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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

101 Goals

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Today is the beginning of my 1001 day challenge. I have 1001 days to complete 101 goals. The goals listed below are things I want to accomplish. They may change because I will change. I will grow. The list is not fully complete but I hope to add the remaining goals in the next couple of weeks. If you’ve got your own list, post below! I’d love to see it

101 goals in 1001 days…

Starts: Tuesday, January 11, 2012

1.Run another Marathon

2. Run a Triathlon

3. Visit family through the country

4. Make Pasta with my Mom

5. Go see a musical with my Sister

6. Sing in Public

7. want to put on a big workshop

8. Mentor some ladies on Business

9. Make a bible studies

10. Go to WPPI

11. Go on a photo trip

12. Get sponsored by a company

13. Help out with some non-Profits

14. Go white water rafting

15. Take a fall trip to the east coast

16. Lose the dreaded 5 pounds

17. Get more pictures of Erik and I together

18. Finish small house projects

19. Think about having kids

20. Shoot in 3 new states I haven’t shot before

21. Plan trip to Asia

22. Be a generous giver

23. Change someones life unexpectedly

24. Take cooking lessons

25. Learn how to speak French or German

26. Fix up the back yard

27. Get back to painting again

28. Do radically fun things for clients randomly

29. Visit fellow photographers in other states

30. Paint guest room

31. Stay up on laundry- I hate you with a passion

32. Learn more about photography

33. Spend more time with family

34. Be a better guitar player

35. Go to the beach

36. Trash my dress

37. get more worked published

38. finally have a set dinner time at my house

39. Have a weekly game night at my house

40. Company parties

41. Parties in general

42. Get someone to pick out clothes for me

43. Save loads of money to give to one person- change someones life

44. Maybe get another dog

45. Climb a 14er a new one

46. Go camping

47. Meet someone famous

48. Clean the house more

49. Practice getting pregnant

50. Get a landscape picture published

51. Go to Disney World

52. Go on a trip with friends

53. Go rock climbing

54.

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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Christmas with Sarah and Erik

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Christmas time came upon us quickly- sort of.

We knew it was coming, but didn’t really do much this year.We have a few traditions that Erik and I do for Christmas. Each year we make a christmas ornament each year- both of us.

One year we made – Feather Balls

Second year we made- Icicles

This year we made- Sequin balls – they took FOREVER one ball took an hour or two easily. Why did I pick this project, I really don’t know. But we have 3 balls on our tree. YAY!

SO feel sorry for Erik because what do you get a wedding photographer for Christmas- that isn’t camera related. It can be hard, I don’t really care for jewery, we go out to eat often when we want, I have all the DISNEY movies- and netflix takes care of my Law and Order addiction. So he was cleaver to find things that I want but didn’t know I want and wasn’t camera related- super hard.

He got my 3 seasons of Ducktales- disney show- super awesome! very excited for it, Otterbox for my phone, gardening tools for my indoor attempt to have a green thumb, and a gorilla pod for my small personal camera for our crazy trips

I never knew before getting married that people didn’t open presents on Christmas Eve, my family always opened up all of our gifts on Christmas Eve. So here is Christmas Eve with my Parents.

My dad got a cooking hat for Christmas- so cute.

It was so fun being with my parents, each year we have questions to get deeper conversation.

1. What did you learn or relearn this year? 2. What was very significant thing, moment that happened this year?

Very quickly you get some special moments to reflect on. TRY IT!

Christmas day was spent with Erik’s Family

My hubby is still a kid at heart, he got legos from his mom and never seen him jump into it so so fast.

I hope your Christmas was fun and special!

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Fun news

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I have to start this post by saying I am not pregnant, everyone thinks every news I say might be me announcing my pregnancy. But sorry to dissappoint it’s not that.

But this December I became an aunty ! For the first time. As I heard the news a few short days ago, I could only scream with joy!

The joys of becoming an aunt without being pregnant for 10 months. It’s great, as I learn the pains while being pregnant from others I just wonder at the amazement of the whole process.

I love my new nephew Dylan Cooper such a great name. He is awesome.

I need to tell a little story, I am sure some have ran into this wall before. When my sister in law was pregnant I learned that my mom and sister were making a hand stitched blanket. All I know the pressure was on, hand made blankets will triumph anything from babies r us. I thought with no idea other than photos, something meaningful but I first thought that was a cop out that I needed to make something but as the due date for closer that soon got to my top list.

Luckily I had frequent flier miles from delta that I was able to get out the day after Christmas to see him. Crazy enough the airports were pretty fine. Once getting into alabama and getting my rental car, pulling up to their house I had to stop and smirk that my brother was a father. Wow! Now for the moment I waited for. Seeing him. He looked much like my brother when he was young. Holding him in my arms I was ever content just looking at him and just see him sleep and listen to how the last few days were going.

I love being an aunt

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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Everyone has a beginning

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I am not one to have the most grammitically correct posts, lets face it spell check and friends are how I get through with writing anything professionally for anything. But I wanted to take a moment and talk as plane as I can get to tell a story about how I got into my career. Everyone has a beginning, some are obvious from the beginning but some like me it just happens.

When I was 13 my middle school had a photography 6 week photo class – film. I didn’t pay that much of attention. Really liked the sound of the “click” of the camera. I really didn’t know what I was doing what the numbers meant, what was a “f” stop or what was metering. I just took photos an hoped it turned out.

Well in middle school I took that same elective 4 times, I was asked to take another class to fill the time so I switched back and forth from german to photography.

2000 came around and I saved and saved and saved. I bought my first digital camera a little sony for the magical price of $950, a memory card of 125 mb was $300 it was 2.1 mega pixels

Crazy eh! I loved taking photos of everything. I was known as having a camera.

I spent all my spare money on camera things, every other year or sometimes every year I bought a new camera.

Its an addiction!

My Junior year in high school I was asked to shoot 2 weddings, it was such a rush and a great feeling. I loved it. I was the shy, quite girl but once I had a camera I was confident and a more outgoing person.

Its funny seeing the change

College taking lots of photos but didn’t ever think of it as a career path. I went to the University of Denver going for a Marketing and Law degree. I took one art history class, the rest were all about law and marketing.

My dear husband only a friend at the time asked me some interesting questions at a mutual friends wedding that made me start to think I could pursue my passion. He asked me “if money wasn’t an object what would I be?” He was expecting a lawyer, marketing president and such. So I shocked him. He asked me what was holding me back and started to encourage me .

A little over a year later I was getting married to my hubby. I didn’t care about much for my wedding: 1. photographer, 2. Dress, 3. dancing everything else was eh. So I looked long and hard for my wedding photographer. Everyone who knew me knew my wedding was going to be epic, I imagined it a million times.

So when my wedding photographer didn’t show up without a call or notice- I was devastated to say the least.

My husband and I were poor as church mice, we didn’t have jobs when we got married. We had wedding gifts that helped us through our first year. The only way we made rent was because of Erik’s Grandparents. We were poor. So when I asked Erik to empty out or savings account to spend 1750 for a camera to start a business was like ask for him to trust that we weren’t going to be bankrupt if I didn’t get launched in a hurry. I have no idea why he said yes. He had some serious faith in me.

In less than 2 months I had 15 weddings booked for the year, 8 engagement sessions underneath my belt. I had this constant feeling of having no clue what I was doing but I figured I would fake it til I make it thought and that I was going to deliver a great product even if I didn’t make money. The first wedding, I can’t even tell you how I continued after that wedding. I sent my husband out to get more batteries, I had to borrow the mother of brides camera battery. I didn’t know a great many things, like how to turn down a flash. if you looked into my flash you would be seeing spots.

I looked all over craigslist for weddings, I was lucky enough to get into a brid

al show. I brought my camera boxes to show something, I had nothing really to show.Each and every time I think of how I started was crazy. I can’t believe I am where I am now.

The workshops that turned around my photography, the amazing support of my husband that took a huge financial risk, God for making it possible. I couldn’t believe that people would choose me. Each and every wedding I wanted to offer more than just great photos but an experience to make sure their day was amazing.

It has been a journey and I am very thankful for every couple

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