Alison

Alison is one of my pledge sisters from the sorority, Sigma Phi Lambda. She attends University of North Texas and is majoring in Journalism. She was so willing to do what I asked she was awesome. I may not officially be a Phi Lamb anymore, but I'm glad to have her as a pledge sister.

When I Was a Counselor....

During the summer of 2011 I was a camp counselor for Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas. It was an interesting job. I would drive up to the camp Sunday morning go home Friday night and the cycle continued for two months. The first few weeks were my favorite because I worked with middle school aged girls, and the program was a "water sport" type of program. So during the week we would mostly hang out by the lake going tubing, knee boarding, and kayaking. That was awesome cause I got a really really good tan those first two weeks. I also met a lot of people from other countries cause they were my fellow counselors. All of us counselors kind of bonded during the summer. Our last week was a day camp and on our last night together, I had a mini shoot with my fellow counselors. These are just some of the photos and some of the counselors:

This is Paua. She was one of the New Zealand girls.
You don't want to mess with her ;)

This is Grover. She was the Waterfront Director. She was so sweet to everyone.

These two are Willow and Bevo. Willow joined us the last few weeks of day
camp to help us out. I actually knew Bevo from church camp and it was a huge
surprise to run into her during training!

This is Cupcake. She was one of our girls from England. I really wanted
to learn her accent cause it was so awesome!

These are Daisy, Kiwi, Chip, and Treble. Daisy was chill and the two of us together
were known as the "garden" (my name was Rose). Kiwi was the other New Zealander. She
was funny and adorable, like a little puppy. Chip was the other Englander. All of her
campers loved her. She is also the only one of us who went back to camp. Treble
was so nice and a little bit of a flirt. She actually pushed me to flirting with this one guy
at the neighboring boy scout camp ;)

This is Dorothy. Her name is that because she was from Kansas, but she didn't
come via tornado nor did she have red slippers. One time Dorothy actually tackled
me, on accident of course (at least that's what she kept saying). ;)

And just one more of Kiwi!

Back in Denton

After graduating Plano Senior High School, I attended University of North Texas. Well I didn't stay there forever, but I did make some good friends. These are pictures of some of my first friends from UNT. They were awesome about letting me shoot them. We went to the Square cause it was one of the most awesome places in Denton. All the shops around there are like little mom and pop shops. That's one thing I really liked about Denton. The shopping was so awesome. My favorite place was this little bead and knick knack shop called Mary Jane. I bought some cute little charming things from that place. I am so glad I met these girls! These are Elaine (blonde), Megan (red converse), Hannah (green flowered dress), and Danae (long red hair).

Louisiana Sunset

I have family that live out in Lake Providence, Louisiana. Every few years we would try to drive out there to visit for a few days. Honestly, it is a small country town so there isn't much going on. Which is why I don't like going all the way out there all the time. It does have a nice charm. Like my uncle's dock that stretches into the lake. That is the perfect place to fish and layout. It was also really close to the house, since the lake was technically in the backyard.

One summer we went out there a few months after I got my first DSLR. I wanted to take a picture of the sunset over the lake (this was before I realized how cliche it was). My little sister, Emily, was really really into dance at this point, so I had her do some leaps and jeté. Here is my all time favorite from that night :)