Kid at Heart

ok so its been a while

2009-05-27T10:27:00.005-04:00

Alright, so I have been really busy with life. Sorry for the lack of blog. Life keeps me busy starting with Remy who is a year old now. My Bubba is like a kid too freaking cute! This summer, my Hubby's brother is living in our guest room, makes for interesting events.

Just this past holiday weekend we had a BBQ at my house. Some friends and family came over for Ribs, burgers, and hot dogs. And Oh by the way, I bought and assembled my brand new grill! whoohoo!

I have been up to lots of photo work. Did the church directory, a few child portraits, a Graduation, a baby shower, and even a session for mothers day. Here is just a small sample of some of the stuff I have been up to. Also a wedding recently with photos to come later.

Keeping busy

2009-03-17T14:21:00.005-04:00

More photos of course. These of course are the nieces! the Cutest ever i think... They are naturals :) Enjoy

Smile

2009-03-16T15:50:00.005-04:00

So here is a catch up blog... mostly photos, but not even nearly a percentage of what I have shot recently. More to come.....

Photos and plans

2009-03-06T09:23:00.002-05:00

Well, I'm back with more photos then you have time for! I have been busy and continue to be busy this month. I just did this precious little angel last weekend.

Don't you love it when her mom says how do you do Hallelujah Jesus and she sticks her hands up!

And Sunday this past I did my younger brother wedding! It was so cute, and I am still editing photos, so I will put them up when I have those.

Then today I have a Christening shoot, and tomorrow a Phillies family shoot. And next weekend I have the nieces coming over for 1st birthday and 3rd birthday photos. And the following weekend I will have church directory work and a sitting for Easter.

My goodness will I have time to breath, I sure hope so.... maybe during the week a little.

Remy's New Trick - Dead

2009-02-07T08:43:00.002-05:00

Well as promised:

so anyway...

2009-02-05T10:01:00.003-05:00

Ok so I have been quite lax in my writing, which I want to try and keep up more often. . . . But on the same token I don't really have much new and exciting to blog about. I guess I live a pretty uneventful life. hmm.

Well February is here and as per tradition Jason and I went to the car show. Usually we are accompanied by my younger brother, but this year he is busy getting ready for his wedding. So we took a friend of ours. Always a fun time though. (Pictures to come)

And of course the most fun of all Remy learned a new trick! So now his range of abilities is: Sit, down (lay), dance, speak, Shake, high Five, leave it, drop it, and DEAD! Hopefully I can attach the video when I get home.

Anyway I guess that is the excitement for now... More to come later.

Love ya all!

Where does the time go??

2009-01-14T14:25:00.003-05:00

Ok so it is January already, and I feel a bit lost. Though the Holidays are fun they they also be a bit of a hassle and they always go by so fast, and you feel like you need a holiday from the holidays. hmm.... whew time to breath i guess now. No new photos to post as of right now, but i figure you all can hang tight till I have a sitting again. After the holidays are a little slow for photos, unless people need birthdays or new babies you know.

I don't have much to say today... Well hopefully I will next time!

A weeks worth of fun!

2008-11-17T11:39:00.006-05:00

Well this week was a fun one. Didn't do a ton of stuff, but what I did do was lots of fun. First on Monday night I went to Melissa's house and shot her christmas photos. Tons of Fun! They are all so cute. Didn't do much the reset of the week, but then on Saturday I did Caitlyn's Christmas photos. Also loads of fun! Well not much to tell about everything i guess, so enjoy the photos!

Keeping Busy

2008-10-07T09:28:00.008-04:00

Well here is a photo blog again of all the things I have been up to. Two shoots recently and hopefully more to come with the holidays.

October

2008-09-29T12:59:00.002-04:00

October is almost here... can you believe it? Just yesterday it seemed like the beginning of summer and already the fall chill has set in. And don't get me wrong, I love the change of seasons, and the coloring of the leaves. It is like every day God takes some time to color the landscape just a little more than the day before. However, I don't like the fact that it gets cold. And I have to start wearing layers. It is just a chilling reminder that winter is on its way. Once again i can see the beauty in some parts of the weather, but winter to me is just depressing. The trees are dead, its cold, and the darkness of the day seems longer than the light.

On top of all that, you have to decide who gets what holiday, and who you travel to see when. I am not a nice person when it comes to travel, i hate sitting in the car for more than an hour. And for anyone who has traveled with me you know why. And for those who haven't I can explain in little detail.... I have a small blatter. And the only family that lives within non stopping distance (sorry everyone) is Nana. My brother and his family live about 1 1/2 hours (sometimes i can make it) My mom and dad live 3 hours away, and my husband's mom and dad live 5 hours away. I can't really complain about it thought cause it isn't overseas, and I do get to see my families. But sometimes it does make it hard to visit, you can't just drop by you know.

One thing is for sure, I have no right to complain about my life. God has blessed me in more ways than I notice sometime. After working in a group home for schizophrenics, I can definitely say there is always someone who has it worse off then me. (I just wish that when I am not feeling well and want to complain i could remember that) To see people that have no control over any part of there life, everything is scheduled, everything is decided for you. Now ok, there is recovery process here and people have goals and they "SAY" they are doing everything to help them, but I know better. I am not trying to be cynical, but after working here for a year I see things that just make me sad sometimes. And then to think about people who could have perfectly normal lives a screw them up of there own accord! Even more sad.

Those are my thoughts for September... Enjoy see you in October. ;)

Remy

2008-09-14T18:33:00.002-04:00

Well I know I am a little over due, but WE GOT A DOG!! CHECK HIM OUT!! We got him on our Vacation week. He is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. His Name is Remy. He is about 15 pounds and won't get too much bigger, although he is only 5 months old. Anyway, more to talk about later! Enjoy!

Saturday, Sunday.... where does the time go!

2008-08-25T09:22:00.014-04:00

Well I don't know about you, but my weekend was PACKED! Holy cow! I feel like I need a day to recuperate, from the weekend! Whew.... Well it started with an early phone call from the hubby, at like 7:30 he needed a phone number he had left at home. (Fortunately he waited as long as he could to call me)

After breakfast I did a little cleaning. Then went with a girlfriend to check out some dogs! too cute! Back just in time to finish making a few sample pages for the wedding I did before my next photo shoot.

Can you say too cute!So after that was all over, Jason took me to the Phillies game. It was ok, definitely better than watching it on TV. The only problem is I am terrified of falling from heights... we sat in the 300 section. Nice seats, we got to sit on the end of the row, but it took me a few minutes before i would walk down there. Cause you know, when you come to the edge and all you can see is sky and the rest of the stadium, that definitely causes someone with a fear to panic a little. Once I got seated and didn't plan on getting up ever, I got a little more comfortable. Every once in a while I would realize I was up high and get nervous again. Needless to say my hubby was more than gracious to let me cling to him. (notice most of the picture I took are not pointed down at the field)

Look I smiled... at the end of the game. Hey and the Phillies won too. :)

Ok and this was all on SATURDAY....

Day Two.... Sunday

Sunday started with a slightly more rowdy than usual, 2 year old Sunday school class. I seemed to be "Jump on Miss Marie Day" but for some reason, no one told me. :) lol They were a good class, just a little energetic. Never a dull moment.

So then, we went home and I got ready for another photo shoot.... wheew. And lets just say that one took way longer than I planned.

Well after that was all done, we also had a lady come over with her dog she is selling. We are thinking about getting. He was so cute (sorry no photos of him). She had one other person to visit about the dog, and she is still thinking about what she wants to do. We are really hoping she picks us.... I think Jason got attached in the short visit he was here.

Whew, after all that Jason and I just pretty much sat around the rest of the night watching TV. And before you know it, today was Monday again.

Sorry this is really long, and I hope you got to read it all, and I didn't bore anyone with photos. I tried to keep them to not too many. But what can I say, a picture is worth a 1,000 words you know, so the more pictures the less I should say. :)

Hope you Enjoyed!

Family

2008-08-12T15:18:00.007-04:00

Well as promised family photos from the weekend! Enjoy!!! I had tons of fun!! (not to worry I didn't put up to many)

Oh so Romantic

2008-08-08T07:58:00.005-04:00

Once again, I hope you enjoy my photo sharing! I have TONS more from this wedding, many of which I still haven't edited, but I thought I would save you all the time. I started out with about 600 photos from this 6 hour event. Ok ok so i have a bit of a trigger finger, better to over shoot then under shoot i think anyway.

So the family is coming up this weekend. I am so excited to see everyone, especially the nieces. They get big while I am not looking. The oldest will be 5 this sunday! We are going to all do family photos at my house, and dinner. So look for those photos to come soon. And with all the babies being born around me hopefully I will be doing photos of some of them soon too. We shall see.

Anyway, see you all later, hope you enjoyed the post today!

Love ya!

Picture Perfect

2008-07-23T09:29:00.002-04:00

for your enjoyment!

Its so nice and warm!

2008-07-22T13:00:00.002-04:00

Well, nothing major going on around here... Lots of new pregnant people, which is cool. I think I am starting to come to a comfortable reality that I will get my turn, but just not yet. It does still get to me sometimes, but not too bad.

Had some fun this weekend. Shot a wedding with the coolest people. They were so funny! (photos to come) I didn't actually shoot the wedding, cause they did a destination wedding. It was just a local resception and such. They want an album though, so i did all the cute poses you know. But i did quite a bit of overshooting. I shot just about 600 images. heehee. It was only a six hour even too.... that is about 100 images an hour. Needless to say I have a bit of editing to do. I guess it is good to have too many than not enought.

Sunday we had our church picnic in the nice warm weather. (which by the way I am so tired of people saying "its soo hot"... Suck it up people) It was pretty fun, can't go wrong with fried chicken i guess.

Thats all for now, Photos to come so keep checking!
Love ya all!

Fun Filled 4th

2008-07-08T09:53:00.002-04:00

I guess it is time to blog without photos for a change. I hope everyone had a good holiday! We had some local famous radio ladies over for the 4th (ok so they are our friends) It was nice, nothing major going on, has some Wii sports challenges. Which I should have won, but I was cheated out of it. :) Kidding. ok so I did win the baseball game, but I really wanted to win at bowling.

Anyway, both me and my hubby had off on Saturday the 5th! WHOOHOO! Nothing planned for that day except laundry day. Well around 12 lunchtime, the neighbor came over to borrow our wrench, and invited us for food at 3! Awesome! Apparently he had gone shopping for dinner when he was hungry. oops. So he had 2 rack of ribs, clams, chicken wings, and corn on the cob! Keep in mind that the only him and his wife (expecting a child) live next door. So they had a few people show up for food besides us.

Then the neighbor to the left of them who just moved in was having a party too. So we were all out on our back decks partying together. We played games in there yard and ate from there chocolate fountain, and they came over and listened to the phillies game and at ribs at our party. Pretty funny stuff. This went on pretty much till it was dark. So it was quite interesting, met some new people.

Anyway, I guess that is about it for now, I will hopefully have some new photos up soon. I have several sittings coming and a wedding, and I just did a baby shower that I am still editing. I had a bit of a trigger finger for that, I got about 200 shots. heehee. And I hate to get rid of any of them, only some of the out of focus ones.

Hope everyone it well! Keep posting, I enjoy reading them all!

What can I say

2008-06-23T11:45:00.004-04:00

Well another exciting weekend, at my house. Friday night my hubby and me went out for a dinner at the ever fabulous Chic-fil-a! Yum!! And then we went to see the newest Narnia in theaters... I know we are a little late, but better late then never. Plus the theater wasn't that full, which was nice.

Saturday, I did another shoot in the morning, kinda over lunchtime. In the evening, my hubby and a whole bunch of friends when out. First the boys did the batting cages, and then we all went mini golfing. Ever the exciting score keeping, I was winning till the 16th hole, and then my hubby ended up winning! It was a close game for a while though. Drat! I like to win you know, but I did have lots of fun. And I even got a little bit of sun, not enough for a decent tan though... bummer. Looks like I am bound for another summer with no tan to speak of. *sign*

Hopefully soon I will get my act together and get my business website up and running. I have been pretty busy the past few weeks with sittings. I can't wait untill it really takes off with weddings and everything. I want to get some better lighting equiptment, and someday I will get a studio too! I get so excited just thinking about it. And someday I will be old and retire and either give the thriving business to my kids, grandkids, or sell it for a retirement fund. Ok, ok maybe I am getting a bit ahead of myself, but what can I say.

There were so many photos from my sitting this weekend, here is just a sample, I may have more later, but i don't want to over load my few readers... hee hee :)

Softball, photos and more

2008-06-16T08:26:00.003-04:00

Well Once again, I am back to blog about the photos I have been taking. But first I will say I have been soo busy! Softball all over the place! Tons of games, and we can't seem to get anywhere, we win one, we lose the next. Although I think we have a winning record, but I really don't remember, it has all been a crazy blur. Along with family in town, graduation parties, birthdays... ect. CRAZY!

Whew, well this weekend I did some shoots for my business you know. Did some cutiepies! Only planned on one sitting this weekend, but my other friend had a dance recital so I squeezed her in the day too. FUN STUFF! Enjoy!

Memorial Day Holiday

2008-05-28T08:53:00.008-04:00

Well, I hope everyone had a good memorial day weekend! I had some fun, went up and spent sometime with my brother and his family. And my other brother was up there too.

So Uncle Charlie, and Aunt Marie did the most exercise they had in the longest time.... "Chase us, Chase us! Run Aunt Marie" Whew! After all the running, we had to do some updated pictures of the girls. Lily needed Dance, Elizabeth needed 2 year, and little Samantha is 3 months already! They are soooo cute!!!

Adventures

2008-04-21T09:07:00.005-04:00

Well, this past weekend I didn't do a whole lot of interesting things. Just some planting and oil change for the car. A little bit of cleaning, but not nearly what I wanted to do.

BUT, the weekend before my Hubby and me went down to visit my parents. We went down Friday night and came back Sunday afternoon. So that gave us all day Saturday to have adventures. So Saturday we drove over to Assitique MD to see the wild horses. It was kinda cold and windy, don't let the photo of my hubby looking warm fool you, it was cold! Afterwards, we did a drive by! lol, ok not what you may first think.... There is this little town called Berlin that has old looking store fronts and all brick. Well my mom told me that they used it in the film "Runaway Bride" as the little town! Well of course I had to see for myself... TOTALLY COOL!!

Anyway, enjoy the photos!

Work, Work, and Extra Work

2008-04-09T09:03:00.002-04:00

Ok, so it really isn't that much work, but working 8:30-4:30 everyday and then starting up my own business definitally isn't workless.

I recently got a business checking account so I can keep my earnings and spendings seperate from my personal money. Hopefully soon, I will get my website up. I am still looking into things with that.

Well I booked a wedding for the summer. Acctually it is just there resception cause they are doing a destination wedding, but they want similar stuff as a wedding cause there are more people who can come to the resception that don't get to see the wedding. I met with the couple this week to talk about what they needed/wanted. I was so nervious, I haven't really figured out my prices totally. I don't want to rip people off, but I do want to make a profit. But things went well and I just need to draw up an offical contract for me and them to sign.

Well back to regular work, and anyone who needs photos take or knows anyone who does feel free to pass my name around.

Love ya all

2008-03-24T16:13:00.003-04:00

Well I hope everyone had a great holiday! Me and my hubby didn't do much in terms of visiting people. He was working on Friday and Saturday, so we didn't really go anywhere. Plus we had sunday school teaching on sunday.

Friday I went to visit my nana for lunch. She cooked me a whole meal?! Roast beef, mashed potatoes, corn, asparagus (which i don't eat, hence the corn), and of course dessert, strawberrys and ice cream. Not to mention she sent a chocolate cake home with me! Oh my goodness.

Saturday I went to visit a girlfriend who just had a baby the same day my niece was born. She was a cutie, a bit smaller than my niece thought. Kinda gave me the baby bug again. I was trying really hard not to let it get to me, but it did. Someday....

Sunday we did sunday school for 2 & 3 year olds. We only had six kids, but I think some of them had some candy before church! They were a bit more wound up than usual. I was complete exhausted afterwards. Part way into the morning, a mom dropped off her kid, and she looked a little worried. At that moment it kinda looked a little out of control, but really it wasn't. Right near the end, one of the little guys was really upset for his mom. We were hoping to just calm him down, but he was really upset. So we went to page his parents, well in the midst of him screaming mommy, i heard him say potty. I asked him did he need to go to the potty, he said yes and stopped screaming! Poor guy! He just needed to go potty! I felt so bad for him!

Since there was nothing else to do, and family is too far to visit, I took a good long nap yesterday after all my adventures. Whew. And back to work today.... exciting

Oh I almost forgot! I got my LLC papers back on saturday! I am officially a Limited Liability Company! Whoohoo! I am so excited! Next step a website!

Hello all!

2008-03-18T09:55:00.005-04:00

Well its been a while again. I have been keeping busy with work, family and outside work. I finally got my new camera! whoohoo! Nikon d60! It is awesome!

I droped my phone in the toilet (don't ask) and after some blowdrying it work perfectly, but Jason said I could still get a new one, cause I was overdue anyway. And the thought of using it after it had been in the toilet was kinda gross.

Here is one of my pictures of my niece at a week old (look i made her smile)

Here is some new work, from my new camera! Enjoy!

ok

2008-03-01T16:22:00.003-05:00

Ok here is what I was working on, Saturday! Enjoy! (special thanks to my girlfriend for letting me borrow her nikon)

Baby's everywhere... AAH!

2008-02-26T12:12:00.002-05:00

Once again, I haven't had the time to sit and write to you all. Since the Last time I wrote a lot has happened.

First of all I had a birthday, which is always fun. We didn't do anything major, had a few friends over for some games and cake. I didn't even tell them it was my birthday, and somehow they all brought me a card. How sweet! And I must say, the Carrot cake was good too!

Then I celebrated two other friends birthdays back to back. Always exciting!

Jason and Me also did 2-3 year old sunday school class, which is always so much fun. They are so cute. They always want to sit on your lap when it comes for video time. It is so cute! Or when they ask you to help them color there picture, or do there craft. They are all so cute! (makes me want one, not like i need help wanting that)

To throw in a little work info, at one point I went to a work trainging. (Which wasn't the interesting part) We were learning about getting out of hold positions, say for example a consumer was grabbing your hair. Or bitting you, or grabbing your wrist with two hand. Well, they practiced some of the samples so you would know how to do it. So I was practicing with another girl, and in the process I got my head slammed into a table. Ouch! Now before you all panic, it was a plastic table, and I didn't bleed or bruise (at least not yet). It really didn't hurt that bad, but it did shake me up a bit. And I had a headache later that night.

And to top it all off my sister in law had her baby! Niece #3..... And my friend Had her baby girl same day! CRAZY! So my Niece, came about 5 days early, Samantha Rae 8lbs 11oz 19" was born 8/25/08 at 8:20pm! whoohoo! And my girlfrind had her baby, Bailey Ann, 5lbs 10 oz came abou 7pm - about a month early, but doing great!

Yeah so that is all I can think of that has been going on.... whew! crazy. And I have a bunch of things planned for the coming weekends, so hopefully more interesting things to come!

Love ya all!

2008-01-23T08:53:00.000-05:00

Ok, ok, so it has been a while since I've gotten a chance to blog. So I guess this will be a catch up on my unexciting life. Well January has been a pretty laid back month, I am catching up on rest from lack there of in December. Had a game night with a few friends recently, which is always fun you know. Been having and attending "Parties". I went to a Pampered Chef Party, and I had a Stampin' Up Party, both fun. Finally got a chance to visit my very pregnant friend on bedrest. Last but not least, i have an eye exam at the end of the month, whoohoo.

Today I finally got my act together, I have been trying to get some exercise into my routine and never did. Well we have this equiptment at work that we are allowed to use, but I never did, cause someone was always looking for me, when I tried to work out. Well today, I finally got around my laziness and set my alarm for 30 extra minutes. So I showed up at work with plenty of time before work to work out. So I got in a nice almost 30 minute work out in! yeah me! Hopefully I can keep it up!

Speaking of work, I now have a "stalker". Its funny and not funny at the same time. What can I say they people who live where I work have mental problems so you really can't take it seriously, but you still gotta be on your guard. Its kinda like a little puppy following you around, the part where it gets weird is when they stand at your office window stairing in at you. What can I say it must be really interesting to watch me work.

Well, speaking of, I should get back to my work.... bye people!

First Post 2008

2008-01-03T14:13:00.000-05:00

Well a new year has started! 2008 wow can you believe it! That means I have known my hubby for 5 years to the day on New Years.

We spent New Years "weekend" at the in-laws, doing 2nd christmas, and new years. I think we have done that twice so far. There church does this thing, the Sunday before New Years called Sticks in the Fire. It is supposed to Represent giving something to God. (that is how i can best describe it) Basically you get a little kindling stick and give it to God for the thing you are trusting him to take care of that year. If you want to can tell the church what it is for, or if you want to tell them about your blessings, or you don't have to say anything. It is kinda interesting, the first year me and my hubby just watched. This year we both put sticks in.

Well..... thats pretty much it for the New year so far, nothing exciting going on....

Oh Well, I did book a job for a wedding coming in the summer! yeah!

Talk to you all later

2007-12-27T10:54:00.000-05:00

Well Hello to all again... How was everyones holiday? Good I hope

Mine was pretty fun, althought it isn't really over yet. Everyone on my side was up for christmas, mom, dad, my younger brother, my older brother and his family, and even Nana.

I had a very interesting shadow all day, my niece who is 4 was like "Aunt Marie, guess what... Aunt Marie I can pour milk, can i help? Aunt Marie I've flipped Pancakes before can I do it? Aunt Marie What are you doing, can i help? Aunt Marie can we watch a movie? Aunt Marie my feet still itch can we put on more lotion?" It made for a very eventful day. I enjoyed it till about 5pm when i just wanted to rest, fortunatly she found someone else who felt like listening to her play by play of lady and the tramp.

All in all it was a good day, but like I said the fun isn't over yet. This weekend my hubby and me and going to the other side of PA to see his family, and do christmas again. It is a long drive, but we will be there a few days. It always seems like the time goes so slow, but i guess it is ok, cause we don't see them too often.

Having off four days kinda messes you up for work. Cause then I am back for three days, only to be off for four more days. To bad i don't really get to relax for any of them. Hopefully I will eventually.

Anyone got any good new years plans? or resolutions?

2007-12-20T08:59:00.000-05:00

Well since it is so close to Christmas I think Red is appropriate today. My goodness, this week has been a whirlwind. Some of the days I would walk in the door from work, scarf down dinner and walk right back out the door. Whew, needless to say it hasn't helped being sick. I started to get better, but of course I have done too much and feel worse today.

The most excitement for this week was my mom going to the hospital in an ambulance. Well I don't really know how exciting it is, but it sounded exciting from what I heard from my Dad. Now not to worry she is ok, althought we haven't really heard the results of the multiple MRI's they did, she feels much better.

So here is some of the work I have been doing this week... enjoy :)

Jam Packed Schedule

2007-12-14T13:03:00.000-05:00

Well next week is so crazy! I have three photo shoots for christmas, meetings with some friends, xmas party at work (with the chance of me doing photos there too), meeting with people about doing there wedding in the summer, throw in a 2nd xmas party with friend, church and bible study. And this is all from Saturday - Thursday.... I think i am going to colapse when I get home from work on friday. Then I gotta get my shopping done for Christmas dinner, cause everyone is my house.

CRAZY... so if you eatch me on the run you know why.

Here are a few holiday photos of some little girls I did.

So enjoy, while I go prepare for next week.

December already???? what?

2007-12-10T10:06:00.000-05:00

Well, Its mid december already... can you believe it? I feel like my head is swimming in things that need to be done. Some days it functions well, and others everything falls on me. Do you ever feel like you work, and work, and work, and never catch up to things? like work? or bills? or have any time left after work?

So much to do and never enought time or money to do it.

I really enjoy Chrismas for many reasons, but I also don't enjoy it for a few reasons. Lets start with the good first of course. I love Christmas, for the main reason of course my Lord and Savior was born on earth to save me. I also really enjoy it cause It is a time of joy and love, and family. I always get to see family at some point or another, which is so great. They love to get together, and hang out, just to spend time together. It is so nice to know that you will definitally see people you love. And of course I love christmas music, i start listening as early as possible. (sometimes too early for those around me) hee hee :)

Then of course there is the thing I don't like about christmas. I don't like how it has become, all about what we can get. Like all some people think about is, what am I getting for christmas. What is so and so buying me. And a lot of times people fall into the fact that they spend too much and justify it on the fact, that "oh its the holidays" And as selfish as this makes me sound, i hate that, cause I know i can't do that. My human nature wants to say, oh i can buy that even if it is a little more that i thought... but know i really shouldn't buy that. So of course then human nature says to me that i should be jealous of those who have whatever they want, and I should be selfish and want what they have. Can I just say that is really hard to fight! ugh money and holidays.

Anyway, this year is a tough one for that cause there is one really big item that i really, really, really want, and to justify it is for my business not just fun. lol I know I am not getting it cause we can't afford it at the moment.

Its like Satan is standing around poking me with sticks, first one thing then another.... never a dull moment.

My Hubby

2007-11-29T12:57:00.000-05:00

Well its been a while since I got to sit down and blog. I wanted to give you all Thanksgiving thoughts, and some old family traditions, but I was sooo busy that week, it just didn't happen.

I really wish I had something profound to talk about today, but sadly I don't. As lame as this sounds I am actually going to post a blog my hubby wrote on another site.

Enjoy!

Yes the Holiday season is here! It always official starts when my family shows up around Thanksgiving... It was pretty much the same this year as it was last year. My mom's family all getting together, 25+ gathering in a building not big enough for all of us, and going insane by the end of it cause of the guys playing video games, the girls chatting and giggling, and the older adults trying to talk to each other over all the noise. Not to mention my mom buying a christmas chicken toy that played the chicked dance song and danced... (why mom???)
Anyways, its all family, so you got to love them, and I do. Thank goodness Marie is still with me after years of this torture each thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving was fun, but black friday was even better, and my black friday didn't involve any shopping, or waiting in line. We all took the oppurtunity to sleep in. I LOVE SLEEP! Then after we all woke up and gathered together again at my place (sometime around noon) It was time to get the tree...
We went to a tree farm out near our house, It was quite the fun experience. First we arrive there, and find out where to go to chop down your own tree. The assistant tells us to wait in line near this dirt path and the tractor will be along to pick us up. So we wait in line, hop on the next tractor and take a 5 minute tractor ride down to the other side of the farm where the tractor drops you off... after about 15 minutes of running around trying to find the "right" tree.. we finally had one seperated from its roots, and in david, and jons hands, being carried back to the tractor pick up spot. after the ride back, a quick wait in line to pay, and some free hot chocolate (curtosy of the tree farm) we had the tree in our trunk and on its way to our living room. Then back to our place for an evening of family and decorating. Now thats the way to spend black friday.

Oh, and for you crazy shoppers... there was one deal that Marie wanted to get from a store, but instead of being at the store at 5 am to get her hands on it. she ordered it, online, at a decent time, and got it for the same price with free shipping, and it was here by Tuesday. :)

Nieces

2007-11-16T15:00:00.000-05:00

Here are some updated photos of the nieces!! Aren't they just the cutest??

Photos

2007-11-14T11:50:00.001-05:00

Here are some new photos for you to enjoy! More to come, some of the nieces!

add on

2007-11-05T17:56:00.000-05:00

Just so everyone knows, my last post was not in anyway ment to be an attack at single mothers, or at people who had sex before getting married.

Hope I didn't offend

Trust Challenge

2007-11-05T08:58:00.000-05:00

Well yesterday was an interesting day, the message at church felt it was preached right at me. So I guess here are my actions regarding that message. (*hint: this may get long)

Yesterdays message was on how to trust God. And well the long and short of it was that we can't just say we trust Him, but we need to ask God to give us the trust. Well anyway the challenge set out by Pastor was to tell someone what we are struggling to trust God about. So here it goes....

Now I am just going to start off and say this may be more of a selfish issue then a trust one, but maybe a little bit of both. Anyway, I guess I will start with the hard part, I have trouble trusting God's timing. I don't like to not know when things will happen. Now, I am not all that bad, but there are a few things that really get to me. So here goes. I have the most trouble trusting him timing about children. I want to have kids, alot. :) I'm sure most people already know that, but here is what you may not know. I don't understand how children are a blessing, like I am faithful in waiting for his timing so i will be blessed with the children he wants to give me. But if that is true then how come people sin and have sex before marriage and the blessing I am waiting for in his timing, they get as a consequence to there sin????

I just don't understand that. And I'm not trying to offend anyone who is pregnant and not married, don't get me wrong kids are good either way. But I just don't get it.

I'm going to be totally honest here, so please don't judge me too much. There are plenty of chances that my and my now hubby could have had to had sex before we were married. Both our parents live several hours away, who knew what we were up to. BUT WE DIDN'T! Why because it is a sin, and we didn't want to do that it just seems like no one sees that as wrong anymore. Now I'm not saying we were like the most holy couple to ever live or whatever, but there just seems like so many couples in the church who are engaged or not get pregnant. How can i trust God to bless me with children when it also comes as a consequence?

Now logically I understand why right now is not God's timing for us. Financially we can't afford it, and i know everyone says you can never afford it, but when you don't have more than $100 extra dollars a month, there really isn't any room for anything else right now. But how do I trust there will ever be? I mean I have never gotten a descent raise in my life. Bill don't ever go down, and there is always unexpected things. Like cars dieing, things breaking. And yet I know a person who lives at home with her mom in a little apartment and isn't in any better financially, unmarried, and is going to have a baby. I mean where is the sense in that? How is that even right, she sinned and gets a baby that she probably is going to have trouble taking care of. What kind of life is that kid going to have. At least I am married and have a house and a good job. When will it be my turn?

I guess my real problem is emotional. I just don't understand God's timing. Logically I know it isn't the right time for a family for us. But It just doesn't transfer to my heart, to what I want.

I feel like being not rich is part of being a christian for most people. Like God tests your trust when you are just barely financially OK. I have never asked for millions of dollars cause i know that wouldn't make me happy. But sometimes I just wish that God would sell a couple of those "cattle on a thousand hills" and give me the money ;) Guess that is pretty selfish.

Anyway, I hope someone reads this so I can a least feel like told someone. :)

Thanks for listening hope it isn't too long....or selfish sounding.

Love ya all

Creativity at work...

2007-10-22T15:37:00.000-04:00

Here is a recent shoot, enjoy!

Weekend Adventures

2007-10-15T11:25:00.000-04:00

Well me and my hubby had off this weekend, and I was told we should have been doing something exciting. But alas, we stayed home and cleaned, literally ALL DAY! We did the bathroom, spare room, computer room, our bedroom, and living room which included moving the furniture so when Christmas comes there is room for a tree. We didn't get to the dining room or the kitchen, but they are not bad. The kitchen gets regular cleaning, and we don't use the dining room much.

I must say i didn't realize how dirty some things were. For example, (alert: if you don't like hearing about dirt skip to the end) the bathroom, When I take a shower i don't have my contacts in so i can't really see the soap scum, and I don't look at it any other time. (Secretly i know its not clean, but i don't look) Well Saturday i decided it was time to clean it, EWWW! I poured on the lime a way HARD! But at least the yellow tiled shower is yellow again, not orange in between the tiles. :) I am so proud of myself! I even put up a new plastic liner (which was also gross). So if anyone wants to come over and see the house right now is a good time, everything is clean.

Skippers start here:

As much as i don't like changing things, I am come to like moving the furniture once in a while. Mind you, it takes a while for my hubby and I to agree on things. I tend to like things with a little angle, but he doesn't. He likes stuff straight, so there is no waisted space. We usually "discuss" it for a while, and then just start moving things to see what we come up with. Well this time we were trying to move for the holidays so we have room for the tree and presents and floor space for whatever. I really like it cause it is really open, it was open before but for some reason, it just seems more inviting now.

When we were totally done, I told myself that I would start a regular small cleaning routine, so things stay nice. (I don't think it is going to happen, but i can dream).

Now to plan the better things this week, like how i should cut my hair... hmm

Life

2007-10-08T11:39:00.000-04:00

Well all the new fall seasons have started and my hubby and me have picked up a few new shows. (Not that we need more TV to watch). One that I really like is LIFE. (I should clarify it is not a show for little kids) The cop was in prison for 12 years and has now been cleared and allowed on the force again.

But some of the things that make it pretty funny is cause the major advances in technology in 12 years. (although his obsession with fruit is pretty funny too) They were interviewing a suspect and he was talking about getting an IM. Well the cop had no idea what he was talking about, he played it cool though. Another thing was one of the other cops wanted to take a picture with him, well he whipped out his phone. The main guy was like, dude thats a phone.

It just makes realize how much technology the world has created in 12 years. CRAZY!

I wonder what will be cool in 12 more years....

It kinda makes you wonder what you would do if you lost 12 years of your life to something....

Interesting

2007-09-25T13:33:00.001-04:00

You Are An ISFJ

The Nurturer

You have a strong need to belong, and you very loyal.
A good listener, you excel at helping others in practical ways.
In your spare time, you enjoy engaging your senses through art, cooking, and music.
You find it easy to be devoted to one person, who you do special things for.

In love, you express your emotions through actions.
Taking care of someone is how you love them. And you do it well!

At work, you do well in a structured environment. You complete tasks well and on time.
You would make a good interior designer, chef, or child psychologist.

How you see yourself: Competent, dependable, and detail oriented

When other people don't get you, they see you as: Boring, dominant, and stuck in a rut

What's" Your Personality Type?

Other People's Kids

2007-09-24T13:44:00.000-04:00

Well its about time for my "weekly blog". I didn't really mean for them to come once a week, but that just seems to be how often I get to do this. Plus I really don't have that much interesting information going on in my life right now. No kids of my own to write about, no plans for kids of my own to write about. Any family is at least an hour from here, so we don't get to visit them very often. Already have the new job. So what else is there to say today....

Well I guess I will talk about yesterday, which was Sunday. My Hubby and I were in the 2y-3y old class yesterday. Can I just say they are a bunch of cuties. Yesterday we had a few new kids in the class. Here is a good question, do kids listen better to other authorities rather than there parents. Ok, here is the reason i ask. Like i said we had a few new kids, well the one mom and dad were like "good luck" when the left there daughter in our care. Mind you she just turned two, but i must say she is sooo well spoken for a little two year old. And not only that she listened to everything we said. Like for example she sat for the whole story time on her spot, she colored her craft, she did her snack. She was as well behaved as any other kid there, and better than some. :)

So later when her mom picked her up she asked me how was she and be honest. So I told her, she was wonderful, sat for the whole story, ect. I think the mom thought i was lieing! :) (and mom if your reading this i wasn't) I just made me wonder why the little girl did so good for the class, when i'm assuming she is not that good for her parents?! Her parents are great godly people and from what i know about them are doing an excellent job raising her.

I guess i just have the magic touch... hahahahaha!

Monday...

2007-09-17T12:32:00.000-04:00

Well, last week was a new experience for me. Working Monday-Friday 8:30-4:30 was very interesting. It was totally differently to be able to leave on time every day! With a nice short 20 minute drive home, I was home by five every night! It was really nice!

I love my little bathroom sized office. I have one window and a door that locks behind me. :) And in keeping with Marie style weather, for some reason it stays nice a warm in my little box. (You won't hear me complaining) They only downside from the warm box, is about 3:30-4:00 it starts to feel nice and cozy like nap time. That is usually the time I do any last ventureing out to the printer or other places downstairs for the fresh air.

And can I say having off on the weekend with my husband was wonderful. Of couse he doesn't get off every weekend, but it was still nice to have two days of whatever time with him. (Mind you we ended up cleaning, and going to a party so we weren't home much, but it was still nice) Not to mention evenings, every evening with him this past week.

Sunday was an interesting day too. Wasn't feeling too great, and we completely slept in waaaay too late. Don't know what happend to the alarm?! But later that day I did a shoot for a family, it was great, didn't take long, and I loved most of the pictures.

Here are some of my favorites: (I hope this works)

Sorry if they are pixally, i was trying to load them small. Anyway, it is nice to have the free time to do my own work for friends and family!

So If anyone wants photos of something or another, you know how to look me up!

Thats it for now, before this become to long to read!

Love ya all!

New Work, New Outlook

2007-09-10T07:49:00.000-04:00

Well today I start my new job. Ironically, on Saturday when I left my old job I almost cried. :( I will miss it, at least making the little kids laugh everyday. Not the rest of the junk that goes on. Oh well, I guess that was a good 6 1/2 years. I still hope to do photography of course on my own. I have my background ready to go, but no good lighting system, so if it is bright out, then I can do it in my living room, but if not too bad.

I don't know why I am so nervous this morning. I guess cause I don't want to mess up. But I already got the job, so I really shouldn't be this nervous. I think it is starting somthing new so fast, I am not good at change, and already my brain has said what if this doesn't work out then what. I chose not to listen to that, but i still heard it. Oh well, I guess nervousness is a part of life.

Well I gotta go get ready for work. Whoohoo!

Patience

2007-09-01T09:25:00.000-04:00

Ok, well here is a little know fact about me. I love to write poems from time to time. They are all pretty much related to what I am feeling, and learning from God. Someday, when I have enough of them I want to get them published. But I don't think that will be for a long time.

As I may have told everyone, I am looking for a new job. Well I had a second interview on monday, and I called on friday because this monday is a holiday. Well I left a message with the lady, and she left me one back. (cause i was at work) She said they are doing a few more interviews this week. But that I am high on there list of people they like. They should have something to tell me by the end of next week, weither it is yes or no.

Can I just say... AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I am not good at being patient. It makes me worry, and create senerios in my head of what i did wrong or the outcome, if i can't get the job, if i do get the job. I have quite the vivid imagination sometimes.

Anyway back to the reason, I started this blog. I was thinking about being patient and waiting on God to provide the best for me and my husband, when i remembered a poem i wrote about patience, now i didn't remember what it said, i just remembered i Titled it "Patience" - So here it is:

Patience

- My mind says,
How come I must wait?
Why does it take so long?
I want things now…
I want to know when…
I want to be in control…
- My heart cries

No reply, just silence
Then He says… “Patience
Trust me… I know what you want
But I want something better for you
You must not worry, just wait
It will come in perfect timing
Just wait…”

I don’t think I can do it,
I want to know, I want to control,
Will you help me?
“Oh dear child, I have saved you from death,
Do not worry about life…
I am here, I am listening,
I will keep you strong,
I will be your support,
I will give you patience.
Trust me…
Be patient for my will
Just wait…”

Marie Bertolet
© 2005

2007-08-25T09:44:00.000-04:00

Ok, Well this one is going to be a good one, I hope.

My husband taped the giant 6 hour event on CNN about God's warriors. Two hour about Jews, two about Muslins, and two about christians. Well we decided to watch the Christian one first, cause I was most interest to see what it was about. Now I am not at all a theological person, and most of what I believe I have been taught by my dad. I know that sounds lame, i didn't go out and study all the super deep theological stuff by myself, but i just don't have the capacity to understand all that stuff. (sorry tim) I have nothing against people, pastors whatever who love to study it and understand it, but i will just stick with what i know, like God sent his only son to die for my sins so I can be saved.

So Anyway, this CNN thing. It was very interesting, they had a lot of (apparently) well know people in the religious world. So we were watching these people, and they were all presently slight different views. Some I agreed with and some I wasn't so sure about. Ok for example, this one guy was shall we say lead to "emobilize christian voters". Which he was preaching saying that not voting is a sin. And that we need to vote the morals we follow..... I don't remember, thou shall always vote being a ten commandment?! Did I miss that one... heehee. I think he seemed a little extreame, but the real question is what is God going to say when he goes to heaven, good job? what were you doing? I don't know.

Here is another one, there was this guy who went to a scientic convention, and learned about how the earth is dieing from global warming. So because it says in Geneisis that we should take care of all Gods thing for God, this guy is saying that we are dishonoring God, by creating global warming. And that God was an environmentalist. WHAT? I don't know how i feel about that one.

How can people read the bible and see only what they want? Why do they interpret it in such different ways? Is it really that hard to interprete the words of God? Aren't they there in black and white?

Anyway, here is the one that really got to me. I hope this doesn't offend anyway, and I am open to hearing what everyone thinks, please. Jimmy Carter was being interviewed talking about how he sorta lost the second election because of this Christian movement or whatever. Well since then he has been a big guy in his church or whatever. Well in his baptist church they created and passed some kind of edict (i think). It goes something like this. The Bible teaches that wifes must be submissive to there husbands, therefore they are not allowed to be a pastor/leader of a church. That makes sense to me, because when i was little and i asked my dad why girls couldn't be pastors it was explained to me that, wives are supposed to be subbmissive to there husbands, and that Men are supposed to be leaders. Now I don't think that means a lady cannot go to seminary and get a pastoral degree and be a leader, but not of the entire church. Woman certainly can be leaders, and can be teachers, but not pastors. (i think) Mind you that Jimmy Carter thought this was wrong and woman could be pastors, so he started his own bapitist religion or whatever. But what I want to know is what is right? is there a right and a wrong? If a woman becomes a pastor and has all the correct theology and saves people in Jesus name, is God going to say to her when she get to heaven, good job, but you weren't supposed to be a pastor? Or is he going to be like oh well, its ok, cause you did such a good job furthering my kingdom. Is there really a right and a wrong answer about this one, or is it open to interpretation? How do we know God's interpretation?

My hubby didn't think it was a big deal, but to me it is cause i have always believed one thing, and if that is wrong i want to know. It kinda makes me think what else have i just assumed is right because i was told that when i was a child. Ok, ok I am not going to question everything and be paranoid, but it does make you wonder a little.

Well before this gets way to long, i am going to stop. Hopefully me next blog will be more light at heart.
(sorry for any spelling errors)

Well here goes

2007-08-23T10:25:00.000-04:00

Well i am not the greatest writer, or speller for that matter. But I thought maybe it would be nice to share my thoughts with people who might read them. So I don't know really where to start, but maybe I should start with stuff about me.

My hubby and I have been married just about a year now. And I love it! We have been together for almost 5 years now, which seems like a long time, but only because it goes so fast. I have two brothers, one a cool pastor with a great family, and the other an awesome mechanic. Mom and Dad live in Delaware doing church planting and pastoral work. Someday I hope they move closer, but that is definitally better than 10,000 miles. Mom and Dad in law live about 5 hours away in a tinie tiny town, with one traffic light. For those of you who don't know, I am from all over. I was born in reading, lived in that area for about 13 years. Moved to Guam, where i lived for about 8 years, and still consider an awesome place to live even if it is so far away! Now i live in Schwenksville, with my husband.

My husband is a chef, and also does random autoCAD designing on the side. Loves his mac, and anyone with a mac. Also couldn't do with out his nintendo. Which i am ok with cause he is not a super sports freak so, thats nice. But is does like nascar, which i am getting in to, how can you blame me, cars going at 100+ miles per hour in a circle. :) heehee, no it is fun to watch, but also good to nap too.

I am currently looking for a better job. Right now i work at Sears Portrait, which is so fun, but the company is not fun anymore. WAY to stressful, so i feel that it is time to move on. Find something better for our family.

Anyway, i think that is is for today, but be prepared for my random blogging. I may have photos, poems, how i am feeling, and whatever else my fingers feel like typing. I hope you enjoy!

Love ya
Marie