Guess what?  We played a new game tonight & I WON!!!!  TWICE!!!!  Yeah, sorry to brag, but I’m on this 3+ month Settlers of Catan losing streak & just needed to win.  My brother & sister-in-law (Matt & Emily) bought Mom this new card game called Bullet.  It even comes in this cool tin shaped like a bullet.  They taught us to play tonight at the joint January Birthdays Party  for Josh, Bert, & Laura and it was so fun!  There’s character cards, like in CLUE, where you are either the Sheriff, the Renegade, the Deputies, or the Outlaws.  The goal is different depending on your character.  It’s like a western mixed with a card game.  Kinda hard to explain, but not hard to explain that I WON!  Okay, I’m officially done bragging. This shot is of my sheriff’s badge & some of my cards.  It was so fun!

Photos I’ve been looking at: Josh Mazgelis at JMaz Photography.  He responded to my iPhone App giveaway and I usually check out all of my blog commentors’ websites.  He’s doing a 365 too!  It’s so neat to look at others 365 ideas & see what their days consist of.  Thanks for the blog comment Josh & thanks for the feedback on my App!

Okay, let me first preface this blog post by saying these are not Bethany’s online dating profile pictures…puh-leez!  She doesn’t need any of that.  However, if she meets her dream man due in some part to my post, she’ll be obligated to hire me as her photographer for every future life event.

I forced Bethany to let me take her out (after we got killa haircuts!) and get some photos for her upcoming missions trip to China.  I don’t know much about what her trip is about, except is about spreading Jesus and teaching English…what more is there?  She’ll be starting a blog soon and I’ll be sure to update you on that.

What I DO know is that Bethany is probably one of my most difficult photography subject.  Just kidding!  It was a little challenging though because Bethany has this weird trait:  She can’t NOT smile!  She just can’t do it.  If you try to get anything but a smile, she doesn’t look like Bethany.  So, in order to get a “natural” smile, I had to just be super funny and make her laugh a lot.  And to punish me, Bethany made me get my picture taken at the end…but we’ll save those photos for later.

So Bethany, my dear, I had a blast with you yesterday.  I enjoyed every minute of every little silly story I shared to make you giggle.  Our entire family will really miss you and everything we share…Settlers, Rock Band, LOST, Heavy Weights, WH?AT, and so much more!

Enough already before I cry….here’s Bethany!