Life

I had a lot of fun in Las Vegas with my parents. My mom & I shopped a lot while my dad worked. In the evenings we would go to dinner with people my dad worked with or did business with. It was a lot of fun and yummy food!! I took a few pictures which I will post soon. The weather was amazing. In the 80s!! Which was a nice change from North Dakota weather.

Today is Matt's Birthday - Happy Birthday BABY (he doesn't read this - but I thought I would still give him a SHOUT OUT!)!! We are going dancing tonight! Always fun. And I will have my camera - so I'm sure many pictures will be taken. It should be a lot of fun! I bought him Iron Man (which he got last week) and a pair of sweatpants...which I know he will wear a lot! I think he is going to wear them today. They are cute!

Other than that - life is the same, work, workout, dance, other stuff. My friend Kate will be in town this weekend - so that is exciting. I will get to see her and Becky (whom I NEVER see anymore - i'm a hermet I've determined.)

I will get some scrapbooking done this weekend as well.

Vegas

I'm going to Las Vegas on Friday. Just for the weekend. I am so excited! My parents will be there (dad for work, mom for fun). So I will be hanging out with them. AND it is going to be HOT! It will be a good change of weather (even though it is just a weekend).

I want to share a few more photos from the FM Ballet photo shoot and some projects I've been working on for MemoryWorks.

Warm-up at the barre

Liisa at the barre

Liisa & Matt rehearsing "Dracula"

A layout with the MemoryWorks October Express Kit - Isn't that TREE AWESOME??

Card with the MemoryWorks October Express Kit.

FM Ballet - Photo Shoot

Yesterday I did a photo shoot with the Fargo Moorhead Ballet company (www.fmballet.org). I took their head shots and did some outdoor group & individual photos, plus some rehearsal/class photos. I'm so happy about the head shots...they turned out pretty good for an amature!! Today I am putting those head shots to good use - by putting them in the Spooky Ballet Program. Here are some of the pictures I took yesterday.

Head shot - Matt (serious)

Head shot - Sarah (company member)

Funky Company Photo

Against the wall company photo

This photo is from warm ups in the studio


I am so excited about the photos and can't wait to do more. I'm sure there will be many more photo shoots this year, since they have the new website.

Headshots

So tonight I practiced taking headshots on the Front desk specialist (Office manager) of the studio - AJ. She was a perfect subject to practice on, since she is an actor/director. Tomorrow morning I will be taking headshots of the FM Ballet company and I have never taken headshots in my life. I've been studying others work for posing, lighting, etc. Here are a few of my favorite shots from tonight (this is a make shift photo studio - the back drop is white muslin and the lighting is work lights)

This was in the first grouping of pictures I took - they get better after this. She tried 3 different outfits.

I adore this one





She added props :) Her glasses. Which was good b/c than i had to really watch the lighting to make sure it wouldn't reflect in her glasses.



This is the "Glamour" shots pictures... I say it is very commercial. Matt liked this one a lot.


So what do you think?? Remember this is my first time shooting headshots...i'm actually pretty proud of myself. I know I can just improve.

Doll Domination!

WOW...so last night I got home from the dance studio (with a major headache)... and sat at my computer to listen to the new Pussy Cat Dolls album - Doll Domination! It is AWESOME! I couldn't help but download the WHOLE THING!! I already had 1 song - so I bought the album for $7.00!! That is it! Usually the newer albums are around $9.99 - but $7.00!! I couldn't beat that.

I haven't gotten to fully listen to it yet...but plan to when I'm at the gym tonight! The snips I heard from it were really good though and I'm sooo excited to listen to the WHOLE thing!

PCD - Doll Domination

This is how my stomach WILL be! HAHA

Not much...

Well, I am a BAD blogger. I have been so busy, but nothing really exciting to tell.

Liz got married a few weekends ago, it was beautiful. It was so much fun to see the girls from High School again. I don't see them enough. I need to make more of an effort to go visit them. Liz looked stunning! And the location was awesome. I hope to get pictures up someday.

I still haven't posted pictures of my legwarmers - oops. I am working on another pair for Matt's mom. I'm going to learn how to knit in the round soon. My mom is going to show me. I think I'm ready for it!

Halloween is quickly approaching! Which means "SPOOKY BALLETS"!!! I'm so excited. I got to get my camera out and start attending some rehearsals. I'm waiting a little bit so they can get the choreography part pretty much completed - that way I can shoot them practicing a number and not learning it.

I've been keeping up with my working out. I go to the gym 5-6 times a week. Plus I have been going to 3 jazz classes and 1 hip hop class at the studio. I'm still really motivated! Which I'm surprised by.

I'm going to have a NEPHEW!!

My Brother & Sister-in-law called me last night to tell me they are having a boy! I'm going to have a nephew. Now everything is going to be blue. I need to start planning a scrapbook. :) Or start working on one!! I'm sooo excited. I can't wait till he is here. She is due beginning of March. So there is still a ways to go! YEAH! I'm so excited!

Anyway - that is all my exciting news for now!

hum..

After reviewing the wig party pictures - I have 2 things to say. (1) I do not look good with bangs...my face looks super round (2) I do not look good with a wig on. I don't have a wig face. My hair is just perfect for me... :)

Those are my conclusions.

I finished a pair of leg warmers (which I started last spring or something). They are hot pink and have orange ribbon. I will take pictures and post soon! I love them.

Classes start at the studio next week - that is exciting! I just have to figure out what classes I'm going to take.

Liz's Bachlorette Party

This weekend was Liz's Bachlorette Party! I was so excited to go and had a BLAST! It was held at Elly's cabin (Liz's sister Becca's Friends place) and wow it was beautiful! The lake home was just amazing! Becca was an awesome host for the weekend! She is so sweet and fun to be around and it was so great for her to do this for Liz.

It was a lot of fun to see Liz, Nicole & Kristen again! I haven't really seen them much since we all graduated and I miss them all lots! It was also nice to see Liz's sisters Becca & Jess and her Mom! Wow it has been too long since I've seen them all. It is crazy how I've known Liz since 5th GRADE!! Anywho I wanted to share some pictures from the weekend. We had a Wig party on Friday and went to some small town bars in Emily, MN.

Most these pics are from the wig party friday night!


Me & the BRIDE (Liz) - i'm in the red wig :)

Me, Liz & Nicole

All the girls at the Bungalow

Liz drinking

Nicole & I

Becca & Liz

Liz's Sister, Niece & Liz

Kristen & I - not sure why this one turned out so dark and I don't feel like editing it right now.


I had a great time. Here is a layout I made last week - this is not edited either and I took it with my new Point & Shoot instead of my slr.

It's almost the end of AUGUST!

Here I am once again - not updating my life. This past month has been very busy (who knows why). I haven't really gotten any scrapbooking done lately. My weekends have been busy. The first weekend of August Matt & I went to a wedding in the cities - it was a beautiful wedding. My friend Sarah got married. She looked stunning. Than I had a weekend off. Oh the weekend before the wedding I went to a Bachlorette party in SOUTHERN MN. A friend from college is getting married this winter.

Than I had pretty much 2 weekends off. WE went to the lake last weekend because MAtt's sister & brother in law were up visiting. That was fun. I sat inside and watched the olympics with Matt's dad the whole day.

Olympics - I'm addicted!! I love watching everything and have found out how much it sucked watching gymnastics this year... This scoring system sucks!!! I didn't even enjoy watching gymnastics b/c of it. I cheered Michael Phelps on in all his races and I was so excited to watch Misty May & Kerry Walsch play again and win that gold!!! How awesome. So the olympics overall have been awesome!!!

I got a gym membership over a week ago. Which is taking up a lot of my evenings. I met with a personal trainer this week, he helped me learn the machines and put together a workout plan for me to follow. I'm really excited about it and to tone up and get in shape again!! I think my life is going to revolve around the gym now. I just have to get the eating part right (always the hard part...eating right and not crap all the time).

I bought a new point & shoot camera last weekend. I got this cutie! I downgraded from my last point & shoot (which the LCD screen was broken on)...but this one is cute and it will do the job. I mainly use my point & shoot if I'm going out (bars, parties, day trips, etc). If I don't want to lug my dSLR or the place is just not dSLR friendly. I usually have my p&s in my purse at all times - you never know when a photo op may come!


Alright as this blog has no importanence to anyone but myself... I'm glad I documented a month in my life.

This weekend I'm heading to brainerd area for Liz's Bachlorette weekend! I plan on taking LOTS of pictures with my new p&s!! So I'll post some soon. There are a few scrapbook pages I would like to post as well. I'll get around to it - eventually.