Wow, Where did February go?????

Gee, this month has flown by! I am so excited about what I learned at WPPI in Las Vegas! I am looking forward to all of my summer weddings even more than before.

I have some fun new pics to post. I got to shoot Jessica (Kraft) Hill's baby this week, and man is he a little cutie. Plus I have new stuff from Vegas, got to take a IR camera and had lots of fun with it!

March is right around the corner and I am going to be so busy. I am working on that final portfolio for school, I have to shoot a chocolate and perfume ad this week, hopefully will get to shoot a renaissance couple. Plus, Abby is turning twelve! How did that happen so fast? Tonight we get to go see her school musical. While I was out of town she competed in Showalter and got a 1+ on her solo! I am so proud of the young lady she is becoming! Then at the end of March is the Worland Home and Garden Expo. I am excited about being there, but have lots of samples to order!

If I can hold on, May will be here before I know it and life will go back to some stage of normal! ( I HOPE)

Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines Day to all of you, and espescially to my family!

Off to Wedding and Portrait Photographers International

Vegas, here I come! I have never been to Las Vegas before, and really never had any desire to go. But . . . I do have a desire to go to the WPPI conference. It is the largest conference and trade show for wedding and portrait pros. I will be learning all sorts of new techniques, and seeing all kinds of products for photography. Needless to say, I am excited. Hopefully I will return with awesome new ideas and a better educated direction for my business!

Plus I am taking a few cameras, so hopefully I will get some great shots for my portfolio! I will share with you all when I return, so check back for images and details!

Happy New Year!

Welcome 2009!  As of today I have 131 days before I graduate from Northwest College!  Yippeeee!  

I figured that up because I had to figure up how many days before Aaron's Birthday, not just because I am desperate to be done with school!

Well, the Carver family had a great Christmas and New Year.  We went to Plattsmouth for Christmas, it is the first time in nine years since I have been with my family on Christmas!  I had fun but really missed Christmas Eve service at our church in Worland.  

We had a good trip, almost had to leave a child behind to make room for all the presents we (I mean the children) received.  Aaron is right, who needs Santa when you have Grandma Lea!

We made it safely home and had a fun new years eve at the Compton's with games and food!  That's the best way to celebrate a new year, good friends, good food, and great competition!

Now tomorrow the kids go back to school and Chad and I will both be working.  I am looking forward to two weeks of no school.  I hope to get caught up on all my studio work and have some free time to spend at the kids schools and maybe go shoot some new stuff!

As I focus on a new year, I think about what I hope to accomplish this year.  I really hope and pray this semester is easier on my family and I can be more available to them.  I am setting new goals to grow my business and hopefully will be working full time by summer.  I hope to get away on a vacation with just Chad and I this year.  Last year was supposed to be our year to go, but with the expenses of school and starting a new business, we put it off indefinitely.  But I am getting beach fever, so am researching already!

Anyway, I hope you have a wonderful and prosperous new year!  Check back soon for some new photos!

Tired!!!

Do you ever have those times when you are so tired you could just cry? Wow, I really need the Lord to help me through this next week and month. I feel so overwhelmed and exhausted!

But on the flip side, fun things are happening. School is hectic but I am learning so much. This weekend I did a wedding for an awesome young couple. I wish they weren't moving away!

Abby is on the Middle School swimming and diving team. That girl amazes me. She was at practice bright and early on Friday morning, before I was even out of bed! Bless her heart, she is so committed to everything she takes on.

The rest of the family is just surviving with our crazy schedule. I can not wait until Dec. 15!

Oh, and thanks for the flowers on my B-day Vicki! Hope you get to feeling better.

Abby, Rembrandt Lighting

Recent Work and fun pics

Thanks to Jim Scalia for letting me shoot his 37 Chevy! This was an advertising shoot for an assignment.

My three beautiful models!

Last week we had a little fun doing the fashion shoot for a school project. These lase few were a couple for Tonya! Thanks girls.