I've moved!!!

Hello everyone! I've officially started a new blog and moved my blogging site to wordpress!
I simply love it! Please come follow me at Forever Sunshine! It's all about cute stuff!

My Weekend In Photos

For Memorial day weekend we decided to go on a little three day camping adventure. It was great to get away from the big city and get more involved in nature again. I went the entire 3 days with out a cell phone, computer and internet and I never felt happier. All the social networking can really wear a person down at times. Anyway, we all had a great time. The air was fresh, the wind was cool, and the sound of birds and bugs filled the silence. So much better than being in San Antonio.

This was our little camping set up.

My brother David, and Brandon by the camp fire getting ready to cook some beef fajitas.

Brandon started getting a little too brave by the camp fire. "Burn the stick" he kept saying.

This cute doggy right here, well this is Reno. He belongs to my Dads Friend (Owner of the Property)  Reno and Brandon were pretty much insepratable the whole trip. Reno loved to play fetch with him.

Early Saturday morning we went exploring and went to see all the animals and stuff on the property. I loved this old red tractor.

We saw so many beautiful horses.

This one was my favorite. Pure White.

They owned so many goats too. This ones name was "Baby" She loved to follow people around.

This right here was the private creek I got to bath in. Yup nothing better than knowing a long time ago  some Native Americans were taking a bath in here just like me.

I have to hand it to my parents. They know how to make some AMAZING camp fire breakfast tacos. YUM!!!

My favorite Photo of Brandon and Reno together.

Gabe and I down at the creek swimming :)

We had an amazing Memorial Day weekend! God Bless the USA!

What did you do for Memorial weekend?

A little bit of jewelry inspiration...

I made these cute little necklaces for pretty darn cheap! Thanks to pintrest for the awesome ideas.

I have to say making jewelry is so much better than buying it!!

Happy Tuesday :)

Semester one...

Last fall I made the life changing decision to further my education and go to college. After visiting the school probably a hundred times, and filling our countless applications, I finally enrolled in the Spring 2012 semester. It was perfect. I wanted to ring in the new year with something different. I wanted 2012 to be a life changing year for me, and what better way to do that than to start college for the first time. Even though I only enrolled into two courses, I feel like college has changed me as a person.

My first semester is now sadly coming to a close. I completed my SDEV class final (and passed with a 96) last Friday, and my math final is coming up this Thursday. Although the pressure is still on, I can feel it all coming to a close. It's ALMOST OVER! It's kind of sad, but don't get me wrong it feels great to be so close to the finish line!

So here's, to a great first semester, and hopfully at wonderful second one as well :)

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Best Photography Apps!

I love to take pictures everywhere I go but sometimes, like in the Texas heat, I just don't feel like lugging around my big ole' camera bag along with me. That's when my camera phone comes in handy. Thank God in this day and age the camera phones are actually pretty good at

taking snap shots. It puts a whole new spin on "Instant" photography.

I simply love the perfectly "imperfect" quality the camera phone brings to the digital world.

I think it gives the photos character and uniqueness, as well as a nice vintage style to it.

As the digital photography world is expanding to whole new levels, I'm always on the lookout for cool new photography apps on the android market. Of course Instagram is the most popular, and by far the best for sharing photos, here are my two favorite apps I use to edit my mobile photos and post them on Instagram.

I hope you feel free to try them out for yourself.

Happy snapping guys :)

1. SnapBucket.

Remember Photobucket from the Myspace days? Well it has changed quite a bit recently.They have gotten away from the immature audience of myspacers, and started focusing a little bit more on the artsy photography side of the internet. Now on Photobucket you can edit your images right after you upload them. But I found something even better. Photobucket released an app called snapbucket. You can use all kinds of filters and effects to enhance you mobile photos. It makes sharing them to you computer so much easier than instagram because you can view them on Photobucket.com. It's a great app, and tons of fun to play with.

2. Pixlr-O-Matic

I know, such a weird name, but I promise this little app is quite amazing!

It has so many features, and you can even unlock many different effects.

It was the first app I downloaded to edit my mobile photos with and to my surprise I fell in love.

I thought with such a wierd name it was probably cheesy, but nope, it's great!!

Give it a try for yourself :)

Instagram Photos are in :)

I just love instagram :)

It's probably my biggest addiction.

And FatMumSlim's photo a day challenges make it just that much more addicting!

I will be posting up May's Instagram photos at the end of this month. 

But until them, come join the fun with Fatmumslim. Her blog is awesome by the way :)

Here is May's challenge.

Youtube adventures.

Who doesn't love a nice scroll though youtube? 
Well I was browsing though youtube this afternoon, and I stumbled across some really heart warming christian videos from the band Tenth Avenue North. I really don't know this band very well, but i have to admit their lyrics are out of this world amazing. Although I really wish these videos were "official" these fan made ones are pretty darn good. After watching them I kind of have the urge to try and make my own fan made music video too. Who knows, maybe one day I will. 

The video beloved, is my favorite out of these two. I just love that intimate feeling it brings between God and I. It's hard to believe sometimes how much he truly loves us. This video is a sure reminder. So sit back and take it all in. It's worth your time I promise :)

Monkey's big surprise!

Last weekend our family was blessed with a almost completely new swing set from a friend of my mother in law. It took us by surprise because we really wanted to buy a similar swing set from Brandon but just couldn't find the money to do so. Swing sets run pretty expensive these days. We were all so happy and excited when we heard the news.

Gabriel and and I got to work setting this baby up on Sunday night while Brandon was fast asleep. We wanted it to be a surprise. Let me just say, setting this thing up in the dark was not so much fun. Gabe lost some bolts and nuts in the grass but we managed to get it all together properly....and when i say "we" I really mean HE. :)

Anyway, so we set it all up and Brandon was so surprised!! I can't believe how blessed we are to receive this awesome swing set.

Now our little monkey can have lots of fun in the backyard.

Texas Wildflowers

I just love wild flowers! They make me happy. Something about all the different colors make my world a little bit brighter. Sadly in this Texas heat most of our wild flowers have withered away by now. So today I decided to look threw some of my early spring photos and reminisce. Oh beautiful flowers how I miss thee! I'm just glad I was able to capture some of these beauties before they died. 

                                  

Be Inspired

Inspiration is a wonderful thing. And now that spring is in full bloom it has inspired me to look for color everywhere I go. Enjoy some of my colorful snap shots from instagram. Get Inspired! 

      

Fiesta

It's Fiesta time here in San Antonio, Texas. And Fiesta mean FIREWORKS! Although I hate getting out into the crowds, I really enjoyed going to Fort Sam Houston Sunday night for there spectacular fireworks show. Here are some of the interesting shots I collected.

Instagram Love!

Hey everyone! I'm now on Instagram! After a long anticipated wait, android finally got this awesome app. Okay, I may be a little late on the topic. Sorry! :)

I have to say I may be in love. Instagram is probably my favorite social media site EVER! Check out some of my recent shots using my Optimus V phone.

 I have just been having so much fun taking shots of my everyday life and turning them into something beautiful. I really recomend getting this app if you have a smart phone. And well if you already are using Instagram, follow me. Username is vikirubio :)

A rainy day

A Rainy day describes my mood. Spring break is over and my worry free week is gone.

Back to reality, back to school, back to loads of homework, stress, and exams.

As much and I love school, I hate the stress it brings.

That's just life I suppose.

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On the bright side look at what I found for the kitchen over spring break!!

I can't imagine anything cuter than this :)