Easter Basket

It’s all art supplies and cothing goodies. No junk and no candy at all. I’m pretty proud of that. :)

Also, I went to a specialty cake shop this morning! It wasn’t quite as awesome as I’d hoped, though the unenthused teen at the counter may have helped that. Irregardlesslyable, here’s what I picked up at excellent prices:

The Supplies

The Set-Up

The Finished Product

A FO Close-Up

It took making all these to really get the hang of what I was doing and understand the temperature of the oreo truffles to the temperature of the almond bark and how it reacted. I still have about 25 more to make. I’ll do them tomorrow morning when I’ve got a sharp mind and better lighting. These may never see the party tomorrow, but they’ll see the insides of bellies for sure. Oreo truffles + Jr. Mints = AMAZING.

More pictures of the fun tomorrow!

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.

Coffee

When you need a pint glass to support your habit, you may be addicted. But happy. :)

Makes me happy.

Bob texted me this morning to see if I wanted to have lunch. I said sure, so he came up to work to visit me. And he said he brought me a special treat. And he did.

My iPod came!!!!!! Lookit!:

Meet Harrison

Of course, I couldn’t use it at work ’cause nothing was on it yet. But it was the KNOWING that it was there. Since then, I’ve named him Harrison and loaded him with all of my music, tons of podcasts, and quite a few photos. Best part? It’s not even a quarter full yet.

160GB – I love you.

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.

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.

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.

Recently acquired.

The Whole Collection

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