Finally Friday!

To say the least I have had a very stressful week. 

To start I was late to work every single day this week. On Thursday I had to do a live meeting with our dev team which was basically an hour of me talking and explaining the advantages of different plugins and we needed to add onto those plugins that they can go on ahead and get started on it. I am not a developer, I do not write code. This was a very high stress task. Thirdly I have been a week with no smoking and it just doesn't help. Lastly, I found out some news that just really sends me over the edge. I feel if you can't support the child you have now, DON'T HAVE ANOTHER. But spite my opinion people still do and I just find it incredibly unfair to the unborn child who won't be cherished or loved, the already born child who is already not taken care of, and that persons family who now has more responsibility to take care of there kids. CRAP! On the drive to work this morning I was on the phone with my oh so wonderful mother who is very patienet and eventually she just shut up and let me vent and basically the whole conversation was "That's crap! This is crap! Holy crap!". End rant. but after that I was just over the top and ready to go home. 

Ethan ( as wonderful as he's been ) hals seen my stress, anger, disappointment, and fear this last week and offered me to go to City Creek. 

No hesitation came from that yes, haha I made a funny. 

So! To prepare myself for this all night adventure I have been picturing what I need to add to my wardrobe. Hopefully I can find some good deals! If I do I will post on Saturday for Steal Deal Saturday! 

Some sweet flats similar to these ones on ModCloth ones.

A sweet new jacket similar to this one off of 6pm which has been a favorite lately

And last but not least I have been dying for a pair of burgundy skinny jeans similar to the ones at H&M

Hopefully this goes well and I don't break my bank this week :p

Ashton Gray and Her Beautiful Family

Got a family to do pictures with! I'm so happy with how most of these turned out! 

Thanks guys for giving me this opportunity. 

And I do have a Facebook page to check out or contact me if in the Utah area!

Happy Halloween!

Not much to say other than I was happy to have my honey home this year for Halloween!

Brielle was my little Tangled, and I did a sugar skull. 

Also I made Pumpkin Seeds again! If you need an easy recipe check out when I did them 2 years ago

Holiday's are coming up and I'm warning all of you now, be ready for craft overload. 

Photo Day Challenge

I wanted to show you guys how lame my weekday is. All I do is work. So I did the photo challenge of a picture an hour. Lets start. 

6 A.M. Cuddle with my animals and debate if I REALLY want to get up

 7 A.M. Arrive to work and chug as much caffeine as possible

 8 A.M. Relieve stress with my adorable owls. 

 9 A.M. Take a break, solve a Rubix cube, and get more caffeine

 10 A.M. Take a random selfie with my managers coat

 11 A.M. Get more caffeine. I have a problem. 

 12 P.M. Make calls, enjoy my caffeine overload. 

1 P.M. Enjoy the lunch provided every Thursday, this Thursday delicious sandwiches. 

2 P.M. Struggle to get back to work and waste time on YouTube

3 P.M. Go over notes for the day. Can I start cleaning up and going home orrrrrr? Oh. No. Of course not.

4 P.M. Be a nerdy developer and look into a 5th dimension. And break a software. Bwahahahaha

 Sometime around 5 P.M. get stuck in rush hour traffic for an hour

 6 P.M. Arrive home to these two just hanging out. 

 7 P.M. enjoy "Dinner"

8 P.M. do my nightly routine. 

9 P.M. Look like crap, cuddle, and finally pass the eff out. 

I am so excited for the weekend. My week has officially sucked! 

New Dreams

Maybe this isn't a NEW dream but it's one I'm finally pursuing. After finally getting a proper camera for my birthday I decided maybe I could start taking pictures. Who's a better model than my 3 year old? These turned out so much better than I thought they would. I also took a family picture trying to figure out the delay option. After many failed attempts it finally came out right! Introducing Summer Dreams Photography

20 Years Young

Celebrating my birthday has never been a huge extravagant thing for me. It's been more or less a day to be grateful for everything I've experienced in life. My past is an ugly one. I like to pretend I've lived with my adopted parents for 20 years, but we've only been a family for 5 years now. The 15 years before that were nothing but hell. So every year when my birthday rolls around I thank the heavens for the family I was blessed with and the wonderful years I have had with them. I never thought i'd make it to twenty. It was a relaxing day spent with my family doing absolutely nothing. Brielle woke me up with a picture frame she picked out and her favorite picture of us at her birthday, my mom got me a beautiful Peridot ring, my dad got me a brand new Fuji 4800 Camera, and my honey bought me my seventh tattoo. The three best gifts I could have ever asked for. 

 Oh and Ethan made me delicious dinner! :D 

( Phone picture ) 

Memorial Day

Happy Memorial day everyone! Memorial day every year is a tough one for me. The whole reason I moved to Utah is because my blood mother married someone in the air force and we got stationed out here. He was the most amazing step dad I had ever had. Before he left my blood mom he swore to me that he would come back for me when he was done serving our country. Sadly a few months later we got the call that he had died fighting for our country. Things turned out in the end of course because I got adopted by the most incredible family, but for so many years before I met my adopted family I wondered how much better things would have been. I miss him like crazy to this day. He's forever in my heart. 

Ethan's brother served our country as well. He died six years ago in a fatal motorcycle accident. When Ethan and I first met in high school it hadn't even been a year since his brother passed away. Ethan has come such a long ways and I'm so proud of him for working through everything instead of just acting like it didn't happen. 

R.I.P Kasey Hunt and Gary Holley. Thank you for all that you did for us. 

To celebrate Kasey's life we went to Fort Douglas to put some flowers on his grave and pay him a visit. Sadly Gary wasn't buried in Utah so I just had to keep him  in my thoughts. It was a very calm and relaxing day. We spent it with Ethans parents. 

 After visiting Kasey we went to Ethan's and had a nice BBQ with his family and played in the pool.