ahhhh...

now i can breathe. as in, this weekend was so crazy busy that i don't think i had a chance to do that. the weekend was great, but just non stop.

saturday was ellie's 4th birthday party and the theme was princess everything. shocking, i know. she might just be the most vain little 4 year old but i guess that's ok for now...it's actually pretty funny that she'll stare at herself in a mirror for extended periods of time. but anyways, the party was complete with dress up princess dresses and tiaras for the girls and knight costumes and swords for the boys. and yeah, there were lots of boys. she's 4 and already has like 3 boyfriends. there was a princess cake, princess pinata, princess this and princess that. afterwards the fam got treated to the restaurant of the princess' choosing...mcdonalds. you know you're young when the best restaurant in your world is mickey d's.

the rest of the weekend was filled with this whole photography career im trying out. 3 family portraits and one mini session of my roommate and her brother and sister in law for their christmas card. it was quite packed to put those all within a 2 day time span but i guess i should expect that with everyone wanting to get pics done in time for the holidays. it was great experience though and they all turned out pretty well. ill try to get some on my website soon. oh, and im stillll working on heathers wedding pics. should have those done soon and on the site. ill keep you posted though.

so yeah...the weekend was insane but now im back at work wishing for a little of that busyness. im doing some paper grading for a friend and im actually pretty excited about that. anything to make the day go by faster and besides, reading papers written by 4th graders has got to be entertaining, right?