Photography Phun!

Angela and I have developed a tremendous love for photography lately. We by no means consider ourselves professionals, however we are indeed hobbyists of the truest sense. We have gone on some amazing dates and seen some breathtakingly beautiful scenes. Additionally, we managed to capture some of those scenes with our camera. Someday we hope to get a really great camera for photography. --You know the kind! But for now, we are just having fun anyways. Angela probably tries to think about what she'd like to see on a postcard or calendar. She commented last Friday while at Barnes and Noble how we oughta make a calendar and sell it. I'm more about what would make a good desktop background I guess, but I'm not opposed to trying to make a bit of money either! :) Tell us what you think!

Are we on our way?

By the way, these pictures look best if you click on them and view the larger size.

Angela photographed the amazing spiderweb on the bridge along with the incredible blossoms on the trees in DC.

Baby Name Contest

Alright, this contest is for all family out there. Friends, you really can participate too. Here is what you have to do to win a prize --and trust me, these aren't stupid prizes either. Anybody who is a kid or kid at heart would just eat these prizes right up! :) So of course all family members, including nieces and nephews, are allowed to enter. Parents, please help your children post under your blog ID (but with something so I know who to credit the suggestion to).

Steps to enter the contest:

1. You must go here and sign up for a blogger ID so you can post on our site. So sorry, we don't accept anonymous comments.
2. Come back to our site and post a comment under this thread of your favorite baby names that fits each of the following categories (get creative, have fun, and just get "carried away" in laughter). A prize will be given out for the best recommendation in each category.
   

• What girl name should Angela and I choose?
• What boy name should we choose?
• What funny girl name should be chosen for our baby?
  
• What funny boy name should be chosen for our baby?

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Chuck Norris Winterton is not funny and will not be accepted. Multiple postings are acceptable. Multiple "recommendations" are acceptable. Due to increasing cost of postage and effect of global warming on arrived state of prizes we cannot guarantee condition of said prize. We reserve the right to choose the best "recommendation" for each category using our own judgment. We will not provide justification/explanation for our choice in any category. All rules must be followed or names will not be accepted into contest. No fighting. The use of NameVoyager in generating ideas of "recommendations" is allowed.

Looking out from Lookout Pointe

For those of you who haven't had a chance to check out our place yet, I have posted these pictures to give you a little look at it. We love it here and will stay until I graduate and we move to wherever I get hired.

This first picture is of our complex up on the mountain by the 'Y' trail head. We've got a nice place on the bottom where we can cook out on the grill whenever we feel like it and bring groceries in from the back so we don't have to keep hiking the stairs numerous times with large loads.

This is Ricky the Raccoon, our new friend. He comes to visit us and uh... eat our food. We've gotten pretty close too but are always very careful not to do anything that will make him feel threatened. We feed him raw eggs, ham, chicken, and whatever else we think might be bad or a little on the old side. One time we thought we made him sick on some old chicken lunchmeat. We didn't think we'd see him again but he did end up coming back so looks like he is one of those forgiving friends. :)

This is what the view is like from our complex. It's not the greatest picture so far as lighting goes, but it's still rather pretty. We love the view, but the best by FAR is the view of the mountains you saw before (that faces the opposite direction).

Picnic in the canyon

Angela and I had our date last week in the canyon. We brought things to start a fire, roast hot dogs, and then snap a bunch of pictures --since we are really getting into photography (pictures soon to come). We managed to find somebody to finally take a picture of the two of us. :) It was a great date and I think Angela did a great job at the planning of it.

First Posting - Why we named our blog what we did

For the purpose of enlightening our family and friends as to why we named our blog what we did I thought I better provide an explanation. George Strait's song "Carried Away" is special to Angela and I. It describes our love and our life together. It also describes our happiness in life and really... where we want to keep life--right in that feeling of being "carried away."