Welcome to the blog for Linnie Arnesen Photos! This is where you can head on a daily basis to check up on me and what I'm up to! This blog is a way for me to show you more photos from each shoot that I have, and also is a way for you to get to know me a little better, because I'll post some personal things on here! Thanks for stopping by! And, as always, leave me some comments! I love to get them!
1. I hope you all had a great Easter weekend and enjoyed the beautiful weather we had! Luke and I headed home last Friday to see friends and on Saturday I had a couple photo shoots. Where I got to see these two...
The bean!
And Ben!
Yep, he's pretty much the cutest little man ever!
My family spent Easter Sunday in Topeka at my aunt Jane's. We went to the beautiful Easter church service at Faith Lutheran and then had a great dinner and ate WAY more than we should have! After dinner, Marcus got to hunt eggs!
And Alexander is smiling now!
Here are the boys together...
They're going to be good buddies.
Sorry, no pictures of the big people. We were too busy playing with the kids to bother.
2. Here's this week's Wee Bit!
{one} have you ever been stuck in an elevator?
No. I thought I was stuck in the elevator at the library once when I was like 13, and I kept hitting the call button and freaking out, but really the door just took a little while to open. Oops.
{two} have you ever ridden on an elephant?
I don't think so. Maybe at the circus when I was little, but I can't remember.
{three} have you ever met a well known celebrity?
I met the band Trick Pony... they're not that famous anymore though.
{four} do you have any food allergies?
Uh, nope thank goodness... I like to eat!
{five} do you know how to sew?
No. I wish I did. I could barely sew a square pillow in middle school. I want to learn though!
{six} did you get an allowance when you were young?
It wasn't exactly a weekly allowance. But I did get some money when I'd clean and do things around the house.
{seven} how often do you fill up your gas tank?
I don't know. Every other week? I don't really keep track, but I do drive a lot.
{eight} have you ever been stung by a jelly fish? No. The remedy for that is gross.
{nine} have you ever been robbed?
My bike was stolen once when I was little, in broad daylight outside of the library! It was a bad day for me.
{ten} what is the worst haircut you’ve ever had?
Ummm I'm not sure. The bowl cut I had when I was little wasn't that great. I had a bad hair cut a couple years ago when it got a little too short and spiky. Not great.
Yup, this one's a little late. But hey I was doing really good there for a few weeks!
1. Last weekend my best friend in the whole entire world came to visit! Well, not exactly me, Tiffany and Ryan came to get out of Ellsworth for a couple days and to do some major shopping, but then got together with Luke and I! Saturday we ate dinner at the best Mexican restaurant in Olathe, Mi Ranchito. Yum-O!! And Sunday we went to Legend's for some shopping and an amazing burger at Five Guys. Yea it wasn't exactly the best weekend to be watching what I'm eating... but it was a special occasion right?! I didn't take any pictures of us this weekend, so here's Tiff and I at her wedding this past September...
And us at my wedding in July... And then just us being us a couple years ago in Aggieville... We loved that stupid Sonic commercial where the lady tries to sound like a man ordering and she puts her finger over her mouth like a mustache... it's totally dumb but we made fun of it all the time.
Anyway, it was a great weekend and I find some awesome deals at the Gap and Old Navy and Forever 21 (seriously a $1.50 necklace!!! Yay!).
2. Still reading tons, I just finished the fifth Sookie Stackhouse book and am about to start Water for Elephants. I needed a little change of pace and I want to see the movie, so naturally I have to read the book first. Do all of you have any good book suggestions??
3. I'm making a ton of fun 4th birthday decorations for my nephew, Marcus', party next weekend. I'm having so much fun being creative and using glue sticks and construction paper... I feel like I'm in elementary art class. I seriously sang the "curve off the corners" song the other day when I was cutting out circles. Mrs. Olson would be so proud. I'll take pictures of all of the stuff when I'm done to post on here.
4. And here's this week's Wee Bit!
{one} how often do you do laundry?
Once a week… sometimes twice if there's something I really want to wear that's dirty.
{two} what is your favorite type of cookie?
Either oatmeal chocolate chip, or oatmeal raisin. But really is there a bad cookie??
{three} what would you do with an extra $2000 per month?
Pay off ALL of my stupid student loans and hire a personal trainer. And shop!
{four} what was/is your favorite subject in school?
My favorite would have to be history. Loved it!
{five} have you ever ridden in a hot air balloon?
No, I think I would like to if I could get over the height thing and the hanging in a basket thing.
{six} what was your high school mascot?
We were the Redskins and then after a bunch of controversy we were changed to the Red Hawks... scary huh.
{seven} if you had the chance to go into space, would you?
Ummm probably not. I would be freaked out by the take off and being in a small space.
{eight} how often do you go dancing?
Hardly ever, unless we go to a wedding dance.
{nine} would you rather drive or fly?
I don't really have a preference. I really like road trips, but flying is WAY fun too!
Okay I'm going to warn you, you may have to avert your eyes from the gorgeousness you are about to see! Yea over-dramatic, but I'm not even kidding. These. Two. Are. Beautiful!
And take my word for it, they are just as beautiful inside as they are out. Heather and Jeff will be married this May in Baldwin City and I cannot wait! Here are the favorites...
I think every happy couple on the face of the Earth should have a photo like this. It just screams "HAPPY!" to me.
See! I told you they're beautiful!
Thanks Heather and Jeff for an amazing photo shoot! It was great getting to know you (I think we're going to be besties!) and I can't wait for your big day!
1. I don't have a whole lot to tell you all this week! I was boring! On Sunday both of our families came to visit! It was very nice to see everyone and an added bonus that we didn't have to buy the gas to drive home! Win win! Of course all the kiddos were here running around! It was so great to see them. It was the end of February when we saw them last and they'd already changed a bunch! Here's Marcus and Lily having fun playing upstairs looking over the railing. They're boyfriend and girlfriend by the way... at least that's what they tell us. It's pretty cute. Marcus got SO excited when Lily got here! "Wiwy's here! Wiwy's here!!"
And then they decided to throw dandelions and strings down at us from upstairs.Ben was not to be left out!How adorable is this!!I feel really bad I didn't get a single photo of Alexander! And he was the one who had changed the most! I'll take pictures of only him next time! Honestly, I didn't take too many while they were here. I was too busy enjoying their company... and the tons of food.
2. I started my new job last week and I'm happy to report that it's going very well! I really enjoy what I do and especially the people I work with. That makes the 20-35 minute (depending on the AWFUL traffic) commute totally worth it.
3. My plants are still alive!!!!!! Yea me! I'll have to post of picture of them next week to show my progress!
4. Here's this weeks Wee Bit!
{one} have you ever fainted?
nope.
{two} what is your favorite casino game?
umm, well my very first casino I went to was on my mini-honeymoon in Omaha and I played a shot machine for 4.5 seconds and won 10 cents. So I gotta say I'm not a big fan. I'm a board game/trivial pursuit kind of girl!
{three} do you have a good sense of direction?
Yes I do!
{four} laptop or desktop?
I love my desktop. I never really had a need to carry my computer with me, then I'd just work all the time. And I have a BIG screen!
{five} what is your go-to hair style when having a bad hair day?
I put it up in a ponytail.
{six} do you read the newspaper on a daily basis?
I wish we took the paper, but we don't. I do watch the news everyday, until I get overwhelmed with the negativity, then I take a break for a day or two, but then came back to it.
{seven} do you have a favorite celebrity chef?
I love Rachael Ray, and then I like Tyler Florence and Guy Fieri
{eight} what tv show would you like to make a guest appearance on?
Old show = Gilmore Girls, hands down, easy answer. Current show = Glee! Or Parenthood... I love it.
{nine} do you have satellite radio in your car?
Nope. Sometimes I wish I did, but usually I can find something to listen to.
{ten} what was the last movie that made you cry?
"Life As We Know It", it has a sad minute or two and then it's fun again.
1. Friday night my momma came to visit! We went to the Kansas City Symphony's performance of music from The Music Man. We had so much fun! The singers were amazing and even though they didn't actually act out the whole musical, they made the songs very entertaining and at the end a real high school band came out to play in the aisles! It was so great!
And looky here! I remembered to take a picture of us before we left! 2. Good Juju!! Saturday morning we headed to the West Bottoms area of downtown KC, Mo. There are a bunch of different consignment and antique stores there that are only open the first weekend of every month and I've never been able to go because of weddings or other things going on, but we finally got there! It was sooo much fun! There were tons of great things to look at and lots of awesome deals. I would definitely recommend making the trip down there!
Here we are in front of Good Juju, the main store at 12th and Liberty that I knew about. There are about 4 or 5 stores all along the same road. And then a really nice lady offered to take our picture together! Thanks nice lady!I wore my deal findin' shoes! These little babies almost got to come home with me! But I refrained... they wouldn't work in my red kitchen. I was on the lookout for patio furniture because ours currently has nothing more than a few bag chairs and a bbq grill. I liked these... Ooo and these... If you've ever been to the haunted houses right under the 12th street bridge in Kansas City, then you've most likely driven by Good Juju. They're right next to each other. I however would never set foot in a haunted house because I'm a big fat scared-y cat. I did bring these cute little guys home with me! An adorable $5 green enamel kettle and a $2 white vase. The vase actually came from an antique mall in Olathe, a.k.a. my other home. At the antique mall I got this box too! It's an old pop bottle box and I turned it into a planter in my guest room! On top of one of my vintage suitcases.
You haven't seen our guest room yet because frankly I don't like it! Luke and I keep going back and forth about the bedding because he thinks the one I like is too bright (but he doesn't understand that it is from Pottery Barn and therefore trumps anything he's got!) and I think the one he likes is too boring... I mean, come on, it's beige!!!! So until this is all figured out and redone... you won't see it.
3. My plants are still alive! We had a scary moment with my ranunculus yesterday when it looked like we were going to lose her... but she came back! I'm a overly attentive plant parent. I look at them every 2 minutes and either over water or think I'm going to over water and then under water. I don't get it!!
4. Thank you Mother Nature for the nice weather! I had 2 engagement sessions in the past week! Yay yay yay!
5. I'm feeling 110% better this week! After I posted that I was sick on Wednesday, I just got progressively worse and worse and got a little scared Sunday when I thought it was going to make my asthma an issue, but then I got better! Yay! I still have a nasty sounding cough, but that's all. I'm glad to be done with it. Thank goodness for Zicam!
6. I start my new job tomorrow! I'm super excited! Yay!
7. I discovered a very cool blog last week called This Lunch Rox. The lady that writes it is a photographer and a mom of 2 boys and she is very health conscious and they are an organic family... which I love and aspire to be more like. But the cool part is that she makes her oldest son his lunch everyday to take to school and makes it so fun! You just have to look at it, it's hard to explain, but if I have the time and the imagination whenever I have children, I SO want to do this. I think she's amazing! I mean, just think how special her son feels when he opens up his lunch everyday! Go check it out!
8. I finished The Help about two weeks ago at almost 2 in the morning and then last week I finished the third Sookie Stackhouse book, Club Dead, and now I'm almost done with the fourth, Dead Till Dawn. I'm going through them pretty quickly and I'll be done and won't have anything new to read, so I need some suggestions! What are some of your favorite books??
9. If you know me well, then you know I'm a big music buff, and I pretty much like everything. Here's a few songs I've been a little bit obsessed with this week!
This next song is just amazing... it makes me smile.
I love Alexi Murdoch oh so much. And Ray LaMontagne. They have similar sounds to me. This song was on last nights episode of Parenthood, my all-time favorite show at the moment.
This song is older but by one of my favorite bands ever! It just makes me happy and I play it when I clean so I can dance around my house! There's a nice visual for ya!
I could go on and on, but I think that's enough for this week. Can you tell my taste in music is pretty diverse?
10. Here's this weeks Wee Bit!
{one} what is one food that, as an adult you love, but as a child you said you’d never touch?
Probably asparagus. I don't think I was all that picky as a kid, but I know I never would eat it.
{two} did you go to college? if yes, what was your major?
Yes, I did. I have a bachelor of fine arts major in photography. I was a secondary history education major for a whole semester though!
{three} what’s the most wild animal you’ve seen in real life (not counting the zoo)?
Ummm... we saw some kind of deer in Colorado up in Rocky Mountain National Park. I can't remember what they were and I can't find the picture to figure it out right now... good story.
{four} have you ever been to a fortune teller?
nope, I think they're full of hooey
{five} can you juggle?
No. I tried really hard when I was little though. I remember I made my mom buy me a learn-to-juggle book at the middle school carnival one year that came with the little multi-colored bean bags, and I could never get the hang of it!
{six} hardwood floors or carpet?
I love hardwood floors because they look so clean, but I like carpet because it's warmer on my bare feet... I don't like to wear shoes and socks when I'm home.
{seven} is it called “soda” or “pop”?
Pop
{eight} what was your first car?
Technically it was a 1995 Eagle that was pretty sweet and even blasted the heater in the dead of summer... nice.
{nine} what is the most decadent dessert you’ve ever eaten?
I'm not sure. We usually don't order dessert from restaurants. I did like the brownie cheesecake at The Cheesecake Factory though and the apple tart we had at Angler's in Lawrence on my birthday was pretty amazing!
{ten} how often do you rearrange your furniture?
Not very often. With how our duplex is set up, there's not many ways to do it, so it's stayed this way since we moved in. However, we've been talking about switching our room with the guest room which means moving tons of furniture up and down stairs... not very excited.
