cool picture

the 3 pictures.

Well, sad to say, I've only uploaded three pictures of Idaho so far. I have to have my own folder to store all my pictures in because they were taking up too much space on the computer. So, I have to go in and upload one at a time, which takes a long time, and then I don't want to get any more than I need after 20 minutes of waiting for three photos to upload. Here they are.

First, a beautiful sunset washing everything in gold.

Next, Alice eating ice cream. I was playing around with the camera and wanted to do something with focusing on something other than the subject, preferably closer to the camera than Alice. And the thing that was focused was the beautiful table at Grandma and Grandpa Bailey's.

And next, Grandma's beautiful garden, or one of them- Grandma has a lot of gardens. She also had black hollihocks *is that how you spell it?*, beautiful snapdragons, and these, which I don't know what they are. (I took pictures of both the hollihocks and the snapdragons.)

PVD

AKA Post Vacation Depression. It's when someone is depressed after vacation because you're tired, or sad about leaving everyone, or something like that. Even the dog has PVD. Lily spent her time running around with her best friend, a Bichon Frise. She'll be moping for the next few days. As will we all, but we have to bounce back fast, because tommarow we have lessons at 8:45 am. We didn't wake up this morning until 9:14. We didn't get back until about 11:30 last night. At least we have afternoon church today.
It was really fun in Idaho, I saw Nancy Drew and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. We floated down the Burgis Canal almost every day, and played Rook a lot, we went camping in the mountains at Red Fish Lake, and did lots of other fun stuff. We went and saw some awesome fireworks for the 4th of July, and went to a parade that actually threw out candy! *I think it's banned here in Cedar Falls*. I also took one or two cool pictures of Alice.
I will show those another time.

portrait of alice

I took this really cute picture of Alice last Sunday. It looks really nice, and her eyes pop.

through the mirrior

I had some fun playing around with the camera and the mirrior. It looks pretty cool to me.

looking up the stairs

Often times whenever someone goes downstairs, Lily doesn't follow, she just sits at the top of the stairs, and in this picture, looks kind of sad.

trip to catherine's

The trip to Catherine's for Alastair's baby blessing was fun, and the weather was mostly nice. I took some good pictures outside and inside, though.

(Connor wanted me to take a picture of him. He posed himself.)

Deborah and Connor the Spider Monkey going for a ride.

Connor and Brenna loves the neighbor's swing set, so everyone gets a chance to push Brenna. (Connor can pump by himself.)

All in all, the trip was fun, even if we were only there for 36 hours.

cool picture

Here's a cool picture of me with my glasses on. Well, I think it's cool. I kind of have this weird look on my face, though.

random gimp experiments 2.0

Here are yet more Gimp experiments:

contest

So, there is a contest for a magazine called Shar Magazine (?) and the best photo that is sent in will be on the front cover of the fall issue. So of course I took pictures!!! of my friend and my viola!!! I would appreciate it if someone would vote for the best one(s). There might be more of Alice sometime that you can choose from, too, in a later post. (By the way, Shar is a magazine selling instruments and the prize is like a $25 gift certificate.)

A) B) C) D)
E) F) G)

So, yeah, there will probably be more pictures to choose from of Mary, Alice, or Deborah. I hope that I win!!!

I hate it when there's this big space!

ears

The title may have you pondering, but I didn't know what title to put, because I got my ears pierced! On my right ear, the person slipped so I had to get it done twice so that it would be on the mark instead of looking all weird. But, I think it was worth the pain because I got two suckers and 40% instead of 20% discount and a free pair of earrings which normally costed $26.00. So that was cool. They don't hurt ever and I think they look cool. (Also, there was a 50 cent rack at the back, so I stocked up on earrings.) I've also counted the soonest day that I can take these earrings out, and that is July 3! I can't wait!!!

Close-up of my earrings.