green.

green.

green.

green.

green.

green.

green.

green.

green.

green.

Tonight I'm very grateful for green...

Especially our adorable green pepper,

the first fruit of our little garden :)

Dashing & Debonair Continued

Here are some more photos from Hubs and my date night photo shoot.

Haha, yep, we have fun.

James did a good job photographing, no?

Trying out some ol' school editing.

James getting his "Cary Grant" on.

Am I right or am I right?

 

Hope you enjoyed our fun and completely random old school shoot.

I know WE DID!

P.S. Isn't my hair AWESOME?

I...might do it like this next time I go to some place fancy. It's fun.

Rosies

You know those people who can see you better than others can?

The people who may even see you better than you see yourself?

The kind that have this superpower x-ray vision into your soul.

The kind that, when they look into your soul, say,

"Hey, you've got something great going there..."

and when you don't see what they see, say,

"Don't give up. All you need is a little more time,

a little more practice, a little more elbow grease.

You've got what it takes to make your dreams fly."

The kind of people who give you high-fives along the rocky road.

The kind that play victory music for you to dance to

when you do something right for once.

The kind that don't let effort go unnoticed.

That kind that catch your crumpled papers,

spread them out on the table before you

and with some sort of magical encouragement

turn their "no's" into "what if's".

Do you know the kind of people I'm talking about?

For the purpose of this post I'll call them
"Rosies"

Those kind of people rock.

There are plenty of critics and pessimists in the world,

Plenty of "you can't's" and "don't try's".

We can credit our thick skin to those guys, sure,

but I don't care how thick your skin is - 

strong as armadillo armor or fragile as a dry leaf -

can't we all use a little thumbs up every once in a while?

That's why I say,

thank heavens for our Rosies.

Dashing & Debonair

Oh yes...

...we did.

More to come.

My Cute Little Show-off

I'm sitting here on my couch doing freelance.

James is doing a workout video in front of me.

He keeps looking at me out of the corner of his eye

to see if I'm watching him...

...when I do he pushes harder

and seems to exaggerate his breathing.

I go back to working on freelance...

...with a knowing smile on my face.

My husband is a cute little show-off

and I love him.

Up Next: Mississippi

LOOK! I made an animated gif!

Here's a preview from our family reunion

down south with James' family.

I have never felt so close to Steve Irwin

as I did at this very moment of my life!

Bet you can't wait to see the rest of the trip, huh?

Stay tuned :)

Our Honeymoon

Now, I know that it's been...what? 5 months since our honeymoon.

But hey, better late than never I always say.

So, without further adu,

Our Honeymoon:

A Cruise!

YAY!

Here we are in Los Angeles on a bus from the airport

to the cruise embarking dock...thingy.

(Remind me not to take photos of myself at this angle ever again)

"Oooh! There it is! There's our ship!"

James: Happily holding our boarding passes.

Me: Hoping they don't blow into the ocean.

Pretty tropical flower we saw while waiting.

And VOILE! Here is the...um...lobby? of our ship.

Goodbye, Los Angeles. Hello, Mexico!

Classic elevator photo :)

Happy are we!

Mmmm, free breakfast room service!

Don't mind if we do!

The line to go to shore extended down several flights of stairs,

but we made some friends while we waited.

First stop: Catalina Island

Yes, that is where "The Even Stevens Movie" was filmed.

Needless to say, I was excited!

On our way to shore a dolphin swam right under the boat.

THAT was cool!

YAY for the beach!

Unfortunately the weather was a little too cold for swimming...

...but the scenery was still pretty!

Doesn't this look like Hawaii?

Yes, of course I took a picture of a squirrel.

My goofy husband sampling the tropical plants.

Do you see all the pictures we took?

Yeah, that's because we went on our own adventure

and walked ALL OVER the island.

Lot's of walking.

Unfortunately, there's not a lot to do on Catalina Island,

but hey, it was a beautiful day...

...and we found some cool typography.

Yes, very picturesque.

Here's a cute little man painting the picturesqueness :)

Don't ask me why, but yes,

we DID walk up those stairs, too.

THAT'S why!

Pretty view, no?

YAY for being back on the ship.

We soon found out that relaxing on board

was our favorite thing to do....

Unfortunately, there are a whole lot of pictures missing right here.
I didn't bring my big fancy camera to Ensenada day,
but we did have our little disposable camera...


...we just haven't developed it yet...


...cause we lost it.


...


Anyway, here is us leaving Ensenada.

Adios, Ensenada.

Another favorite part was the fancy dining for dinner...
EVERY NIGHT!

This was what I ordered on our last night.

It was the least "fancy" meal that I got the whole time,

But it sure tasted good!

The "As Big As Your Face" Burger!

This is what I got for dessert EVERY night.

Eventually our cute waiter just started bringing it

to me without asking :) Haha!

Molten Chocolate Cake

+

Vanilla Ice Cream

+

Hot Chocolate

=

Happy Lindsay

This is one of our waiters - Abhijit.

We took a picture with him because he's AWESOME!

And here's my favorite waiter - I Nyoman.

Even on the nights that he wasn't waiting on us

he would smile and say "hi" and bring me hot chocolate :)

Wahoo! Hittin' the hot tub.

We got hot tubbing down to a science.

We found that the best time to go was around 7:30-8p

when everyone was at dinner or a show.

And, of course, we topped the experience off

with virgin Pina Coladas and our fancy white robes.

Hot tubbing done right, I'm tellin' ya.

I could go for a little hot tubbin' right now.


Time for another cruise! ;)


If I were to go on a cruise again,
these are the things I would do differently:


-Go somewhere super warm
-Get a ship with a bigger pool
-Bring cuter clothing
-See really cool sites on land


...I think that's it.
Everything else was pretty much...


Picture Perfect.