Joey and Jules are married!!!

Jules called me in May wanting to see our work in person. She was living in California with Joey and couldn't make it out until Memorial Day weekend, but really wanted to see how we could fit her budget. After deciding she had to have us, we started the process of making her day PERFECT. Since we didn't have a lot of time to get to know one another, we did our best to make it work. I met with her at the Blue Heron and met the FABULOUS Jenny. We worked on the schedule of the day and we made she sure it worked perfectly for the Blue Heron too. Jules was so easy to work with and wanted us to use our experience to make her day special.

I am so excited to say that her day was simply flawless and I hope everything was exactly how she imagined it.

FINALLY!!

In the past few months, I have wanted to blog about my feelings. Unfortunately, once I blogged them, they were pretty much out there for the world. Well, now I am able to tell everyone.

If you have been following me on facebook you will know what this blog has lead to. For those that haven't, I will tell you, just in case.

In the past month, we found out that Bryce is a little behind on his developmental skills. He is in the process of developmental therapy through the first steps program. I have chosen a therapist for him that will help him learn to talk and work through his aggression. As a mom, I have understandably blamed myself for being so busy with work and the business.

I have also made a few changes in who I am as well. When I went back to work, I never quite got a grasp on balancing work, the business, and my family. My business was growing to new heights that I never thought that I could take it to, and I was having a hard time keeping up. My faith took the biggest back seat out of everything. I could feel God pulling me toward him, I just kept resisting. It was time for me to take that step of faith and follow him once again.

God had been giving me signs here and there about where he wanted me to be. He kept pointing me home. After meeting with many vendors in the industry, including fellow (and fabulous) wedding photographers and hearing how they, "just took that leap of faith", I decided that home is where I needed to take that leap of faith. After A LOT of praying, I felt God was telling me that now is my time to trust Him.

Well, I did. Now, I am home working harder than ever to make sure that my brides get the best of me. Please be patient though. I'm still trying to catch up. You can expect to see more blog posts and LOTS of new things.

Stay tuned for some fabulous additions to GLP.

Sneak Peak for Jules

I fell so in love with Jules and I just couldn't wait to post a few of my favorite images that I took. Stay tuned, more to come.

LA and Emily are married

I sometimes hear the best stories about how the bride and groom met while the girls are getting ready, but let me tell you, the entries from LA's diary that his sister was re-telling left me in stitches. I won't tell you what they said, sorry, but let's just say that his love for Emily started when they were in the 8th grade.

Eventually, Emily noticed LA and decided that he just might a cool kid afterall. Whatever tricks he had up his sleeve worked as she is now madly in love with him.

Congratulations LA and Emily! You're finally married.

My Beautiful Wife

Piece and Quiet

This is my favorite time of the day. I get so excited to take my lunch because it's 60 minutes that I can enjoy to myself working on what makes me smile, my business. I love coming down to the riverwalk byt the Farmer's Market and sit on the rock steps and watch the river move by me, listening to the dogs being walked behind me, and the kids walking with mom and dad. It seems to be the perfect moment in such a fast paced world.

Chris and I decided that in order to get those moment with our family again, we were going to work on down sizing our tasks. I have picked up some responsibilities of editing and designing, along with purchasing a new Dell Mini netbook so that I can work on the administrative part on my lunch. Right now, I am working on getting it set up, but it is enjoyable to know that I will have more time to spend with the kids and instead of telling Josie to wait until I'm done updating the accounting, I can play our new favorite game, Barbie, Queen of the Prom, the moment she asks.

Don't get me wrong, I've had this opportunity before, but our old laptop couldn't hold nearly as much information as I required it to have. I am in total awe of this computer. Maybe because it's my own and there is something about purchasing a product with cold hard cash that you personally worked your tail off to obtain that sets you on cloud 9 when using it.

On a side note: I was just told that I am doing what a classly like myself should be doing on a beautiful day like today. What a nice thing to be said.

On a family note: Bryce will be 2 years old on September 16th. I can't believe how quickly time has flown by. I wish he would start to talk. He isn't as responsive when you call his name as I'd like him to be, but that could just be a kid-thing. I have heard over and over again that I should look into getting his hearing tested and maybe even get tubes put in his ears. I'm not sure about the tubes part, but he has an appointment on Thursday morning to find out what is going on with him.

I suppose that's it for now. I need to get a few things accomplished before my meeting this evening. Stay tuned, I will be blogging more often now that I will have my Mini on me at all times. :)

Happy Monday!