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This is a little recap of my students recital last night.  They all did great!  These recitals take months to put together.  So it is wonderful when we make it to the finish line and get to perform.  I had all the kids pick our Holiday songs.  It was a great night!

Finals Week!

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We had a really fun Thanksgiving with our family.  It wasn't a "normal" Thanksgiving, but we loved it.  We went with Porter's mom to a lovely music program at her church the night before.  Then we had a yummy lunch of soup with Porter's dad.  For dinner we had my brother and sister-in-law over for dinner and games.  It was a pretty intense night of Settlers of Catan.  We played until after midnight, which for us is late!  Especially considering that we were planning to be up at 5 am the next morning to go Black Friday shopping.  Kit and Rachel spent the night as we all got up early to hit the sales.  We bought a door-buster Christmas tree, hurray!  Other than that is wasn't that exciting. The best part was breakfast at Ruth's Diner.  That place is like "get in my belly now!" kind of good.  I even got my first hot coco of the season. I haven't posted in a few weeks as it's the end of the semester which pretty much means I have no life.  

Fall Pictures

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I did a few sessions with family during fall.  I love fall!  The weather is perfect, warm days and crisp nights.  It's harvest time so I get to eat tons of yummy food.  Basically, everything comes in pumpkin flavor or scent.  I get to start wearing boots and drinking warm drinks.  Plus it's time for all sorts of holidays at the Fair-Williams House, from birthdays to anniversaries to all the traditional stuff.  I'm pretty happy with how all of these pictures turned out.

Manly Motocycle shoot

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My friend Andy and I went out yesterday to do some shots of him and his bike.  I had never shot with a wide angle lens before or a motorcycle.  I kept telling him it was an experiment, so not to be too disappointed if the experiment failed.  Although usually my experiments yield at least a few good outcomes.  I think we can consider this experimental shoot a success. I'm pretty much in love with this next one!  I was laying down in the street to get it.  I'm glad Andy is a good driver.

Around the United Kingdom in 20 minutes.

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This is a movie I threw together on iTunes of all the places we visited in England and Scotland this last August.  I told Porter that I have recovered and am ready to go on another European adventure!

Fall Brawl 2

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Porter participated in his second amateur Muay Thai kickboxing fight last night.  His first was in June.  He did so good!  I am one proud wifey.  His form was so much better this time around and he had great stamina (he's been training and conditioning for the past 2 months).  He fought in a  154 lbs. weight class.  I was sort of nervous for him, but more nervous for myself as I sang the national anthem.  I'm always afraid I will forget the words.  Porter did great.  He was so much more aggressive this time around and really controlled the ring.  About the end of the second round I had a hunch he had won because he was doing so well.  It also didn't hurt that he had the best cheering section there!  Thanks to all our friends and family and coworkers who made it out!  I especially love cheering with my lady friends, they get all loud and crazy just like me.  I'm in good company with them around.  Porter won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I'm am so incredibly happy and proud of him.

BAM!!! I'm Back!

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So I haven't been on the blog in a while, more than a while.  But the weather is getting colder and it gets dark way to soon for my liking, so I think the blog and I will get to be friends again.  Just a quick recap of the spring, summer, and and fall: Porter lost 40 lbs. and competed in is first ever amateur Muay Thai Kickboxing match.  He lost, but he is back in the ring this Saturday for his second fight!  So everyone better be cheering for Le Mustache! I am still in Grad School at Westminster studied Adult Ed.  I'm working on my Thesis right now which is on Gamification of Corporate Trainings.  I basally want to look at how to make adult education fun and meaningful at the same time.  There is finally a light at the end of the tunnel, I graduate in May! We had an amazing garden this year all thanks to a magical little thing called irrigation.  Porter and I designed and installed our own system.  It was sweet, quite literally, we ate some may yummies from our

Impromptu Photos Shoots and Leg Hangs

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 I shot a wedding the other day and rented a great lens for it.  Because I didn't want said awesome lens to go to waste I made Porter come out for an impromptu photo shoot with me last Sunday.  We went up to Westminster College campus and took these.  I think they turned out pretty well considering I set up the shot and took the pics via remote (a fabulous christmas present from the hubster ).  Porter really likes candid shots instead of posed ones.  So I try to set up moments where we can be in a nice position to have a candid moment, wink, wink.  It's not posing, I promise.  At least he believes it's not, so that is a win! The snow made it so bright.  After this picture I think we were both a little snow blind.  In other pole dancing news: I can finally do leg hangs!  I went to a class the other night with a fabulous teacher and ended up having a private session.  Classes where I am the only one scare me because all the attention is on you, which a wonderfu

L-O-V-E

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We celebrated our Grandma Bea's birthday in early February.  It was so fun to see her and all the family.  I LOVE spending time with all of them.  I also LOVE red velvet cake.  And because her birthday was so close to Valentine's Day I decided to make her a birthday cake of red velvet cupcakes.  She LOVED it as did everyone else, especially me!  I had seconds, and didn't regret a single crumb.  It was the last family gathering at her home as her life situation is changing and she is moving.  It was definitely a bitter-sweet gathering.  We helped move many of her belongings.  She gave us a bunch of food storage.  We are all prepared for the zombie apocalypse, just fyi.  The cousins or more affectionately the FAMBAM.  I LOVE them. This was the most awesome mountain man I found at Costco.  I asked to have my picture taken with him.  He told me he was 723 months old. I wish I could remember his name because it quite epic, but alas it was long and he said it very fa

Pin-up Photo Shoot

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For a Valentine's present for Porter I went to a Pin-up Party Photo night and took some photos.  Here are some of our favorites.   LockBox Studios does fun Girls night parties once a month, you should totally go check them out!