Heather's Wedding

One of my besties, Heather (Heather Feather for short... haha) got married on New Year's Eve. I'm so happy Heather's turn for love has come along. She is an amazing person and I'm glad she's found someone that realizes that. He loves her... he shows it... she's happy... you know it!!! GO HEATHER AND DANIEL! =) Seriously though, I'm happy for them!

Our friend Erika did Heather's makeup. She always does a good job. I lurked over her shoulder the whole time, which I knoooow she loved.

After I hung out for a bit, I went home and changed, practiced my song a couple more times then headed back to the church for the beautiful evening wedding.

Heather, of course, was beautiful and so was everything else. Here's a look at one of the reception centerpieces... that's Journey in the background playing with one of those New Years blower things.

Kayla and I. Do you notice I actually fixed my hair? I should have taken a picture of the back... there's where the magic happened. It looked half fabulous half mullet. =) I also put on real makeup (as in I used actual eye shadow - multiple colors even - on my eyes instead of blush. haha. Ooh - I even donned some mascara. Whoa.)

The bridesmaids. That's Daniel's sister on the left... Heather's youngest sister Katy in the middle and her other younger sister Brittany on the right. =) I barely met Daniel's sister but I'm sure she's nice and I just love Heather's sisters.

I didn't get Mr. Jonathon in this picture (I did get one of him in the church but it's from a different camera that I didn't upload on here yet) but here's the girls. Jessi and Jazzy on the left belong to Erika and that's Kayla's Journey on the right.

Kayla and I with the bride.

Wedding photographers can clean up nice when they're not photographing the wedding.


The happy couple!

Mark, Journey, and Kayla - our table buddies. Also, one of Heather's good friends from grad school and her family sat with us too, so that was fun.

Tyler and Tabitha... also getting married this year!

Joby and Jana. We don't get to see these guys all that often... they're always fun! Usually, we just see Jana on girls' nights but we always talk about Joby so I guess that kind of counts. =)

First dance.

Oh these two... Jana and Erika.

Heather and Papa Vern. =) I'm so glad I got to visit with him at the wedding. Such a sweet man. Her whole family is.

Journey getting ready to bring in the New Year.

Dac and Mark talking about house stuff or mac stuff or something else nerdy. =)

The girls! From left to right: Tabitha, Jana, Erika, Heather, Ginger (her mom), Kayla, and I.

Dereck and Erika

The whole gang!

10, 9, 8, 7...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Congrats you two!!!

Midweek Randoms

• As you’ve probably noticed... things have been a little crazy around here. Good crazy but crazy none-the-less. I love that we’ve gotten to see and spend time with so many friends and family members this holiday season. It’s been fabulous!! =) Makes it worth all the “busy”.

• I feel tired. I look tired. I am tired. But not as tired as I expected to be after this past week.

• We put in lots of time photographing a wedding for a family friend last Friday. Then, the next day, I attended and sang at my wonderful friend Heather’s wedding. Both weddings were beautiful and I’m glad we got to be a part of them.

• I somewhat procrastinated learning and practicing my song for Heather’s wedding but God was so good to me and I didn’t screw it up. Whew! When she asked me to sing I told her I’d be happy to if she was sure she wanted to hear my rusty old pipes. They’re not what they used to be. =) I made it through, got some super nice compliments, and the bride and groom seemed genuinely pleased, so I call it a success.

• We spent New Years Day sleeping in a bit and eating a late lunch at Dac’s parents’ house. Terese always makes strongly encourages us to eat a spoonful or two of black-eyed peas for good luck. This year, she made a dip out of them so that was a plus. =) We were going to go see The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo but it just didn’t end up working out so we’ll have to try and go see it sometime soon. I think it looks good!

• I spent Monday sleeping in a bit and watching the rest of my Grey’s Anatomy episodes on Netflix. =) I did run and get us lunch and I did some laundry/cleaning but fell short come bedtime when the fresh sheets weren’t put back on the bed again. Oops... we slept on the couches instead. How lazy can I be? Yesterday? LAY-ZEE.

• How 'bout them OSU Cowboys winning that Fiesta Bowl. That's right... thaaaaaaaat's right!!!! Proud as always. Great season!

• I’m having quite a bit of internal pain... not sure if I overdid it this weekend or if maybe this is just my temporary normal. Hoping either way... it’s very temporary. I’m kinda over it. Not to be a whiner...

• I considered starting back on a somewhat healthy eating plan this week. BUT - I haven’t really grocery shopped in weeks, plus I have my post-op appointment tomorrow and I plan to get donuts before I leave and a delicious lunch and… who am I kidding... probably a snack and dinner too =) none of which I plan to be salads, mind you. Then, we have another wedding extravaganza this weekend. SO - I’ve decided next week is the week. I plan to be back on myfitnesspal.com and really working hard again.

• Let’s see. I’m still rocking sweat pants (no jeans yet) when I’m not in my one pair of work pants that fit. I did sport a dress to Heather's wedding. HOLLA! The dress was nice and comfy but the spanx and tights I donned underneath weren’t so much. =) Kind of defeats...no?

• We paid our final payment for some re-branding work we’re having done for our photo business. We should be revealing it in the next month or two. I’m very excited about it... and can’t wait to make some very needed changes in our business world which will hopefully allow for some very needed changes in our personal world too!

• I’m super excited to create and order our 2011 blog book. I wish I would have started doing this years ago instead of ensuring myself I’d get around to those scrapbooks. sigh. Oh well... at least from here on out we’ll have some good documentation!

• Oh - I still need to paint my toenails. =) I know you’re all dying to know that.

• I think it's worth noting that I have good taste. Real good taste. Good, expensive taste. You wouldn't know it by looking at me. But trust me. It's there. =)

• In other irrelevant news... it's becoming more and more obvious to me (so probably totally obvious years ago to others... ha!) that I have some obsessive compulsive tendencies... especially in regards to cleaning. I almost annoy myself. Ok, I DO annoy myself. There. The first step toward a solution is admitting you have a problem. Right? Of course right.

• Now that I'm done with Grey's... I have the urge to start another season of 24 again. Surely you remember that when we watch 24 it practically consumes our life. We SO do not have time for that right now. But it sounds like fun to just veg out on the couch and watch tv together for the next few weeks. =)

The Band: Back Together.

So we have these friends... good friends. A whole group of weird, crazy, out of control great friends. The guys started out as Dac's friends but now I've taken them all (awesome, cool, not afraid to sport t-shirt and comfy pants wives included... duh) as my own too.

Anyway, we try to get together a time or two (or hopefully more) a year. This was one of those times. Dac bought another surprise box of beers so John and Kelly dove right in!

Then we ate lots of pizza and cookies.

Anna and the newest member, Ruby!


Matt and Kelly

Tarl, Joy, Anna, Kelly, and Ruby.

I hate to even admit what we're doing here... ok... I'll do it. We were watching Birdemic. This awful, bad movie (everything about it is bad) on Netflix. Seriously, it's awful. But... kinda funny and it does seem to pull you in.... NO... it's awful I tell you!! Thank you Tarl for broadening our culture horizons.



Then we watched some You Tube videos. Everyone was pretty tired and/or sickly so the night ended fairly early compared to previous years but still... it was so good to see everyone.

The next day a few of us went to Breakfast at Brick's... a few of us girls went to a couple shops around town... then a few of us went to El Maguey and even met Bear... another of the guys' good friends from high school. Good food and good times.


After lunch the guys went and played disc golf and that night, Matt's parents had us over for a delicious meal and we played a game of Balderdash (winner, winner, chicken dinner right here folks... haha!).

Yay friends!!! Can't wait 'til next time.

Korny Christmas Pictures

Clever title huh? =) No? Fine.

Due to surgery and work stuff and being sick and Christmas... Sky and I went several weeks without getting to hang out. So finally, last week we got together to eat Grinder Man cookies, drink cokes, and exchange gifts.

I couldn't think of anything amazing to get her so I just got a Wal-Mart card taped to her favorite... Skittles. Which, she kindly shared with me (yes, after the cookies) like she always does. =)

Still in sweat pants...

Sky got me this awesome scarf and a pair of fancy pants gloves. I'm a model... you know what I mean...

Sky even tried some coffee (eewww) from the new Keurig pot Dac got for Christmas.



She ended up pouring it out. =) Duh. Coffee's gross.

Sky also brought along her new Spirograph. I had one of these when I was younger too. Sky is a total artist... she's great at drawing and painting and so naturally... a little spirograph challenge is nothing to her. She let me give it a try and I screwed up every. single. one. Oops.

Oh well, at least it got a couple of laughs. I'm great for making 14 year olds laugh. And as you can see from my joke at the beginning of this post... it's not because I'm cool funny. =)

Call Christmas

Every year, after Christmas, the big Call clan gets together to eat, play games, eat, chat, eat and play Dirty Santa. Everyone brings snacks and even though it's big and loud and crazy... it's fun!!

This year though, I was exhausted and hurting from a long drive back from Louisiana so I wasn't getting the most out of the experience. After attending Call Christmas for many dating and married years but at one point I felt like an only child (which I am) going to a huge family function for the first time. It was fun and and loud and crazy but it was loud and crazy... it's all part of the fun, but that day, that day... I was an only child. ha! =)

Still, it was great to see everyone and I'm glad we were able to make it back to go.

Here's Grandma Jo and one of her besties, Margaret. =) Ornery.

Playing games.

Charli and Aunt Vallie.

Dac and Justin talking cameras.

=)


Mark and Kayla

Val and Cori

Annual picture w/ Kayla. PS - I apparently over moisturized?? Or wait... can I blame the greasy face on surgery? No? Hmm.

Love these girls!!!

More fam...

Grandma Jo with her kids and their spouses.

Our fam.

We photographers play it real cool in front of the camera. ha!

My loot from Dirty Santa. Two new games for Christmas! =) Score!

So hooray for Call Christmas! I look forward to not being tired and sore next year so I can get my game-playing on with the best of them. =)