Food Photography

 On a scale from 1-10, my cooking skills rate a modest 2.5. In terms of marriage material, I am lacking in the cooking dept- this I know- BUT in the cleaning dept I am top tier. Foodgawker.com has just convinced me that it's time for me to get cookin'

Beware- weight gain my occur from just looking at the website above.

Travel

 Even when I am at work or at home, I have a irrevocable need to travel the world.  The websites below are chicken soup for my traveling soul.

http://matadornetwork.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/09/19/travel/20090919-why-we-travel-reader-photos.html

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's life." Mark Twain

Rod's Wedding + Family Shout Outs

I was at my cousin Rod's wedding last weekend in a small town outside Chicago. My distant family, people I hadn't seen in 10 years were there. People's faces were so familiar but there were some faces that I couldn't remember and I feel like I should have. I got stuck on that thought, about how there is a portion of my life that I do not remember and not because I was too young but more because I rarely ever see these people anymore. It was wierd to revisit those times that I had long forgotten. Rod's voice, my uncle's hugs my grandmother's antics made the distance memories flood my brain with a reality that I had long forgotten. Regardless, it was a needed family reunion.

Kasey's first experience with the future!
Kasey Elizabeth Perkins- 5'9" tall, tanned skin , black haired beauty- my opposite from the looks of things. I saw my sister for the first time in almost a year an a half last weekend at my cousin Rod's wedding. I was good at keeping in touch with one person when I was over in Paris last year and it was her. I cannot imagine what LIFE would be like without her. Multiple people have told me that most of the time they have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about. Could be a compliment but probably not...but I am ok with this because as long as one person understands me, and Kasey does, then I'm ok.

 My grandmother's attempt to use a digital camer on the left.

3 Generations of Smith/Perkins women- one would not be without the other.