Eat Your Veggies

Here are some of the photos I took at the Farmer's Market a couple of Saturdays ago. Sorry it has taken to long to post them. My personal favorite is the berries and cherries!

Get Down Get Down

Photography 101

In response to many questions about my New Year's Eve photos... THIS is a post all about my camera. Thanks to my parents, I got this oh so fabulous Canon Digital Rebel XTi...

I also got these two bad boys (for shooting from different distances)...





I also get a LITTLE help from iPhoto and Photoshop retouching some of the shots, but all in all, the camera basically rocks my world and helps me maintain the illusion that I'm a professional photographer. Hope that answers your questions. I do have some pictures I took the other Saturday at the farmer's market downtown...I'll post a little later but those REALLY show what it can do! You can see every little fuzzy hair on the okra!!!

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New Year, New Post

2008 is well underway now and I figured that perhaps I should updated you all on what's going on here. Besides the fact that Chris and I have awful colds now, we had some fun holidays. Here's the wrap up...

Before Christmas we had a Christmas celebration with the extended Carreker clan. We ate a yummy Mexican meal (that's how they roll in Texas) and got some great gifts from the cousins' gift game. Then, we drove to Memphis and had a wonderful Christmas there with my side of the family. It's always nice to be there and see familiar places and faces. I got to see not only my family but 4 of my very best friends from high school. It was a really relaxing few days and I was sad to leave as always, but duty calls I suppose. Luckily, we came back to another weekend of fun with the New Year's holiday at Blake and Lindsey's Cypress Springs lake house! Blake's dad is an architect and designed a truly FABULOUS house where we got to spend the last night of 2007! We watched Auburn beat Clemson (barely) and then rang in the new year with some of our friends and their friends. Blake and Lindsey just moved back to Dallas from Savannah and we're really glad they're here! You can tell by the pictures that we had a Wii tournament and now Chris and I are both supremely jealous and want one of our own... I feel like I'm 9 years old again and just DYING for the Nintendo power pad!!

I got my new camera for Christmas and I've been taking pictures like a mad woman... I'll try my best to post them more often now (just for you Becky). Here are some photos from our New Year's celebration. Sorry there aren't any of Christmas really but I got the camera afterwards...

I think this year my New Year's resolution is to be more eco-friendly. I've decided that I need to do my part to help preserve and take care of this world we're living in. I'm going to pay more attention to what I use and dispose of in general. I found this website which I think is pretty helpful. Maybe you'll like it too. Taylor I know you will... www.thedailygreen.com

Matchy Matchy

It's Christmas time! Pull out your matching PJs... Santa's on his way!

And yes, I slept with the headband on.

"Frost Yourself"

ok who got the title?

Anyway, Here is a fun little doodad I stumbled upon. You can decorate your own gingerbread house online (thus, the frosting reference). I'm working on mine but I mean, Rome wasn't built in a day! Merry Christmas, I hope you're enjoying the season! Soak it up, it will be gone again before we know it!

click to get your frost on

Just In Case

Should anyone out there in cyberspace want to buy me a Christmas gift this year, I've put together a little list of things that I might enjoy having around. Now, I should note that this is NOT a complete list and I will quite possibly be adding to it in my brain each day until December 25th, but since my family members keep asking, here goes...

These can be found at roseandradish.com. Yeah, they are a little expensive but it's Christmas and I'm WISHING.





I think these folders would make a great addition to my desk! Find them online at delight.com.










Whew, brother! This is on the pricy end of the spectrum but I NEEEEED these color chip books so that I can take the graphic design world over by STORM! www.pantone.com






I also want a new digital camera but didn't put a photo of one because I'm still not sure which kind I want. So, I've gotten all of the Christmas decorations out of the attic. Well, Chris got them down because I'm afraid of attics (another post entirely). It has been a busy busy week though and so far, only a few things have made it out of the boxes. Really I don't EXPECT any of these things to arrive on my doorstep but I did think they were neat. What's on your list this year? I'd like to know.