Check out a listing of my Event Photography services on Thumbtack.com, this is a great tool for marketing your small business. I am already finding new clients! Might be booking my first wedding! The site is really easy to use and is very simple and clean.
 Hoping to book some more photo sessions for early summer before I go on my road trip to Bonnaroo! Can't wait for that warm weather! I need to break out the Nikon and get to work!

I promise its my last post for the day!:: Life

In blogging all morning and sitting on my computer I realized that it was 10 degrees and snowing out side. But I had not ventured out to really feel it. SO i figured I'd better document this terribly cold day.


My bernese mountain dog, Boston, loves it. 

Can't wait to get better:: Life

My hooping experience is this... Its frustrating yet incredibly liberating. I love to dance, so naturally hooping combined with dancing it pretty amazing. Its hilarious when people stare as they drive by because to be honest you look like a circus freak. But I don't care. My goal is to get good before Bonnaroo so that I can take my hoops with me and dance the night away. But I definilty need to find a cheap collapsable hoop. 

Anyhoo. Here are some fun hooping pics from last summer with my little bro.... 

2011, what do you have in store?:: Life

Well its the last day of January, the first month of the new year, and I have mixed feelings for this new year. Either way its going to happen whether I like it or not, so I suppose its best to go with the flow and allow life to continue on as it always does and join it. 


I have to decided to re-tool my blog a little bit this year, because I started this blog for my "business" which is at a compleate stand-still right now, so I have nothing to blog from that department. So instead of working backwards, I am going to start smaller and use this space to share my life with the universe (or cyberland- how ever you look at it). My journey as a photographer is surely not over and I hope only to grow every day from here forward but im not going to pressure it as much. 


I have been following some fabulous bloggers, and learning so much from their experiences. I love reading about Tara Whitney's adventures with her children, her struggles, her dreams and of course getting to look at beautiful photography as well. But reading her blog has taught me so much about the lifestyle behind photography. It's not something that you just do for money. It is a true love and passion. It doesn't matter if your getting paid. Tara's ability to capture her life through photos is what I love about photography. 


Through reading Tara's blog I have found other great photogs to "cyber stalk" like, Marina who runs Red Heart Photography out of Hawaii. What a great place to live and be a photographer. Talk about beauty. The one thing that bums me out about colorado is that from November to April its hit or miss on good weather and shooting in the gray cold is no fun! 


This year is my year.... I think.


The first bump, was having to put down our sweet 9 year old newfounland, Roxy. Such a good companion and friend. I have a great respect for her, the fact that she was a dog really did not change the fact that she was one of my greatest friends and our years together were some of the best in my life.  Its hard to say good bye. 


Now, a few weeks later, I am surviving and Im pretty sure that someday we will be together again. 
I want to move forward. Because if I stay here, I am stuck in the last day of January and 10 degree weather in a mess of an office with cold toes. Hoping to hop forward to spring.  I read a post called 2011 Permissions  this morning on Alicia's (another blogger and fellow Hooper, I am stalking these days) blog. So I would like to participate in this as well.

So I would like to finish this post with my 11 Permissions for 2011.

I give myself permission to...


1. Love myself more for who I am and who I will become
2. quit talking about needing to lose weight, and just be active everyday to see where it goes.
3. indulge everyonce in a while without feeling guilty.
4. be un afraid of what people think of me.
5. contiue trying new things but to not give up.
6. allow my self to grow and learn at my own pace.
7. Spend more time alone with my husband.
8. be outside as much as possible.
9. see/hear/feel/enjoy as much music as possible this year.
10. Go through my photos and trim down and make room for new stuff.
11. love others without a motive.

Something to be Thankful for!:: Life

November greetings! 

It's been a while since I've blogged. I want to blog. I want to find that outlet that I have been searching for. It's tough. Daily routine is something that I constantly struggle with. Not to mention, Im pretty sure that no one is reading. Are you reading? Leave a comment! 

Anyhow, here it is: Fall again! or shall I say the precursor to winter, which I know is right around the corner. I dread the fact that I cannot enjoy the summer sun for quite a while but I am getting over it slowly. Thanksgiving is around the bend and I have been a little blue these days, not finding much to be thankful for. Money is tight, work is slow, and school is chugging along like usual. Life does not stop, even when you don't feel like moving along with it. But in the spirit of the holiday, I am trying to realize that my life is full of love and that its not always easy, but there is so much to be thankful for. 

I am thankful for:

My wonderful husband, who loves me no matter what when or why. He is the greatest gift I could ever ask for as my birthday approaches on the 27th. 

We've been together for 9 years as of November 17th. I wouldn't trade a day for anything. 

He bought me my camera, and has inspired this journey of photography. 

He inspires me everyday to love myself and to love others with an open heart. 

My awesome doggies! 

Theses guys make me smile everyday! 

No matter what you do, they love you unconditionally. I am pretty sure that I love my dogs more than I love most people. 

They are like my children. Roxy (bottom), 8 years old is getting old and tired. I am afraid we are only going to have a few more years together. She has shown me more love than I could have ever imagined. Boston (top), the baby at a year and a half, is full of life and energy.  He makes me work harder than I want to. 

My Family

This is the last photo taken of my family together. 

We used to be a fearsome four, but since life gets in the way sometimes groups are dismantled. 

My parents are now divorced, I am living my own life, and my brother is doing the same. 

But one thing remains; I have a mother that is my best friend, a father who taught me all of lifes lessons that I never wanted to learn and a little brother who is so talented and has taught me about living life to its fullest. We can't always have what we want but we can hold on to what we have and for that I am eternally greatful. 

My roommate Daisha. 

The two of us make the perfect girl. We have created a bond that cannot be broken. 

I am so lucky that I get to have my cake and eat it to. I get to live the married life with my husband, and still retreat to have some girl time with my best friend. Its the best of both worlds! 

I am thankful for my friends, for whom I have many photos but it would consume this entire blog. I have many wonderful friends. Friendship is probably one of the things that I value most in this world. I strive to be a friend to all those I meet- the world could be so much greater if we were all friends. 

The more I write, the more I realize that this could be an exhausted list of things. I have so much to be thankful for.  

It is a great life, it's just not as easy as it looks in the pictures we take. The inbetween is what is hard, but we always get back to happy sooner or later. 

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