Project 365 And a Very Happy 13th Birthday!

"If you're reading this, Congratulations you're alive! If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is." 

Hello again everyone! 

 How has your week been?

This is actually going to be two posts put in one,

Today is Emma's THIRTEENTH birthday!! 

When did she get so old!!!?! 

She's Quite around people

but when she does speak its always hilarious

she's Loud around family

When you can't find her she's hidden away in her room playing banjo

If you let her she will steal your instrument and out play you in less than a day

She's pretty cool

She's absolutely amazing

and she's my sister!

                      Happy birthday to the most amazing 13 year old banjo player anyone has ever met!
Now This is usually the time when I would post all those terrible funny pictures of her, and when she saw it her face would turn red and she would just shake her head and walk away. So since it is her birthday I'll be nice ;)

Happy birthday emma ! I hope you have an amazing day ;) Also I may or may not be licking the spoons from making your birthday cake as I type this ;)

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Not gonna lie I'm pretty proud of myself for posting for the third week in a row!
This week I was bored with normal pictures, I wasn't all that creative when it came to the pictures themselves so I decided to go a little crazy when it came to the colors and editing :)

Project 365 Week 3-

Day 15

Day 16

Day 17

Day 18

Day 19

Day 20

Day 21

     I think I went somewhere every single day this passed week! We were super crazy busy and I loved every minute of it :)
    It'll be nice to slow down a little bit this week though:) I'm kind of loving watching all of this snow melt finally.    
     Northwest Indiana just got another huge snow storm and got another 21 inches of snow! Thankfully it missed Michigan City, so I'm starring at about 4 inches, which is perfectly fine with me :)
    My family also started working on new music for the group this week, we have a TON of new songs that we are learning and it is actually pretty exciting. We had been looking forward to putting the set list together for weeks and now we finally have and are excited to get to work learning and perfecting everything :)
    Alright, well that's really all I have to say for this week.
    I'll most likely end up posting about Emma's birthday, and a picture of this cake ;) it tastes pretty good so far :)

                                                 Have a Beautiful Day everyone!! :)

Exciting News!

Hey Guys!!
   
     So this is  a post out a pure excitement! The day finally arrived,  I never though it would get here but it has. Two nights ago my beautiful camera was left sitting on my door step. The UPS truck had been driving down our road as we left for church, I yelled and screamed in begging my parents to turn around, but sadly they did not.
     We didn't get home until after 11 O'clock, I jumped out of the car and ran towards the house. The nice UPS man had leaned it delicately against the door, it was so pretty in its boring brown box, it looked like a Christmas present that had been left outside. I grabbed the package and ran inside. I took a picture of the box with my phone and then just stopped..I starred at the box, part of me wanted to rip it open and another part of me thought it was too good to be true. I went and grabbed a knife from the kitchen and started cutting the tape off slowly. I opened the flaps, and saw the camera box with REBEL in big red letters that you couldn't miss even if you tried. I slipped the box out of the brown one and set it on the table. For a moment as I opened it this awful feeling of dread came over me, " What if  I ordered the wrong one?" "What if they got the order wrong or something is broken?" I scarred myself so much that I hesitated and thought about waiting to open it. Thankfully, I'm a courageous girl though, and I continued opening it. I plunged through all of the flaps and papers and bubble wrap, when finally it revealed the Canon T3i! My hands shook as I took it out of the box, I help it like I would hold a baby, I took the lens out of its packaging and hoocked it on, along with the battery and an SD card. I walked around the house looking for something to take a picture of. I settled on taking a Cliche mirror picture. Ignore the following dirty mirror, frizzy hair, and chipped nail polish, focus on the camera, and the fact that this was my first picture with it :) 

     As I tried to take a picture of Gabe the little battery light started flashing red and wouldn't let me take another picture, so with reluctance I found the charger in the box and plugged it in to charge. It took two hours to charge, and they was no way  I was going to be able to stay awake that long, so I went to bed dreaming of all the wonderful pictures I would take the next day.
     I woke up the next morning wide awake and with a smile, I looked at the camera to see if it was truly here and it was!
    I walked down the stairs holding it close and my mom just laughed when she saw it. "You can't set it down for a minute?" I shook my head laughing. It felt like Christmas morning.
     I ate breakfast and then my siblings and i straightened the house. It went by quickly because I said if they cleaned fast I would take them on a walk.
    We put on our coats and went outside. It was an absolutely beautiful day, just perfect for taking pictures. We took a long walk. Emma and Gabe ran ahead doing flips and races and whatever else they could think of, while Maggie stayed back and gladly posed for pictures.

 All in all it was a great day. I snapped pictures of everything and managed to put over 100 pictures on my card.
     If people thought that I had an addiction before, they are in for quite the surprise! I have such an obsession :)

                                           Have a great day everybody. I know I will ;)

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