Mondays can be dreadful.  And my Monday today was especially so.  Then I came home and was googling something,  (I don’t even remember what) and this came up on my image search:

Something inside of my heart leaped, and I may have let out a little squeal.  My Monday just became a little bit better. 
Without a [...]

So yesterday, a wonderous suprise arrived at my doorstep, helped along it’s way by faeries and leprachauns, no doubt…. my new camera!  What a perfect present for St. Patrick’s Day!
Funnel called me to let me know it had come, and that he was unpacking it.  It made for a long afternoon at work.  I came [...]

Tommorow is St. Patrick’s Day, and I wanted to bake something for the occasion.  I almost went with shamrock-shaped sugar cookies, but I’ve been baking so many sweets lately (and just bought some Girl Scout cookies) so I decided I should make something more traditional:
Irish Soda Bread.

On Friday, I was at Panera and noticed theirs… they [...]

Yesterday, I got to fill in for John and shoot a wedding with Ali (Contrast Images).  This is the third wedding I’ve gotten to shoot with her, and it’s always a fun time and great learning experience for me.
Aaron & Elisabeth are on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ at OSU.  They had great weather for [...]

 A quick update on a few things:
{ photography } Wedding season 2009 kicks off tomorrow with a wedding near Toledo that I am helping Ali, from Contrast Images, with. I love getting to be the “2nd shooter” in a wedding because it is less pressure, and I get a chance to get a little more [...]

I’ve been baking some kind of cookie or dessert about once or twice a week now.  Not good for my hips, but it’s good for my heart. 
Cookies can be tricky.   Sometimes the bottoms burn and the tops are doughy, or they spread out too much, or are too “cakey”.  Having a sketchy apartment oven doesn’t [...]

This morning I ordered my new camera… the Canon 50D. 

I probably could have upgraded my camera awhile ago, but I was determined to buy the camera out of my photography earnings.  I wanted to feel like I really “earned” the new camera, I didn’t want to dip into our house fund, and I’m also a little anti-credit cards (I [...]

Today is March 1st, meaning I will turn twenty-five in twenty-nine days.  My cousin Carmen told me on Wednesday that twenty-five was her favorite year.  I hope it is mine too.  But I am a little sad that it will mean that from then on, I will be closer to thirty than to twenty. 
Funnel is [...]

It’s been a draining week.  I’ve tried to write a few times about this past week,  but words fall short. 
I feel guilty that I am able to return to my life and that, while I am sad, my day-to-day life hasn’t changed all that much.  That’s not the case for Lauren, Doug and JJ.   I wish pain [...]