Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Lately there have been fires here and it makes the colors in the summer evenings quite great. At least I think so. The air is more orange, therefore making the clouds orange, the moon orange, the cement orange and the shadows blue. Yes, I believe the shadows in the evening have now become more blue, not a blue grey normal shadow color, but like...blue


So a couple of evenings ago while sitting on the porch the world was just orange and blue and so I grabbed my camera (my new, amazing, superb, lovely, awesome camera). Then I snapped a couple pictures of the cement.

These pictures are not at all edited, and of course the camera did not pick up the great orange and blue as they really were, but it did a decent job.

 I promise. The shadows were more blue. It will killer. For me at least.

 You can kind of see the orange more in these pictures....

I don't know. I thought it was awesome. And Monday night...did anyone else see that sky?! I wish I had my camera with me then...gorgeous.


While I was taking pictures of the cement and shadows, I also snapped a couple pictures of Natalie. One stood out to me looking very....advertisement like. So, I added a little wording to the picture

Please, click to enlarge

Now I know the design isn't professional and all that jazz, but do you think BYU will contact me asking to buy this picture to use on their billboards??? ;)


And yes, I was informed that I spelled independent wrong. The whole Is it an E or an A? thing really is a pain in the behind

COMING SOON

a new post. and new pictures. 

Oh, The joy of being young

No...I'm 18...




Oh.





It's one of the moments where you are thinking at first: "why am I so young?!"
Then you think:" thank goodness I am young", even though he was pretty good looking

I'm feeling brilliant

Today I decided to make cupcakes.


On Tuesday I made cupcakes too, but they turned out terrible. Word to the wise, never make really good, light and fluffy white cake into cupcakes. They do not turn out...it's best to just keep it as a good cake.


But today I had success. I made a the "Sinful Chocolate Cupcakes" from the cook book "Chocolate Never Faileth" and it's quick, easy, and tastes good. I baked mine just a tiny tad too much. Then I tried this sour cream chocolate frosting. The original was decent but it was a little too bitter, so I took the liberty of adding some vanilla. Now, you need to understand that I've never done anything like this before...just adding things because I think it needs it. I follow the recipe and if it works it works, if it doesn't then....it sits in the fridge for weeks. Anyway. I added some vanilla. Tasted it to almost perfection (I think I put in just a tiny bit too much). Then I was like Hey...lets make a mint sample. So I did that and it was decent...but not amazing. And it wouldn't work with the cupcake I was going for (I forgot to mention, I added a vanilla pudding filling in these). Then I had my brilliant idea. I added coconut extract to a little sample. It works superbly with the whole pudding and chocolate cake and everything.

 It made me feel really cool.

I'm trying to enjoy the little pleasures in life. . .  :)


Pictures to come

This is pretty cool

I love their voices

FINALLY

I'm free.

Of high school that is. It's not longer a burden. The next burden I will lose is when I turn 21. I don't know why, but it just is.



I've shed my youthfulness of high school...(and my mom seems to want it back)

And I am now out into the world of adults

And guess what I get for doing so....

Except I get a T2i, not a T3. Which is PERFECTLY fine with me! I'm super stoked! It should be here next week I believe

Thanks for helping me out with high school mom and dad! You're the best!