randomness

here's a really random post for a monday morning.

1. i got my new camera lens and it's been a bit of a learning experience trying to use it. it's a 50mm fixed lens which means there is no zoom (your legs are the zoom!) and you need to shoot in manual mode (which i've been doing ever since i took that 'waste of 18 hours photography class'--but that's a post for another day.)
anyhow, i've been practicing with it whenever i can and got some good pictures of mck the other day. i love how she's in focus and everything else is blurred.

2. just an ordinary evening in our life...dishes about to be done, mck making a smoothie, chris feeding cosmo.

3. two little flowers left over from a bouquet chris brought home for me & mckinlee.

4. i found this recipe for strawberry spinach salad and now i am addicted to it. i altered a few things from the recipe--like reducing the sugar a lot and adding feta cheese, but left most everything else the same. it is SO good!

5. i got a coupon in the mail a couple weeks ago for a nail salon i had never been to before, so i went last thursday. i got a mani/pedi combo for $30! here are my bright toes and my new target flip flops that are already scuffed up!

6. mckinlee & i at the most important event of the year for us--the memorial of jesus' death.

(and a glimpse at my new blonde hair. also, mck is really not almost as tall as me--she had on some serious wedges! doesn't she look grown up though?)

7. a yummy pizza we made after our first bike ride of the year on saturday. our favorite toppings at the moment are fresh mushrooms, jalapenos, sun dried tomatoes & feta.

8. picture from last week of the bad weather. even though the sirens were going off, tornadoes were touching down all around us, mck's school was in lock down and i had my little area all ready to dive into under the stairs--we didn't get any damage. i still can't believe no one was killed--the destruction of some neighborhoods was just incredible. i will never forget turning on the news and seeing 18 wheelers just swirling through the air like little toy trucks!

very random, i told you.
i have been so busy that i haven't been taking many pictures at all or blogging.
also, i am so behind in project life--must work at getting that caught up.

have a good week!