January 3, 2012

  • Family Pictures

    Today we began taking the bricks off the floor that have been in one corner of the houses basement since before we moved in. There is also a wall too, but we are taking that out tomorrow I think. I won't say too much about it yet until we do the wall other than just taking out thr floor created a ton of dust. We have finally seriously begun remodeling the basement at last.

     That stuff can wait, I will talk more about the remodeling across the next few coming days, but today a few more important things happened that I want to talk about first.

     First of all my cold is going away, I can tell pretty well since my voice was more there today than it has been the past couple of days and my stuffy nose is almost gone. I'm really relieved that I did not catch anything particularly bad this time around.  I'm still coughing a little bit but it isn't that bad, I hardly ever cough now.

     The morning started out normal, I had been working on passing a map in Mario Party 3 that I had been stuck on for a few days. I did pass it later this morning. Nothing much besides me keeping to myself happened to the best of my memory for the first part of the morning. I just stayed in my room reading and playing Rush and Mario Party 3.and a few other things.

     The important part of this day happened around 10:45am. I was playing Rush 2 and my sister came into my room and told me to get ready so we could take family pictures around noon. I kind of wish she had told me earlier than that because I would have washed my hair, but it turned out okay anyway even though I didn't get to wash it. I did my hair to the best of my ability after playing the game for a few more minutes and then got dressed. My hair was a little hard to manage today because my hair was a little bit oily. It did not seem to want to stay the way I wanted it to even with the hairspray. My hair has always been a bit hard to manage because it is so thick. 

     My sister put some studio makeup on me after I got my hair ready and my clothes on. I usually don't wear as much makeup as she put on me, but I guess it was fun to have makeup on for once.  I don't really like makeup that much usually, it makes me feel self conscious, fake, and weird. When I do put it on it is extremely light and usually you can't even tell at all. Despite my usual objections to makeup I let my sister put it on me anyway.  I think I looked fine, can't really tell for sure thought until I actually see the pictures we took today.  When everyone was dressed and ready to go and after I had made a few tweaks to my makeup like eye shadow and different lip gloss we headed out to our local track so we could take the family photos in front of the mountains.

     We ended up not taking photos at the track because we couldn’t get the whole view of the mountains, and the sun was in our eyes. We experimented with a few different angles and stuff before we concluded that we should try and move a little further away so we could possibly get a shot with us all in it with the view of the mountains as well.

     We movied to another field near my old junior high, but it wasn’t far enough away from the mountains to get them all in the background. We gave up on this idea and just took the pcitures in front of the mountains anyway once we concluded that we just lived too close  to the mountains to get a full view of them. We would have had to drive miles for that to happen. We decided to just photoshop them in when we did the editing.

     The sun was still in our eyes when we did the photos but I think that it turned out quite well. We took a lot of different pictures. We took some pictures with just the babies, and just my brothers family, and my sisters families. It was pretty fun all around.

    We played at a nearby playground and took more photos there as well. I really hope I looked okay in the photos. It was pretty fun to play with my nieces and nephew on the playground. We don’t get to play together, all of us like that very often. We are all usually doing our own thing a lot of the time and don’t see each other very often.

     We went back home after doing stuff on the playground. Some people drove, and some people just walked, I just walked. One of my friends Sydney texted me and told me that she saw my family and thought it was cute, this made me smile, I really love it when I get messages like that from people.

     I went back into my room and played games and stuff when I got home. We just played a lot of games in general today.

     I don’t think I need to mention anything more than this today.