Family Time

The moments with family that connect us are priceless. I spent the evening with my dad who I just love to pieces! We ate a yummy sandwich, watched a sniper show and then played Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3. Which is hilarious to watch my dad attempt to operate the remote because half the time he is pointing his gun to the ground or the sky or he just shoots random objects! When he is sitting in his chair, leaned back, flopping his feet around in the sky like he is running but is dyeing in the game is just hilarious!!! Too bad I didn't whip out the camera right about then, would have been a priceless capture but a priceless memory is just as good. :)

Sometimes I think we forget what family is all about. Growing up we love our parents, then we hate our parents, and as we get older and on our own we really start to appreciate our parents. Weird! I give so many kudos to parents out there who make it past the years of, "i hate you", or "my god i'm an adult let me go hang with my friends" (when they just want to make sure your safe and when you say horrible words like hate to them they still love you afterwards. Secretly they know we lose our minds completely around age 18 and just sit back and wait for us to come running back going "OMG why did I not listen to you in the first place!!!". But we have to get out there and fall face first, get back up and keep going and figure life out and parents are the Rock's, they keep you going because you know that even when you fuck up royally, they are still going to love you and support you!!!

So, lets just remember to love our parents!!! <3

My Rocks! Honey and Joseph <3 

Dress to impress? Dress for success? 
-- Let us dress For OURSELVES!! Not for the chance to catch a guys or girls attention but for yourself. Make yourself feel good. When you get dressed in the morning your clothes reflect your mood. Jeans and a T-Shirt can equal simplicity and a homely feeling. A dress, boots and cardigan can equal confidence, happiness, it shows how your soul is that day. We all have "off" days, but if you get up in the morning, feel down in the dumps but feel you'd like to change that for the day... walk into your closet, or open the door to your little corner of heaven, pick out the brightest thing and put it on. Better yet! Find that one piece of clothing that you look good in every time, whether it's a dress or a pair of jeans, it will make you feel better, feel confident and that's what your shooting for, Confidence!!! Because when You are Confident it shows and it helps you deal with people during the day because you're not constantly feeling gloomy or looking at someone going "gosh I wish I looked that nice" BECAUSE you DO LOOK THAT GOOD!!!

-- My newest goal for 2012 and the rest of my life is to dress nice everyday, but NOT for the chance to catch a boy friend, it's for ME! I want to feel good every day, even if I'm having a bad day. Then when I get home the sweats come out because I'm at home, in my little comfortable, warm, cozy place to just relax. It's also nice to stand out every now and then, have a guy take a second glance, have a woman compliment a piece of jewelry ( like I had today) or just to know that I'm going to smile all day long because I feel good about myself! :) 

From age 1 to 5 our parents dress us.
From age 6 to 12 we start to dress ourselves.
From age 13 to say 16 we really start to get wild and do crazy things because we are still kids. Or there's that random thing I have yet to understand of girls dressing the same!!! "if anyone can explain this too me or wants to shoot an opinion please do!
From age 17 to 19 we start to seriously care what we look like, because we are going out into the world to find stable jobs, and around 18 and 19 we start too look for a partner in life, go to college etc.
Now I'm 20 and I've got 6 months till I'm 21, and I want to look like an adult, not a child, not a teenager and not that person in-between but a grown up. To be taken seriously! To change how one dresses takes a large leap of faith and I'm taking that leap!!!

My Inspiration! I'm a girl of curves and I'm going to LOVE THEM!!! <3 and EMBRACE THEM!!! 

Me :) *by Daisy Yokley* 

Quick Find!

Found this picture and added a different watermark per the suggestion of a dear friend of mine, which helped me because I needed to update my watermark anyways. 

Location- White Sands New Mexico just outside of Alamogordo 

A Couple New Shots!!!

Christmas rolled around and I got a lovely little Nikon Easy Share Digital Camera from my amazing Dad! I love taking pictures, something of which I have been lacking lately :( but with this New Year I'm really going to try and take more! Starting this weekend! Maybe I can book a photo shoot or two, at least one would be nice! Back to the camera :) .... I've taken many a picture with it so far and I LOVE the panorama application on the camera! I've always wanted to do a nice quality panorama shot but I don't have the capability to stitch photos together, though this camera does it for me!!!! 

Here is what it does! 

View of the Ruidoso Mountains from Capitan New Mexico 

Shortly after Christmas we have New Years!!! The time for celebration, drinking (if that's what you do), coming up with new resolutions to make this year better than the last. During this time of celebration it's quick, loud, totally and completely random yet beautiful all at one time. This next picture isn't one of those oooohhhh ahhhhh pictures but I think it captures New Years in an appropriate manner, or at least it captured how my New Years went at a friends house, as we played Xbox and danced like crazy people and lined up plastic toy soldiers on the floor. 

It's not a crystal clear image, and I prefer it not be. New Years is a quick passing memory of fun and joy, hope and passion, dreams and desires.... whimsical in a way. 

been a while

Just a quick little hello to anyone who reads my blog. Sorry it's been a while since I've written, I'm really going to try and work on writing more often. Big news going on in my life, I'm going to California for my very first Vacation to see my Aunt! I'll be taking pictures the entire time and will do my best to update you on what I'm doing and post pictures of what I see :) I'm very very exciting to be going!!! Have a lovely day!

Nothing about Photography Today

Discovered a new website http://pinterest.com/ -- great place to find creative idea's for used objects at home, also a wonderful place to get outfit idea's if your a girl. Cooking ideas, organization ideas and soo much more. I've been surfing it for hours and plan to start doing some things at home with items I already have.

Another thing I found on the same website was this picture i'm fixing to show. This is a picture of True Beauty, an iconic, classy and loved lady.

Marilyn Monroe 

Gorgeous, Curvy, and Real! 

Anti New Year Resolutions---Day to Day Resolutions instead!

Every year we make New Year's Resolutions, though most of us never really follow through with them. And why must we wait until the New Year to decide to make changes in our life? We have 365 days in a year and we have to wait till the 1st day of January to make decisions on what needs to be changed???!!! We should be making these decisions every day whether it's wanting to eat better and lose weight which is what...everybody's goal plan (getting kinda pointless really). I say that because we are all fine the way we are. If you eat correctly to begin with and if you do some sort of work out during the week your fine. Size 0 to a Size 16 and up! We were not all created to be one size, the same size, the same body, or the same person because that would get boring pretty darn fast. Other New Year's Resolutions could be to start saving money...yeah, we do that everyday folks!
Here's a new idea! Make small goals each day. Making breakfast, lunch or dinner instead of buying it. Spend more time with family...as long as they live close it shouldn't be that hard (something I'm trying to work on). Spend time with friends, just because you are with friends doesn't mean you have to spend money either, or drink till your death, or eat bad foods...just hang out and shoot the shit people! Go outside!!!! -I've found myself enjoying being outside more often than being inside unless I'm dog tired, or it's cold. Listen to music, read a book, write a song, decorate your place, etc etc. To Hell with New Year's Resolutions, lets make Day to Day Resolutions! that's my new idea and i'm stickin to it! :)