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Name: Sarah
Country: United States
State: Texas
Gender: Female


Interests: I'm a college graduate with a degree in Nutritional Sciences with an emphasis on Molecular Research that I don't use. (I just wanted an expensive wall decoration. like a diploma.) I like many things including; apologetics, photography, science, people...
Expertise: pulling all-nighters, procrastinating, being blonde, babysitting (yes I have mad skills, aren't you wildly jealous!)


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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Understatement of the Century

So...*shuffles feet a bit, coughs into the microphone to get attention* ...I no longer blog here.

Don't get me wrong, xanga has been great, but now I'm starting a new business and want my blog to reflect my life now, not the musing about whether or not I'd get into college (I did) or wonderings about whether I'd graduate (also done).

I can be found here. http://www.butterflychaserphotography.com/


Friday, April 11, 2008

God Drop

Before I left for New Zealand I was faced with a quandary. You see, my laptop was on the blink (again) and while I had the funds for a new computer I wanted a desktop, which would be much easier to edit with but much harder to travel with. I needed a new computer and I needed it before I left.

Then, in a drastic example of how I am one of God's favorites, the family pictures below gave me an old laptop they had in exchange for taking pictures for them for the next year or so. It's an awesome laptop too. It has all the programs I use on it and is far superior to the one I had used previously. Isn't God awesome to do that for me? (Err, and this family, they're a little bit awesome too.)



This is Sullivan. I have always really liked his name for its originality, and it fits him perfectly because Sullivan is a true original. He's definitely all boy with this delightful sense of humor and really likes to ham it up for the camera (another guaranteed way to win you a soft spot with me.)







This is Sophie Lynn. She is a little princess with the biggest brown eyes. She loves her big brother and her momma and isn't so sure about the camera. ( I have a collection of  pictures of Sophie looking suspiciously in the general direction of the camera.) Eventually she warms up to me and shows off her pretty smile.







All the photo editing in New Zealand was made possible because of my new computer and for this every time I boot up my computer I say a pray of thanks for them.


Saturday, March 29, 2008

Other Things About New Zealand

There isn't any such thing as "unlimited internet usage" in New Zealand. You pay for a plan and if you go over your limit for uploading/downloading they charge you extra. We had a plan that covered 5 gigs, which can be almost consumed in one evening of bored flickr uploading...that's all I'm saying.

The commercials in New Zealand are the cutest. Seriously. Obviously, being Americans and thus technologically superior (see above point about the internet) we beat the Kiwis to the punch with the internet and captured the dot com domains, leaving them with the alternate url ending <co.nz.> So, at the end of every commercial they say, "For more information go to www.domain.co.nz. Except, Kiwi's say the letters nz as "in zed" which amused me to no end.

Kiwi playgrounds are much more exciting and dangerous then American playgrounds have ever dreamed of being. They still have trampolines, see-saws, wooden play ground equipment and other such hazards that the girls absolutely love.


This is a wooden maze at the playground, with walls about five feet high. It's rather long and complicated for a small child, but the girls love it...more specifically, playing tag in it.


This is a zip line. Basically the child climbs into a wooden stand about 25 feet off the ground, and then hops onto the swing and slides down about 30 meters. In New Zealand they call this a "Flying Fox", in America we would call it a liability.


This is a wooden wheel that children run in...like a hamster wheel. Inevitably one of the girls would lose her footing and fall to the bottom of the wheel and be spun around like wet clothes in a dryer, but none of them seem to mind.


Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Right Wing, Baby.

Belle wasn't too happy when she heard the results of Super Tuesday.



When I explained that could mean that we will/would have a Clinton or Bush in office for at least 24 years, she really lost it.



Seriously, in a country with an estimated 301,139, 947 people, isn't it time to elect someone from a different family?





*inspired (politics aside) by Jill Greenberg
**No two-year-olds were hurt in the making of this post, although one was really peeved that she had to wake up and join society after a two hour nap.


Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Outdoor Bathtubs!?! What Will They Think of Next?

On our way to the Munchkin's new home, we stayed with some of their relatives in their tiny little farmhouse.
(This is the back, the front is equally impressive.)



Our hosts were hospitable and the house was lovely, but best of all they had awesome natural lighting for portraits and some great props. You see, they have an outdoor bathtub! Isn't that cool!

The bather's modesty is ensured by a large mountain behind the tub (owned by the family and inhabited solely by cattle) and a sharp ravine directly behind the tub. So, of course I had to bathe my beauties in it! Unfortunately, the only day I could do it was very cold and the Bug was sick and had to be excluded, but I was happy with the results anyway.



Filling up the tub.



Hey, look! I was there too :)




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