Alyssa Dawson

when it rains you find an excuse to go outside

Let’s talk about weather… I mean isn’t that what you talk about when you have nothing else to say? I’ve been having the worst migraines this week and I have a feeling that it has something to do with this horrid weather. Booooooo. Arizona is known for its notorious heat… if you didn’t know. It’s the kind of heat that keeps you inside all day, for weeks, and it makes you feel like the biggest hermit. (I had to explain what this definition of hermit means to one of the littles that I watch, such… Read More

take me out to the ball game

Sometimes you have weekends where you get to do something out of the ordinary, and when I say out of the ordinary I mean something that you can hardly ever do because it costs too much money. Obviously we were given tickets to the baseball game, because there is no way I could have gotten Brand to pay for these seats… and there is also no way I would have gotten myself to pay for these seats. It’s fun to go to a baseball game, and every bit of it threw me back to the… Read More

when you listen to that still small voice

top: target, jeans: nordstrom, shoes: last chance, watch: peyteybug, earrings: walmart *I’m only referencing things that happened to me when I was younger. This does not define the principles of the church and it does not mean that every church member or ward is this way. I had a special experience and to this day I know it made me stronger. I am a proud member of my church and am grateful and blessed for the experiences that I have had.* When I was twelve lots of things mean happened to me. In a… Read More

we like cheap date nights because it saves us money

Our first stop on our Friday date night was Central park… not thee Central Park, but the park that is on Central. And really, this park has nothing on Central Park. Last year when we were driving around downtown we drove by this park. In my whole 24 years of living in the Valley of The Sun I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen the part before, so obviously it was something we needed to checkout. It took us almost a year to visit it, and even then it wasn’t on purpose. It was one of… Read More

the first official documented fourth of July

Just last week I was looking for pictures of previous fourths of July. I wanted to reminisce on the moments that have come and gone. But, to my surprise -because at times I feel like a photo-taking-fiend – there were no fourth of July pictures to be found. So, I fore-warned Brand that it was going to be a day filled with documenting alllllllllmost every-single-moment of the day. I’m not sure he truly understood the whole thing, but I think he caught on when I started taking pictures of thing things we were eating. I… Read More