Ashleigh & the Weasel

Here are a few pictures from our trip... many more to come :)

This is Ashleigh.  She is Drew's cousin... and now MINE :)  I really enjoyed hanging out with her.  She was pretty much our personal hiking guide in Colorado Springs.  We climbed the Manitou Incline and hiked up some huge boulders in the Garden of the Gods.  Everything was so beautiful.  She is beautiful!  (See below)

Ashleigh also has a little yorkie-poo named Weasley.  I feel like the name is perfect... although she told me a couple weeks ago that she re-named him Kevin.  I still don't believe her.  ;) 

Isn't he the weirdest,  yet cutest little pup you ever did see?  I think so.

She's pretty great!  And so were the mountains!

painting.pictures.posting.

Right now our apartment is a disaster. We are prepping to paint! I'm excited!! But it really is a mess!

ANYWAY the point of this blog....Drew and I bought a Rebel T1i two days before we left for Colorado.  We thought it would be awesome to use some money from my grandpa to get a nice camera we will have for a long time.  It is something I had been wanting but didn't want to spend the money.  So, the week before we left Drew and I did some research and found a pretty good packaged deal at best buy.  It was so much fun to practice in Colorado and I can't wait to post some pictures.

However, I haven't sat down to organize or edit them yet... there's really so much to the editing aspect that I have been reading about.  However, this afternoon on my lunch break, I download the Lightroom Photoshop  FREE trial  :) Drew is out of town today and will be getting back tomorrow afternoon sometime... so I guess you know what I will be doing all night with our Colorado pictures from last week! I can't wait! Thanks to Kelly  for the suggestion. Most of the pictures we took were on the autofocus functions and I'm still VERY much learning the vocabulary in this SLR world! It's so fun and makes me wish I took a class here as an undergrad... maybe I still will. I think I get undergrad classes free since Drew works full time at the University. I wonder if they'll do an intro class next summer. That would be fun!

I'm also looking forward to going for a walk with Ash tonight and having dinner with her and her hubby.  She is such a good friend to me and I am so thankful for her.

I will be posting pictures soon!  I promise!