Where did the time go?

Long time no see my lovely blogger friends! I'm sorry I've neglected this blog, but it's time for a catch up!

So, what have I been up to?

Way back in July I went with my mom to Tulsa's new free music festival, the Center of the Universe Festival!

Escaping the heat in the Vanguard"s bathroom.

It was an amazing festival!  The bands that we went to see were Ok Go and Neon Trees

Ok Go

Neon Trees

Neon Trees

If you want to see more of my photos from the festival, just click the link here!

Not long after that, I went with my mom to the Rock Allegiance Tour featuring Airbourne, All That Remains, HIM, and Volbeat.

Before the concert

During the Concert

Me acting like a goof ass in the venue's bathroom mirror!

Airbourne

All That Remains

All That Remains

HIM

Volbeat 

For more pictures from this event, click this link!

Then at the beginning of October, I met up with my friend Rachael to go see All Time Low, Pierce the Veil, and A Day To Remember on the House Party Tour.

Before the Concert

During the Concert

Pierce the Veil

All Time Low

A Day To Remember

A Day To Remember fucking killed it! Their effects were amazing.  Probably one of the best concerts I have been to in quite a while!

For pictures from this show click this link!

Later that same month, I went to see Taking Back Sunday with Rachael and her friend Sarah.

I also finished up my 5th semester of college!  And I made 2 pretty amazing friends along the way, Kindra and DJ

It's been a pretty damn good year!

If you are interested in my photography, it would mean a lot to me if you would check out my Flickr.

Flickr.com/photos/jessieann13

I love you guys so much, and I will hopefully get more posts up soon!

Peace, Love, Music<3

Catch Up

It's been quite awhile since I last posted, I've kinda missed it!  I have quite a few ideas rattling around in this head of mine, but while I work on them I thought I would catch you up on some of what has been going on with me!

The past few weeks have been quite hectic as I prepared for finals.  One of my professors gave us the opportunity to not take one of her test if we visited the Aphrodite exhibit that was at one of our local museums.  Being someone who does not particularly like test (seriously, who does?) I jumped at the opportunity.  And while I was there I took a few pics in front of the beautiful old home that is the museum.

Don't you just love my super sophisticated attire? :P

 Other random pictures from that day:

During finals week, my finals fell at weird times, leaving me with tons of time in between.  Boredom led me to take my first public bathroom mirror selfie.  Aren't you just so proud?

The day of my last final, my mom and I went shopping so I could give her an idea of what I want for my 20th birthday (which is this Monday, and I am so excited!!)

Here is my outfit from that:

I'm actually kinda sad that this semester is over.  I've made so many new friends that I love and can't wait to hang out with this summer. :)

I hope everyone is doing well!

Peace, Love, Music<3

Halloween 2012

Wow, this post is seriously late!  But better late than never :)

This Halloween is one of the best I've had in a while.  At first I thought that it would just be me, my mom, and my nana watching movies.  Then I got a call from a friend asking me to go trick-or-treating.

Now you may be asking yourselves, "Jessie, you are 19 years old.  Did you really go trick-or-treating?"

Yes, yes I did :)

I threw on my cat ears

Gave myself cat eyes

Best photo I had of them

And drew on some whiskers

And was out the door!  

I went with my friends Faith, Dustin, and Wyatt.  We went through one of the major neighborhoods in our town, which meant we got to see some other people we knew as we went.

It was nothing crazy.  No wild parties or insane stories, but I got to be with my friends and have fun.  I spent time with someone who is special to me and will forever be close to my heart.  

I had one hell of night :)

Hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween!

Peace, Love, Music <3

Update

Well, I survived giving my first speech!  I didn't do as well as I had hoped I would, but it wasn't as bad as it could have been.  It helped having an old friend in that class so I didn't feel alone. 

I also have a few old friends in my Art Appreciation class, one of which I haven't seen in 3 years.  It's amazing how much can happen in that amount of time.  He graduated when I was a sophomore, and since then he has done so much, including living in Asia for six months. He's a crazy artistic goofball and I'm glad he's back in town.

That's about all I have for you guys right now.  Hopefully I'll have more interesting post coming up.  Hope everyone has a good week!!

Peace, Love, Music<3

Excitement

This past week has been insanely busy!

Monday I went shopping with my mom to get some new jeans and such for the upcoming school year (yes i still go back to school shopping with my mom, don't judge) and found my new favorite shirt

On Wednesday I went shopping with Hailey for boots and found these lovely's

They make me about a half inch taller, but they are so cute I don't even care,
Then on Thursday, I went to see House of Heroes, William Beckett, HelloGoodBye, and Relient K with Hailey, Reso, and Dillon, where we met up with a few other friends.

We also got to meet the guys from House of Heroes! :)

I had a lot of fun with my friends, and all the bands were amazing!

More to come!

Peace, Love, Music<3

Anniversary Photography

This past Monday, my friend Hailey asked me to take photos of her and her boyfriend for their one year anniversary.  Of course, I said yes and we headed of to the local park.

Here are some of the shots:

*Warning: picture heavy*

We started off just having them walk down a path holding hands....

Then we moved on to the playground, starting with the swings....

Then on to the slide, where Dillon tried to convince Hailey to slide into a puddle...

 I then got some shots of Dillon playing on the little kiddy toy...

 Before he jumped into the toddler swing!

 After we left the playground, we found a wonderful set of pretty, yet sketchy brick steps...

We then stumbled across a building with a mural painted on the sides.  Haliey thought it was a sunset, Dillon said a fire, so I'll let you be the judge! :)

Next, we searched for a generic brick building that would be good for background shots.  Who knew the perfect one would be the side of the restrooms? (sorry to anyone we freaked out while doing this!)

This is where we tried some of the poses that Hailey and I had conversed about previously...

The hug pose...

This pose was actually two separate photos that I edited together...

Yes, I had to be all artsy and turn it black and white, don't judge! :)

We tried two heart poses...

 Here is where we broke out the sharpies and documented their year...

Then their nicknames for each other...

(Virtual brownies if you can tell me what show it's from :p )

Next was a simple bench shot...

And finally, the obligatory piggy back ride.  Do I have a picture of Hailey with pure fear face? Yes, yes I do.  Will I show you? Of course not! Mostly because she just might kick my butt :p

I had so much fun doing this shoot.  It really solidified my want to be a photographer.  Something I figured out early in the day that some of the best shots were when they were paying absolutely no attention to the camera.  Those just turned out so cute and natural looking.

Happy Anniversary you two!

Peace, Love, Music <3