062.

What started as a little cleaning project this afternoon

turned into a drag everything out, get rid of stuff,

re-organize, and put it all back looking cuter than ever

kind of project.

My favorite part was the new bookshelves I created

out of old crates and the new color coded organization

of all my books :)

060.

Tonight I went to Dallas to hear

one of the top wedding photographers in the US speak.

I met two of my other dallas photog friends there

(because going to those kinds of things alone can be so intimidating :P)

and had a lovely night soaking up all sorts of photography inspiration

and encouragement, and getting to hang out with fun photography people!

059.

Today we had the most gloooorious weather.

I think spring is officially creeping in

because for days now it's been in the 70's and even 80's.

I had my bedroom window open all day while I worked

and when I went out to run errands this afternoon

I had my sunroof and windows open the whole time...

talk about happiness!

058.

Nothing very interesting happened today...

just work :)

I finally had to rearrange my valentines day flowers

into smaller vases with the few remaining living blooms.

but aren't they pretty?!

057.

The Boy and I went to his old church in Dallas today

to visit his friends there...

There's a little girl, named Ashley,

that comes to church with her grandmother,

and ever since I started visiting the church with The Boy

she's decided we're good friends and is always so excited when I come.

She's been wanting to go ice-skating with The Boy and I

ever since we told her last fall that we'd take her sometime.

(She loves to ice-skate, but she lives with her grandmother

who can't take her because of a bad back.)

So yesterday when she ran up to us to say hi

some of the first words out of her mouth

were to ask if we could go ice-skating.

The Boy and I didn't have any definite plans

for the afternoon so we said that we could :)

After lunch with two of the sweet older people

in the church that The Boy is good friends with,

we went ice-skating with Ashley at the galleria...

the last time I'd ice-skated there

was my 11th birthday :)

The Boy and I  competed to see who could fall the least

and we both made it to the very end of the day without falling...

about five minutes before we were done Ashley fell

and Josh was holding her hand so he went down too.

I, of course gave him a hard time about the fact that

he'd fallen and I hadn't,

and not 3 minutes later Ashley fell again and this time I was

the one holding her hand, aaaand fell hard on my rump.

The Boy had the cutest triumphant grin on his face

when I looked up at him...

(after making sure I was ok, of course)

056.

The last day of the tournament

and I'm so proud of the little broskies!

One of them won the championship game in their division

one of them got 3rd place

and the other won 4 out of 6 games.

All in all a pretty good weekend :)

The Boy was able to come this afternoon after class

and watch the last few games... :)

Then when they were all done we all went

out to dinner to celebrate!

054.

Today was the first day of the tournament

out of my three brothers they had 5 games collectively.

The state tournament is held in this huge sports complex

that has 12 courts all right next to each other

and there are games going on on each court

every second of the day from 8-11 PM.

It's craaaazy.  And fun!

I'm no sports photographer,

but the boys always ask me to bring my camera

and get some pictures of them playing...

and when I saw this one as I was looking

back through the pictures it made me smile :)

That's my brother in the white jersey with the ball

doing his mad air splits move :)