Fun Photo Diary (Disney + Girls Day)

Howdy friends! I had a cool idea to do an entire blog post dedicated to a trip to Disney but because I'm me, I barely took any photos. BUT, I will be sharing the photos I did take from when I went.

I know, you're probably thinking, "why don't you just go back?" Well you see, my pass is blocked out the entire summer and by the time I can go again it's going to expire. Also I don't see myself renewing it due to them raises prices and the fact that I'd rather spend my money on something else!

The past year with a pass has been so much fun and I'll miss it for sure. Maybe I'll get one again in the future but for now, it's so long.

I was so happy to see that for my last Disney trip I get to see the castle! It's been being refurbished for what seems like forever but she's back better than ever! That fresh paint tho

What's your favorite treat from Disneyland? I have to get a churro every time I'm there! It's my favorite thing I think.

The rest of these photos are from a fun day of treating yo self. Got my nails done, got donuts, and got my ears pierced! Very exciting day. 

I don't have any pictures of the piercing place but I got my second lobe piercing's done. Didn't hurt at all, though I wasn't really expecting it too! 

here's the piercing and also my extremely faded pink hair 

Thanks so much for reading! 

Next week's post is going tome full of recipes! Hint: It's all about the most important meal of the day! I've been working on it for a few weeks now so I'm excited to finally share the finished product. 

Spring Weekend Photo Diary

So a couple weeks ago I went with my boyfriend to go film his podcast. If you want, you can listen to it over on youtube!

I didn't know what to expect honestly and I had to be quiet the whole time! So I watched Mama Mia on my phone and listened to music. But the next time I go I'm going to be in charge of the camera.. aka making sure it doesn't stop recording mid shoot.

I had so much fun though! I love listening to my boo talk about cars.

I did take more photos but it was dark and I'm working on editing them to make them look all purdy ya feel. 

Next on our weekend adventure.. BEACH!! Except we always do this. It never gets old though!
Something amazing happened while we sat on a bench to watch the sunset.. A BUNNY HOPPED OUT OF THE BUSHES. I was giddy with excitement. You all (hopefully) saw the picture I posted on my story when it happened.

We also made an appearance at a bonfire with some friends but I have no pictures since I didn't bring my camera! Oops! 

Now since I haven't talked much in this post I wanna chat a lil about some things I'm doing this month! First off, I'm getting my hair done this weekend and I am beyond excited. I've been waiting like 3 months to do this and it's finally happening! I'll share the results via instagram obviously, don't worry. 

Next, I've got a bunch of posts coming! Like I have so many different ideas and cool approaches on things and I'm just really excited for them to come to fruition! Also hollaaaaaa at the fact that I've had a couple posts up this month and I'm gettin serious with this thang!! 

Just very proud of myself for sticking to it. (lol it's been like 3 posts calm down girl) 

Speaking of girl.. have you guys seen New Girl? I'm rewatching it for like the hundredth time and I love it so much. One of my favorite shows for sure. 

My film was developed! Well, some of it was. I got 2 rolls developed and of course, like 2/3 of the pictures were blurry! What can you do though. It was my very first time using a film camera and I'm still learning so I'm not going to let that bring me down! 

Having the pictures in my hand even if they didn't turn out the way I wanted was so special to me. One of my favorite things to do is look through old photos from when I was little. The photos that my mom has from when she was my age. It's so nostalgic and lovely. All of the memories in each one and being able to transport back to the moment when you look at them! 

Anyways, that's enough photo talk. I have a photography update coming soon so I'll go a little more in depth there and even show some of my film that turned out ok! 

See ya next week!

Visalia Camping Trip

The past couple months have been crazy and this last week has been even crazier. Even though I just got back from vacation I feel completely drained and I'm hoping to get out of that funk soon. But for now I'm going to share with you all some pictures I took on my trip! It was such a great time and being away from social media and being away from..people...was refreshing. 

My boyfriend and I drove up to Visalia for a truck meet and camped out with a bunch of his buddies and we had the best time! I miss it already. I truly wish I was still there right now.. (even though I fell in the snow and had a hornet with us in the car while we were driving up the mountain).

While we were up there, we decided to drive up to the Sequoias to see General Sherman Tree! All of the trees up there are absolutely incredible but that one is an entirely different story. If you've seen it then you know what I mean!

Now I was not expecting there to be snow so the fact that we saw some, even if it was melting, was so cool! I've never been in snow in my entire life, except for when I was a baby, but that doesn't count.  I loved every second of the slush we all walked around on (and filled our ice chests with). I'm thinking this winter calls for a real snow trip.. what do you guys think? 

My boyfriend and I also slept inside his truck which was very new to me as I'm very much a tent camping kind of gal. I need space to move around! But the truck bed was super comfortable, maybe even more comfortable than a tent? 

Do you guys sleep in a tent? Or do you go full blown outdoorsy camping sleeping under the stars with nothing but a sleeping bag? That would be interesting to try.. I don't think I could do it because of all the bugs. or a bear! could you imagine. heck no. 

Bears were something I was very concerned about the first night here. I thought if we even had a single crumb a bear would be knocking on the doors trying to get it. I even considered tossing my deodorant in the trash because it's citrus scented and I read bears like that! But alas, there were no bears in sight (thankfully). It turned out that I had nothing to worry about and bears didn't actually live around that area.. they were more so 10 miles up from our camp.

I deeply regret not taking my film camera with me on this trip so I edited all my photos to have that film feel! I hope you enjoy them! I'm also FINALLY in the process of getting all of my old film developed so I'm excited to share those within the next month or so! 

I hope you enjoyed this post and as always thank you so much for reading! Now you guys have got to let me know, what's your favorite place to camp? I've got the itch to go camping this summer and I'm looking for some new spots! Let me know in the comments down below! 

My Photography Journey

Hi guys!

Today I'm getting personal.. sort of. I'm going to be talking about my journey with photography. 

I love taking photos. I love it so much. This is something that feels 100% right to me. Looking at the photos I take at the end of the day is so rewarding. Especially when I felt horrible while taking them. (I'm my own worst critic.)

I definitely go back and forth in my head saying "these aren't turning out. these look horrible. this lighting is awful. you don't know what you're doing." To be fair, I don't know what I'm doing. In fact my boyfriend has been so good with me on this. He's helping me whenever I need it, he's answering all my questions, and he's supporting me! He's the most wonderful person on earth. So thanks for all your help babe! 

Another thing; taking photos is like, riveting? I love being able to capture moments and cool scenery. Being able to look back at them and remembering that moment perfectly; What I was wearing, who I was with, and what we were talking about. That's so amazing to me!

I haven't taken very many pictures with my new camera yet as I've been fairly busy and it's been raining almost every day but I'm excited to go out hopefully sometime next week and take some!

Here are some of the photos I've taken. You probably have already seen them as I posted them over on my instagram already.

In part 2 of this blog post I will have way more to share but I wanted this post to be the beginning of a new series. I'm going to be sharing things I'm learning along the way. I'll be sharing the photos (obviously) and talking about my experience the whole journey of becoming who I want to be.

So I apologize for the short post but this is only the beginning! So get ready! 

A Week in the Woods - camping photo diary PART 2

As promised, here's the other half of camping photos!

Thanks for reading!! ♡

XO 

A Week in the Woods - camping photo diary

Hi guys! Like I mentioned before (in an instagram post) I'm going to be sharing some photos I took from my camping trip the other week. I went to Julian with my best friend and her family and we stayed at a campground up in the mountains! Let me start off my saying it was hot. It was so fricken hot. Okay now that that's out of the way, I wanna talk about some stuff we did.

There's a pond here for fishing (it's catch and release) and the roads wind through the entire camp so you can ride bikes. I think the last time I rode a bike was the last time we went camping and that was like 5 years ago so trying to climb the hills was HARD. AKA we got off our bikes and pushed them up because we couldn't do it without our legs giving out.

We slept in tents which is always fun, except for the giant hole in the door that I had to sew, which was not fun. The first night there was full of swatting gnats away while trying to get some sleep. The nights were actually pretty cold which I wasn't expecting! We didn't put a tarp over our tent (thank goodness it didn't rain) so we could see the stars through the net which was nice. I couldn't believe how many stars there were. That's not really something you pay attention to when you live in the city since they aren't that visible anyways.
Oh! And the ants up there are like the size of a penny!! Okay I might be exaggerated a little bit there, but they really are huge. Trust me.

Overall, the trip was fun and I can't wait to go camping again!! I miss it already.

Here are some of the pictures I took. Enjoy!!

I have a lot more pictures to post but I don't want to make this suuuper long so I'll be posting the rest of the photos in another blog post that will go up later this week! 

Thanks for reading!! ♡

XO