baseball

Baseball is slowing down for the season, now it's time for all the tournaments to kick in. Mark's playing his championship game tonight against one of his good friends. Wish them luck!

Also, regarding the design, I'm thinking I should go with a plain white background instead of this pink one, and maybe a photo header but still stick with same basic colors. Thoughts?

-hannah
p.s. the entries for for the blog design giveaway ends on June 30th! Go enter now :)

summer love

freshly cut and sugared strawberries...

 plus a baseball game...

plus an adorable dog...

plus this cute kid...

plus  ice cream to celebrate the last day of school...

equals love.

are you done with school yet?

-hannah

p.s. I completely switched up the blog design, the previous one was much too busy. I like this simple one better. What do you think?

when angels go bowling

Silence. Flash. Crash. Rumble. Boom. Crackle.

I sit in bed, listening to the sounds of the storm roaring outside my bedroom window. My heart flutters in my chest. I hear the thunder rolling through the sky and cringe. Too loud. Too big. Too startling.
Another flash.
"It's gonna be a big one." I say to my sister. I was right. And then the rain came, splattering down onto the pavement, into the grass, turning it into mud.

Small "rivers" slide down the street, glowing from the streetlights.
Plinks inside our chimney. Patters on the windowsill. Splats on the roof.

Voices across the street. Shrieks, laughter. Car doors are slamming, feet are pounding the sidewalk. I glance out my rain spattered window and see a car pull away from the neighbors house and the big green front door of the beautiful stone house close.
I think of everyone who is driving in this storm and I close my eyes and am thankful that I'm inside and safe.

The wind picks up, creaking our old yellow farm house. I see my window blind dance a little from the draft coming through our window. I feel the cool stormy air on my toes. I look outside again.
The sidewalks are covered with puddles-no, pools-of water.
I sigh. No double dutch tomorrow.

I look into the sky. An airplane blinks through the otherwise empty, black sky. There's something past that blackness though, and I know it. Somewhere up there, angels are laughing, eating popcorn and sipping sodas. They're renting shoes that fit perfectly and carrying balls that weigh nothing.
They're looking down smooth, gleaming wooden lanes to white pins standing, waiting to be toppled over.
They take their deliciously perfect balls and bring their arms back, softly brushing them against their snow-white wings. And they're bringing their arms forward, watching the ball drift towards the pins gracefully.
And they rejoice every time the pins topple over, sending thundering cheers down to earth.
-hannah

miscellaneous ramblings

1. photography
I'm living in a photography dreamland right now. Family, friends and neighbors are spreading the news that I am a photographer and I do sessions for nothing and/or very cheap. Tomorrow I have a job at a diner that some neighbors own to take photos of food for the menus, walls, advertisements, etc., and Sunday I'm taking photos of the prom girls. So. Excited!
Aaaannnd a family friend has asked me to take their family photo! Seriously, I feel like a professional ;)

haha.

2. these girls

They're too cute :)

3. blog design

okay, so I have two awesome designs that I'm ready to install, and I say two because I made two and debating on which one to do. Another thing is, when? Should I wait ten days till June 1st and then install it or do it right away? Vote on the poll on the sidebar!

4. march, april and may showers bring may flowers

Yeah. I said March, April and May. I am so sick of rain. I am sick of soggy ground. I am sick of not being able to go outside and play rundown, double dutch and whatever else I enjoy doing in the sunshine.

The only good in rain is, well, dewdrops on flowers ;)

5. I'm running out of ramblings...

So I'm signing off for now! See ya!

-hannah

rainy days pt II

rain. Thats pretty much all I see when I look out the window. Forget about photo shoots, my models don't want to get wet. And I believe I've taken enough dewdrop photos to fill a museum...

And I'm still taking them!

But, if you use rain the right way, you could take advantage of it, for instance...

{via}

You could do a little of this^^^
or...

you could look at inspirational photos on weheartit.


Whatever you want to do. As for me, I'd like to do a little o' both ;)

-hannah

today

today I wanted to go on a photo shoot. so far it hasn't happened.

today I wanted to dress in bohemian clothes. because I love them.

today I stared out the window and wondered why oh why the sun wouldn't come out. It's still raining.

today I wanted to make headbands. I'm going to after this post.

today I glanced at some red flowers across the street. it made my whole day brighter.

today I did math. it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.

today I felt like being in front of the camera for once, instead of behind it. maybe a photo shoot later.

today I felt like writing a post about today. mission accomplished ;)

 what did you do today?

-hannah

a purple haze

That's what I thought of when I saw these photos uploading to our computer. They made me drift away into a land of clouds and fairies. And the bokeh just about made me die of happiness. Tell me, what is the first word you think of when you see these photos?

I think this one is my favorite!

Also, sorry for the weird menu bar, I'm messing around with html, so bear with me until everythings fixed up!

-hannah

the wonders of dewdrops

(I'm finally publishing this post for real. With all the junk that went on with Blogger, it showed up on everyones dashboard but wasn't really there. Anywho, here it is!)

Is it just me, or are tulips sprinkled with dew one of the most wonderful things in the world?

Actually, anything that had dew on it is gorgeous...

Don't you think dewdrops are so whimsical? Which photo is your favorite?

-hannah

spanning out

Spanning out as in my photography business. And clothes. We went shopping today and I came back with something other than brown and blue. In fact, I got three things with the color pink in it. Aaannd a tank top that was apple green and white stripes!

Yea Hannah!

Anyway...
 Yesterday I drove with my uncle to take photos for the business he works for. It was pretty successful, and though I won't post the actual business photos, I will post photos of lunch:

my uncle's lunch

my lunch. the fries were amazing, but, then again, so was everything else!

but seriously, the fries were amazing ;)

And this is what was left on my plate:

And let's not forget the awesome rasberry iced tea...

And I almost forgot to mention that all of this was home-cooked. We went to a diner :)

What is your very favorite thing to eat out?

-hannah

brownies+my outfit

You know that moment when you take a sheet of perfect cookies or a pan of delectable cake out of the oven and you inhale deeply to get the full commercial-like affect? I love doing that. Why? Because I <3 baking.

I got to do it yesterday with these beauties:

Sorry for the crummy photos, by the time I took these the sun was going down and since I refuse to use flash I had to brighten them up in Photoshop.

Delicious. They were gone fast :)
Oh, and since this would be a rather short post, I'm going to throw in a few recent wizard pictures, combined with my outfit pictures:

shirt: aeropostale// skirt: aeropostale// cami: wet seal

I love the skirt I'm wearing, it's ssooooo comfy, and:

It. has. pockets.

How awesome is that! It's the first skirt that I own with pockets and I'm in love!
What do you prefer in a skirt, pockets or no pockets?

-hannah

have you heard?

That a certain girl has turned eleven? Yep, it was Kate's birthday a couple days ago. Give a shout out to Kate and wish a happy birthday. If you don't we'll find you and stick a clown doll in your bed while your sleeping. (kidding, but seriously, aren't clowns just about the scariest things on earth?)

We went out for lunch and I got the all-you-can-eat soup+salad buffet, and let me tell you, it had a lot more than just soup and salad! I had about a million of these:

Okay, three, but seriously, you would have had that many too if you tasted the crumbly goodness of it :)

And for dessert, we had angel food cake with ice cream, whipped cream and strawberries. Oh yeah, your jealous ;)

Yeah, my whipped cream kinda-sorta fell off my cake.....

And for her present I made a realistic looking scroll that informed her that she was accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Yeah, it was pretty epic ;)
Happy birthday Kate! Luv ya!

-hannah
p.s. Don't forget to enter the giveaway!!! Since there are so few entries, I'm announcing the winner on Saturday instead of Friday. Start entering!

Also, who's gonna watch the Royal Wedding?!?! My mom, sister and I are getting up at 4:00am to watch it. So. Excited! :)
Aaannnd, the May design is up a few days early. How do you like it?

easter weekend

howdy guys! We went up to our cabin for Easter and had a blast walking in the woods, riding on the four wheeler, and generally just getting away from the hustle-bustle of a modern suburban neighborhood.
I took about 200 pictures the first hour and a half we were there, so this post is going to be over-flowing with photos:

one of my favorite photos from the trip. I just wist the little splash was sharper :P

another favorite :)

We went fishing on Sunday. I took about a billion photos of the brook ;)

Remember this post? Well, only a few of you would, but in it I told you about that pipe that you can drink out of. Well, you can still drink out of it, and it still tastes just as good, in case you were wondering ;)

Easter dinner...

It was a great weekend, we had so much fun! How was your Easter weekend?

-hannah

a baking sort of day

Today was the day where I just knew I had to bake. So I whipped out one of my all-time favorite cookie recipes and went to town.

I could eat the batter by the spoonful, its seriously soooo good!

Whats your favorite kind of cookie?

-hannah
p.s this is the last day to enter the giveaway!