Friday in BGKY

Frank and I drove down for a quick trip to Bowling Green May 15-17. Friday night we met Meg for dinner at El Mazatlan, where Meg and I shared a pitcher of Margaritas and lots of laughs. We discussed the concept of a reality TV show called Real Big Love which involved Meg and I both marrying Frank for insurance purposes making Meg and I sisterwives. Matt joined us briefly before heading back to the lab for the entire weekend to finish the EOY slideshow. After dinner we visited Sara at Spencer's which was crazy busy and fun.

Backyard at home

While I was home for mother's day weekend, I snapped some pictures in my backyard. I love nature pictures (feel free to pass judgement all you Photoj's out there) because it is how I first became interested in photography about ten years ago. I used to head out to my neighborhood in Lansing armed my Grandfather's Canon tlb, which I still have and should throw some film in for old times sake.

Gus Gus

Continuing with the animal/pet theme that my blog has had lately, here are some cute pics of my kitty. For all the trouble he causes meowing at me in the middle of the night, Gus sure is entertaining!

Happy Spring

I hope the warm weather we have been having doesn't go away again, I can't deal with any more snow this year!

Vinny!

Heather and her boyfriend Ryan got the cutest puppy on the face of the earth!! I went to visit with Heather and Vinny and we took him down to the park to play around. It was beautiful out, which made up for the snow that we had earlier in the week. Vinny is an eleven week old Jack Russel Terrier mixed with Bichon Frise, and he has quite the personality already!

The Giving Garden

I learned about a community garden from an awesome girl in one of my classes. A group of interested and like minded students are going to start a community, sustainable garden this summer on Eastern's campus and I am going to help out and learn a lot in the process. The first meeting I attended was in EMU's greenhouse where we planted some of our seeds so that we can eventually transplant them onto the plot when they are ready in a couple of weeks. I think this is going to be a great experience, and it will be one of my outdoor volunteering activities this summer which I am really looking forward to. The meeting only lasted about an hour and a half but I really needed the break since I was in the middle of writing a 20 page paper...ugh! I am finally finished with my paper, only to start reading through all of the research I have on another one, but as soon as I am finished with that paper I am done for the semester. My summer is looking pretty great so far, I am enrolled in one class in May/June and then one class that is a couple days in July but will require a lot of reading leading up to our classes. I am also seeking out a couple more volunteering opportunities and making plans to get a photo business going on the side with some awesome clients lined up already!

Memories

My mom, sister, aunts and cousin took a trip Up North to celebrate my grandma's memory and went to mass which was said in her name. It was a really fun trip, we stayed in Petoskey on Friday and went up to St. Ignace on Saturday, and came home after mass that evening. We spent a majority of the trip in the car, and in restaurants, shopping and enjoying each others company. Here are some of my favorites from the trip.