Monday thoughts

Back on schedule!!!

For some reason, I have every intention of taking it slower on Mondays since my weekend is usually packed full. But somehow, Mondays end up being just as busy. This weekend was no exception, and this Monday isn't either.

Just to recap the past few days:

-Thursday - had a photoshoot with Jac for a presentation I'm doing in September at the Woodlands Photography Club. To keep it short, the shoot started off weird because we had a visitor that decided to stay with us the whole time. It really threw me off, but whatever. It's over. Jacquie did a great job and she was such a great sport through the whole thing. Here's the crew, including Susan, who helped me with lighting and documenting for the presentation.

-Friday - Met up with Emily and Raul to do a session. They were soooooo great to work with. So incredibly sweet and encouraging the whole time. I really had a great time with them and I was able to try a few things with them. I'm so sad because I remembered that I wanted to get a picture with them before the night was over, but then I forgot to do it. :(

-Saturday - This was a crazy day for us. I'll talk more about the actual wedding later when I post the pictures, but we had our own issues. I dropped my lens on the tiled floor right as the ceremony was starting (I was in a room adjacent to the ceremony, but I'm sure they heard it.) During the pictures outside, a wind blew over our light and we broke the flash. And other such incidents that made it so crazy. I think we had our highest highs and lowest lows all in one day. One of the bride's friends came up to us and wanted to get a picture of us for us. How sweet is that??? That's never happened before. So here is our picture from the craziest wedding we've put ourselves through.

-Sunday - A long day, as usual. Went to bed really late on Saturday night and got up early for church on Sunday and then I had two sessions that day. Thankfully, it worked out because they were both in the same area. The first session was for baby Lydia. She was so sweet but I don't think she was too happy that we woke her up from her nap. Poor little thing.

Then I headed out for an engagement session that started in the heights and really changed course and we ended up in downtown up in a parking garage.

(Disclaimer: Don't look too close at those two pictures because they're both out of focus!!! Oh, you'd think I'd be able to pull off an 'in-focus' picture. But for the second one, I will say that the camera was on the corner ledge of the top floor of the parking garage so I couldnt' really see through the viewfinder to focus it. For the first one.............I have no excuse. :( )

Ok, a few other random things (I feel so chatty today!)

-I have been cleaning out some things because I got a new desk and furniture and such, so it's interesting to see what I find. I found this little doohicky. It's a remote control for my laptop. Sweet! So now I can watch episodes of 'Everybody Loves Raymond' on my laptop and not get up to change episodes. As if watching tv or dvds isn't lazy enough.

-I get on food kicks. This has been my snack of choice over the past two weeks. It's an apple cut up and covered in cinnamon. So yummy! You can get fancy and pour some honey over it, or maybe just dip them in peanut butter. A few years ago when I was in Greece, for dessert we were served granny smith apple slices with honey poured on top. There may have been cinnamon, or maybe that was my own twist on it - can't remember. Yummy!!!! I highly recommend it. And the more cinnamon, the better. It has some nutritional benefits, just can't remember what. But, does it matter? Something about antioxidants or something, not sure.

-Back in February, Ashley and I headed to Dallas for an all-day workshop with Mike Colon. I've admired his work for a little while now so I was excited to hear that he was coming to Texas. During the course of the day, he would use people to just pose for him while he took some pictures to show different things, like settings or whatnot. Just to show the differences betwen one thing and another. Since I was sitting right in front of him, I ended up being on the of 'oh-so-lucky' people to have pictures taken of me and then broadcast on the very large projection screen in front of a room of about 100 or so. Nice.......... Well, I figured people were getting bored with the same old pictures so I started making faces when he took the pictues. Seriously, I don't know why i did this. I don't have a copy of those pictures, but afterwards I got a picture with Mike and asked him to humor me in re-creating the silly face I made. For those of you that know, does this really sound like me? To actually want to have my picture taken? Don't think so. And this is the face I made in front of the entire room that was then shown on the large screen. Why, oh why???

-I'll be out next week as I'm heading up to College Station for a week long class at Texas School. I can't wait to study with Bry Cox for the week and learn some stuff.

Ok, I'm out for the day. I have so much to do and half the day is gone already. Oh, and not sure if you've noticed, but I made a few small changes to this layout. Can you find the changes? :)