day 185: Yes, I know I’ve been absent from my blog for the last couple of days… so sad! It’s been a combination of a lot of things… a big deadline on a model I’m working on, combined with a lot of super fun photo-related events and happenings. I’m going to get all caught up tonight and hopefully stay on schedule from now on (at least for the most part!) I do have another crazy busy weekend coming up but I should be able to find time to get my blog posts up.

day 184: I always love a good short hair cut and it’s been a while since I’ve gone for a drastic change. In highschool I cut all of my hair off to a pixie cut and dyed it red. While I didn’t go quite that far this time, I did get about 5 or 6 inches chopped off this afternoon. I think I was bored. Sorry for the weird face. I always look strange when I take my own photo.

day 183 : Today I had the pleasure of second shooting a wedding up in the valley. I am exhausted from a very fun and long day. I’m going to post more photos on my wedding and portrait blog tomorrow but for now here’s one of my favorites… the ring shot!

day 182: This little guy was in a tank next to our table at dinner tonight and I thought he was hilarious so I had to take a quick shot of him.

day 181: When life gets crazy sometimes we don’t have time to cook at home as much as I’d like to. To go along with my yoga kick lately we’ve been eating a lot more healthy food which means more cooking.. like this tasty veggies and tofu with homemade peanut sauce. mmmmm

day 180: I’ve been doing a lot of yoga lately… this is my 4th week of attending at least 3 classes per week and I have to say I’m feeling fabulous! I’m so much more flexible and relaxed already and I’ve only just begun! One of my favorite relaxing poses is child’s pose… I had a hard time trying to take a photo of myself doing yoga… it was quite tricky to get positioned correctly… but here’s my best attempt. I guess this can double as my belated August self-portrait.

day 179: I really hate being behind on my blogging! Ben and I spent all evening hooking up and installing/tuning up my new computer and transfering files over from my old machine. It actually wasn’t quite as bad as I’d feared it might be and now I’m almost all set up! Even though it’s not as hot here as it was in Palm Springs, I think it’s still a little too hot for Rita. She was laying upside down in front of the fan all evening.

day 178: On Sunday we had a little bit more time in Palm Springs, but because it was so hot we really weren’t up for much outdoor activity. Luckily mom came up with the great idea to take the aerial tram to the top of the mountains. It was a good 40 degrees cooler up there and what a view!

day 177: My old computer was the laptop that I bought in college and it was definitely on its last legs. It had crashed and been reformatted about 4 times, so it was definitely time for an upgrade! We took advantage of the long weekend to do some research and finally go get me the computer I’ve been dreaming of 🙂 Look at the beautiful monitor!

day 176: On Saturday it was the biggest rush and craziest day of them all. Ben and I got up at the crack of dawn (ok 630, but that’s pretty darn early for us!) to head out to photograph the getting ready shots at the wedding… and we didn’t quit until after 10pm. Then we hopped in the car to head out for our Palm Springs weekend.