South Bend/Chicago Trip

Well, this post is over a month late. Sorry, it's been a busy month! About 5 weeks ago, My Dad, brother, cousin, myself and 6 other friends of my brother, hopped on a plane in our U of U gear head for Chicago. Our destination, though, was South Bend, Indiana. Home of the Fighting Irish. The game would prove to be quite painful, but all in all, it was a great trip.

All 10 of us walking to Harry Carey's for dinner

Picking up the rental cars

Matt, Harry Carey and me

on campus

Looking mafioso in the Cathedral

Look who we found--Eric Weddle. All in the pic excluding my Dad will admit to Eric Weddle crushes!

outside the stadium

All of us inside the stadium

We are clueless right here as to how bad this game will be. 3.5 hours of rain and pain

We sat in the faculty section of ND and found some sweet Catholic friends to take our photo

The fly-over



Last pic I took of the field. Before the game even started. There was nothing good that happened during the game.

The game was horrible and we got rained on almost the whole time. But South Bend was beautiful and the fans were very warn and inviting. I would totally live in South Bend. It was lovely! That night we drove back to our hotel in Chicago and walked a few blocks to Giardanos for some deep-dish pizza. I have no pics of it bc we waited 2 hours to get our pizza and i was so tired by the time we finally ate. Next day was Sunday. My co-worker, Seth and his wife Bre used to live in Chicago and they told me we had to have breakfast at the Bongo Room. So we did. It was delightful! (see proof below)

Dan's Oreo-banana pancakes



Matt had the breakfast burrito and hash browns



Dad had pumpkin spice pancakes



I had the chocolate tower of french toast. Are you kidding me? And this was only 1/2 the portion. But I ordered a side of bacon and they brought me out 8 pieces. Weird,  but no complaints here. It was delightful.

After, we were thinking of getting tix to the Bears/Vikings game, but they were pricey and we were spent after the game the day before, so we opted for a boat tour of the city instead. It was cold, but fun.



At Navy Pier. This was pretty much the end of our journey. After this we drove to the airport and flew home. All in all, it was a great trip other than the game that we flew there to see. But we had a good time, have some new Cathollic buddies, ate some delicious food, were able to touch Eric Weddles arms of steel, and for that we are all happy campers!

My New Love...

This past Sunday was my Mother's Birthday. Happy Birthday Mom! For her Birthday some of the family decided it would be fun to get her lightroom photoshop and so began my love affair with it. As most of you know i recently bought a Nikon D3000 and am absolutely in love with taking pictures with it and lightroom helps so much! Anyway I thought it would be fun to show some of the pictures I've played around with in lightroom. So here we go...

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My little Ammon. Didn't change much here just softened his skin and he had a little rash under his nose that I got rid of. 

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Mom and Dad in Cedar Breaks. I love them!

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Erin who looks good no matter what. She is definitely the photogenic one. Brat!

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Sarah at the temple waiting for Whit and John. Just gave this one more of a retro feel. No touching up needed.

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Whit's hair at the wedding. So pretty!

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I'm just going to apologize right now for the before of this one. Scary of me! The kiddies always look cute though!

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My little Easton sporting the U hat. Just made his skin more clear. How cute is he?

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All I can say is thank goodness for photoshop!

                                                                                

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Hottie Mcgee @ Salt Flats.

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Up in the Canyons on a Fall day.

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Took out all the chocolate on Easton's face (not that there's anything wrong with having chocolate on your face. Can you tell we are related?) also used the retro preset. If you have lightroom get retro preset. It's one of my favs!

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Easton the Giraffe in sepia chic (also an awesome preset!)

                                            

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Temple with autumn leaves.