Outer Banks - Here I Come!

I'm going on vacation. Miss me, but... not too much.

Lost in my brain

Did you see the finale? Did you like it? I may have gotten teary eyed three times during the finale AND once after on the car ride home. Sentimental? perhaps. A couple of great love stories? Why yes, I think so. If you watched it and have a strong opinion, tell me about it in the comments!

State Dinner at the White House

Took this photo right before we ran into Beyonce outside the White House.... okay, maybe not. But we DID talk to a lady leaving the White House in a ball gown who told us Beyonce was there! So, this is a picture of me and Andrew about 500 feet from Beyonce (and Obama).

And THANK YOU internet, this is an actual photo of what we would have seen Beyonce looking like, had we actually seen her. This photo was taken last night on her way to the partay.

The Bird IS the Word!

Walking to the mailbox this evening I noticed a bright red bird who sang a tune that went woit woit woit... chew chew chew! I'd heard this guy before from my hammock where we have whistled back and forth. Today was the first day I've ever seen him!I ran upstairs to my room where I keep my Field Guide to Birds and verified him as a Northern Cardinal. Such a bright pretty fellow! Much prettier than say, a Northern Mockingbird...

Field Guide to Birds? Here's the kicker- in the brilliance of my brain and not wanting to take another massive science lecture course at BYU, I found out that I could take a bird watching course instead. So...

I NEVER ACTUALLY TOOK PHYSICAL SCIENCE!
A fact I forgot recently- see Physics comments.
(I went to this class AND got a good grade, Mom! SHELBY...)

And I'm no stranger to field guides. Jon got me an awesome astronomy field guide for Christmas last year. It's the size of a small child... but a field guide nonetheless. Lovin' my field guides... Ash

1... 2... 3...

1.)
Last night we saw "Robin Hood" and Jimmy did not disappoint when he brought his friend who looked like Russell Crowe! Here I am with my new friend Jason, Jason Crowe.
See the similarity??! Even more so when he speaks!
And can I just reiterate... H-O-T.
2.)
Robin Hood review: I really liked the love story between Robin and Lady Marian. I'm thinking I'll need to watch the movie again to really appreciate the entire thing. It was good, I just don't think I was in the zone! (we saw it pretty late at night...)
3.)
Erin wanted strawberry cupcakes for dessert tonight, so I made them. And they turned out lovely! Tasted like chocolate dipped strawberries... mmm...We made quite a few, and decided we'd better take the bulk to our friends (to avoid eating them all ourselves...). On our way to drop them off, it became apparent we may have already eaten too many! I said to Erin, "I feel ill like I might be nauseous and break out in a cold sweat" to which she replied, "the cupcake sweats!" (a play on Joey from Friends when he gets the meat sweats) I burst out laughing... first you eat too many cupcakes, and you get the cupcake sweats... then you have to put on sweats.
Here I am (without the cupcake sweats, in my sweats) with our cupcakes.
The end!

Draft - "She" team

I'm having a hard time pulling this draft list together... basically I just keep thinking of other men I wish were on my man draft! But, here goes... my "She" team only has 4 gals for now... TBD for the rest of them!



Amanda Peet- love her!






Evangeline Lilly- great hair/name!





Cate Blanchett- timeless!
Liv Tyler- magical!




MAN DRAFT- Waiting in the wings to join my team are the following...

I'd like a little bit of this, please...
or A LOT! .. Jim Caviezel










Add a dash of Lee Pace...












And a smidgen of Alan Tudyk. Much better. :)

Vampire Bats Softball

Last night I played my first game (the team's second game) of Softball for the National Geographic Vampire Bats. It was fun, our field was right in the National Mall, we were basically under the Washington Monument, hitting balls toward the Capital building. My team is made up of kids from NGT who are really cool, most of whom I haven't had a chance to work with yet.

Anyways, the point of this post is that this morning when I got to work there was an email from our coach that said:

And the MVP for the night is....

Ashley Pinney - in her first game with the Bats she was the most consistent hitter, pitched an inning or two, and had a couple of clutch catches in the field.

Little ol' me! :) This made my day.