Caught Up? Nope.

Man, it's been a while. I know, I never finished the photo challenge. I failed miserably with barely a week to go. But I'm OK with that... It was fun while it lasted. 

Right now I'm swamped with school, soccer, and babysitting. Seriously, I don't ever remember a time I have been this busy; but sometimes I get more done while I'm busy then when I have a whole day to "catch up".

This is just a really short post to say I'm going to start putting more stuff on here, someday. I promise. 

For now, enjoy some pictures of my last 3 months. 

I spent a week in Jackman with my church, the teens ran a pirate themed week. 

Me and a besty chillin'.

 Ya know. Sometimes it happens.

 This is what I've been doing with most of my time for the last two months. It's been a challenge between ankle injuries and sciatic nerve problems and going to PT for it all; but I'm a left bench warmer for the Morse girls varsity soccer team, and a left defender for the JV team. Morse is currently #1 in class B western division. Playoffs start this week and I'm pumped to cheer my team on from the bench!! But seriously, I have a lot of team pride :).

 I went to DC for a week with TeenPact and had a BLAST. I saw some pretty spectacular things; such as a few Van Gogh paintings!

 But most of all, I've been fitting school into the cracks of free time I have. Lots of weeks that includes Saturday and Sunday nights.

July 14th-21st

It's been a weird week, it has felt busy but I don't think it really was... So most of my pictures were taken at night when I realized I hadn't taken as single photo that day. It's 9 PM and I still haven't taken today's photo; since there aren't that many topics left it is getting more challenging to take a good picture :/.

This cake pretty much describes my life. Last Saturday my rockin' friends threw me a surprise party for my birthday. My birthday that's in December. So I'm not actually 16, but I pretend.

One of the 'I need to go to bed but I haven't taken a picture' pictures.  My new TOMS :D (mirror shot!).

 I took this picture at about 11:30, so it still was technically on the 20th.

In case it's not obvious, it says love. Emily and I tented last night and decided to try writing words... This is the only one that is actually readable.

July 7th-13th

 This isn't my favourite picture, but the only other pictures I took that day were of fireworks :).

Bath Heritage Days! And I didn't even ride it. What's up with that?

I pulled out 25mm lense and tried it out for the first time on this picture, the aperture can go so low... It's amazing. 

Popham near sunset... Unfortunately the sun sets on the wrong side when you live on the east coast :P.

July 1st-6th

Here it is! 6 days worth of pictures. So far I have taken all of the photos on manual settings, and I've made it a goal to keep it that way. 

Sunday I went to a horse farm (which I now volunteer at!) with Kori and Avery, and I cannot for the life of me remember this horses name. I still have yet to ride a horse, but I think that will come pretty soon.

2.5 second exposure on a 12 second timer... It took me a while.

These cupcakes were striped red, white, and blue on the inside. Or actually hot pink, white, and blue. 

I took pictures of the 4th of July 10k my family and some friends ran, then later that night realized I needed a picture for the 4th day, so I picked my favourite and labelled it Summer. Classic picture of my brothers messing with their phones before the race. 

I was going to run the 10k, but a sprained ankle got in the way :|.

There were no fireworks around on the actual holiday, but on Thursday I got to watch them with Emily! 

3.2 second exposure, with no tripod. 

Rosemary focaccia bread for a bake sale tomorrow. 

July and... Summer?

I've decided that I'm going to make July "get better at photography" month. It's also going to be "finish sophomore year" month and "run your heart out" month, but I'm pretty sure taking pictures will be the most fun out of the three.

I have seen some pretty neat "picture-a-day" lists, but I thought it would be fun to make my own for the month of July. Note, I'm totally making this list up as I type. 

July

One: Plant life

Two: Something blue

Three: Colorful things

Four: Fireworks

Five: Sunshine

Six: Music

Seven: Flowers

Eight: Baked goods

Nine: Art

Ten: Abstract 

Eleven: Soccer

Twelve: Beauty

Thirteen: Unnoticed

Fourteen: Ocean

Fifteen: City life

Sixteen: In progress

Seventeen: Friends

Eighteen: Shoes

Nineteen: Black and white

Twenty: Water

Twenty One: Orange

Twenty Two: Frisbee

Twenty Three: Hair

Twenty Four: Words

Twenty Five: Animals 

Twenty Six: Lunch

Twenty Seven: Old

Twenty Eight: Bible

Twenty Nine: Handmade

Thirty: Summer

Thirty One: Myself

As you can tell the topics of the photos are pretty open to interpretation, which I'm sure I will appreciate later! The rules are I can do the list in any order; but can only do each thing once, and at least once.  I'll make it a goal to post a weeks worth of pictures every... week. 

On a different note; it just slammed me in the face today that summer is zooming right past me. Summer is my all time favorite season, and last summer pretty much rocked. Well, I think it rocked... I actually don't have many memories from last year; but when I think of summer '11, good thoughts come... So yeah.

As much as I would like to spend the whole summer chillin' at the beach or camping with my friends, there is still normal school year type stuff to do. 

#1 being actually doing school (btw I finished Chemistry today... :D). 

#2 being making some cash; there are so many things I could be doing... If I could just find some summer work. I'm also aware that if I had a job I wouldn't have so much time... It's a win/lose situation. 

I guess the only thing to do is enjoy every single moment, beach or no beach. 

^that was deep.