we shall dance in the light

day 109

I've been feeling down about my photography, as well as other things, so my boyfriend gave me a challenge . He did a 365 in 2011 and told me to re-create one of his photos. Well naturally I think a ton of his photos are awesome, so I'm starting a little series where I try to re-create some elements of his photos.

For this one I loved the color scheme as well as the box of the background coming though, so I played with my own cool toned scheme and the boxes. I really love how this photo turned out and hopefully this series will help me feel better about what I'm creating.

He also gave me a good word of advice. Basically he said to do whatever the heck I loved to do. It doesn't matter how many people comment or favorite, as long as I love what I'm doing nothing else matters. I hope to take that to heart.

here is Matt's photo. He is my biggest inspiration.

strength is in my hand

day 72

Spent a nice evening with my dear. We went to go see Act of Valor, which made me very proud of my dad for being a part of the military, really glad that he is now retired, and really glad that Matt doesn't want to be in the military. I could never do what my dad did, and I am forever proud to have him as my father.

love has surely shifted my way

shirt is thrifted // dress is from my mother's closet // tights and shoes from forever 21 // most jewelry from my grandmother

This definitely should have been my Valentine's Day outfit, it's so pink! I felt super girly and pretty wearing this today, and this has quickly become one of my favorite outfits.




Lots of exciting things have been happening today! One I'll let you guys know about in the upcoming weeks, and the other is that I was featured in a modcloth post! You can check it out here!

And look at how long my hair is getting! I straightened it for the funs and it's getting so long! But I definitely like my hair better curly.




I got this fun nail polish from two awesome friends. The yellow is super exciting and the clear turns pink in the sun! How cool is that!

Another exciting thing is that my boyfriend, Matt, posted his first look on lookbook! Show him some love here!

jackpot

day 51







Good golly isn't he the cutest thing you've ever seen? Since we didn't get to do very much yesterday on our actual anniversary, today Matt and I had an awesome adventure! We chilled out at his house, watching Supernatural and scaring ourselves silly, wrestling (quite literally. Matt's brother was concerned for my safety, haha. I stayed strong though. But even though Matt won the tickle battle, he has not won the war!), running around the fabric store (I had to purchase some things for myself and for school), and finally going to the arcade at the mall! Ever since my drama teacher and his fiance introduced us the the glory that is the arcade, Matt and I have made it a tradition to go there. I always get the jackpot on the thunder game, he always gets the jackpot on the ball drop game, and we both always get the high score on the shark smashing game. We're already at 5,000 tickets! There's a waffle maker as one of the prizes (crazy Alaskans, I guess), and he and I jokingly said that we were going to get it for our future home. We shall see.

All in all it was an awesome anniversary and I still have the biggest crush on him ever. :3 Aaawe so mushy gushy grossness. That is all.

five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes

day 50




One year ago today (February 19th, 2011), our lives changed forever. We've had our struggles and hardships, our moments of laughter and fun, and at the end of the day I love him more than I did when I woke up. Here's to an amazing one year, dearest, and may the next year be even better.

once upon a time

day 28



Yesterday was homecoming!

It's funny how so much preparation goes into one night. I mean, with all the decorating and dressing up for spirit days and purchasing dresses and tuxedos and altering them and finding dates and everything, you would think the celebration could last a little bit longer than one night. But at any rate it was very nice and I was honored to go with the most amazing guy in the entire world.




My dress had a ton of static in it so my mommy sprayed me down with static guard while Matt laughed at me. And after finally succeeding at putting on Matt's flower thingie (I can never remember the name) we headed out!








Since the theme for the banquet was "Once Upon A Time," they gave out some fairytale awards. Named after one of the seven dwarfs, I won the sneezy award for cutest sneeze (though I think my hiccups were included in the category. One of these days I'll get a video of me hiccuping for you guys. It's pretty hilarious).



Then after the banquet we headed to the dance! I love dancing with Matt and feeling like we're the only two people in the room. He is really a spectacular individual and I'm so lucky to have him. We've had our struggles, but I know that when I go to sleep at night I love him even more than I did when I woke up. He's my best friend.

Magician's Nephew

day 9

Blarg. I don't like this. But thanks to Matthew for modeling for me.

I got some exciting news today.

1. My homecoming dress shipped out! (I've been complaining about this on tumblr a lot.)
2. I was selected to participate in my college's scholarship competition! I am so excited and nervous for this one as I will be traveling down to see my college for the first time as well as meeting my fellow students. Eek!

this is the new year

For New Years I shot some footage of the evening's progression and piled it all together in a little video. I got to Matt's house before his parents' new years party began to hang out and play xbox and watch a movie. Once it was getting close to midnight we decided to mingle with people, then got on our snow gear and went into his backyard to watch the fireworks. His neighbors are like people in television shows--they always compete to put on the best production. Luckily for us, we got to enjoy amazing fireworks! Once most of them subsided, we trekked closer to the house to release paper lanterns. Ever since the movie Tangled (which definitely made me cry multiple times), I had always wanted to see paper lanterns. And lo and behold we got to release some! It was so magical and perfect. I could not stop smiling. It was by far the best new year ever!

I hope you all had a lovely new year as well. 2012 is going to be great.