Several weeks ago I had the opportunity to tour the grounds for sculpture in hamilton with the central nj tri delta alumnae group. It was the perfect day – weather was gorgeous and the fellowship was wonderful!
The beautiful ladies!
You can view my Earth Day post from last year. An update this year…
We need to be aware of what we do to our Earth. Leave a comment with what you are doing. I always love to hear them!
Anthony and I drove down to Wilmington, Delaware to the Hagley Museum to celebrate my 27th. It was very peaceful, we had beautiful weather, and it was just what I needed.
This photo is of the family home – Eleutherian Mills. 5 generations of the DuPont family lived in this home. It was built in 1803.
We also spent the evening with all our neighbors/friends cooking on the grill. I am so thankful we live in this great community – and that they all came out to celebrate. I’m pretty sure I got them with homemade cupcakes!
I’m not sure if you gathered from this post that I’m a huge Wicked fan but I am. When I was first thinking about writing this post, two lines sung by Elphaba from Defying Gravity continued to run through my head.
Something has changed within me
Something is not the same
These two lines really resonant with me as I turn 27. 6 years ago Anthony got down on one knee two days before my 21st birthday to ask me to be his wife. The proposal wasn’t anything special, but it was very much us. We have come a long way since our junior year in college and the excitement of being able to legally drink.
We have made two entirely differently places home, making friends and then leaving them, the ups and downs of marriage, the joys and stresses of grad school, the fun times of being able to see parts of the country many people only dream of seeing, and growing as individuals.
When I looked ahead to my future (not sure I ever dreamed about 27), I never pictured myself living in the northeast and being a photographer. I was for sure I’d be a nurse or something in the medical field. Strange as it may be, nursing is what lead me to photography. I was finishing up a few science classes I wasn’t able to squeeze in at OU at the community college in Nashville when I discovered they offered photography classes. I took several classes and voila! here I am today. I did dream that we’d be starting a family by this time. Now that I’ve reached 27, I am perfectly content it being Anthony and I. We have so much more living to do.
I have become a better educated citizen, knowing what is going on in our world and standing firm in my beliefs. I am passionate about federal funding for education, libraries, and healthier, affordable food options for all families. I am deeply passionate about reading and literacy. I also know that I am not perfect and have learned to accept me for who I am.
This past year has been very trying on me. I felt that my strength and faith have been tested many times over. Any type of addiction affects family, friends, and those around you, no matter how near or far. This is the first birthday that I have not spent it with my mom – due to the circumstances with my nephews. That is tough. Even at 27 I still want my mom around for my birthday. I love celebrating with her. That part of me has not changed.
Anthony and I haven’t made up our minds entirely on what we are going to do today, but hopefully it will involve some beautiful flowers and trees!
I seriously love having my iphone! Anthony makes fun of me when I have my iphone in one hand and my camera in the other. There is something about the ease of the iphone (and I love being able to tweet & facebook the photos to make everyone jealous of our adventures!!)
Friday night we had dinner at Caliente Cab Co. in Greenwich Village. Yum-O! When we were walking to Caliente from the subway we say the wafels and dinges truck parked (dinges are the toppings you put on your Belgian wafel). It rang a bell and then it dawned on us they were on Throwdown with Bobby Flay. So on the way back from dinner we stopped for our desert. And I cannot go into NYC without stopping at Crumbs Bakery!
Here is the good part and where our luck changed! Anthony and I went to the matinee of Promises, Promises. As we were walking to our hotel we “passed” (being a relative term since its on a street we weren’t walking down – but I saw the sign) by the Wicked theater. On a whim I said, let’s try to get tickets to see Wicked tonight. We walked down to the theater to see a line forming. We got in line and I asked the 4 high school kids in front me of what the line was for (being so naive!). They told me it was for the lottery and that was about it. Then I overheard two guys behind us chatting about if they should stay in line or not. I turned around to ask them how it worked. They said how there are 14 pairs of tickets up for grabs at each performance. So we waited in line for 15 minutes, put our name in the drum, waited 30 minutes, and slowly they began calling names. AND MY NAME WAS CALLED!!!!!!! I was in shock, then elated, then tears began welling because I just WON the incredibly tough Wicked lottery. The middle photo is me after we were up with the other winners. And then the following photo are all the losers. We spent $52.50 for two 2nd row seats! Totally the best night I’ve had in a really long time. And don’t tell anyone that I took iphone photos of the stage and final bows.
Like I mentioned in this post, Anthony and I took a weekend getaway into NYC this past weekend. It was just what the two of us needed as school is “winding” down (I put that in quotes because a month away is Anthony’s first comp exam – which means life is going to be stressful in this household for the next 4 weeks!).
The whole reason we were even going to be in NYC was to see Promises, Promises. I adore Kristen Chenoweth (I mean she’s a fellow Okie!) and was excited to see her on Broadway. Unfortunately it was a bit of a let down, but I am glad we got to see her and Sean Hayes on stage together.
We arrived at our hotel Friday mid-afternoon to drop our things off before heading down to the Intrepid. All I can say is that is one huge boat!
Please tell me you can just hear the yell coming out of his mouth?!?!?
I was there! 
Saturday morning we ventured down towards the Flatiron so we could have lunch at Shake Shack in Madison Square Park. We had some time to kill before lunch, so we walked along until we found Union Square Farmers Market. And holy goodness if we weren’t walking more that day I would have bought much more than our few muffins and empire apples.
All the fresh flowers made me smile – spring is here!!!!
I seriously had no idea how popular the Shake Shack is, but I’m glad we got in line when we did. By the time we ordered, the line was starting to wrap around the park. The food was delicious and I even had a banana & vanilla concrete (Rusty’s Frozen Custard in Oklahoma serves these so it was a little piece of “home” in NYC!)
I have another post coming up with iphone photos including some incredibly good luck we had on Saturday night!
