Wishing I was somewhere tropical.   Near a pool.  Reading a good book.

Ahhhhh, only 3-4 more months until warmer weather!

Does my new signature show up??

On behalf of some very dear friends who are planning to get married this Saturday, I am desperately needing help that maybe only Oprah could offer……

Meet Noemy and Traves.

Noemy and Traves met and fell in love through mutual friends in the spring of 2008.  In the past year, Traves followed his calling and joined the military and has been away ever since.  The two of them have maintained a very strong relationship throughout Traves's training and this past October the two of them got engaged.  Traves requested a  personal leave to come home for the Holidays so they set the date for December 19th, 2009.  3 days from now.

The past 8 weeks that Noemy and Traves have been engaged have been a whirlwind of excitement for my dear girlfriend, with all of the wedding plans coming into place in such a short amount of time.  I have never seen Noemy happier in her life than in these recent weeks leading up to the wedding, which is supposed to take place this Saturday. 

Then a bomb was dropped.

The hall that Noemy is supposed to get married at has been double booked.  She received a call today that she no longer has a place to get married.

She is devastated beyond words! Traves will be home on Thursday 12/17 until the 1st of January and then they will not be able to see each other again until April.  There are many people trying to work their magic to find Noemy and Traves a place to get married with just 3 days notice, but so far it has not been successful.

Where oh where can Traves and Noemy get married and have room for a party of 200 guests???!!!!

Oprah, please help!!

PS  I understand you do a million great things for so many and that many people have needs greater than that of my request but you would make my friends so happy :)

I meant to use this weekend to catch up on my blogging, but here we are late Sunday night and I just didn't get to it.  I have been very busy working and will be back soon with updates.  In the mean time I will leave you with a beautiful sunrise I caught one day last week on my way to work.

I know I mentioned it before, but it is VOTING TIME over at Photo Hunt Challenges.  All of the categories from Ph#4 have a special post with all my favorite photos from that category and a poll to vote for your favorite.  Click on any of the links below to see them :) This voting is open to anyone, the more the merrier.  I just request that you vote for your favorite photo rather than for a particular person.

*PS- I have spent a lot of time working on the Photo Challenges Blog and would love for you to head over there to check out the changes I have made even if you don't feel like voting (but why wouldn't you love to look at pretty pictures?!)

Favorite ~ Fall Activity

Favorites ~  A Fall Treat

Favorites ~  A Harvest

Favorites ~ Leaves

Favorites ~ Fall Colors

Favorites ~ Something Orange

Favorites ~ Something Spooky

Favorites ~ A Cemetery

Favorites ~ A Costume

Favorites ~ A Black & White Photo

Favorites ~ A Critter

Favorites ~  Symmetry

Favorites ~ Contrast

Favorites ~ Texture

Favorites ~ A Logo/ Mascot

Favorites ~ Something Neon

Favorites ~ Something Inspiring

Favorites ~ Something Entertaining

Favorites ~ Something Fast

Favorites ~ Something Slow

A CAMERA!!!!!!

It's been over three months now that I have been without a camera.  After months of researching, I am pretty sure that I have decided the Nikon D5000 is the camera I want to buy. This will be my first-ever SLR camera, my first-ever Nikon.

Does anyone else have this beauty? Any thoughts on Nikon Vs Canon? I have been a longtime Canon user and I am seriously considering this big switch…… (Hopefully I can save enough money to buy it sometime next year)

I am curious to know what camera everyone else uses around here, so please enlighten me by sharing in the comments.  Thanks!

A few weeks ago I blogged about how the MN Timberwolves organization remodeled our school library.  They also gave us several hundred free tickets so that students and their families could go see the Timberwolves play.  I was lucky enough to have my boss give me a handful of tickets to the game as well, so a group of friends and I went down to the Target Center on Friday night to see our young team play some ball vs. Milwaukee Bucks.

The game was kind of boring and we ended up losing, but it was still nice to be able to go to the game! My friends and I had fun :)

Hope you all have a safe and fun Halloween night!