i'm international!

i've been reviewing my live feedjit this morning. most of the time i can tell who's viewing my blog based on where they arrived from (facebook, direct, from another blog) and the physical location (utah, illinois, arizona, montana, oklahoma ...) but not today! i had a hit from europe today. how exciting. now i need to put my nancy drew skills to good use and find out who it is!

speaking of being international, i need to get a passport. it's time, don't you think? toronto 2010 for the trip this year? what do you think josie?

must go, time for tulsa fun!

i think i'm learning

our photography class assignment this week is to take about 30 pictures and take 3 to class as a sample. i was a little nervous that i'll get to class and he'll wonder what he's been teaching me for the past two weeks. however, yesterday i ventured out to the park across the street and saw this tree, so i took a picture.



then i realized that i could probably take a more interesting photo of the same tree, so i did. and i love this one ... you can actually see detail in the sky!



then i wandered around a little and found a canopy of trees, so i tried to photograph that. not so great.



but after a few tweaks to the camera (new tricks i learned in class!), it came out much better.


so maybe i am learning after all.

{this tree and these icicles are right outside my window at work ... i've been waiting for the sun to be in the right position for a photograph all day!}

what a weekend!

this weekend the singles branch sponsored a trip to the wisconsin dells. it's certainly a different vacation in the winter than it is in the summer. everyone arrived to the hotel on friday night for pizza and swimming. the moosejaw pizza was disappointing, but we tried again on saturday night and it lived up to previous expectations.

friday night we drove to rebekah's cabin (or the one she had access to anyway) and slept there. the cabin was rockin, and i'm gonna beg my way back there during the summer!

saturday, after breakfast, we made our way to the winter carnival. we had people skiing, snow tubing, watching dog sled races, trying on furs ... you name it! but, my favorite part, by far, was the "ski across the water" competition. the ski hill is carved out and they put this tarp down, then fill the "pool" with water.

{aaron getting excited for the competition to start}

{i was excited too ... front row viewing! ps. i love my new-ish highlights!}

the crazies in the competition ski (or snowboard) down the hill into the water, trying to make it to the end of the pool. the first few that we watched went right into the icy water.

{this guy crashed right in front of us}

after a few, most of the crazies went all the way to the end, earning their prize. including chuck, the boyfriend of the girl standing next to us.

{this isn't chuck, but he was snowboarding, although this guy didn't make it all the way to the end, he didn't fall in either. he snowboarded right out of the pool}

it was so fun! the one time aaron kneeled down in front of me to get a better picture, the guy totally fell and sprayed aaron. whew!

after another late night, we drove home on sunday. i think i'm gonna go up next year again!