Drawing and 2D Design

What I've been up to ALL semester long...well most of it.

OVER!

Well this semester is over! (officially thursday) But it's so nice! We start back up again though really soon for summer semester. Here's what I've been up to.

Photography Portfolio:( click on the photos)

Drawing to come.

About Dang Time...

Well I think it's about time for me to write again. It's amazing how busy Randy and I have been! Randy is busy with school, preparing for the Athletic Training program at BYU. He will start that program in the fall and we'll have two years or so before Chiropractic school. It's been fun to attend his Pre-Chiropractic club meetings with him, especially when there's pizza ;) But it's really been good to learn about what he will be doing and investigating schools. We're pretty set on Dallas, Texas, but we shall see!

I have been trucking away at Utah Valley University working on a Photography degree. It's been challenging because I've had to take drawing classes---If you know me...you know I can't draw to save my life. But it's actually been really cool to see that I actually CAN draw...Just takes practice! I love this quote "To be creative, we must first lose our fear of being wrong." AMAZING! Everytime we start a new project, this comes to my mind. I never want to start because I'm afraid it will turn out awful. But I'm actually not bad! So I was planning out the next couple of semesters and if all goes well, I will graduate Fall 2013! It's nice to see a light at the end of the tunnel. Throughout this whole process, I've had such a difficult time justifying a degree in Photography. I don't need a degree to do photography. But we felt it was the best way for me to get a degree in general and to learn and grow in Photography. I figured I would be taking classes and workshops anyways, so it's nice to be learning so much. Another thing I've struggled with is the fact that anyone would pick up a camera and consider themselves a photographer. Which sounds AWFUL! I know....But the term for it is Momarazzi. I know that that is how I started out and still my photography can't be categorized as mega profesh, but I've made it a goal to be the most amazing photographer that I can be. Every session I do, I try and take the best pictures and capture personalities. To capture moments and freeze time for families and new families. But I've always felt like I want to do something that helps people and changes the world :) Growing up, I wanted to be a marine biologist and help the sea animals. Next a nurse, then dental hygiene. But none of that seemed to work out. Photography literally just fell in my lap. Just popped up out of nowhere. And I'm so grateful and excited about it.  I feel like maybe this is how I will change the world-Photography. I did just do a session of some little boys and their mom said that the pictures brought tears to her eyes. Um...that made my heart leap! It made me feel like I was important and can make a difference! Sometimes, I go to the temple on Wednesdays and for those of you who don't know, that's MTC day. So it's loaded with crying families. I've always wanted to go up and just take pictures for the families. Of course, no charge, but just to help them out. Anyways. I have vented....lay it on me folks.

So this last General Conference was so awesome! I always love getting answers to my questions. This time, I went with the questions of kids and family and amazingly, the whole first session (it seemed) was focused on Families! I've just learned that I need to prepare myself for a family and get ready for the responsibilities, spiritual and temporal, that it brings.

Well, other than that, we are rather quite boring. I had Spring Break (Randy did not), so I went up to Idaho to be with family and to take pictures! Check out www.Kayleighsearle.com for the pictures I took. Annoyingly, my teacher gave me a ton of homework that I was working on the whole time. But my mom, seester and brudda came down to hang out and I loved that! I love seeing them. We shopped, played Dance Central and just had fun together. Randy's friends also came down for Conference weekend and that was fun. We went to Randy's mission reunion and that is always fun. I love seeing Randy laugh and be happy around his mission buddies. Randy's friend Chase proposed to his girlfriend before they came down and that was fun to hear the news! I love his fiance and I know we will get along GREAT while them boys are sleddin'.

Randy and I bought the Insanity work out so stay tuned for super sexy bodies!

That's not going to happen. It's literally insane. But we are trying :)

Well..... PEACE AND BLESSINS'

Alive

I know I have been very absent. This semester has been crazy and so busy. I plan to post my photography and art portfolios for you to show you what I've been up to. But we are surviving. We are at school all the time and any spare time we have we spend together.  

Today I spent the day with Amy's kids. Four kids are a handful! But they are all so different and so fun. I've been thinking a lot about us and kids and what will happen with that. We will be meeting with the doctor next month to make sure I'm alright. But as for the hope for kids soon, I don't know about it. We never know what God has in store, but we know it's in his hands. 

Hope your Leap Day is great!

Floppy Arms

Do you remember the scene in Harry Potter (not sure which one) where he breaks his bone, then the Professor makes his bones disappear? Floppy arm??

I felt like that today....x2.

Have you ever slept on your arms all night and when you wake up, there's absolutely no feeling in them? Just floppy arms? I woke up this morning and BOTH of my arms were completely numb...all floppy like.

Usually I just use the other arm to pick up the numb one and shake it around to get the blood back flowing...but I was helpless today because BOTH were numb. So I sat up and just started rotating my body, twisting and flopping my lifeless arms around until the blood started flowing. 

And I couldn't help but laugh hysterically at myself.

I'm trying to paint a visual...but I guess you could just do it yourself. Just let your arms hang lifeless and flail them around just using the velocity of your rotating body...

I'm a nerd.

I guess you had to be there....

Year in Review

Instead of typing out a lengthy post, I'll give you summaries/highlights and the link where you can read for yourself...because the originals are better...and I'm funny in them... ;)

January: Car Accident

February: Randy's Birthday Getaway-We brought his mission buddies up to the cabin and partied :)

March: My grandma passed away and I miss her and Grandpa terribly.

April: HOUSE REDO! (the beginning)

May: U2 Concert-Pure Heaven.

June: Girls Retreat and finish the House!

July: Get to know neighbors and spend 24 hours of Awesome with them!

August: 2 1/2 week trip to Idaho

September: Turned the big 2-1!

October: 1st Miscarriage

November: Thanksgiving! (link is in December...but the title fits the month :])

December: 2nd Miscarriage, Christmas, and New Years!

Anti-climatic?? Sorry! :)

2011 was an alright year...I've heard a lot of people say that 2011 just wasn't awesome for them and overall I agree. I had a lot of heartache and hard times. But I also had lots of fun and great family to support!! I've been greatly blessed and had many new things happen!

School turned out great! Zupas was good to me. Randy's been the best supportive husband ever! Hope that this year brings good things like a baby!! Third times a charm right??

As for last years "Resolutions" let's see how I did!

1. Begin and finish Thank You cards from wedding...By march at least. 

(I know I'm bad...I'm trying...) CHECK!

2. Do lots of photography and put my name out there. KIND OF CHECK...Become more confident in my abilities and also learn more with classes and tips. CHECK!

3. Try new things. New food, new activities and new traditions. CHECK-ishhh.

4. Become fit and love myself. 

(I know this is everyone's goal. But I want to enjoy being active and doing outdoorsy things. And by having more confidence in myself, I can improve my marriage.) WOW...sounds like my marriage was rough...which it wasn't...and not so CHECK. I didn't gain any weight though!

5. Take a vacation.

Anywhere... CHECK!

6. Fix up the house and make it a home. CHECK...for the most part.

7. Continue finding new hobbies and becoming more creative. Sure...CHECK!

8. Find my outgoing self once again and make some friends. CHECK!

Thank you to Kim and Vika, my visiting teachers and my sisters that I visit for making this happen! As for the outgoing....CHECK-ishhhh

9. Attend the temple as often as possible. CHECK!

10. Start school again. CHECK!

Not bad!!

For this year..it's pretty much the same...

1. Keep pushing the photography. Build website and portfolio. Know that I'm awesome :)

2. Become fit. Happy with myself.

3. Decorate house like I picture in my head :)

4. Keep doing well in school (4.0 baby!! I did great this semester!)

5. Be able to carry and pregnancy and if not, find out why I can't.

6. Become a better Christian. Love and spread the love.

7. Prosper with ACN and break this nervous bubble I'm in.

8. Love my husband more and more and more!

9. Attend Temple more oftener than before :)

10. Choose to be happy and make it happen!

Good luck to you with your resolutions!

Christmas 2011

Our Christmas and New Years was so nice. It was a much awaited trip home and so good to be with friends and family.

We started off with Randy's parents because they would be leaving for Hawaii later in the week. We went to Texas Roadhouse...twice in one day :) Randy loved it! We had his parents house all to ourselves which was nice. 

We went to my uncle Kents house for Christmas Eve where we do the typical nativity and open a few presents, eat and play. 

Posing for the Camera

Sheny not wanting her picture taken.

My dad too.

Check out Don's face....on the left :)

Christmas Jammies!

Our awesome new ski/snow masks from Momma :)

 

Talking to my Brother who's in Peru on a Mission...You can check out his blog here.

Then we went to the Cabin. Randy's parents got a new sled and I LOVE it...Wanna see my awesome skills????

I'm being dragged....because I refuse to let go. :)

NO one messes with the pro :)

New Years was great! We got together with friends and played games all night...Randy and his brother and friend played COD til two en la mañana....Too much if you ask me! But I had my share of time wasting reading the HUNGER GAMES.

Most excellent read :)

Hope your Christmas and New Years was great!!!