the same if the show was still airing. Their problems would be so different and depressing. I'm sure Claire and Cliff would get a divorce or something. Maybe that's why I like it. It stays true to commitments. It can also bring you to tears in laughter.

So I couldn't figure out how to post the actual video so I just did a link to it in YouTube. I'm blogger retarded. This is one of my favorites where Rudy has a slumber party. You HAVE to watch to the end to see Peter, the little (or big) kid from across the street. He this one that puts you to stitches. I love it!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB88RdqEZc8

Life Update

I realize this is a "no picture" post, but I really wanted to write something today and I have no pictures to post. I believe that is a first for me. :) Honestly, I've been photographing so much lately that my fingers hurt and my back. That camera is heavy to carry around every Saturday for like 8 to 10 hours nonstop. Plus the 2 sessions a week I'm averaging these days. Don't get me wrong, this is not me complaining though it's hard to tell. I'm just saying that by the time I get home the last thing I want to do is take pictures of Matt and I or really anything.

It's been very interesting working from home. I'm really proud of myself for consistantly getting up at 6:30 every morning. So many people tell me they would sleep in. I would probably have a problem with getting up so early if it weren't for the fact that matt makes so much noise in the kitchen when he cooks breakfast. It's really funny. My alarm clock is clanging pots and coffee grinders every morning. I guess there are worse things to wake up to. :) So, yeah, working from home is really cool. I get a lot done and I've found a new favorite website to help me along as I work. Check out http://www.pandora.com/. Basically this is a free radio website. You just type in a song or artist you like and it builds a radio station around your choice. Too cool. So you like every song you hear. I think it's better than satelite radio. It's also nice to have Kenah here with me for company. I stop frequently and give her pets. I've also been running with my neighbor in addition to my regular monday night soccer games. So hopefully I'll be a rock soon!

Ok I've got to jet. I have a bride coming by at 9am and need a shower. :)

This Morning

This morning I was siting on the couch watching the Today Show and editing away on the laptop. This is my usual morning routine. I know, you're jealous. Anyway, like I said, I was editing away and I here Kenah outside give me her "let me in bark". This is REAL annoying. Being the patient person I am, I waited 5 seconds before letting her in. I then decided this would be a great opportunity to share with everyone what she is like when I get the "let me in bark". While I snapped a few of her, I figured this was the perfect time to share the shots of the gallery wraps I had made and had promised in my previous post. Matt LOVED the one of the William Aiken House in Charleston. This is in our foyer. I was so excited that it went so nicely with the fun blue vases I bought at this cute shop in downtown G-Vegas last year. :) The sunflower was placed in the living room next to the back doors. We've been in the house for over a year and these are the first photographs I've had printed for the house.

I'm planning to open up a "Fine Art" gallery on my website, but I really want to compile some images from the fall on the parkway. Hopefully Matt and I can take a drive soon up there. There is a shot I've got in mind and I'm dying to get it.

Behind the Sun

As you can see I have this lovely sunflower theme going on and I'm sure you're wondering why I posted this photo. Well, a few months back I entered it in an online photo contest and I'm proud to say that it got "editor's pick". How cool! So now, I've ordered this huge gallery wrap of it for our living room. I think it will look really great in there. I'll take a picture of it on the wall to show you, which I'm sure won't do it justice.

The one you see above was also taken in this series I did. My little story is that I was at publix one day and they had sunflowers on sale and I thought "oh cool, these would look good in the foyer", but I really didn't like them there when I got home so I put them in the bedroom in the window and turned off the light and they just really popped with color. Of course, I ran and got the camera. All of them were shot in natural light and in this one I'm like pinned against the window zoomed in on the flower with the lights off and that's how I got the black background. Anyway, I thought it was cool. :)

Stars and Stripes

A couple of weekends ago Matt and I headed to downtown G-Vegas to watch the National Championship in Cycling. This is huge guys! I don't think Greenville really understood how big this race was. It's like the Superbowl of cycling. Anyway, Matt and I took our bikes and basically rode all over downtown and followed the race at as many spots that we could get to. It was really cool to watch the peloton. You get this big rush of wind when they come by. It's amazing. Tyler Hamilton ended up winning by two hundredith of a second. He used to ride with Lance during the tour.

Greenville did get the contract to have the race again next year, but they're on a type of probation and basically if the city doesn't do more marketing and advertising to build up the race and get more participation, the race is moving to another city. Boooo. So I hope you can come because it's really fun. :)

A Mattisim

Sometimes I can't tell if what is funny to me is funny to everyone else, but really who cares so I'm going to give this a shot. Let me first lay the scene for you. So I'm doing my makeup and it's 6:30am and Matt keeps walking back and forth in front of the bathroom and I realize that he's looking for pants (as he does every morning) even though I tell him where they are every time. Too cute. That's not part of the story (the pants part), but it's still funny to me. :) Ok, so yeah I'm putting on makeup and one time that he's walking by he in passes says "Hey Olivia, you ever thought about how funny the word "partypooper" is? Role that around on your tongue a few times". At first I didn't think about what he had actually said and then moments later I thought about how irresistibly cute he is and how much I just love the little things he does (most of the time). Oh, and I busted out laughing. He keeps it young for sure.

One of his other favorite things to do is to sing the Star Spangled Banner in the morning while we're getting ready. Oh for any of you to be a fly on the wall!! LOL

Charleston

Yes, I know it's been FOREVER since I've done a post. I got a little distracted with the photography blog, but I really do want to keep this one going. That being said, here are some fun shots from our two trips to charleston recently. The first trip was back at the end of July and the second one was in August. On the first one, we hung out with Tyler and Natlie but I need to find that shot of the 4 of us together. Booo. The second trip was with Abby and Nate. We had such a blast both times and it was great to just get away and not worry or thing about anything.

So, keep checking often because we'll be updating! :)