Carter's 1 Year Old

Yet another fun shoot at the Arboretum in Dallas, Texas! Handsome, little Carter was not really into the "photo thing" after waiting for half a hour to get into the gardens and then having to "deal" with the grass which he did NOT like in the slightest! :) We had to avoid it after the first go round of it. lol

Aren't they a perfect looking family! :) Handsome, gorgeous, and adorable! Can't beat that! I enjoyed our hour together, ya'll!

Project 365 {Day 21}

You even get to see a sneak peak for part of my next photo session on this post too!

Oh I can NOT wait for the day when God gives me a little girl!!! :D

Project 365 {Day 20}

Don't give up.

Don't cave in.

If disappointments come never stop.

Chin up, roll your shoulders, shake your head, breath in and out and try again!

Olivia's 1 Year Old!

It seems like just yesterday that I had the privileged of meeting this darlin' and her Mom and Dad for the first time to take her 6 month pictures! Now here we are already turning one! :D

We had GORGEOUS weather in Dallas at the Arboretum Gardens, beautiful backgrounds to play with and she was a joy to capture of course! :D I had absolutely SO much fun! :)

Already looking forward to next time with them!

I Heart Faces {Dramatic Black & White}

It's a week full of black and white drama at I Heart Faces! I had THE toughest time picking a photo this week! I had SO many good ones I was trying to choose from and finally decided upon going with this simple, happy, fun, and perfectly endearing photo from a recent shoot. Ain't she just absolutely adorable! :)

For more entries you can go here to check 'em out! :) Hope you enjoyed and have fun browsin'!

Project 365 {Day 19}

Another picture from a recent photo shoot I kinda feel in love with when I loaded it onto my computer!

Little hands and toesies of a 1 year old boy outside on a bright and cheery spring day!

Project 365 {Day 18}

Driving home from Dallas I took this picture out my window of the spectacular sky. YES, I admit I take pictures while I'm driving which COULD to some extend be as bad a drinking and driving DURING the time you are taking the picture...BUT...I do it every now and then anyways! :)

The 2 1/2 drive to and from Ft. Worth/Dallas, Texas to Duncan, OK is lovely, scenic and usually mostly "carless" and I love it! :) On this rare occasion I was up and driving for the sunrise AND was driving for the sunset in the same day! (I'm never up early enough for the sunrise! I am a morning HATER with a passion!) It was a long and perfect day full of photo shoots and this was the perfect ending to it! *happy sigh with a smile* :)

Project 365 {Day 17}

I had to post this as ONE of my top favorite pictures of the day! Little diva! I like Daddy in her glasses trying to get her attention! lol I wish I had paid more attention to that reflection and tried to get mommy and daddy in it but it would probably have been to no avail since she was in the process here of taking off the darn cute things off her face and had NOTHING to do with them being put back on again after this! :)

Happy Birthday Miss Olivia!

Project 365 {Day 16}

I'm living the next 5 minutes,

like these are my last 5 minutes,

'cause I know the next 5 minutes may be all I have.

~

And after the next 5 minutes,

turn into the last 5 minutes,

I'm taking the next 5 minutes and starting all over again!

Fix It Friday @ {I Heart Faces}

This little girl is THE sweetest lil' darlin' ever! I want to pluck her out of this picture and keep her! lol :D It has been a couple weeks since we had a "fix-it picture" at I Heart Faces and this one was the perfect one to start back on again! I am a little bored today so it was extremely fun to have a photo to edit and smile at! I needed that today!

The Original

MY EDIT

BEAUTIFULNESS!!!!!

Comments and Critiques are "hearted" by the way! :D

You can go here to see more entries!

Project 365 {Day 15}

Beauty is essential to God. That is to say beauty is the essence of God.

The reason a woman wants a beauty to unveil, the reason she asks, Do you delight in me? is simply that God does as well. God is captivating beauty. As David prays, " One thing I ask of the Lord, that is what I seek...that I may...gaze upon the beauty of the Lord." Psalm 27:4 Can there be any doubt that God wants to be worshipped? That he wants to be seen, and for us to be captivated by what we see?

But in order to make the matter perfectly clean, God has given us Eve. The crowning touch of creation. Beauty is the essence of a woman. I was to be perfectly clear that I mean both a physical beauty and a soulful/spiritual beauty. The one depends upon and flows out of the other. Yes, the world cheapens and prostitutes beauty, making it all about the perfect figure few woman can attain. But Christians minimize beauty too, or over spiritualize it making it all about "character." We must recover the prize of beauty.. The church must take it back. Beauty is to vital; to loose.

God gave Eve a beautiful form and a beautiful spirit. She expresses beauty in both. Better, she expresses beauty simply in whop she is. Like God, beauty is her essence.

From "Your Captivating Heart" by Stasi Eldredge

Project 365 {Day 14}

Some of us are called to the mission field overseas. Some of us are called to the marketplace here. Some will be nurses, doctors, mothers, midwives, counselors, artists, interior decorators, engineers, lawyers, poets...you name it! But each one of us is called to become an ezer - a life-offering lifesaving woman - who lives in her unique calling and offers her glory to the world and for the glory of God. A life that flows out of our intimacy with Jesus.

You have a role to play. You have a high and holy calling.

Whether it is holding the hand of a kindergarteners as they begin their journeys unto school or holding the hands of those dying in hospice care when the veil between worlds is whisper thin, you have a vital role to play. As a woman.

Life is holy. Every moment. God is as present in your car as he is in the sanctuary. He is as busy about his kingdom work in your church as he is in your office or home. Whether you're in the worship service or in the line at the grocery store, it all matters. The mountaintops as well as the mundane. It is in the everyday tasks, the minuscule decisions, the unseen actions and the millions of choices that are ours to make every single day that the Kingdom of God advances or retreats. It all matters.

The world needs you. Everyone here need you to awaken to God more fully. We need you to awaken to the desires of the heart that he placed within you- so that you will come alive to him and to the role that is yours to play. Whatever your particular calling, you are meant to grace the world with your dance, to follow the lead of Jesus wherever he guides you. He will lead you first into himself and from that intimacy he will lead you into the world that he loves and came to save. He needs you. We need you.

Do not let others, the world, your friends... diction the life you should have!

Dream! Dance! Live!