• Finish the studio renovation.

• Update my website.

• Update and fully customize my blog.

• Take Gracie to enroll in and complete an obedience class.

• Make dinner for my husband every night for an entire week.

• Read three books to benefit my business.

• Visit my friend Hadden and her husband in NYC.

• Run a half-marathon.

• Learn to brew my own beer alongside the Back-Door Brewery.

• Be a guest at a wedding.

• Buy a house in Charleston, SC.

• Complete and execute the AKC plans.

• Plant flowers in my flowers boxes and keep them alive for an entire season.

• Attend ‘The Image is Found’ workshop with my friend Cristi.

• Fulfill all of my commitments to my volunteer charity organizations.

• Start sending out anniversary cards to past clients.

• Blog every day for an entire month.

• Second-shoot for fun with three local photographers.

• Shoot a wedding on another continent.

• Get my friend Ben to compose a song for my website.

• Learn how to change a flat tire.

• Surprise my husband with a crazy fun adventure trip.

• Take a dance class.

• Rock out some awesome first-year sessions for Miller Fields.

• Learn to play poker.

My 101 in 1001 is swiftly coming soon! This will be a list of 101 things that I’m planning to do in the next 1001 days. I’m going to be releasing the list in a four part series, and then summarizing it all at the end. I’ll check off and blog each accomplished goal as it comes to pass. WAY better than a new year resolution, right?

That’s right, I have pneumonia. I’ll get back to the blog and my life in general as soon as this is under control. Maybe y’all will get a husband commentary in the meantime.

Part Three: The In-N-Out Burger! At one point in my life, I actually thought that The In-N-Out Burger was a fictional fast-food chain created solely to exist in the world of ‘The Big Lebowski’. Alas, I was wrong. Rather than a mythical burger joint…this is a real place :) SO, I finally went to the In-N-Out for the first time ever! Don’t worry, I bought a t-shirt and made a fool of myself. I also managed to get strongly chastised for attempting to photograph the phrase “Quality you can taste” on the wall, due to legal issues. So those things were pretty much par for the course as my adventurous life goes…but the food was delicious! Here are my notes on the In-N-Out: really good cheeseburgers, yummy fries, awesome chocolate shakes, friendly service, and totally paranoid management. And in the event that you were really looking forward to the day when this blog would feature an image of nothing but my entire face scarfing down a cheesburger…that day has arrived…

Part Two: The All-Girl Brazilian Christmas Party! My sweet friend Cristi Owen had her girlfriends over for an amazing Brazilian meal at her home. As you may know, Cristi is originally from Brazil and moved to the States when she was 20. I seriously cannot even explain how good this food was. I spent the rest of my time in Phoenix talking about Cristi’s stupendous dessert…and how I wanted to eat it every day for the rest of my life. Another cool touch to this party was the seating arrangement. Every year, Cristi buys an ornament for each of the girls coming to the dinner party, and uses it as a place card. Each girl has to figure out which ornament and seat is hers! The dinner was followed by an ornament exchange, and tons of fun fellowship. This was a good night. Good times for sure! So, if you have followed this blog you probably know why this was my ornament. Cristi and I met in Ireland this past summer and stayed together in this wonderful Irish home in the countryside of Kinvara. Next to our house was a gorgeous pasture with stone walls, overflowing with the cutest sheep! Pretty much the whole trip, we kept planning to go take pictures of these beautiful angelic sheep. When we finally did get next door to get images of the sheep…they were all gone. They had been sold for food! How sad is that! Gina with her ornament…she traveled to Italy this past year :) The ornament I gave to Cristi…self-explanatory. Cristi and friends enjoying the evening :) Me with the “Cowboy Snowman” I won during the ornament exchange! Me and some of the girls with our ornaments… Cristi giving me her best Serena Van Der Woodsen :) Our Rock Band! That’s right, I learned how to play Rock Band. It was my first time to ever play, and Gina’s first time as well - we’re the ones dying laughing :) And yes, you can fail Rock Band… Yea for fun times with the girls! Thanks for a lovely evening Cristi :)