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There’s quite an active round of “blog tag” happening right now on my online photography forum, and today I’ve been double-tagged by Courtney Crumrine of Beatrice, Nebraska and Shannon Velloza of Twenty-nine Palms, California. Thanks ladies, this is a lot of fun!

RULES:
1) Link the person who tagged you.
2) Mention the rules on your blog.
3) Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours.
4) Tag 6 following bloggers by linking them & leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they have been tagged.

Okay, here you go…my 6 “unspectacular quirks!”

1) I hate apples. But I like apple sauce, apple pie, apple strudel, apple butter, apple tarts, apple muffins and apple crisp. Just don’t expect me to eat ‘em raw!

2) I graduated from Millersville University in 1997 with a meteorology degree and aspirations to enter the Air Force to join the Hurricane Hunters. Health issues got in the way, so here I am working as a full-time highway distress analyst and part-time professional photographer. Things don’t always go as planned, do they?!?

3) I actually enjoyed my calculus and physics classes in high school and college. Hello my name is Kristi and I’m a nerd.

4) I can’t stand having an air freshener or anything else swinging from the rear-view mirror while I am driving. I even hate it when somebody in front of me has something swinging from their rear-view.

5) I absolutely cannot go longer than 30 minutes without cracking ALL joints and knuckles on both of my hands. And I have to take my shoes off a few times a day to crack my toes too. All of them.

6) I have been to Iceland and Alaska, but never Florida or the Carribean.

Now I’m going to tag 6 more fellow photogs:

Have fun y’all!

Jane Eaton Hamilton (Vancouver, BC)
Jenny Thrasher (Sherwood, OR)
Cat Dillberg (San Antonio, TX)
Tara Leigh Vivet (San Marcos, CA)
Cara Carlson (Medford, NJ)
Revenda Bierley (Right here in Carlisle, PA)

And since I hate to post without a photo, here is a shot I took inside Ron Jon Surf Shop while at the beach.

Have a great evening!

Finally, after a month has gone by, I’ve gotten through most of my photos from our beach vacation! Our house has been mayhem since school started…getting settled into new routines and schedules, a few bouts of illness, and Corey and I dealing with some changes at our workplaces. Now that things are starting to calm down a bit, I hope to be back to regular blogging. I have sooo many photos to share and have had so little time to edit and blog them.

This friendly dragonfly took a liking to my chair!

He didn’t seem to mind us picking him up for a closer look. In fact, I later had to coax him to fly away! Aaron especially enjoyed carrying him around on his finger.

The end!

I will post a few more once I finish the edits. Thanks for taking a look!

I can’t say it enough…these kids did a fantastic job at their shoot! I ended up with WAY more than my usual proportion of “keepers” for their proof gallery and I couldn’t be happier! Aren’t they a great-looking bunch of kiddos?!?

Little Miss M insisted on sticking her tongue out in nearly all of her shots, but that’s okay because it’s totally her!

Isn’t Mr. J a little cutie?!?

Ahhh…if only ALL of my kid sessions could turn out this well!

Random blog and website design changes will be taking place over the next few days! I’ve been busy working on some changes to my business that will be implimented very soon, and to go along with those changes I’m freshening-up my online presence. In the meantime, please excuse the “dust!”