Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Today....
Today I just want to reflect on me and where my life is going...changes are coming...I can feel them in the air...not sure if that's going to be a good thing or a bad thing...I just know something big is about to happen in my life...have you ever felt that way? I'm just curious...My baby brother is now officially part of the working man's world...he started his first job yesterday...I hope he learns to accept his new tasks...I photographed one of the most beautiful weddings this past Saturday...I'll post some pictures soon when I have a bit more time...I need a vacation...I'm yearning for the smell of the ocean and to feel the sand between my toes...I want to have salt water in my hair and a great suntan...I want to smell like a coconut...I just need an escape from reality for awhile...life has been too crazy here lately...
Friday, April 9, 2010
Welcome Spring!!!!!
It seems like Spring is finally here and it's here everywhere...I love spring because everything is starting to bloom and rejuvenate from the long cold winter...It seems like everywhere I go the birds are chirping and the flowers are blooming...I'm working on getting a Spring Portraits in the Park day together so if you or anyone you know would like to get together and have you pictures taken in the park let me know!
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Dear God are you there?
Dear God,
I know you have an awful lot to deal with and I'm not complaining, or telling you how to do your job, but I just feel so alone sometimes, like you're not there watching over me or my family anymore. Have we done something to make you angry? I know the bible says don't question You or Your Divine Plan. Sometimes that's so hard and this is one of those times for me. I help people when they need it, I go out of my way to make others days just a little brighter, I pray to you almost daily, and I'm the first among my friends to say that if times are hard and they have trouble lurking that You can take care of them and their worries. Here lately it seems like every story on the news is one of assault or abuse. Where's the good ones that speak of Your love and how You are the Light, the Truth, and even the Way! My family is going through some major things right now and I feel forsaken. My brother is almost 18 and I've tried to teach him about your Never ending Love but when he needs you the most it seems like you're aren't there. Please come back to us Lord. Make the things inside my brothers head leave him alone and let him have some peace Lord. He is so tallented with his music, please teach him that You gave him such tallent so that he can use it to Glorify You. Please give me the strength to keep fighting the good fight and the courage to help offer support to my brother in his time of need. And another thing why can't my nieces stay well? You can make the world and everything in it in 6 days and take a day of rest on the 7th day so I know that you can make 3 precious little girls well. I'm so frustrated right now...It just doesn't seem fair that all of these horrible people can walk around in their day to day lives completely healthy and not contribute anything positive to the world but three precious little girls and one incredibly tallented teenager who truly depict Your Light to the world can't stay well or not hear horrible voices in their heads telling them to do horrible things to people. I'm searching for answers and I can't make sense of any. Please show me Your will Lord...give me the answers that I seek, help me to help my brother, please give my sister strength to endure what lies ahead with her beautiful little girls...I know that if You bring us to it that You also will bring us through it. Please show us the footprints where you are carrying all of us...The path seems awful rocky and rough, not to mention lonely! Please help us find our way back to the path that You have laid for us.I ask these things in Your Son's precious name.Amen!
I know you have an awful lot to deal with and I'm not complaining, or telling you how to do your job, but I just feel so alone sometimes, like you're not there watching over me or my family anymore. Have we done something to make you angry? I know the bible says don't question You or Your Divine Plan. Sometimes that's so hard and this is one of those times for me. I help people when they need it, I go out of my way to make others days just a little brighter, I pray to you almost daily, and I'm the first among my friends to say that if times are hard and they have trouble lurking that You can take care of them and their worries. Here lately it seems like every story on the news is one of assault or abuse. Where's the good ones that speak of Your love and how You are the Light, the Truth, and even the Way! My family is going through some major things right now and I feel forsaken. My brother is almost 18 and I've tried to teach him about your Never ending Love but when he needs you the most it seems like you're aren't there. Please come back to us Lord. Make the things inside my brothers head leave him alone and let him have some peace Lord. He is so tallented with his music, please teach him that You gave him such tallent so that he can use it to Glorify You. Please give me the strength to keep fighting the good fight and the courage to help offer support to my brother in his time of need. And another thing why can't my nieces stay well? You can make the world and everything in it in 6 days and take a day of rest on the 7th day so I know that you can make 3 precious little girls well. I'm so frustrated right now...It just doesn't seem fair that all of these horrible people can walk around in their day to day lives completely healthy and not contribute anything positive to the world but three precious little girls and one incredibly tallented teenager who truly depict Your Light to the world can't stay well or not hear horrible voices in their heads telling them to do horrible things to people. I'm searching for answers and I can't make sense of any. Please show me Your will Lord...give me the answers that I seek, help me to help my brother, please give my sister strength to endure what lies ahead with her beautiful little girls...I know that if You bring us to it that You also will bring us through it. Please show us the footprints where you are carrying all of us...The path seems awful rocky and rough, not to mention lonely! Please help us find our way back to the path that You have laid for us.I ask these things in Your Son's precious name.Amen!
Monday, January 11, 2010
I haven't posted in a while so here goes...
I hope everyone had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year so far...I was reading my sister Kaleena's blog posts this morning and she is so dedicated...I'm a lot more sporadic than she is...sometimes my life just gets too busy...I helped to photograph a great family group of 28 this past weekend...They were so much fun and so easy to work with. I think their pictures are going to turn out great...I possibly may go shoot a wedding in Las Vegas in April...That will be fun as I've never been on an airplaine or been to Vegas...This past weekend has been fully loaded for me...Aside from the large family group I photographed...I went to church with my dad and took pictures of him getting baptised...I took my mom to Monterey and Crossville to see 2 of her brothers and one of her sisters...It was sort of strange bc my mom's family have never been really close but it seems like as they get older they are atleast able to tolerate their differences much better...Right now one of my mom's sisters is staying with my mom at her house...she also went with us to visit the other siblings...Some of them hadn't seen each other in 10 years or more...all of us kids have grown up and started families of our own...It makes me reflect back to my own brother and sister...Kaleena and I are pretty close in age...there's just 2 yrs and 9 months between us...and we haven't always got along...what sibling group always gets along though right? However I know that if I need her she's always gonna be there and she knows the same about me...We've accepted that we're different and respect each other's opinions...but we have always loved each other...I can't imagine going 10 years without having her in my life...or watching her 3 precious little girls grow up...My brother Triston and I have a very complex relationship bc he's almost 14 yrs younger than me and I have a more maternal instinct when it comes to him...It's crazy but he turns 18 on Feb. 12...sometimes I look at him and see the man he's become and I am just taken away at how small he used to be...I miss him being little and looking at me with adoration but I'm also looking forward to seeing what he chooses to do as an adult...He's very special to me and again I can't imagine not having him in my life for 10 years...I just wanted everyone to know that you may think you have the best brother or sister in the world but I believe you're wrong because unless you are my sister or brother yours simply couldn't be the best because I already have the best...and everyone knows their can be only one and since I have the best sister and the best brother everyone else's has to rate lower...that's just a fact right!
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Merry Christmas one and all...
Dear Santa,
I'm sitting here waiting on my last photoshoot before I can begin celebrating and enjoying my Christmas Holiday! It just occurred to me that I haven't wriiten my annual letter to you yet. Boy am I glad that you are now hightek and have email. I hope that you and your lovely wife have had a very blessed and fruitful year. Hopefully the elves haven't taken too many cookie breaks and were able to get all of their tasks completed on schedule. I realise that you must have a million and one tasks to get through as this is a very busy time for you. I also hope that the reindeer haven't ticked off Rudolph bc the children are expexting your presence at their homes on Christmas Eve and since most of them have been especially nice this year, you wouldn't want to disappoint them.With that being said here's my Christmas list:
Please Santa let the Pittsburg Penguins win the Stanley Cup again this year...my boyfriend is starting to have doubts in you Santa and this would clinch his
believing in you...
Please give something special to all of those that can't be with their loved ones this Christmas. Christmas time is supposed to be about spending time with loved ones and with loved ones far away at Christmas it just makes one's heart heavy so send some good cheer their way...
Please give those that are grieving the loss of a loved one peace of mind this Christmas, help them to remember the special moments shared with their loved ones while they were living...
Please be with the ones that have lost their jobs this past year, help them to feel that the economy will turn around and things are going to look brighter, give them all a bit of Hope if possibble to help them to look forward to 2010...
Please be with those that have quit bad habits this year give them the strength that they need to endure and carry on...
Please be with those that have been elected to lead this great Country and give them the wisdom to continue what they are doing in a way that will truly make this nation as great as it once was...
Last but not least Santa please help everyone to remember the true REASON for the SEASON!
I'm sitting here waiting on my last photoshoot before I can begin celebrating and enjoying my Christmas Holiday! It just occurred to me that I haven't wriiten my annual letter to you yet. Boy am I glad that you are now hightek and have email. I hope that you and your lovely wife have had a very blessed and fruitful year. Hopefully the elves haven't taken too many cookie breaks and were able to get all of their tasks completed on schedule. I realise that you must have a million and one tasks to get through as this is a very busy time for you. I also hope that the reindeer haven't ticked off Rudolph bc the children are expexting your presence at their homes on Christmas Eve and since most of them have been especially nice this year, you wouldn't want to disappoint them.With that being said here's my Christmas list:
Please Santa let the Pittsburg Penguins win the Stanley Cup again this year...my boyfriend is starting to have doubts in you Santa and this would clinch his
believing in you...
Please give something special to all of those that can't be with their loved ones this Christmas. Christmas time is supposed to be about spending time with loved ones and with loved ones far away at Christmas it just makes one's heart heavy so send some good cheer their way...
Please give those that are grieving the loss of a loved one peace of mind this Christmas, help them to remember the special moments shared with their loved ones while they were living...
Please be with the ones that have lost their jobs this past year, help them to feel that the economy will turn around and things are going to look brighter, give them all a bit of Hope if possibble to help them to look forward to 2010...
Please be with those that have quit bad habits this year give them the strength that they need to endure and carry on...
Please be with those that have been elected to lead this great Country and give them the wisdom to continue what they are doing in a way that will truly make this nation as great as it once was...
Last but not least Santa please help everyone to remember the true REASON for the SEASON!
Friday, December 18, 2009
Stress!!!
Stress
A lecturer when explaining stress management to an audience,
Raised a glass of water and asked;
'How heavy is this glass of water?'
Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g.
The lecturer replied, 'The absolute weight doesn't matter.
It depends on how long you try to hold it.
If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem.
If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm.
If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance.
In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.'
He continued,
'And that's the way it is with stress management.
If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later,
As the burden becomes increasingly heavy,
We won't be able to carry on. '
'As with the glass of water,
You have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again..
When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden.'
'So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down. Don't carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow.
Whatever burdens you're carrying now,
Let them down for a moment if you can.'
So, my friend, Put down anything that may be a burden to you right now. Don't pick it up again until after you've rested a while.
Here are some great ways of dealing with the burdens of life:
* Accept that some days you're the pigeon,
And some days you're the statue.
* Always keep your words soft and sweet,
Just in case you have to eat them.
* Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be
"Recalled" by their maker.
* If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
* If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again,
It was probably worth it.
* It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to be kind to others.
* Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time,
Because then you won't have a leg to stand on.
* Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
Just get up and dance.
* When everything's coming your way,
You're in the wrong lane.
* Birthdays are good for you.
The more you have, the longer you live.
* We could learn a lot from crayons... Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.
*A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
Have an awesome day and know that someone has thought about you today...I did
A lecturer when explaining stress management to an audience,
Raised a glass of water and asked;
'How heavy is this glass of water?'
Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g.
The lecturer replied, 'The absolute weight doesn't matter.
It depends on how long you try to hold it.
If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem.
If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm.
If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance.
In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.'
He continued,
'And that's the way it is with stress management.
If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later,
As the burden becomes increasingly heavy,
We won't be able to carry on. '
'As with the glass of water,
You have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again..
When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden.'
'So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down. Don't carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow.
Whatever burdens you're carrying now,
Let them down for a moment if you can.'
So, my friend, Put down anything that may be a burden to you right now. Don't pick it up again until after you've rested a while.
Here are some great ways of dealing with the burdens of life:
* Accept that some days you're the pigeon,
And some days you're the statue.
* Always keep your words soft and sweet,
Just in case you have to eat them.
* Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be
"Recalled" by their maker.
* If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
* If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again,
It was probably worth it.
* It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to be kind to others.
* Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time,
Because then you won't have a leg to stand on.
* Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
Just get up and dance.
* When everything's coming your way,
You're in the wrong lane.
* Birthdays are good for you.
The more you have, the longer you live.
* We could learn a lot from crayons... Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.
*A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
Have an awesome day and know that someone has thought about you today...I did
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