Kayla and Brett

 These are a few pictures from my sisters, sister-in-law's wedding (hopefully that made sense).  I was asked to take most of the pictures for their wedding a few weeks ago and my sister (naturally) helped out.  I did the majority of them since she was in the wedding and then Lydia edited them.  I can't say I love taking pictures for weddings but this one was really fun : )  If you love these you'll love Lydia's..check her website out (she's the one who actually likes doing this stuff, ha)

http://diaimages.com/ or http://diaimages.blogspot.com/

Deaf Camp

 Day 1 at camp and we started off the week with some team work games.  It was so interesting to how everyone worked together but also frustrating; what seemed like such a simple task to me was hard for them to communicate.  They all come from different backgrounds, they don't know each other, some signed as their first language and some didn't sign at all.... it was such an interesting dynamic.

We also took hikes and rock climbed through the week.  It was so fun to be active and doing so much outside.  Rock climbing was actually a lot harder than I expected too.... it's definitely harder than it looks.

It was a hot week and we had plenty of water located all around the camp.  We played water sports and we went swimming once or twice a day.  In 100 degree weather, nothing else felt better.

Overall, camp was an awesome experience.  I improved my signing skills, met some really awesome kids and people my age, and I just had a blast being outside and having so many activities to do everyday.  It's definitely something I'll want to repeat next year!

David says I'm not a morning person....

...but he's totally right.  I can definitely relate to this.

My Day

 Lunch 

 Chuck has so much poise.

 Visiting David at Merry Lea

 Driving home from Fort Wayne.

Stephen

Davids little brother just graduated!   

The Twins

   My friend Heather had twins in November and they are gorgeous... Hadley & Lucas are quite a bundle of personalities. 

So Appalled

Alright.  I'm down for crazy music videos and I understand that I need to view the media not as a person but as a whole grouping without standards, but upon recently watching the "monster" music video by Kanye west... from the first 30 seconds played I was shocked.  There were women being hung, decapitated and lied dead, naked surrounding the artists during the song.

I would hope that people would agree that this is a degrading view of women.. it brought a dominance for men and objectified the women.  It seems as though videos become more and more extreme to bring the 'wow' factor to the table.. it expresses a sort of desperate nature that says "hey look at the dead and naked women in my video...i need to try something so inhumane so you'll pay attention".  Is this what we hold our standards to?  Does this challenge our brains?  Does it get us to think about what we are capable of?  Is this really our best.... I just hope that if you do chose to watch this, either determine your own perspective or if you are a man, put yourself in my shoes, as if you were a woman.

http://www.metatube.com/en/videos/62296/Kanye-West-ft-Jay-Z-Rick-Ross-Nicki-Minaj-Monster-Official-Music-Parody/