Apples!

We made a trip to Apple Hill last weekend with the rest of the Perry's and our friends, the Haaland's and the Child's. It's sort of an annual tradition, that unfortunately doesn't actually happen every year. This year there were lots of new additions to our group: Babies! I started off the day with an apple donut and ended it with an amazing caramel apple. It was a great day!

Our whole gang at Apple Hill


Freida and I just LOVE our caramel apples!


Justin and I trying to take a good picture.


Hermanos


Ryan, Freida, and Bella

A-MAZE-ING

I took my student leadership group, the TigerPAC, to the corn maze in Lathrop on Sunday night as a bonding activity. I forgot how much I love "the country." Being there at night with the dust and the bright lights reminded me of Sutter High football games for some reason. Ah, childhood! We had a great time. I made the girls take a picture of me in the corn, then in a corn cutout...they pretty much humor my dorkyness all the time. When I made a reference to being a "grown up lady" who didn't NEED to take a picture in the corn cutout, Randi replied "yeah, a grown up lady who couldn't decide what to wear to watch High School Musical 3." Which is a completely different story that I'd rather not discuss in this forum. (Suffice it to say, I saw the movie, it was cheesy AND amazing, and we might have "dressed up.") :)

Here are some photos:

New Obsession

I haven't been in much of a blogging mood lately, but I wanted to share my latest obsession: Picnik.com

picnik.com is a site that let's you enhance photos, add text, framing, etc. It's AMAZING!!! I've already used it on a few projects for work and it makes me feel like a legit designer (even though all I really did was hit a few buttons). Here are a couple of practice runs I did on some personal photos.

The Overkill Threshold

You know how it goes. You like a song. It starts getting a lot of radio play and you continue you to like it. Then, it happens. You hear said song just one time too many and you reach what I like to call: the "song overkill threshold." I am at that place now with the song "Love Remains the Same." It's the one that plays over and over again in the previews for the new Nicholas Sparks flick Nights in Rodanthe, which I really wanted to see - UNTIL the aforementioned overkill threshold kicked in. Now I'm afraid if I hear that song one more time I might lose my mind! Not only do I hear it at the movies (previews), I also hear it at the gym, I hear it repeatedly on the adult contemporary station we listen to at the office, and if I had a car and I actually drove to work I would probably hear it there too. IT'S EVERYWHERE!!!

I actually had to look up the name of the song because I had no idea who sang it or what it was called, I just knew I heard it ALL THE TIME! Much to my surprise, the singer is Gavin Rossdale! As in the former frontman of 90's alterna/grunge/rock band Bush. Bush! I loved them! As a straight-laced high schooler I felt really hardcore when I listened to Bush and now Gavin Rossdale is singing a sappy overkilled song on adult contemporary radio like some teenage emo band!?! Man. Maybe for Gavin Rossdale's sake I'll temper my dislike for the song and celebrate his return to mainstream radio.(Disclaimer: I will admit that my estimation of Bush's "hardcoreness" may have something to do with the level of my "straightlacedness.")


What songs have you reaching for the dial?