JJ to the AZ

Dear DC,

It's been so long since I posted but I guess time flies when you are not doing anything remotely interesting.

therefore....

something interesting happened for me to post about!!!

Kyle and I went to Sedona, Arizona to hang out with his awesome family. It's amazing how much I feel that they are my family too. We delightfully did absolutely nothing which consisted of:

• foot baths in the jacuzzi tub that would turn on mysteriously
• reading under an umbrella by the pool watching six kids crowd around a tub of cheesy puffs
• getting sunburned while driving to Sedona from Phoenix (but only on one arm)
• being awakened by the sweetest one-year-old voice calling, "Gramma, are you?" (as in where are you?)
• riding/driving an ATV up and down a mountain, getting a full day's worth of protein in the process as my teeth acted like a windshield to the bugs
• learning and play new games
• getting professional photos taken by my amazing professional photographer sister-in-law
• being on Eastern time still so getting up super early and enjoying it!
• playing the photo assistant for my hubby's photo outings
• TURNING 25 YEARS OLD and enjoying the best birthday party and trifle birthday cake
• not having cell phone/blackberry service (which means I couldn't do any work at all.....dang it)

I truly could go on and on because we had an amazing time. Monday morning was very difficult to come back to work for all those reasons. We love vacation and we love family!

With "I Miss Family" Love,

Julia

Follow my photo blog!

Dear DC,

So with my new found photography hobby I have decided to create a photo blog: Take One Daily. I've given myself a challenge to be post a new photo every day for the first month. You HAVE to check it out. www.take1daily.wordpress.com

Although, I cheated for the first day, I just posted a photo I've already shown off here, but only because it's one of my favorite shots ever. Anyways. Check it out, each day there will be a new photo.

With take one daily love,

Kyle

MWF looks for Reliable, Somewhat Cool Companion

Dear DC,

Law school is starting soon (and by soon I mean 4 months) and so I'm trying to decide what type of laptop to buy to help me in my scholarly pursuits.

I typically don't like to categorize myself or subscribe to labels, but unfortunately this one is pretty clear-cut, Am I a Mac or PC?

Am I expensive and exclusive and sexy? Or am I more reasonably priced, full of new features and get along well with all kinds of people/software?

Seems obvious right? Well not to me.

With "Know Thyself" Love,

Julia

When You Get To Your Age....

Dear DC,

I went to the optometrist a few weeks ago, complaining about eye soreness and fatigue. I have had glasses for a long time, but have been told that I only needed to wear them when my eyes got tired, to reduce the strain. So I have been doing that and until recently my eyes have been fine.

I read the letters on the chart just fine (this guy was tricky and threw in some numbers...no fair!) but then the optometrist told me that I needed to be wearing glasses or contacts full-time or else my eyes would continue to feel this tired. Makes sense.

Here's where he lost me. He said to me, "When you get to your age, you have to expect your eyes to start to fail a little."

EXCUSE ME? You know I'm 24, right? He knew. Obviously he's not a smooth one with the ladies.

So with that, I'm off to go glasses shopping. Here's to something in bright colors or odd shapes to make me look more "hip" and less like a "hip-replacement candidate."

With Geriatric Love,

Julia

Published Again! not really.....

Dear DC,

Second time in a week! Prince of Petworth blog picked out one of my photos to show on the blog. Awesome! This one is just on the home page of the blog so you will have to scroll down until you find the one marked with my Flickr account - KJinDC. It's the one of the two blurry buses. Click here to check it out. For those outside of DC, Prince of Petworth blog is a pretty popular blog for DC residents. I've gotten so that I am checking it out daily (and not just to see if they picked up one of my photos.) So, if you wanted to be totally awesome you could go to the PofP blog and comment on my photo. You know..someting like "hey that KJinDC is amazing, you should post more pictures from him"....or something like that.

With Tog Love,

Kyle

I've been published! not really....

Dear DC,

HOLY COW!! I have fans! Ok, well, maybe not fans plural, but at least one person liked a photo I took not too long ago and used it for their blog! This...is....AWESOME! The best part is that its on the Prince of Petworth blog, one of my newest found and favorite blogs about all things in our DC neighborhood. As you can see from our last post, They used one that I took just a couple weeks ago. I'm totally excited. Go check it out HERE. You will know that its me because of my flickr account KJinDC.

I'm off to take more pictures tomorrow starting at 5:30am. Here's to more people seeing them and more people liking them.

With double exposure love,

Kyle

The blossoms are out!

Dear DC,

I haven't blogged on here in....well, forever. But, with Spring here and the Cherry Blossoms out it makes me want to start things anew, so here we go. Julia and I woke up super early for a Saturday morning to go snap some pictures of the Cherry Blossoms and some other non blossom pictures. We thought we were being smart by beating the crowds at 6am. Yeah...the crowds were smart too. At 6:01am, there were a few people out. At 6:09am, there were quite a bit more. And by 6:14am it was "Hey buddy! get out of my shot!" Besides that, it was still a good time and DC in the early morning is really nice. Here's just a few of the pictures we took.