Self portrait

As I was browsing through blogs yesterday I came across a blogging challenge.  It is a challenge where I blog everyday in September except for weekends, I can make up blogs at any time, but not a requirement.  Since I am starting the challenge late I will start with yesterdays blogtember post "self portrait".  

This was more challenging than I thought it would be; where to take the picture, how to "pose", should I edit the photo?  I decided to take it in my bedroom against a white wall and not edit the photo.  This is who I am on a daily basis, jeans and a t-shirt.   I got a haircut three days ago and I am loving the new look, I have also been working on losing weight.  Today's self portrait is a good perspective of who I am right at this very moment; a housewife, an aunt, a babysitter, an aspiring blogger, as well as an aspiring photographer.  I have many daily rolls but at the end of each day I can say that I am happy and in love.

 

 

As I work on my blog, change it and improve the image and the type of writing I do, I hope you all continue to return.  I promise that it will get better than this!

 

 

 

 

 

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Happy 1st wedding anniversary!

That's right, you read that correctly Bill and I have been married for one year as of September 1st.  It has been an amazing first year with many highs as well as lows, to celebrate we decided to take a trip.  We went on a mini road trip to the East coast and stayed in Atlantic City at Caesars. We had a beautiful view of the ocean as well as the city from the 37th floor.  I have never been to the East coast and thought this would be the perfect time to do so, I had some comp rooms available which meant a FREE stay for us, 4 days 3 nights.  

Our room number

 

Our amazing ocean view

 

We spent 4 days relaxing, drinking and spending time with one another, walking up and down the boardwalk, basically spent 4 days doing nothing.  It was a much needed vacation as our lives have become very busy over the past few months.   On our last day we spent a few hours down by the ocean, played in the sand and caught a perfect sunset.

 

                                                                  

 

Overall it was an amazing trip, I look forward to another road trip with my husband.   It turns out that I am the better long distance driver out of the two of us.  I actually enjoyed the driving more than I thought I would, probably because it was mostly beautiful scenery.

 

A new family favorite

A new favorite in our house is Stuffed Pepper Soup, this recipe after reading it over reminded me of how my mom use to make stuffed green peppers as a kid.  After cooking it as directed the first time, I realized it needed a few fixes to meet what we prefer.  So instead of 2 cans of diced tomatoes I will use one, instead of only one pepper I will use several as well as more rice.  Overall the first go at this soup was delicious.  I let it simmer for the directed amount of time.

I made this soup 2 days ago, with the changes mentioned above and a few more.  I basically doubled the recipe this time, but still only using one can of diced tomatoes.  It seems, though no matter how much tomato sauce or soup I add it still comes out as a stew.