Petite Panoply

Happy Thursday and happy Valentine's Day! Usually these posts are filled with internet finds, but this one is dedicated to my boyfriend Matt on this day of lurvvvv. Here's a quick journey through the past 5+ years. The pictures go backward in time all the way to our first date (which was homecoming our senior year of high school). I think the love is pretty visible.

We finally got out to the botanical gardens to take some pictures among the fall leaves. I think we missed some of the foliage, but there was still plenty to look at. Matt likes going to the gardens and walking the trails and I try to keep up as I take way too many pictures. He humored me this time by letting me take pictures of us together. I try to add to the small collection of decent pictures we have whenever I get a chance. Let's just say we're opposites when it comes to having pictures taken of us. Luckily a few turned out alright this time! Going through the pictures was pretty hilarious. We're making weird faces in most of them or talking to each other. This next one was me gracefully slipping when I had the bright idea of taking a picture with that fungus-covered log on the left there. Luckily Matt was there to help me so I didn't end up with a lovely picture of me on the ground. What I'm wearing in case you were wondering: |...

My graduation wouldn't have been any fun without my family being there. My favorite pictures were ones with them and with Matt, so I decided I should post some of those. You'll probably notice we're not a serious bunch. However this first picture is my favorite picture of me and Matt ever. Family picture time! We like to think of varied and unique poses to keep the pictures interesting. I like to call this one "check face". It's a classic. This one is the result of a surprise piggy back ride: I hope you all had a nice weekend! All of my graduation festivities are over after my party yesterday. I'm pretty sure I won't subject you to any more graduation pictures. Thanks for all the congratulations! 

Yesterday I went up to north campus with Matt to snap a few pictures before the actual graduation festivities begin. I'll be taking a bunch more with my family today and tomorrow, but I thought it'd be good to get a few practice poses in. Plus I could wear a more casual outfit in these - not that I'm not pumped to wear my new red lace Shabby Apple dress! We ended up running up there pretty quick in between the rain. It started pouring once we took out the tripod to take a few pictures together! So we ran. And that was the end of our Wednesday picture time adventure. These were taken with my new camera! Hooray! Ringing the UGA Chapel Bell: With the arch, the symbol of the University of Georgia. (It's a legend that if a freshman walks underneath it then they'll never graduate. So most students refuse to walk under it until they graduate, just in case. I haven't yet!): skirt, shoes, bow: forever 21 blouse: kohls belt: thrifted ...

Yesterday was UGA's senior day which marked the last time we seniors would perform in Sanford Stadium as Redcoat Band members. It's pretty strange to know that 8 years of marching is coming to an end. I've been marching since I was 13-years-old. Oh band. It's a love/hate relationship, but mostly love. I will go into detail with pictures from Saturday's game:    Love: that I met my boyfriend through marching band. Love: the funny people I've met along the way. Hate: waking up before the sun rises and practicing on game days Love: my senior flower which I feel like should have been included as part of our uniform for every game because they're so pretty. Hate: hats that never fit quite right with [more often than not] plumes that have lost half of their feathers. Love: being on a gigantic screen. (The side of my head is on the very left for our senior tribute.) Hate: the fact that these uniforms make you hot when it...