camera catch up

we have so many photos to sift through from our time at the cottage, so here are some old ones i snapped a few weeks ago at barton nature area to try out my new lens.  (spoiler alert:  it rules).

hopefully we can get all the pictures sorted through soon.  summer is always such a busy time.

hope everybody enjoys the 4th tomorrow!  (or for those of you who do not celebrate the 4th, enjoy your thursday too!)

iphonery and more

i promise one of these days i'll post something besides rehashed instagram (though one of the photos above isn't from instagram... if you follow me you might know which one).

so as you can probably tell life lately has been a lot about animals, weather, and highly nutritious food.  i've also fallen head over heels in love with those flip flops in the second row.  if you're still looking for a cute and comfy pair i would more than recommend them... they are available here.

one of the highlights of our week unfortunately had to go unphotographed because my camera is not waterproof.  on wednesday evening a group of our friends all took an inner-tube float down the huron river.  it is probably one of our new favorite things to do, and hopefully i can find some way to document it.  there are lots of little waterfalls to slide down, which leave nobody dry at the bottom.  perhaps my holga could survive in a plastic bag?

and on a less related note (hey i skipped blogging yesterday because i had work deadlines... brevity is not my skill) i'm going to ask my readers for a bit of advice.

long haired ladies:  how do you live?

one of the things many people don't know is that my hair is currently the longest it has ever been in my entire life.  historically i always kept it at more of a layered bob, but in february of 2010 i took the plunge and got a pixie.  it was quite fun and i really liked how it looked, but i perfer a bit of variety when styling my hair and found it very limiting... i haven't cut it since.  

i am planning on continuing to grow it out for probably one more year, but let me tell you it is driving me up the wall... it gets in your mouth when you eat... it gets in both your mouths when you kiss... it gets stuck underneath your own body when you lay down or sit back in a chair... it's maddening.

what do the rest of you long-haired ladies do?  what are the tricks of the trade?  do you swear by products or some perfect top knot for sleepy-time?  do you simply develop unfathomable amounts of patience?

let me know, if you have any tips to save what little is left of my sanity.  hope everyone is looking forward to as lovely a weekend as we are!

instagram dump

 

it's a bit busy round these parts recently so for now you just get phone pictures of what we've been up to lately.

the good news is: i ordered a 50mm lens for my DSLR and it. is. off. the. hook.  hopefully this means you'll be seeing a lot more of our adventures through a much prettier point of view, but as of right now iphone photos will have to suffice.

unfortunately i completely forgot to get a picture from last night when steve, my parents and i got dinner to celebrate my mom's birthday (and a little bit belated fathers day for dad)!  we had a great time and stuffed our bellies like piglets and we were practically the last ones there when we finally headed out.  happy birthday mom (and thanks for dinner parents... we are still young and poor)!!

as far as the rest of things go, steve and i recently found ourselves our new favorite park in ann arbor and we have been having a blast exploring in what little free time we have right now.

being busy is making time fly though.  when on earth did we get so far into june??

slow down summer!  i'm still not tan yet!

(oh and hey are you following me on instagram yet?)

trees

i didn't get around to blogging yesterday because sometimes you just need a second to whine to your boyfriend about being blamed for others' sloppiness at work.

and sometimes you just need a second to go outside and enjoy the 80 degree weather.  we took an adventure in the arboretum and i got all instagram happy (and actual happy too).

it's been so great that steve finally has a chance to relax before starting work in june, but it does make my job feel like such a bummer time-suck since i can't go out an play in the sun until dinnertime.  how am i ever going to get anything like a tan?

it's not the most fun feeling kind of bored, but i suppose we should get our kicks now because i don't think we are going to get a chance to be bored too often in the near future.

for now we are looking forward to the weekend and hopefully we are going to be able to tour our potential "first place" on saturday morning!  it's so exciting that we are finally moving in together after all this time!! happy thursday!

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