From The Heart

So I’m just going to admit it.  I was a grinch this Christmas season and the weeks leading up to it.  There was something about my 33rd birthday approaching this year that I just did… not… want… to… celebrate. And I wasn’t much wanting to celebrate Christmas either.  Stephen had to beg me to pull out the tree and decorate because I just wasn’t in the mood this year.  I was in a major funk about a lot of different things related to the Christmas season and my upcoming birthday, as well as dealing with disappointments to unanswered prayers and…

As I sit here and edit my photos for next week’s Outfit Of The Week… there’s a part of me that goes “Ahhh, I’ve definitely put on 20 pounds since our wedding day.”  Yet, there’s a bigger part of that goes “So what?  I’m not a size 2 and for the first time in my life, I’m ok with that.” So much of my 20s, I spent way too much time in the gym, way too much time counting calories, way too much time fasting for all the wrong reasons, way too much energy trying to live up to the magazine…

Woo hoo!  Stephen and I made it on ABC’s Nashville last night!  We were super bummed last week because most of the screen time we should been in got sent to the cutting room floor.  Stephen was supposed to have an up close scene with Rayna’s character, only to get cut.  And while you saw us as a blur in the background at the bar in the Bluebird Cafe, it was mostly neck down as you can see here (Stephen is bartender in flannel shirt, I’m holding a drink and clapping above Rayna’s head in cheetah top): But THIS week, we…

When Stephen and I felt the nudge from God to drop our nets and move to Nashville, we literally took a leap of faith and followed His calling.  We were uncertain of what the next chapter held for us, whether we would keep doing photography in a new city, or start exploring other dreams. Currently… while, yes, we are still doing photography, two other dreams are unfolding that have nothing to do with photography.  One, is something new I’m launching on my own, and you have to wait until November 25 to find out what it is, and those on…