day 211: On Saturday I headed out to meet fabulous photographer Kara Frans at the MiraMonte resort in Indian Wells. We had the pleasure of photographing the gorgeous wedding of Ken and Amy. Hopefully I’ll have more from this wedding posted on my wedding photography blog later tonight or tomorrow!

day 210: Friday after a long day at work Ben and I packed up the car and the dog and headed out to Palm Springs again to get ready for the wedding I shot on Saturday. I snapped this one photo before heading off to sleep.

day 209: Ben and I are heading out of town for the weekend again (crazy I know!) I’m helping shoot a wedding out of town so my blog posts will most likely have to wait until Monday.

day 208: Ben and I are usually pretty good about keeping our fridge stocked with fresh food and cooking at home a lot, even for lunch. Lately it seems like we’ve just had no time at all for shopping and we had even run out of our emergency back up canned food. Finally this evening we made a record-breaking trip to the grocery store (in terms of both time and money spent) and came home with enough food to completely pack our fridge… and of course restock our bare pantry.

day 207: No… not me… today it was actually our dog who was under the weather. Rita woke up this morning feeling not so hot and let me tell you… it is not fun to have a sick dog on your hands. Luckily whatever it was seems to have passed and she’s almost back to her old self again. Poor little Rita.

day 206: It seems for some reason that lately I’ve been incapable of resisting gadgets. First it was the wii that I tried out and had to have and now my newest obsession is the nike + ipod system. I’ve been doing a lot of yoga lately and looking for a cardio workout to do on off days. Somehow in the last couple of weeks I convinced myself that this was the answer… so I broke down and got it. I tested it out tonight on a quick spin around the block and I must say I’m quite impressed. Now I just have to go out and start running to make it all worth it 🙂

day 205: Ben certainly knows what to get me for gift-giving occasions… what are the two things I’d most like to receive? Anything photography related and anything hand made. He went with both and made me this super awesome comic book out of our wedding photos (which is pretty much the coolest thing I’ve ever seen) and I photographed it with my fabulous new 85mm 1.8 lens (the other gift) I’m so excited about both of them!

day 204: On Saturday Ben and I decided to start out our vacation with a hike in the Indian Canyons. I had never seen a real palm oasis and these were amazing! The canyons have streams that run through them during the spring but they were sadly all dried up when we were there. We even hiked up to the very end of the canyon hoping to see some water in the pools near what should have been a waterfall… but there was none to be seen. Even without water it was still a pretty amazing sight. I’d definitely recommend it!

day 203: I’ve been working on this model for over 2 months. No… not two months in a row… but I built the first piece of this model on my first day in the office and then it went on hold. I’m so glad that it’s finally finished! On a side note, this weekend is our 1st wedding anniversary (yay!) and we’re going on a much needed weekend getaway trip. We’re not bringing along any means of blogging or emailing but don’t worry… I’ll have my camera and the photos will go up when we get back on Monday.

day 202: Last night I tried in vain to make this be the first time that I had a model deadline that I didn’t need to stay late to finish it. Sadly I am WAY too much of a perfectionist when it comes to my models and I don’t have a speedy way of working. It’s slow and careful all along and at 12:30am I through in the towel. Yes… I gave up. The model won. I decided I’d work better on a couple of hours of sleep (insert flashbacks to architecture school charrette here) so I went home and came back early this morning to finish. Maybe next time I’ll win.