More of me...

Sorry it has taken me so long to update. I'm not very good at blogging because most of the time there's nothing too exciting going on. A few weeks ago the family and I went to Missouri to visit everyone. It was loads of fun and I'd really like to go back more often. We went to Ha Ha Tonka (a castle ruin) and I got some really neat shots. Here are some photos I took while we were in Missouri.

Tux, Hans, and then one of me and Hans. I love these dogs!




This was Grandpa Cole's barn when he was a kid. It was so neat to go around and see where he grew up. We even got to go inside an old school house!


These next few are from Ha Ha Tonka. It's a castle up on a mountain that burned down in the 40's. It was a really neat site to see.





This is my favorite of all the ones I took that day:


Enjoy the photos. Hopefully I'll have more up soon.

Phoenix Rising in New Orleans!

I hadn't blogged about it yet because I've been so busy but this past weekend I went to New Orleans for a Harry Potter convention. Please hold back the jokes! ha. I know I'm a dork and I don't need to be reminded about that :) I took a ton of pictures but this thing only lets met blog four of them through blogger and I don't feel like uploading them all into photobucket right now. So, right now you will have to settle for a few. I flew in Friday morning and met up with some friends for bienets ( I have no clue of how to spell that) at Cafe Du Monde. It was so tasty! That night there was a Wizard Rock concert on Bourbon Street and Mtv was there covering the convention! I wonder if they got any footage of me bustin' a move. Probably not because I didn't do any dancing. Saturday just hung out with friends and that night my friends @ Spinnerscast and Spellcast put on a live podcast. That was loads of fun. I ended up having to take an EARLY flight out Sunday morning and had the craziest cab driver ever. He was pretty entertaining. I had a what I thought would be 3 hour layover in Cincinnati but ended up being stuck there for 10 hours!!! That's what I get for flying standby. Don't know that I will ever do that again. I didn't get settled back at my apartment til' 11:30 that night. Ugh. Well, here are some photos!

This is a cathedral in the French Quarter. I wish I had had time to get a closer shot.



Just a neat building.


Paige and I at Cafe Du Monde. YUM!


A shot of Bourbon St by night.


I'll try and post more pictures later.

Chirp chirp

Chirp. A friendly bird came by to say hello.

Updates and weddings

I have been begged to update about the ducks. Last weekend I wrote a long update blog about the ducks and other goings on but it didn't save so I got frustrated and didn't re-blog. It seems the ducklings might have gone off to the great farm in the sky. They started as 8. A few days passed and then it was 6. A few more days went by and there were only 4. About a week into it there were none walking around anymore. I have no idea if they died or if they just moved to the bigger pond. I went over to the big pond the other day and didn't see them so I fear for the worst. Hopefully the ducks will have more ducklings.

In other news: one of my close friends got married this past weekend! He, Jeremy, married a lovely girl named Hope whom I think is pretty amazing. The first time I met her we really clicked and I feel like I've known her this whole time. They got married at The Historic Dunaway Gardens in Newnan. It was so beautiful!! And thanks to Nathan's dad I got a full history of the place. Turns out it used to be an acting camp and celebrities frequented it in the 1930's. Walt Disney and his brother used to dine there when in town. I of course got a few pictures of the ceremony and the beautiful bride and handsome groom.

I really like this first picture because it seems the background is blurred like a Monet painting but the flower girl's face is in focus. It is very medieval looking to me.


Hope's dress was absolutely gorgeous! Possibly my dream wedding dress. She looked so beautiful! They are such a happy couple.


Here's the happy couple. Jeremy sort of blends in with Ben's dad's suit. Haha!


The communion prayer. I lucked out with this great pic. I had a hard time getting focus from a distance.


The weather could not have been more perfect. We had a grand old time at the reception hanging out with old friends (i.e. Nathan and his wife Courtney). The band was fun and played some great tunes and Ben kept burning himself with the sparkles at the procession. I am officially the last single one of the group. I don't really know how to react to that. Social gatherings will be a little odd from now on I guess.

They have arrived!!

When I got home from work yesterday there was a pleasant surprise waiting for me on the sidewalk. The ducklings have hatched!!! They are so cute. They follow mummy around everywhere. She is teaching them all sorts of things. She spends alot of time trying to get them to climb out of the water on to the bank...the aren't quite big enough for that though. Sometimes they make it with a flying leap though. They'll learn. When they are't swimming or walking around she puts out her wings and they sleep under them. It's so cute. I'll keep posting pictures as they grow bigger. These ducks are going to take over!! Oh....and I got a Flikr account so everyone can see all my photoraphy. I can't always post all my pictures on here...so keep an eye out @ www.flickr.com/photos/haleythehero .

Finally....again.

I had to make the last blog into 2 blogs because I was having so major issues with sizing of the photos. Also, I cannot figure out how to blog more than 4 photos with Picasa. Maybe Misti can help me with that. Here are more photos:

Yesterday I took some picture of Crookshanks. He's the "stray" cat that I feed. He's a cutie.



These are just some random shots I got throughout the week.

Finally...

I finally have some new photos to post. Mom has been asking me to blog again-but I like to have photos to include. This past weekend I went to Chattanooga to hang out with Nick and Bethany and to see our friends J-Roddy Walston and the Business play. Before the show we went out for Greek food at The Acropolis. It was really good and I took a few photos.

This is what I got- Pastitso (or something like that). It's like a Greek lasagna.


Here's Bethany eating my Avgolemono (sp??) soup and Nick in the background watching the game. It was Final Four weekend. I didn't like the soup much but it was ok because Nick said it didn't taste much like the real this his Papou makes.


A few days before Misti and Jonathan were at Mom and Dads and we took him to the park. He's getting so big! I think he really likes to swing.