Wedding season is here

Here are a few pictures form my latest wedding. I just love weddings! I wish I had a lot more to do this summer. Nothing is better than being a part of the most important day of someone's life. I can't wait 'til my next one: August 22, 2009. :)

Big things are happenin'

Some big stuff is happenin' in my life! But I think the best is that I have finally put together Ashley's coffee table book from her wedding in April! Here's a sneak picture, but you can find more on my TP Photography blog.

Just when everything's looking up...

You get turned upside down!!! 

Since December I have been "working" from home. I edit and write stories for magazine I used to work for. It's called freelance. The only problem was for one of the editor's I was working for, she took the "free" part of freelance to heart. By the time I finally got some money out of her, they are now caught up for summer... because they are having smaller books they don't have as much editorial pages to fill. (The evil downfall of the economy has struck again.) 

With not as much editorial work to do, I have been trying to focus on photography. It's been really great! Well, actually, it's been really slow. But, what jobs I do get has been great!! Two weddings so far, an Easter pictorial of the twins, and I have lined out some senior portraits for later this summer. 

I've also been booked to work at one of the cattle association's junior nationals this summer. It will be one week, but it will pay fair and I will be really busy! 

She has also asked me to do three stories ... by THURSDAY!!!

But, on top of that all--- I took a job as a photographer in a portrait studio located in our Target. Training will start sometime this week, after my drug test passes through the system!

That's right folks! I had to go pee in a cup! But, I didn't really do too hot!! I barely got any in the cup. Most fell down my hand, then ran up my arm!!! GROSS!!! The woman was like, "Honey, you barely covered the line!!" 

I've heard you have to pee in a cup a lot when you get pregnant and go in for check-ups. 

Wonderful!

You're the icing on my cake....

Last month my husband's aunt passed away. She has three daughters all around honey-do's and my age. The older two have two boys each, under the age of 4. Let me tell ya!!! That makes for a rowdy bunch when they are all together!! But, I love it! 

Before their Mimi passed away she had bought cupcake pans in the shapes of bugs: lady bugs, grasshoppers, butterflies and dragonflies. So, as a special family way to try to explain to the boys that Mimi wouldn't be able to make the cupcakes with them we made cupcakes and let the boys do their own frosting. It was a blast! I think the boys had fun too! 

Even the girls helped!! :) 

just doin' some laundry

A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning while they are eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside.

"That laundry is not very clean", she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap."

Her husband looked on, but remained silent.

Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same comments.

About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband:  "Look, she has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this."  The husband said, "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows."  

And so it is with life: what we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look.