Today is our anniversary. We’ve been married for sixteen years! Anyone want to babysit Isabelle for us so we can go have a night out together, just the two of us, for the first time in two and a half years?

Just kidding. We’re fine. The three of us are going out to dinner at my favorite Japanese restaurant as soon as I’m done typing this.

Alan took a couple of days off. I took tons of pictures yesterday and loved so many of them. But I’ll only share a few here of our day.

Alan asked me what I wanted to do. Well, I’ve been embroidering super hamster here and there. It’s so nice to work on something small just sitting on the couch or on the floor with Isabelle. So when he asked me what I wanted to do I knew I wanted to go to Borders to look for Doodle Stitching. It isn’t available on Amazon and plus I wanted to rifle through the pages.

Well, they didn’t have it but I did find a very pretty sewing book which I did not buy from Borders. If it was a small bookstore I wouldn’t have felt bad spending so much but since it was a big book store I ended up getting it on Amazon instead. And that saved me $14! I’ll share it with everyone when it arrives. I can’t wait. I’m itching to make something from it.

While I was in the craft section, Isabelle and Alan were elsewhere. She is soooooo LOUD. I don’t know where they were in the store but I could hear her. And in this picture she looks so quiet.

Well, after the bookstore we went to an electronics store. Alan lost his SD card and needs to replace it. We couldn’t find one but we did buy a new kite. We already bought a new kite a month ago but I couldn’t help myself. It was only $4 and looks like a dragon!

Then we went to try to watch the The Wizard of Oz at the drive-in. It was a free night for the opening of the season. I’ve never seen it so crowded.

When we went in to get popcorn and drinks we spied a witch selling glow in the dark sticks. We bought one for Isabelle and snapped it on right away. On reflection, snapping it on right away might not have been the smartest idea. She really had no interest in the movie after that.

I wasn’t really paying that much attention to the movie either. I was too busy taking pictures, playing with my camera, leaving the shutter open, and experimenting with what I got.

Here are the rest of the SOOC (straight out of camera) photos from the drive-in. I really love them all. I didn’t have a tripod so everything is blurry and soft but I love how it captured the feeling of the drive-in where everything is dark and you can’t see the people in the other cars.

Or you can just look at all the kite flying and drive-in pictures. Ok off to dinner.