California

Day 2.

blue skies & palm trees

things i miss from living in L.A
Knotts Berry Farm with snoopy

the boomerang
there i am, next to chastin in the front, screaming my head off!
this ride broke my earring!
i loved it!

Knotts has many roller coasters for big kids,

you can tell they were having so much fun!

john hadn't been on this ride since he was 6.

best part- no lines

so if we liked a ride we just stayed on till we got our fill

lunch

nathans famous dogs- a whole foot long!

chastin and shilo shared

unlike disney, knotts doesn't have characters walking around

so we had to make due with pictures of them

shilos favorite ride!

a roller coaster that swivels around while on the track

after 4 times in a row, i was feeling a little dizzy, but she was ready to go again!

California

Day 1. scavenger hunt to find out where we are going
in 'n out burger


Huntington Beach {one of my favorites}

just the two of them, waiting for the waves

Weird but true!

A 100 pound person would weigh 38 pounds on MARS.

fact from National Geographic kids, 300 outrageous facts

thinking i should move there!

A thought to make me smile.

Some people are like slinkies. Not really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.

Setala shoot

laura is a good friend from high school,

and when she had her first baby, she asked me for some shots.

grandmother and granddaughter

laura, chris and baby isaac

THE BUCKET LIST

So my workout partner and i were on our way home one night recently, and places we would like to see before we die came up. She had all sorts of cool "bucket ideas" {see italy} and i really didn't have any ideas. then i was talking to bridget over our sunis lunch on monday, and she too had cool bucket list ideas. So here goes..Please make no judgments, remember this list is my list and yours will probably have completely different things on it. All the things aren't really significant or daring, just things i think i might want to do someday. I would love for you to post a bucket list of your own! Can't wait to see what you came up with!
So here is a small sampling.
written by torrie age 30.

• visit Jamaica
• go on a cruise with my husband
• do the columbia tower fireman's climb
• have a prom
• walk the 3 day breast cancer walk in honor of my grandma
• try skiing {it's cold in the mountains, so this would be a real challenge for me}
• meet and stay at my healthy goal weight
• own a ranch in montana, with a custom built house designed by us.
• take a college photography class
• get a massage
• go on a zip line
• learn to play an instrument
• discover my talent i was blessed with
• try a spinning class
• see an Oprah show
• have a nose job
• learn to swim
• take all 5 of my kids to Disney World and the Bahamas
• wear a 2 piece
• take my grand kids to Disneyland
• go white water rafting {i'm afraid of the water}

my list will get longer and i didn't add every thing {as not to bore you too much} and maybe your list will have something that i haven't thought of yet! so think about it... what's on your Bucket List.

365

When chastin was a baby i wanted to take one picture of him every day.

i didn't do it. it was the days of film.

every picture would have to be developed.

so when true came, and i had a few digital cameras around

i thought- why not?

from jan. 12,09- jan 12,10 i have taken a picture every day of him.

{i missed a total of 5 days}

so again, i thought, it wasn't that hard, why not do a picture for every day

of my every day life?

so it begins.

for me, a project, something to do just for myself.

a 365.