Week 49

This picture is of my dog Wrigley as my husband desperately attempts to put her Yoda ears on.  For Halloween I decided to buy a doggy Yoda costume and have a little photo shoot with our dogs.  Although this is more of a candid shot it is one of my favorites.

Wrigley just found her ball under the couch, and was clinging to the thing like it was her security blanket.  So freakin’ cute!

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Terribly sorry I haven’t posted in a while.  These past few weeks have been busy, busy, busy and I haven’t been feeling very well so I have been spending my free time just relaxing and staying off of this evil device I call the computer.  In the past few weeks, we have celebrated our 1 year wedding anniversary, gone to see Robert Randolf do his thing (check out this guy’s music…it’s amazing), and Halloween has come and gone.  We celebrated my mom’s birthday, and then two days later celebrated Derek’s mom’s birthday.

Derek is still in school with tons of homework, and we have been dealing with our heater that doesn’t want to work now that it’s getting cold.  So we called the repair man and it turns out that it needs a new motor-thingy.  That new part cost a pretty penny…try $400.00 pretty.  Oh yeah…we went to work too.

Derek and I did manage to have us a little excursion last Sunday.  We drove around the city and snapped shots of the beautiful leaves falling.  I absolutely adore the trees that turn a bright yellow just before they drop their leaves.  LOVE IT!

While we were out we grabbed a little lunch and also went and played at Super Target.  SUPER DUPER!

Isn’t he just the cutest thing?

I picked up some cute gift bags and polka-dot tissue paper in preparation for the holiday gift wrapping season while we were at Target.   I love wrapping gifts.  You can be as creative and over the top as you want for just a few bucks.  This is what happens when Derek sends me off by myself, in Target, to get a shower curtain liner.

While we were out roaming the streets for some pretty foliage we found two homes with some awesome Halloween decorations.  Best idea ever…giant spiders climbing the exteriour of your house!!!!  Ahhhhhhhh!

These are some seriously creepy pirates.

I know that I submitted my poor little pups to the craziness of having to wear a Star Wars inspired costume this Halloween, but I think I just found their outfits for next Halloween.  What do ya’ll think?

Since we have two LARGE dogs we don’t normally get the chance to dress them up like you would a smaller dog.  After seeing pictures of other dogs wearing this hilarious Yoda costume I just had to get one for my two.  I just had to.

I paid $14.95 for a costume that each dog wore a total of five minutes, but it was so worth it.  Personally, I think Cohen rather enjoyed the experience.

Cohen did the best when it came to sitting still for the pictures.  His facial expressions are belly-achingly hysterical.  If his pictures crack you up just imagine trying to keep the camera steady while shooting pictures of this kid.  Wrigley was not as good of a sport when it came to sitting still, but her pictures are just as funny but in a random pose/action kind of way.  Enjoy.

Then there was Wriggley.  She wasn’t quite as pleasant of a participant in this puppy photo shoot.  I think Cohen liked wearing the costume a bit too much.

Wrigley caught sight of a tennis ball under the couch, and she just had to have it.  So she slid down to pick it up.

She was so excited to have her ball.  She didn’t even want to play with it.  She just wanted to have it in her possession.  DONE.

Derek took her ball so we could try getting a better picture of her in her costume.

This is what we ended up with.  You can’t see Derek, right?!?

And then she stopped participating….

I think she was hiding from us.

In the spooooky spirit of Halloween I thought I would share with you some of my photography and Photoshop skills.  This is a picture of an old post office in the abandoned mining town of Rush, Arkansas.  Derek and I were up that way a few years back for Christmas, visiting his grandmother, and had the opportunity to drive around some of the countryside in the area.  I have a crazy love for dilapidated buildings, barns, and any other kind of worn down structure.

To give this old post office a bit more of that Halloween spooky feeling I added a few texture layers to it in Photoshop.  I absolutely love, love, love how it turned out.  I am really liking what a bit of texture can add to a photo.

I thought I would share the story of how Derek & I met and fell in love….in case some of you have not heard it.

We met when a group of friends went out for Halloween in 2005. He was a bit of an annoyance the 1st time we met, but I guess annoying me is the way to my heart! I love him more than anything in the world, now!

P.S. I was a bumble bee and he was 1 of the SNL pair Hans & Frans.