30 Day Photo Challenge, Day 30

Day 30: A photo of you when you were happy



This is us three years ago on our honeymoon, happy as can be. There was no money for us to take a huge trip, so we went up to the Pacific Northwest instead. We had an absolutely fabulous time, just us doing our nerdy Leslie and Roy thing. Yeah, we're not tropical island types. But if someone wanted to give us a free trip, we'd totally take it. Just sayin'.

And that concludes my 30 day photo challenge! That was a ton of fun for me - I loved looking through all my old photos, searching for the perfect picture for each day's challenge.

30 Day Photo Challenge, Day 29

Day 29: A photo of someone you find attractive



Why hello there, Dave Matthews, you poet with a guitar. You're pretty much the only celebrity out there that I can say I have a crush on.

30 Day Photo Challenge, Day 28

Day 28: A photo of what you ate today



Ice cream! I needed a big bowl of it after reading yet another fear-mongering post on Facebook about the "Ground Zero mosque." Ugh.

30 Day Photo Challenge, Day 27

Day 27: A photo of last summer



It was a day of Target shopping that will live in infamy, a day in which Charlie and I went there with Mandy and my mother-in-law to kill some time. I rode the cart all over the store because I had pulled my ass muscle and it hurt too much to walk. I'm not sure if I will ever have as much fun shopping in Target as I did that day, but you know, some day I may try to beat the record.

30 Day Photo Challenge, Day 26

Day 26: A photo of your favourite weekend




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I tried hard to think what my favorite weekend would be, and the only one that came to mind was the weekend of my wedding. So here are a couple of pages from our wedding album.

All these wedding pictures are making me want to get married again - to the same guy, of course.

30 Day Photo Challenge, Day 25

Day 25: A photo of a night you loved



My wedding night! (And I'm not talking about what happened at the hotel after the wedding, either.) I'm talking the wedding itself, which was amazing and one of the most wonderful nights ever.

30 Day Photo Challenge, Day 24

Day 24: A photo of you that your hair looks nice in



Okay, so my hair is a little fluffy in this picture, but I still think it looks good. I wish I had good hair-styling capabilities but I really don't - so most of the time I rely on my charm to pull me through and hope that the rest of the world doesn't notice the rat's nest on top of my head.

(PS - This is one of our engagment photos, taken in 2007.)

30 Day Photo Challenge, Day 23

Day 23: A photo of your friend as a baby



A big ol' WTF to today's photo challenge. I don't have any photos of my friends as babies. So I cheated and am using this photo of cute little Mandy and cute little Roy. Roy reminds me so much of Charlie in this picture. I love it.

30 Day Photo Challenge, Day 22

Day 22: A photo of your town



California can produce some amazing sunsets, that's for sure.

I took this while driving this past January, and as I recall, I didn't do any post-production on it at all - so those amazing colors you see? That's Mother Nature all the way, baby.

30 Day Photo Challenge, Day 21

Day 21: A photo of you standing up



I just love this picture. It was my last Halloween working at Chili's (2005), and I got such a huge kick out of this guy. What's not to love about a mega buff guy dressed as a fairy?

(I'm still curious if he stuffed something down his pants.)

30 Day Photo Challenge, Day 20

Day 20: A photo of something you enjoy doing



Not sure if it's obvious that I enjoy photography.

I was pregnant with Charlie in this photo (about as far along as I am right now), and we were in San Francisco. I miss that place.

30 Day Photo Challenge, Day 19

Day 19: A photo of you on a school trip



I went to Washington DC the summer before my senior year. I was one of two students at my high school selected to go on that trip, and I was so proud of myself! It was quite the eye-opening trip, as I had my first real encounters with seeing real poverty and homeless people. I learned a lot and had a blast. (And there's nothing quite like riding on a bus for 30+ hours.)

30 Day Photo Challenge, Day 18

Day 18: A photo of one of your classes



I took a few liberties with today's prompt since it wasn't exactly clear. This is me and my oldest friend Lynn. (Obviously, I'm the one in the very short skirt.) For an English assignment our senior year of high school, we had to pick a character from The Canterbury Tales. One person would dress up as the character, and the other had to dress up as the modern-day counterpart to that character. Our character was the Wife of Bath, and as I recall, we had to write and perform a little poem we'd written about our character as well.

Ahhhh, high school. What a great time I had.

30 Day Photo Challenge, Day 17

Day 17: A drunk photo of you



Back in January, we went out for my friend Becki's birthday. I got a little drunk and spilled ranch dressing down the leg of my pants. At one point the conversation turned to the ridiculousness of harvesting cat hair in FarmVille. Love me some weird drunk rambling and good times with my homies.

30 Day Photo Challenge, Day 16

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Day 16: A photo of you at the last party you went to



We attended a family reunion for our birth center, which is basically a party for present and past clients and their families, midwives, doulas, etc. I spent the evening mostly hanging out with my two favorite British midwives, Naomi and Sarah. Too bad they're headed back to the UK soon - they are loads of fun. Here we are at one of my recent prenatal visits.



There's nothing like getting to hang out with people who love my bastardization of a British accent. It's bloody awesome, I tell you.

30 Day Photo Challenge, Day 15

Day 15: A photo of you and someone you love



Taken on my birthday. Charlie and I have the same messy hair. I look exhausted. But happy trumps tired.

On another note, it is the strangest thing to look into your child's face and see your own there. I do this so often with Charlie; I can't even look at my own baby pictures without searching for him.

30 Day Photo Challenge, Day 14

Day 14: A photo of one of your favourite family members



My mom! Many moons ago. I'm thinking this photo was taken before my brother was born, so definitely pre-me as well. I love old school photos, and I especially love this one. My mom is super cute with her tall tall hair. A little taller (and bluer) and she could be Marge Simpson!

30 Day Photo Challenge, Day 13

Day 13: A photo of your best friend(s)



I think a lot of women would agree with me when I say that it's tough to trust other women. I've had my fair share of "best friends" in my life, and most of them have gone the way of the dodo. It's not really a term I use anymore, not for female friends anyway. "Best friend," I mean. Not "dodo." I say "dodo" as often as possible.

I consider Roy and my mom to be my absolute best friends. And I am so grateful to have some wonderful girl friends.

There is one in particular who (I realized recently) I trust completely. And that's Mandy. She's Roy's sister, and technically my sister-in-law. But I think we were separated at birth, truly. I would say that she's my sister (and sometimes I do), but that would mean that I married my brother. Ew.

I could post a lot about how I feel about her, but instead I'm going to link to the little speech I wrote and gave at Mandy's wedding and just let her know that I love her to pieces.

30 Day Photo Challenge, Day 12

Day 12: A photo of you



Third trimester! 28 weeks!

Of course I had a big long post planned to discuss this milestone and how I'm feeling and all that touchy-feely stuff I like to do. But let's just say that each week seems to get more and more crazy and hectic. Last night our toilet spontaneously overflowed twice, water (complete with giant hairballs) backed up into the bathtub, and there ended up being food floating in our toilet. I even found a piece of avocado on the toilet seat. All this happened minutes before bedtime, and I expected to be up all night worrying. But instead I slept pretty damn well, the best I've slept for the first time in months. The relaxation stuff is working, and I'm stoked.

30 Day Photo Challenge, Day 11

Day 11: A photo of your favourite film(s)



I suppose it's a total cliche to love this movie enough to call it a favorite, but there is absolutely nothing about it that I don't adore. What trips me out is that we're coming up on the 10th anniversary of its release.

(I saw this movie for the first time when I was recovering from the worst case of the flu I've ever had. It was in 2002 or 2003, I think.)