busy, busy!

Nat and I had another amazing weekend. It went by SO fast, I'm not even sure it actually happened, but I have pictures to prove it. Friday night we went to one of our favorites, Candalaris with the Baldwins, and Lims. We love them :) And we devoured this:

Plus 2 more pizzas. After that I fell into a pizza induced coma and was asleep by 10. Saturday morning we got up early to babysit our sweet nieces Katelyn and Elizabeth. They were hilarious as ever. Elizabeth looks about 10 times bigger than the last time I saw her, and she's just as smiley as ever. She really enjoyed looking at herself on the camera in my phone.

Katelyn and I played puzzles, had a sweet dance party, and watched mickey mouse! While Elizabeth was napping, I set out to spray paint some chairs to be used for props for my photography! Here the rocking chair is as a work in progress.

It turned out really cute! I also spray painted the brown chair in the background yellow. We used the rocker in one of my photo shoots yesterday and they loved it!!! Ok so Saturday afternoon after we were done babysitting, we headed to Nat's co-workers for a wedding shower. Once we got home from that- I hung a shelf I had been asking Nat to do for weeks :) And did it right the first time I might add :) lol, then we had dinner with our sweet friends Kyle and Caroline Reynolds who were in town from Waco! It was great to see them- we've missed them! After dinner we headed out to Derrick's Tavern to play a couple rounds of darts (well the boys did) The Baldwins and the Ryngala's met us there. I love having a "group"! It was a great time. I did a terrible job of taking pictures this weekend, sorry, none of us!

Sunday we went to church, loved it as always. Sunday afternoon I had two family photo sessions lined up. You can see a preview of those pictures here. (pictures will be up tonight) It was a blast, I am loving this photography thing more and more! My sweet husband accompanied me the whole time, his support means so much to me! AND he was a HUGE help.

In other exciting news, I got my brand new Canon 60d camera this past week and am LOVING it. It's been so fun playing around with it, and I can't wait to learn more about all of its features and settings!

That's all for now, stay tuned for SPRING BREAK!!! Halleluiah! Countdown: 4 Days.

Jokes on HIM!!

Disclaimer: If you are reading this post because of the light hearted title, and you think you need a good laugh, I might go ahead and advise you to stop now. This will acutally be one of my few "trying to be deep" posts.

Usually I use this blog to post pictures and write silly things about Nat and my first experiences as a married couple. But I also think its a cool way to share what God's been doing in my life. So here we go.. A couple of weeks ago, for a reason unknown to me, I was hit with the idea that I wanted to begin to pick back up my long lost hobby of photography. I hadn't really done much with photography since my time in Italy, but for some reason I decided I wanted to start back up. Apparently, it was God putting this desire in my heart because as soon as I acknowledged it, things began to fall into place. An opportunity at the park to take pictures of little ones, a friend allowing me to borrow their camera for the time being, friends who jumped at the opportunity of practice sessions, money coming in for us to be able to afford a professional camera, and a WONDERFUL husband who has been nothing but supportive. The pieces were just falling into place.

I know that it is God who has set this fire of passion with in me, and I am SO thankful, because I have not been this passionate about something, or felt so called to do something in a long time. I believe that the Lord will be glorified through my pictures, and that is an awesome thing to know.

So the other night after I put up pictures from my first session in a LONG time, I was instantly hit with thoughts of doubt and insecurity. I literally woke up in the middle of the night with thoughts of "This is so silly, you can't do this. You're not good enough, no one will want your pictures." I honestly believe that this is the devil trying to get into my path and tell me that I can't do it. The devil will do ANYTHING he can to keep God from being glorified. He is trying to stop me.

But JOKES ON HIM! Because now, more than ever I know that God WILL be glorified through my pictures. HOW? I dont know, but I do know that if satan is trying to get into my head, and tell me not to do it, then I'm doing the right thing. I am even more determined to continue on the path that the Lord is leading me to.

Can't wait to see where it takes me!

BTW if you are interested in checking out my new and improved photography blog its HERE

"Bike Ride"

So, Sunday Nat, Ben, Tindell and I set off for a bike ride. We hauled our bikes out from the third floor, pumped up the tires, and put on our helmets. (ok not really) We were ready to go. We finally set off for Memorial park and about 2 seconds in we hear "CLINK....Pedal fail!" Ben's pedal had fallen off. He got a solid half a pedal out of that thing before it came off. So we reverted to plan B.. taking a walk in the Houston Arboretum. It ended up being really fun, and a great place to take pictures! Here are some pics of the outing..

The 5 minues we did actually ride bikes

I think this was supposed to be Tindells Weely

Walkin

Tindell being attacked

Love

Ben and Tindell... or Bindell... or Bentin

Photo Journey

I've officially started practicing taking family portraits. It's something that I'm really passionate and excited about. I am loving it and I feel like for the first time I have a real GOAL/DREAM! Follow my photo journey here...

http://capturingnowforever.blogspot.com/