Life!!!

What a fun and exciting time it is in our lives right now. BUSY as all get out, but man it is good! I will be graduating from college on May 16th! What a crazy two and a half years it has been for our family. I think we are all ready for me to be home in Worland full time again. Summer is shaping up to look pretty good for my second year in business. Hard to believe it has been a year already. The studio, while not perfect, has worked out well and kept me busy this winter. Senior and Wedding season are just beginning and I am hoping we will have time to still camp!!

In the meantime I am headed off to Helena, Montana tomorrow for the Montana Professional Photographers convention. I am going with other students and faculty from Northwest College. It should be a great time of learning and getting some fresh ideas for my summer shoots!

The kids lives are just as busy. Abby is in track right now and doing pretty well for a girl that inherited her mom's short little legs! She does hurdles, high jump, sprinting and now she is attempting discus. I am proud of her. She also has 4-H stuff starting up and is doing archery, horses and 22 starts next week. Plus baseball is right around the corner along with a couple of summer camps. Busy young lady!

Rae and Aaron started Cloverbuds this week. They are both looking forward to summer swimming lessons and baseball! Aaron will turn 6 tomorrow! Hard to believe my little man is growing up so fast! I need to get a 6 year old picture of him to hang on my wall! I just recently ordered 20X30 canvas gallery wraps of the two girls from their birthday pictures. They look awesome but need their little brother to hang with them on the wall! I will post a pic when all three are hung.

Chad is also keeping busy. His boxing class is really growing the last couple months. He will be traveling to St. Louis for training right after my graduation. I guess we will celebrate when he gets back. I am going to plan a little trip for us.

Well, I hope your lives are just as full and hopefully not as insanely busy as ours. This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it! I will post pics when I return from Helena.

Spring Break

Yeaaaa! I am off school for a week. Nothing big planned but still looking forward to a whole week without school. Only two months to go! I will be so glad when it is done.

This week I got to see Abby perform in Stars of Tomorrow. She did so awesome! She got second place with her solo "Old Carrion Crow" What a beautiful and talented young lady she is growing into.

God is so good. I have been thinking about how great He is! As I go through times of uncertainty in my life, He is there. He is my strength and my provider, and it is He I need to please and not worry about everyone else. May God give you a wonderful week, and if you don't know His Son personally, may He whisper to your heart this week.

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!