Why hello there, old friend!

It's been too long.

I'm going to do better, and that's all I'm going to say about that.

I'm not working anymore. Jeff has a splendiferous job that allows me to stay home and pursue my passions, or at least keep the house a *little* cleaner.

I have a few things going on. I am shooting a wedding in a week and a half, then I have an event later in the month that I have to be tight lipped about until it happens.

I'm on the planning committee for Paradise Praise Fest 2010, which is a local Christian music festival that involves all the churches in our small town uniting to make beautiful music and set aside our differences!

I'm really excited about this, very very very excited!!!
I just got back from doing a photo shoot for the promotional pictures we're going to use.

What you do think!???




And then there's this one (a personal favorite):



Lastly, my 100% most loved shot of the day...



Isn't she gorgeous!? I love her hands...

So anyway, I got some great shots and she was a trooper. She walked all over the lava rock in 100 degree heat with no shoes on. Well, I let her put her shoes on for the last one, that would hurt too badly to jump with no shoes!

*proving I have some semblance of empathy*

What else?Phew, there's been a lot! Ok...here goes.

We visited grandma Jewy (Judy...but that's how the kids pronounce her name and it's fitting since, well, she's a heeb):



I'm now down 76 big lbs!!! -4 to go until goal weight!!!




And planted our garden!



That's all from our simple life, how's yours?

I love:

• taking a huge, deep/filling my lungs 'till they want to burst, breath in and then letting it whoosh out.


• waking up to a bright room full of sunlight.


• waking up with my husband next to me.


• waking up while my kids are still asleep :^)


• tan lines.


• taking naps in the sunshine. I don't care where that sunshine is, I will sleep in it. On the beach, at the park, pretty much anywhere with some warm rays to wrap me in.


• swimming on 110 degree days.


• trying new vegetables.


• trying new cuisine.


• when I hit that *perfect* note where it sounds like my voice wraps all around me, in and out my ears, and floods my throat.


• wireless internet!


• traveling


• new clothes that I have to buy regulary because I'm losing weight :^)


• typing with my eyes closed (mentioned in PP).


• quilts on cold days.


• visiting the snow.
  
• old movies.


• clean bathrooms.


• the feeling of belonging.


• being home.


• long drives through the country with the window down and my hand wind surfing while my hair blows itself messy.


• the look on my husband's face when he meets our child for the first time (got to see that 3 times, I'm so lucky).