Tangled Thoughts

Week 24

Christina

June 16, 2014

This project has turned into a “picture every other day” sort of thing instead of a picture every day. The problem being that the places we have gone this week arent exactly the kinds of places you want to haul a big camera around at. But for what its worth, here are this past weeks highlights.

08: We made it to church. I brought Nik with me. It was a beautiful sunny day that threw my settings off. I attempted to work things out to no avail. This is the best I got.

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10: Another beautiful day. I brought Nik to town with the main purpose being to capture these beauties on the way home.

11: These flowers are a favorite of bees here. Every time you walk by there must be a dozen or so. We went for a late night walk – and with the sun fading I attempted to get pictures of them. A little blurry, but pretty still.

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13: Nan brought Amanda some flowers for her birthday. We messed around with white spaces and bright flowers.

14: We spent the day at the carnival for Amanda’s birthday. Again, not the place to bring a big camera so I had to settle for this picture.

15: Party time!

Amanda’s Birthday

Christina

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June 14, 2014

I know I have mentioned it before, that on Amanda’s birthday I some how feel compelled to make the wildest, wackiest birthday cake I can come up with. It usually takes some planning and never goes according to said plan. This year since I was here – I really wanted it to be special. David had surprised her with a trip to a Jazz club earlier in the day, and I ran with it as a theme.

The “piano” cake. It took a lot more planning this time – since there are no good cake mixes here, and everything is just that much different that I didn’t feel confident making a home made cake – I ordered box mixes. I attempted to dye the cake mix black so when you cut into it, the cake itself was black – apparently, to make this happen you need more than a full container of black food dye. Thus we ended up with a gray cake. Inside and out. At least MOST people knew what it was!

The “spread” Again, I was going for fun fancy finger foods – that were simple enough to prepare. We ended up with vegetables, ants on logs, cheese and crackers, popcorn and these wonderful little tomato bites (except since the cheese here is SO awesome, I went with ordinary cheese instead of mozzarella). Also I hand made mustache straws – because what is a jazz party without mustaches?

The “Decor” I had spent some time browsing the local stores for inspiration but came up empty handed and instead ordered everything online. The awesome part about living here and mostly everything was free shipping. The musical notes cost a whole .70 – the only problem was they said 70’s disco club – but no one seemed to mind.

Amanda and David.

Amanda and I modeling our top hats. I had originally ordered some top hats to be used as serving dishes (like the popcorn was in). The first time I ordered – I ended up with mini top hats, which made Amanda and I crack up – since she didn’t know what I was planning I think she might have been a bit skeptical!

The obligatory cake photo

Giving a whole new meaning to ‘burning pianos’

Feeling accomplished!

Happy Birthday, Capn! Hope you enjoyed your day 🙂

Week 23/24

Christina

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June 8, 2014

Ive failed big time at keeping up these past few weeks. A majority of it was a week long stomach flu that wiped us all out here. Needless to say these past few weeks have more holes than swiss cheese…but for what its worth:

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5. Amanda and I both got sick. The same day. The same time. The same symptoms. Its probably good, because it wiped us both out for about a week. If we had both gotten sick separately, it would have been a good two weeks before we left the house. After said illness, we had to call in the hazmat team to clean up for us (Joking. Mostly.)