Get Chinese Take-Out

This is actually one of the first times Julie and I hung out!  :)  We went on a little adventure in downtown Provo and ended up in this little hole-in-the-wall place called Rice King.  We discovered they did take-out, and just had to take our meals home in those little Chinese boxes with chop sticks.

We also took the opportunity for me to introduce Julie to the magical world of "Supernatural"!  Best show on the planet.

There's just something about those little folded Chinese boxes that makes you feel like you're doing something really, really cool.

Go to the Zoo

A live list item! :)  When I went home for Spring semester, I was chaperon for Allie's grade when they went to the Ft. Worth zoo.  The teachers didn't really care that I was there, but I helped out Kathy and Jesse, and Allie was thrilled that I was there.  At least nobody asked me whose child mine was...  Somebody asked me that when I went with Carly's fifth grade orchestra to Sandy Lake.  I mean, realy?  Eleven-year-olds?

The big cats are my favorites... Always have been!  I remember seeing a black panther for the first time in the Ft. Worth zoo as a three-year-old.  That's when I fell in love!

Aren't tigers just beautiful?  I wonder how Hobbes would feel about these guys?

It never fails that whenever I go to the zoo, all of the tigers are sleeping.  Sometimes the lions are prowling around or playing, or the Cheetah is pacing, but the tigers are always asleep.

This guy is my school's mascot. :)  Not this one in particular, but... Cougars.  Which, in Texas, is called a Puma.

I was disappointed I couldn't get a very good picture of this guy.  He just kept on following the path he'd made.

This sign always makes me smile, but it was especially profound this time around.  Boy do I miss my home state.

I'm rather glad this thing was turned around.

Allie and one of her classmates.  Ever the silly girl. :)

I never really realized how ferocious these guys really are.  I would *not* want to run into that on a mountain.

All the kids got a kick out of this giraffe.  He just stuck his tongue out at everybody!

We all thought Jesse was going to be really excited to see the elephants, because he can make one heck of an elephant sound.  Turns out, he just likes making the sound.  He didn't care about seeing them, haha.

I always feel bad for the apes and monkeys.  They always just look sooooo bored...

After getting home and looking at the pictures, I realized I should have taken more pictures of the kids' reactions.  Those are the pictures that are going to be golden, that are going to be precious in the later years.  Those are the ones that should have mattered more.  But, being just as obsessed with animals as they are, I had to get some pictures of my favorites.  Maybe, since I've officially got my animal pictures, now, next time I'll be able to focus more on them. :)  See, I've never been to the zoo when I could really pay attention to the animals.  I was always with a class that was being pushed along at a rapid pace so we could get somewhere, or see something else.  It was kind of similar this time, but this time I had a fantastic Nikon camera up my sleeve.  Er, around my neck.  Perhaps these pictures will have me satisfied. :)

Over and out,
The Coolest Aunt In The World

Provo Lightning

I GOT IT!

I love...

my family, my friends, Batman, Texas, writing, photography, reading, movies, Supernatural, Smallville, Vampire Diaries, Bones, House, Calvin & Hobbes, comic books, saddle bags, silver shoes, frozen yogurt, necklaces, purple, blue jeans, cowboy boots, country music, classical, piano, soundtracks, superheroes, day dreaming, blue, black, trying to throw a football, soccer, libraries, deserted places that are perfect for reading, Sherlock Holmes, long road trips, Indian ruins, pens, picture frames, antiques, sunsets, thunderstorms, rain, flowers, canopied roads, falling down houses and barns, watching horses run, seeing places I've never seen, seeing familiar places, humidity, boating, french fries, looking at people's eyes, realistic paintings,Book of Mormon artwork, Shel Silverstein, Nightwing, Zorro, fiction, character-driven tv shows, inside jokes, laughing, plaid, pearl snap shirts, country swing, talking, marching band, and quilts.

~Krista

P.S. I Love You

The first time I watched "P.S. I Love You," I hated it. It's a long story why, so just accept that I really didn't like it. Then, the other day, I decided that I should give it a second chance.

After watching it a second time, there are still parts of it that kind of bug me. But, I think, when it comes down to it, I actually do like it.

There's one quote in the movie that really hit me, and I fell in love with it. "I bet you've had a hard time walking into a room full of people on your own, right? Yeah. I know that. I know what it is not to feel like you're in the room until he looks at you or touches your hand or even makes a joke at your expense, just to let everyone know... you're with him. You're his."

I didn't cry, but I almost did. It seems like a lot of romantic movies make me cry these days. Is that pathetic? Yes, it is. But that's okay, because soon enough, he'll be here again.

And no, I'm not going to end this post with "P.S. I love You."

But I will end it with my favorite Gerard Butler quote of the movie: "I know what I want because I'm holding it in my hands. You."

My Mom The Photographer

I've never really considered my mom a photographer.  She takes pictures once in a blue moon, and is more worried about actually taking the picture than getting a really, really good one.  You know, that's fine.  Most people are like that with pictures.

But when I saw this picture, I immediately had to reconsider.

Wow, Mom.  You're fantastic. :)

We're all mad here.

"I was just thinking about what it would be like to fly."
"Why ever would you be thinking about something so impossible?"
"Why not?  My father used to say that he believed in six impossible things before breafast."

"I just had a vision of all the women in trousers and the men were all in dresses."
"I think, perhaps, that you ought to keep your visions to yourself.  When in doubt, silence is best."

"Alice!  I'd know him anywhere."

"Curiouser and curiouser."

"Meow."

"I'll take you to the Hare and the Hatter, but that's as far as I go."

"Tell me, why is a raven like a writing desk?"
"I have absolutely no clue!"

"You could stay."

You know, I really didn't like the animated version.  Perhaps it was the music that I didn't particularly like.  But I LOVED the new one. :)  It was so... ridiculous!

Sometimes I believe in six impossible things before breakfast.