Jerri and I finally got together this past week to get her senior pictures done. It seems all my sessions lately have had to be rescheduled several times.. usually do to weather!! (I have had more rain than I want to deal with I promise!!!). But we managed to find a dry day Friday… well at least partially dry. We still had to jump over mud puddles, and avoid most grass. But I had a GREAT time. Jerri brought her boyfriend and her mom along with her. They had me laughing through the whole session. I even managed to get a few of Jerri and Keith together. The one posted here in the sneak peek is when they were being “serious”. You two remember that if you always laugh together like that, you can make it through anything. :) Hope you enjoy your sneak Jerri.

First I want to apologize to Cliff for taking SO long to get this sneak peek up. My computer is still not hooked up to the internet, and I admit to beign a bit lazy about getting the pictures off my computer and onto my son’s. LOL

Cliff’s session was a lesson in what can go wrong will. We had to reschedule a couple times, and when the day finally came, I went to the session without a memory card!!! What a rookie mistake and I couldn’t believe it! Luckily, Cliff is a friend of the family, and quite understanding. :) Cliff is teaching my son, Justus, to play the guitar, and I was happy to hear that he was bringing his guitar with him. I had every intention of getting some of the 2 of them, but with the absentmindedness of me, I ran out of time. Another time Cliff??

As we’re gearing into the Christmas season, we are all bombarded with messages of love, peace, goodwill toward men. My post today isn’t going to follow the typical path of my previous posts. But it is something that I think is important.

During the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, it’s so easy to talk about the good manners, love, goodwill, that is so abundantly tossed around. But the doing isn’t so easy, sometimes. Or at least we think it’s not. I encourage you this season, to remember others in your actions. In something as polite as holding the door open for someone, to smiling at a stranger.

We seem to have forgotten how to treat our fellow man. To put their thoughts and feelings foremost in our minds. Life’s not just about self… In fact, TRUE life is about selflessness. So if you can, make a point daily, to put someone ahead of yourself. Call if you aren’t going to be where you said, and someone is waiting on you. Spend a few extra minutes with someone who may need a shoulder to lean on. They say it takes 30 days to make a habit.

This is one habit I think we should all have.

And just because I can’t leave you without a picture… here’s one from my tree. I guess Jesus thought selflessness was a good habit to have, too.

Ok. Something happened to me this week. A lady told me she checked my blog EVERY DAY!! OH THE PRESSURE! LOL But it got me to thinking… If she’s checking every day, many days it’s just a quick 2 second trip. A quick look-see to see that, once again, I’ve posted nothing. So in addition to the sneak peeks that make up the majority of this blog, I’d like to start introducing more things. More of my life at times, more of photo tips, more of.. oh who knows what. I just know I don’t want you to be disappointed when arriving here, to find me mysteriously quiet yet again.

So if there is anything you’d like me to discuss, post, carry on about. LOL Feel free to throw some suggestions my way. I can’t say that I’m the most entertaining writer, even though it was a passion of mine as a kid. But having kids seems to have taken all my big words. ;) Now I speak in monosyllables. And with lots of lols and :). Please don’t hate me for it.

And because I don’t think I can post without a picture, I’ll add one now. I took the monsters to the parade this evening. They were all decked out in their Santa hats (fun for them, and I knew their ears wouldn’t freeze off!), and as excited as they could be. They’ve never seen a parade any better than what Des Arc has to offer. After tonight’s show, I vowed one day to take them to something that will really wow them. Here’s a couple snaps from tonight… nothing fancy, or portrait worthy. Just a mom snapping memories of her children to remember when she’s old and gray and they have children of their own.

Let me just say, shooting for family is INTIMIDATING! I was a mass of nerves the whole time. I hope I did them justice. :)