Thanksgiving 2007

I had a wonderful Thanksgiving with my family. My poor husband had to hold down the fort and take care of our crazy pups. He spent Turkey Day with his family. It was a little saddening knowing that it was the first holiday we spent apart. I don't regret it though. I loved being able to see my family again. It has been at least a few year - way too long.

Sorry for the grainy pics... I've been working in manual mode on my camera and I'm still trying to figure out all the settings. I am just adding family pics on this blog.

To check out my misc. pics from the holiday, check out my photography board (link at top of the page).

What a Difference Photoshop Can Make

This was taken back in 05 with my point and shoot camera.

SOOC (straight out of camera)


enhanced


black and white


black and white + worn

Halloween 2007

Thank you Abi and Mike for hosting such a great party, as always!! And thank you for sharing the pics!! :D

You can't tell we had fun, can you? ;)

I did it!

I started a new blog for my (hopefully) furture photography business. Please check it out and save it on your blog links. I am hoping to get some models and start skill building. I will not be charging a sitting fee while I am still skill building. Please contact me if you are interested. :)

http://allisonkathleenphotography.blogspot.com

allisonkathleenphotography@yahoo.com

Random Pics...

Anni and Random Photos

Here is a pic from our anniversary dinner taken by our waiter... We sat outside and it was so windy I had to pull my hair back. Why, oh why, did I do that?! Yuck! Oh well, at least we have a pic, right?


And here is a random pic on my p&s camera I found.

Our 1 Year Anniversary

We had a good first anniversary. We have been giving our house a makeover, so we were painting all weekend. Friday, our anniversary, we took a break and went to eat dinner in Kemah. I love seafood, so we went to Babins. We sat outside and had a pretty good view of the Gulf and the Kemah attrations. I ordered Halibut (sp?) with lump crab topping, dirty rice and a sweet potato. David ordered a steak with lump crab topping (weird, but it actually came with it), veggies (which he never got) and a sweet potato. Mine was really good and his steak was average... not better than the meat we get at Wal-Mart, so we were a little disappionted seeing as how it was ~$30 for his plate! Oh well. The waiter was nice and so was the atmosphere... and we were spending time together, so all in all we had a great time. We walked around Kemah for a while until my feet couldn't take it and headed home. Great times, wonderful company - couldn't beat it.

And just to archive:

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Our 1 year anni is FRIDAY!

Woohoo! I can't believe it has been just under a year. I will be taking Friday off and I don't want to forget to post about it tomorrow, so you get it today! :)

Ok, pretend this is 2 days from now...
One year ago (-2 days)I was getting married to my best friend, my partner in life. We met in May 2004 on a blind date. My boss at the time set us up to see how things would go. We first met at a football field at a friend's HS game. From there, we took off and went to the Edwards mall? or whatever it is call. We hung out at Jillians (game place), played putt-putt and walked around... all the while, he kicked my butt at everything we played. :) We actually didn't even think we liked each other that night! ---sad, but I don't remember all the details of our dates until we actually made ourselves "offical"--- He called me one day and asked if I wanted to spend the weekend with him and some friends at our friend's parent's vacation house. I said yes. I believe that night we became "offical" - July 2, 2004. From that night on, we hated being apart.

In mid October 04, he game me a promise ring at the same place that we met, the football stadium. He said it "bought him 2 years" (to buy me an engagment ring. Funny thing is, we got married almost 2 years after he gave me that ring. We moved into our apartment October 31, 2004 (~4 months later). We bought the home we live in now April 29, 2005 (~6 months later). We got married September 28, 2006 Marriage Island right on the San Antonio River Walk. Check out the link below for pics from our special day. He is my honey and makes me smile every single day. I love the feeling I get when I am with him, I miss it when we are apart (which is hardly ever). I love the path my life has taken me and I'm enjoying the ride I'm on.

Here's to many, many more years of happy times.

http://community.theknot.com/cs/ks/user/page.aspx?username=SecretlyEloped

Melinda's Baby Shower

Here are a few pics from our friend's baby shower 2 weekends ago. Slacker, I know. She actually already had her baby on Sept. 16... I'm just a tad behind.











Obviously I need to work on my PP consistancy... :)