First Prints

I got my first prints off of this camera from Nations Photo Lab and they look amazing. They also have superb customer service, I can't say enough good about them.

Got Moo cards for PunkSnap Photography as well (www.punksnapphoto.blogspot.com) and they are so cool! Very heavy cardstock, great quality, just beautiful. I can't wait to get them out to the parents of the kids that have let me photograph their kids as of late.

Because we all need a rhinoceros

Life as of Late

Now that we're finally leaving cold winter days behind and the sunshine visits me regularly, I'm a much happier, more well adjusted woman. We've been staying steadily busy and we're looking at a major increase in busy-ness over the next several weeks - visitors for 2 weekends in a row, 3 weekends of weddings, some odd weekends off, the besties from VA flying in, finding out if Husband makes Chief, Disney, birthdays, holidays....well basically we're booked from now through February 17th of next year (DD#2's 1st birthday). I'm happy to stay busy because the truth is when we're not, and all of our time is spent wrangling our two little ones at home, we go kinda stir crazy. We complain that we're tired in the mean time, but really we're no more tired than usual - we may as well be making memories while we're at it. I've re-established contact with a couple close friends in the last few weeks. One, it's amazing, I feel like we're both going through very similar things in our very different lives. The other, the other is comfort food. I don't know how else to describe it. I'm grateful for the conversations I've shared with both of these individuals and my goodness, to have friends. What a blessing. Before all you steady friends of mine get all up in arms about this - don't, I don't discount you for being constants, I applaud you for sticking by me for so long. It's funny really how full-circle some things in life will become. Having a friend come back into my life at a very difficult time for them sparked the most honest conversation Husband and I have ever had with one another. It was amazing and I am completely grateful that it happened. It was as if Husband, who I thought I knew through and through, revealed this hidden dimension to me...and I was amazed by it. By the rawness of it. By the complexity of the emotion he had about his own situation. I have forever considered him a black & white kind of guy and for the first time in a decade of being together, I saw his gray emerge. I was also allowed to say what I've been trying to say for so long but just never quite had the guts to do so. I remember telling him after many hours staying awake entirely too long that I didn't want to speak or move because I was afraid that the clock would strike midnight and our coach would turn back into a pumpkin. I'm glad to say that didn't happen, not completely any way. A new plane opened up and we're existing there simultaneously right now. I hope neither of us sinks or swells outside of it.

Her Blogspot Debut

Photography on the mind...

Creating outline for my photography hobby turned "business." I use the term loosely as I don't plan on making this a full-blown affair (i.e. opening a studio, buying $10,000 equipment, etc.). However, the flood of compliments and requests for photos is making me wonder if God is leading me to it. I'm scared as hell at failing. I'm going to try my hardest to trust that if people love my pictures and are asking me if I'm available to photograph their children, they must see some talent in me. Mostly, mostly I just get so much enjoyment out of capturing a moment in a life and then giving people that moment on paper. It sounds corny...but it's true. So I'm going for it (insert love and support from adoring friends & family members in the "comments" section...).