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“When in doubt…

Jackie — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:35:29 +0000

make it HUGE.” That was a running joke I had with a kid in art school. Someone would post their work up and it would be WAY too big and nothing ever fit quite right. But, if it’s huge, you’re taking a risk and the teacher always seemed to let them slide… I think the good folks at Hobby Lobby have followed this principle, but they’ve filled it with so much awesome that it cannot backfire.

Yeah. That's a regular size cart.

Those little eggs in the cart with it? Those are “jumbo” eggs that I got too. The giant egg is a set of 3 that are nested. The biggest one comes up to my KNEE. Holy poo. Best $7 I’ve ever spent.

In other news, here’s a picture of Bob, Helen, & I from last weekend at my mom’s. I love it.

The Three of Us

Early Easter

Jackie — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:39:42 +0000

We celebrated Easter with my family today. Jess made a gorgeous cake, as usual:

Awesome Cake

We snuggled with Kyla & Fetti’s new puppy, Leon:

Us & Leon

And then, we took Helen to ride Jess’ horse, Foxxi. Helen had pretty much the best day ever. :)

Helen running to feed the horses hay.

Great big smile.

Getting Foxxi ready to ride.

Riding!

Pictures of pictures.

All in all, it was an awesome and exhausting day.

Boots!

Jackie — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:38:22 +0000

Whale Boots

One more reason to love Target.

Addict.

Jackie — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:05:00 +0000

Last night, I downloaded a game for the Wii called “World of Goo.” Helen and I played a bit, and Bob seemed unimpressed. Until Helen was asleep. Then, he took an interest when he saw how awesome it was. I went to shower around 9, and joked “see you tomorrow” as I got ready for bed. Nearly 4 hours later, Bob came to bed. Hilarious.

This morning, I wake up, and the TV is already on, the game is already going:

Addict

It appears I’ve created a monster.

After work, I went to Jess’ to play with puppies. But the puppies left right after I got there because they got homes. Good, but lame ’cause I wanted puppy time. So instead, we went to dinner at Cracker Barrel where we wreaked havoc with magnetic salt and pepper shakers:

I'm a hoodlum.

We laughed for hours. (I may have also laughed for hours because I was so sugared up. Either way.)

Caffeine & 35mm.

Jackie — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:13:06 +0000

Today was a pretty good day. In honor of Friday, I broke my caffeine hiatus (after a year!) and caved into a frappuccino. And it was the best thing I’ve ever had. It made me bouncy all day. I was speaking LOL Cat in my head all day, I think. Best working Friday I’ve had in awhile. Though, it’s official proof for me that caffeine is a drug, and I should really not go back to my one caffeinated drink a day that I used to have. It has, however sparked me to figure out how to make a home made decaf frapp. Cause that would be amazing.

Much Needed.

Last night, Bob & I took Helen to have dinner at my parents’ house. Dad made steak, and it was really really good. Helen ate more than I did, I think she wants steak for dinner every night. :) We had a really great time hanging out and playing games. We also got the 35mm pictures back from the developer last night. A lot of the shots turned out really well (some of them are better than any of the shots I took on the trip!), though a lot of them are of me, haha.

Falls Cave

The Trail

To the cave

Pictures of Each Other

Twin Falls

Tree Shots

By the river

Like a Sasquatch sighting!

Smiling at the extremely handsome boy behind the camera.

Shooting by the river.

Best Wake Up Call Ever

Jackie — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:48:52 +0000

I had the most delicious breakfast ever this morning. Some at the house, and I took some to work too.

Yummy

I need to work on baking more often. It really makes the whole house smell so good. And, now that I have two more people to feed my baking to, it gives me all the more reason to start. :)

And home.

Jackie — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:43:47 +0000

Time flew by so fast this weekend, I was so sad to leave. We almost didn’t get to though, the rain started as we were packing up the car – we were worried we’d be stuck on the mountain as the dirt roads turned into mud, but we made it.

Here are some shots of the cabin I took before we left:

2nd Floor View

Looking Down

Fireplace

Rainy Mountains

The whole drive home was rainy, but we did okay. It sure is a lot colder in St. Louis than it was in Jasper. I’m ready for spring.

Jasper!

Jackie — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:30:34 +0000

We made it to Jasper safely. Here are a few pictures from the drive down yesterday:

GPS an hour in

My extremely handsome driver

Rearview Roads

The Cabin

Long Exposure View

This morning, we woke up and messed around with the cameras a bit before leaving:

Pictures

One of my favorite shots from the trip

Eden Falls & Cave

The Falls

Us in front of the Falls - Looks fake, haha

Water Study

Mud on the Tires

Wind in my hair

Best Rootbeer Float Ever

Huge Smiles

We picked up a tripod at one of the shops in town, and were playing with the delayed shutter here. I was trying to run and jump so fast to get in the shot that I ended up landing in the water with one of my feet. We were both laughing so hard in this shot – I was glad I brought my snow boots of I’d have been soaked.

One Wet Foot

I took about a bajillion other pictures too, and some of them can be seen here. I’ll be steadily uploading more in the next few weeks as film gets developed and digital shots are sorted through.

Collection.

Jackie — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:30:18 +0000

We’re getting ready to head out onto the open road to Jasper, Arkansas this morning. There’s no internet and no cell phone reception there, and it makes me super happy to think about that. :) So, look for blog updates next week, but until then, here’s our awesome camera collection so far:

Recently acquired.

The Whole Collection

And yeah, they’re all coming with us. :D

Thursdays Rock.

Jackie — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:32:42 +0000

This morning started a little earlier than I like….

6:26

I’m pretty sure my groan at the alarm would have startled the dogs, had they not groaned with me. :) But, the dogs and I got ready and headed over to Bob’s before work so they could play all day. I got a little tin with grapes and strawberries packed for me. It was quite delicious, and I wished I’d remembered to take a picture sooner:

2nd Breakfast!

Progress

I made a little leg knitting progress as well. We spent the evening with pizza, sugary treats, and Wii games. It was my first time playing mario karts for the wii, and it’s super awesome! New favorite game by far.

We’re supposed to get a snowstorm tomorrow. I can only hope it happens, but it never seems to when I’d like it to.