Jenna's Jargon

Life as I know it

2011-08-06T16:49:00.000-05:00

So It's been awhile since I've blogged. Lots has happened and I really don't have the time to blog anymore. I mean I guess I do but I've been working on my photography 'business' and everytime I'm on the computer I feel like I need to be editing photos, working on my photo blog, or my facebook page, and trying to get more business! I think I've decided to have one blog, my photo blog. You can see me there from now on at www.jennalanephotography.com and feel free to follow!

Just on a side note after six long painful months of separation, & divorce Sean and I decided to try to work things out. It's been a really long road full of massive mountains but by the Grace of God we are figuring things out. We are living proof that God has his hand in everything and that he can change lives and change relationships. I praise and thank him daily for all the many blessings He has given us. Hopefully our relationship will be come stronger than it ever thought about being. Thanks for your prayers and support. We'll still be needing them!

See ya at my photoblog!

www.jennalanephotography.com

Chicks

2011-05-11T12:56:00.000-05:00

AAAAH You guys I want to blog so so bad but I have zero time!!
Too many photos to work on! Check out what I've been doing...haha

Should i have titled this "chillin with my peeps" instead? SO Cute!

Hey You guys!!

2011-04-26T01:25:00.000-05:00

First of all I'd like to point out that I'm blogging from my new MACBOOK PRO!! whoohoo...nice to have a mac back! Along with my macbook pro I got myself a 27 inch screen....yeah 27 inches.... yeah i know... a little over the top but man it's nice. so nice. I can't wait to edit photos on it...just waiting for my Adobe to switch my photoshop platform from PC to mac.

So I know you all have been wondering what's be going on with Jenna. I haven't been blogging regularly since September. I could write a book on what's been going on in my life and I don't want to Hang all my dirty laundry out on the internet but I've been fighting for my marriage since then and ultimately lost the war. It's really hard to blog about life when it's a little bit depressing. Sean has decided he doesn't want to be married to me anymore and I know this is a small paragraph about something huge in my life but I honestly don't have the energy to talk about it anymore.

I would like to ask all you guys out there for prayers because I'm hurting and I'm exhausted and I'm beat. I don't want this divorce but I can't make a marriage work by myself and the Lord knows I've tried. I'm not placing the blame on either of us, because we both have our faults in this matter.

If anyone out there has gone through a divorce or a hard breakup and has any inspiring things to say about how life gets better...let me know! It would do much good to see that life does go on. I mean I know it does and I know my life will be better and less stressful and that God has an amazing plan for me but I just can't talk my Head into explaining to my heart what it knows.

I'm still holding on to a small hope that our marriage can be restored but I think it's just tears on a river...

Don't feel sorry for me though! I'll make it on a wing and a prayer... I'm OK by the way. I'll be just fine, I know that. I'm just a little worried about who will take over Sean's responsibilities now that I'm not.... ok sorry no more derogatory remarks about the manchild....crap sorry. Ok No more. (still trying to let go of all that built up anger)

I'm seriously gonna be ok. I deserve to be Loved and Cherished and Cared for and I know that. I know that I'll find someone someday but honestly right now I have some making up to do for myself. I let myself stoop to a level that I shouldn't have. I quit caring about myself and my needs and my wants and it's time to start loving myself. It's time I mend my relationship with me. I'm sorry Me. I also know this is the time to strengthen my relationship with God, because he is the only Man that will never let me down...no human can ever be as wonderful and loving as Jesus because he was the only perfect human. All humans make bad decisions and mistakes and Jesus knows how many I've made but because HE lives, my sins are all forgiven.

So Now blog world... Meet Jenna Millwood... (on the left... thats my beautiful sister Leah on the right)

I'm a lot cooler than you may think...
Oh and I'll be revamping the blog. Cause Life is no longer on the Circle T Ranch... Aren't you super excited to see what is to come for me?! Because I am!!

"We Must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us." -E.M. Forster

Hey Guys!

2011-03-23T23:25:00.000-05:00

I know I've been Missing for awhile...and a little spaced out since last fall but seriously Winter put me into a funk... I mean a sad dark funk. I'm so glad spring is here and daylight savings time has once again Spring forward. Lots has been happening here on the Circle T but when I start to blog about it, it just seems so boring and unimportant..

SO I'm going to be blogging more often and You will see some changes around the blog.. I'm super excited to announce the Launch of my Business, Jenna Thomas Photography. I have been taking photos for awhile but I've finally gotten a business plan and started marketing and am starting to get booked! The blog will kind of start changing into my photo blog and I may start a new website if all goes as planned.. Wish me luck! Yay!

Ok so Who's watching American Idol this year!? Holy Moly the talent is amazing!! I just finished watching tonight's dvr'ed episode and I just can't decide who I don't like!! I really really like them all! I have new favorites every week...I don't know who to vote for! I'm so confused... I voted for everyone which kind of defeats the purpose, I guess I should've just saved those five minutes online and not voted at all. I didn't mean to vote for everyone but I just kept thinking, "oh I liked that performance, On and hers too...and his" then before I knew it I had voted for everyone.

So A few things you all should know since I've not been blogging,
When you feed a Chocolate lab Tuna fish because you're out of dog food like I did tonight he passes gas..a lot...He's laying under my feet and He is having so major odor issues.
My living room remote has decided to quit working. I have been having to point it in every different direction up and down and back and I look like I'm having spasms while watching tv. I found tonight that if I point it directly at my forehead it works with out any problems....go figure..
Sean got a Great job working in Crop insurance adjusting...he's out of town a lot..but then again so am I. I got a job traveling around Arkansas taking pre school photos part time. Since I'm not a mom working with babies and toddlers has been a huge eye opener for me. Kids are so honest. So bluntly honest. So far I've been made fun of for having on different color socks (so i didn't do laundry) and was told my hair was "nappy" uh...thanks.
I think that's about all the important things you need to know for now.

Have a Great Thursday and Get ready to see more of me!...maybe

Baby Bump

2011-03-01T16:01:00.000-06:00

The Theme for I heart Faces this week is "anything but faces... although this photo has a piece of face...lol the main focus is on the belly!! I love that I captured this magic moment on camera...what's even better is that I help her go into early labor!! She had baby Everlee the next day!! Congrats Brittney and Drew!

Visit I heart Faces to see other entries!

Birdie Snow

2011-02-10T22:54:00.000-06:00

Arkansas Got hit with some pretty heavy snow on Wednesday, we got around 6 or so inches... Birdie Loved playing in the dry powdery snow!

Can you tell she really liked it? Ha, she had a snow beard... Have a great weekend!

Grandma Jenna

2011-02-08T10:07:00.000-06:00

I haven't been blogging regularly lately and I really miss it! I just always find something I need to do and never get around to blogging. The past three months I haven't been working at the insurance office. I stopped in October and started doing photos full time, which was great until this ugly cold weather hit. I haven't had many shoots this past month of January so I applied for a photography job with a company that does preschool shoots and I got it! I'm really excited, it's just a part time job which won't pay much but at least I'll be doing something I love! Playing with cameras and babies!

I have tons of photo sessions booked for March and April and hope to book much more as spring rolls around. I've decided to do another Easter shoot this year and have already booked two days solid with about 13 people a day! I'm going to do a mini 30 minute shoot with chickens again.

You may remember last year my Chicken experience... My last Chicken Disappeared last week during one of the snow falls. I keep thinking she'll turn back up but I think something ate her for Lunch, which is ironic because that's what we called her :) I will miss her eggs.. And I'm kind of embarrassed that I couldn't keep six chickens alive for a year... Oh well it's not like they are lovable..

Last month I went on etsy to buy some cute hat props for photos and just couldn't bring myself to pay 40 bucks for a crocheted hat. So i decided to learn how to crochet and make them myself. Yeah I know...hard way to save 40 bucks.. But I did it and here are some of my creations..

I'm slowly getting better, I've also made a sling for babies and a Little Pea Pod for babies that's really cute! Mom keeps calling me Grandma Jenna...She will not get a knitted hat this winter.

Oh yeah and I'm super super excited because in a week I will be Here...

That's Beaver Creek Ski Resort!! I can't decide if I'm more excited about a long needed vacation with the family, Going skiing, or Getting to take beautiful Photos!!!

Have a great week!

What I've been up to

2011-02-05T12:46:00.000-06:00

Hello Blogging world! Long time no see! I've been super busy being lazy.. ha. just kidding!
It's been snowing like crazy here...but I think it's been snowing like crazy everywhere! check out some of the awesome snow pics i got!

This photo below won me an amazon gift card for the Editors Choice award from the Capturearkansas.com website! I was super super excited!!

We got another couple of inches yesterday, but it's just not as pretty as it was the last time.

I've also been busy doing photo shoots. I've got my portable studio completed and to see the last two shoots I've done you can visit my Photography page
For some reason Blogger won't let me load any more photos..

On Tuesday Sean and I loaded up the Horses and headed towards Ft Worth for the Rodeo he was entered in. We got about 30 miles from Dallas and hit really bad weather. The roads Iced over and it was really slow driving. I was looking down at my book when Sean started saying Oh Sh*t over and over and when I looked up we were sliding towards the ditch right at a sign. The trailer we were pulling made it almost impossible to gain control of the truck and we somehow missed the road sign and somehow Sean kept us from flipping. I honestly don't know how we didn't flip with the trailer on the back but grass and mud were all the way up to the fenders above the tires so I know we were off the ground on one side of the truck & trailer at least. I really thought I was about to die and the only thing that went through my mind was "oh this is about to hurt really bad"

Luckily Sean was able to keep us from flipping and drove us onto the service road to check the horses. The horses were luckily just fine and the only thing wrong was a blown tire. We pulled into a parking lot and Sean changed the tire and it took about an hour because everything on the truck was frozen shut. We couldn't get into any of the outside doors to get the jack or tire irons and had to pour warm Coke to get the doors to open. We decided to turn around and head home because the roads just got worse the further into Dallas we got and there was no way were were going to make the rodeo in time because of all the traffic.

I was so thankful that we made it through that. I prayed a Thank you prayer the entire way home! I'd never seen anything like that ice before. There was no snow...just ice. It was like two inches thick on the ground. Hope the Superbowl fans are careful!

Well have a great weekend!!

Innocent Wonder

2011-01-24T21:58:00.000-06:00

This week at I Heart Faces the theme is "Innocent Wonder" and I have the PERFECT photo!! This weekend I took photos of Reese's first birthday cake experience. She'd never had cake before and she was just AMAZED. I think she was partly amazed that her mama was letting her get so messy!! I snapped this photo of her licking her fingers while staring at her Mama..It was the cutest thing watching her eat!!

Visit I heart Faces to see more!

Birds!

2011-01-06T23:06:00.001-06:00

Well it's official, Rodeo season has started. Sean was in the Denver qualifier last week, He's in Oklahoma right now, he'll be in Odessa TX at the beginning of next week and I'll meet him in Oklahoma City for the International Rodeo Finals on the 14th. Good news, He qualified for the Denver Rodeo!! So that means back to Denver in a few more weeks. Man I'm getting tired just trying to keep up where he is.

So I'm sure you've all heard about the Black birds falling out of the sky down here in Arkansas. They aren't really sure why but think it was either lightning or that the birds were spooked from fireworks and flew into the ground. Who knows? I'm kind of skeptical that they flew out of the trees when startled by fireworks and straight into the ground but that's what some "experts" believe. I'm leaning more towards disease, or lightning, or high altitudes or something..

Anyway, the day before this happened there were probably tens of thousands of black birds in my yard...I got a sweet shot too. I was telling dad about all the blackbirds in my yard and he thought I meant they were dead and just couldn't believe it...ha.

Isn't that Freaky!?

I'm also super excited about my new studio I'm redoing. I'm going to start on the flooring this month and get it going soon! The fabric store in town was having a 50% sale on their outdoor fabric and I totally took advantage of it! I bought these eight fabric pieces to hang as wallpaper back grounds. My plan is to have a wooden baseboard and faux wooden flooring. I can't wait to show you guys my "vision"! haha.

It was a sad day watching the Hogs loose in the Sugar bowl. That's all I'm gonna say about that :)

Have a Great weekend everyone!!

Go Hogs!

2011-01-04T17:42:00.000-06:00

Just a few more minutes and the Hogs will be playing in the Sugar Bowl!!! WOOOO PIG SOOOIE!! I've been getting so tickled at all the funny things people are posting on Facebook..Here are a few funnies...

Our Hogs, who art in New Orleans, winners be thy name. The Buckeyes will come, they will be done, by the Hogs as they were by the rest of the SEC. Give us tonight a sweet "SUGAR" win and forgive us our two losses as we will cause two losses upon them. Lead us not into defeat, but deliver us a Sugar Bowl Title.

Here's another Funny one

10 Reasons why the Buckeyes Suck

Lol I Love Football!!! Go Hogs Go!!

Hey You guys! Make sure to go put in a vote for me on the I Heart Faces Contest this week for Best Face Here! I'm #89!! You can vote for your favorite 5! Thanks so much!!

I heart faces

2011-01-03T08:25:00.000-06:00

This week at I heart faces is best face of 2010. I think this photo of Stellan was my best face photo and the great thing was...I snapped it accidentally! Aw how wonderful accidental photos can be! I love how his mouth is a little sticky due to the apple we gave him to keep him content and I love his little teeth! For more photos from this shoot visit Here!

Thi

Hello 2011

2011-01-02T02:13:00.000-06:00

Happy New Year!
Sean and I rang in the new year like a couple of old people. We went to the movies and got home at 12:30 and I almost forgot it was New Year's Eve.. Maybe next year I'll bring the New Year in "Party" style...

This Sinus/flu crap I've had for two weeks is starting to break itself up. Finally. I've been miserable..in the bed miserable!

So 2011, what will you look like? When I look back at 2010 I'm a little unimpressed. It sucked actually..but then again it was better than 2009 so maybe next year I'll be able to say 2011 looked better than 2010.

Let's Recap shall we?

The New year found us Halfway under water with the Flood on Christmas Day that kept the water around for awhile. Birdie walked on water... The temp was well below freezing on a daily basis.

Tomorrow's Highs, 53.. Yes, 53.

Let's see..what else exciting happened in january? I made a fool of myself in front of Cliff Lee *cy young award winner* at the gym, Sean was up and down the road rodeoing, My mom turned 49..which means she's the big 50 this year! Oh and it snowed! (big deal for LA -lower arkansas)

Well from the look back at my blog posts, january pretty much sucked. Lets look back at February...
Well after just now looking back Feb. SUCKED a big fat one.
I really don't want to go into how bad it sucked but I dropped my Computer into the bathtub, loosing everything, I ran out of gas one day, and had a huge entergy bill, all three of which I blogged about, which makes me wonder why people still read my blog?

March must have been better, I'm going to go check out my old blog posts.
Yeah it was better. I had a birthday the big 24 again, We had a crawfish boil, I went to the boats at Tunica to do some gambling, and dodged a Tornado by about a mile.

April showers brought me Chickens, American Idol was in Full swing. I took a trip to Ohio for work and Sarah and Trevor Got married...

May was uneventful...Sean won a Saddle....He was gone the rest of the month rodeoing.

June brought the tragic event at Albert Pike here in AR and not much else happened. Sean was gone most of the month rodeoing

July, August, September, & October was mostly Full of Photo Shoots and Sean's absence due to the Rodeo.
Most of October and November have been erased from my memory due to bad relationship issues.
and December was Swell.

All in All 2010 was a pretty boring year. Sean was gone 75% of the time and I learned that Photography was my real passion. I learned to Lean on God more and more. I learned that my Husband is really a good Man and that I should learn to trust and respect him more. I'm still learning to get a long with him better and it improves daily.

The one thing 2010 taught me was that you're only young once. You only have one life. You can choose to work hard at be miserable and stress yourself out trying to be what everyone else wants you to be, or you can work hard at what you LOVE and let go of small things and have fun and enjoy the one life God has given you.

My resolutions:

Blog More
Finish my Indoor Studio
Learn to play the Guitar
Build a Good Photo Business
Enjoy myself

Happy New Year Ya'll!

Merry

2010-12-23T12:26:00.000-06:00

Banjo and Birdie Bokeh!

My Tree this year almost didn't make it out of the closet. But we finally decided to go ahead and put the tree up. It's covered in Berries and Stars!

Two Day's til Christmas! Is your shopping done?

A Social network Christmas

2010-12-21T00:33:00.000-06:00

You guys have to watch this!!! At first I thought it was making fun of Christmas but it's not!! I smiled throughout this entire video!! It's so funny! and if you are a huge facebook user you will enjoy this!!

Merry Christmas!!!

shhh

2010-12-20T14:05:00.000-06:00

Ok So I've realized I really really like 'webdesign'... Like making things in photoshop for my photos for example. I stumbled upon these awesome fonts at webdesignledger.com and they are awesome! (see below) These are dingbat fonts! I even found some that were the shapes of all the different states and different countries!

Check out what I created. Wouldn't this be cute in a little 5x5 Gold frame?

I'm sick again!! I have a bad sinus infection that has lead to me having laryngitis. Now let me just tell ya if you couldn't already tell I LOVE to talk. I'm having the worst time ever having to stay quite. It sucks. I even talk to myself sometimes and now I can't even do that! I keep forgetting that my voice is gone and try to talk and it is just driving me crazy. I sound like a ...well there are not words to describe what my voice sounds like. imagine 100 yr old smoker crossed with a goose. that's about right.

I'm getting into the Christmas Spirit a little be more now that it's getting closer! I hope you have a great Monday!!
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Baaa

2010-12-17T11:33:00.000-06:00

Man I'm such a scrooge this year. I just can't get into the Christmas spirit. I almost didn't even put up a Christmas tree, but then mom made me feel guilty about it so I finally put it together. We're not going to be able to enjoy Christmas because we wake up Christmas morning with Sean's family and then hurry and drive to Nashville. It's miserable. I just want to relax and enjoy myself but I can't.

I've done all my Christmas shopping. I kind of wish we would've opted out of buying&recieving gifts this year but I don't think that's possible. We had to dip into our savings and It's stressing me out. Don't get me wrong I'm very thankful for all that I have and the wonderful family and friends that get us gifts, I just wish we could just enjoy each others' company and not worry with material gifts, and give more gifts from the heart that were more meaningful.

I sound like such an ungreatful person but I promise I am so very thankful and I thank God every day for all the people and things he has blessed me with. I just wish christmas wasn't so commercial and more about Jesus and Family.

Maybe I'm just in a bad mood.

I hope your Christmas is merry ad that your mood is much happier than mine!
Maybe I'll be able to get into the Christmas mood this weekend at my Mom's family Christmas!

have a Great weekend!

Soulographer Giveaways

2010-12-17T00:54:00.002-06:00

Hey Photographer Friends! Check out these awesome Give aways!!! www.soulographer.com

Wordy Wednesday

2010-12-15T11:58:00.000-06:00

So I feel really bad about complaining about the "cold" weather we're having here... apparently you guys have it WAY worse than me. I just don't understand how you guys live in places with weather that cold!! I guess I'm just not made to live up north. Hope you guys are staying warm! Today's forecast is calling for highs in the lower 60's...much better!

I took some photos of Stellan last weekend and the best photo (i thought) of the entire shoot, I took on accident...how ironic! Lol he was very interested in looking on the screen at the photos I took of him and as he was walking towards the camera I snapped a photo just to show him what he looked like. I didn't even look in the view finder, and here is what I got....

Edited with Florabella Luxe actions

I'm totally impressed with my accidental photo!

Three months til' spring!

2010-12-14T13:21:00.000-06:00

Ah, summer where have you gone ? (sigh)

This 25 degree nights and 35 degree days are not cool. I'm having trouble doing things around here because I have refused to leave the house. It's too cold. lol, not really but seriously I wish i could just stay bundled up inside in the heater and never have to leave until the warm weather comes back. How many months until Spring again??

This weekend I went to the State Capitol in Little Rock and did a photo shoot. It was decorated so beautiful for Christmas! We had to wait to take photos in front of all the christmas Decorations because there were about 20 other people wanting their photos taken in the same spot...

I snaped this photo while we were waiting. sooc. I liked it a lot...It's not perfect but I still like it

After...I just love Florabella collection Actions!!!

Have great Tuesday!!!

2010-12-12T13:21:00.000-06:00

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... I finally put my tree up and the weather is starting to cool off. It's been in the 50's and 60's all December long. I'm not a big fan of cold weather so I'm a little sad that it's gonna be cold for awhile. I'm ready for Summer :)

It's almost getting to cold for outdoor shoots. I'm going to have to get moving on my indoor studio so I can do better indoor shoots with studio lighting.

I did a shoot for a sweet family the other day and look at this shot I got. Notice anything unusual!? haha

Just in case you don't see it, look at the dad's arm. he got peed on :)

Have a great week!

Duck Call

2010-12-06T20:35:00.000-06:00

I finally have a few quick minutes to say hello!! Duck & Deer season are in full swing here in Arkansas and Sean is MIA. Actually...it hasn't been that obsessive for him this year because there isn't much water to duck hunt in....but if he blows his duck call in the house one more time I'm gonna shove that thing where the sun doesn't shine!! I just went into the bathroom to take a relaxing bubble bath and there is a duck call sitting on the edge of the tub..apparently Sean took a relaxing bath this weekend whileI was at my parents and blew his duck call a loud as he wanted since I was gone... he'd probably die if he knew I put that on the internet..haha

I also wanted to say that My photo business has really taken off!! I'm sure it will slow down since it's about to be 30 degrees outside until Spring but So far it's been great!! You can check out my website http://www.jennathomasphotography.com/ or my facebook page Jenna Thomas Photography to see some of my latest shoots...
I'm pretty sure I'm in love with this photo...

I wonder if it would be weird to frame a photo of someone else and hang it on my wall...haha!

Has anywone been watching the NFR?? (National Finals Rodeo) Some of our fellow rodeo friends are on!! I'm pretty sure Stephanie is probably my only blog friend watching..haha!! But it's on ESPN Classic every night this week if you wanna sneak a peek!

Birdie and Banjo say hello!!
Have a great Tuesday

Wordy Wednesday

2010-11-24T09:33:00.001-06:00

Hey Guys!! Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! (well now week beginning also) I went to a wedding and did Three photo sessions!! Busy Busy Busy! I almost forgot to announce the winner of my Giveaway!! I went to random.org to pick a winner for the bender and smoothie and the winner is Jennifer! Congrats! email me at jennalane.thomas@yahoo.com with your mailing address!!

Ok So I haven't been taking many photos of anything other than photo shoots so Me and the dogs have been hanging out with the camera a bit.

The trees are beginning to look beautiful...their leaves are coming off quick though!

Bird got into the trash and got it everywhere.. I spanked her and put her in the dog house for awhile...

She's too cute to stay mad a though...

This Chick makes her home on the porch shelf next to the Dog's raw hides and the Paint!!

She hasn't moved for weeks!! She has no eggs...any idea why she's doing that??

Banjo is as lazy as ever...

He won't even get up to fight with Bird..he just rolls over..

Birdie on the other hand is as wild as ever. She is a master at catching balls in the air

She's obsessed...

I love my dogs.
Have a great week and a Happy Thanksgiving!! Don't eat too much!

Hi

2010-11-16T17:14:00.001-06:00

Well It's been a Painful yet Productive week at my house. Celiac Disease has made me feel like death, yet I've cleaned out the house and am getting ready for a garage sale later this weekend. I have also painted all the doors in my house...ok well three and I'm still working on the rest.. I've painted them an off white color that matches the trim.

When I moved in to this house two years ago the girl that lived in it prior to me decided she wanted to paint the trim off white. I don't quite know what happened but she stopped about halfway through and did only half of the doors. So when we painted the house we painted the trim and I thought, "I'll do the doors later" well two years later I'm finally painting the doors...pretty sad that I'm that procastinational...if that's even a word.

This weekend I drove up to Fayetteville and got deathly sick thanks to a run in with Gluten and didn't get to go to the Razorback game..but I did get to visit with my family so that made the trip worth while. I also got to do a family photo shoot on Saturday around noon on campus. I was a little disappointed with the photos, I wish I would've gotten more shots that were more creative but I was just feeling awful so I guess I'm glad I got the shots that I did.

Since I finally got some more Storage so I can upload photos here are some of my sister at the game a few weeks ago...

I also did a Photo Shoot On Sunday afternoon and Yesterday afternoon. I'll have to post those later.

I am really enjoying the cooler weather that is starting to set in. I wish the weather would stay like this year round. I wish the leaves would stay as beautiful as they are right now too..what a colorful fall!

Check out a photo I took at the river yesterday...the leaves are gorgeous

Ok well I'm full of boring stuff so I'll leave you with this...

When life gives you lemons...

...throw them at mean people.

Go Hogs

2010-11-12T15:51:00.001-06:00

You guys!!! I'm so excited. I was so bummed that no one replied to my last post... I get my comments via email and didn't get a single one. Then I opened my blog and realized that tons of you replied and it just made my entire weekend!!! I forgot how much fun blogging was.. apparently all of my comments are going straight to my spam folder..I'll have to fix that
Ok so 5QF

1. What is the most physically painful thing that has ever happened to you?

I suppress any memories of painful events. pain makes me passout and throw up. Probably the most painful thing will be next week when I start going back to the gym..that will probably be pretty painful

2. How much sleep do you get at night?
Not much..Maybe 8 hours. But i don't sleep that entire time..

3. How long did you believe in Santa Claus? How did you find out that he does not exist?
Wait i'm sorry what? I don't under stand. He does exist just like the M & M guys...

Until I was in the second grade, My mom told me he wasn't real because she was afraid I'd get made fun of when actually I was one of the first to find out. I was devistated I cried for hours, which made mom cry because she felt bad for telling me. I don't think my kids will have a Santa...

4. What was the last movie you saw in a theater?
Secretariat... It was pretty good

5. What do you wear to bed?
Old t-shirts that are so old they are soft!

Yay so link up to Mama.M if you want to play!

Ok so remember a long time ago when I bragged a lot on how my sister was the alternate on the Arkansas Razorback Cheer Squad?

Well on my break from the blogging world She got to Cheer at a game and I went to see her! We had the best time... And guess what!? She's cheering again on Tomorrow so I'll be going back and watching the Hogs!! WOOOO PIG SOOIE!!

Here are just a few of the photos I took. I took like over 200 and I think I embarassed my little sister. I couldn't help it though! Watching her brought a tear to my eye..or it could've just been allergies.

Oh and ps. she made it on TV like a billion times.. apparently the camera man loved her (maybe it was because she was on the end next to him) but I've had tons of people tell me they saw her..I mean she's pratically famous in our small town!

So apparently I've used all my free space on my blog and I can't upload any more photos until I buy more space... So I'll post more photos later.

The photo below is before the game..see the cheerleaders on top of the trailer? It's holding Tusk the Razorback mascott!!

She was calling the hogs in the photo above...she her lips are saying whoooo..haha

Well Have a Great Friday!!!

Tell me...

2010-11-09T22:48:00.001-06:00

Hey, It's Tuesday and I'm sitting here watching Conan and I'm super excited that he's back on TV! Here are some things I'm not super excited about...

..the fact that I bought Black furniture for my bedroom because It's Beautiful...unfortunately you have to dust it every 10 minutes. Should've bought dust colored furniture.

..Birdie had worms...i found one waving at me from her bottom side. I threw up in my mouth a little bit. I don't know how she got them because she doesn't have fleas..oh well I guess she is a dog.

..I'm hunting for a less stressful job..if only I could book enough photo shoots to keep my bills paid... (sigh..maybe one day)

Now, I'd like to tell you a little bit about myself because I've been taking a break from blogging for so long I feel as if we need to get to know each other again.

My name is Jenna Thomas. I am a little bit neurotic, I love my dogs, and I eat a lot of gluten free foods. I enjoy hot baths, short naps, and the smell of dish washing detergent. I'm married to a steerwrestler and I like the color purple but only when I'm wearing it. I bite my nails down to ugly nubbs and I pop my knuckles. Grape is my least favorite flavor and I enjoy a coke zero and a nestles chocolate milk daily. I speak fluent pig latin. euntflay. I have a chicken and love her fresh eggs. I love the Lord and he is the only thing that gets me through the day. I want to live in a tropical island but For not I'm just living on the circle t ranch...

so, tell me about yourself...

Five Question Friday

2010-11-05T12:18:00.001-05:00

It's Friday!!! I'm jumping back on the wagon and joining Mama M. with Five Question Friday!!

1. If you could have any talent and turn it into an occupation, what would it be?

Well I'd love to be a Full time Photographer. I'd like to think I have a little bit of Talent when it comes to photos. But if we're talking hypothetically I would Love to be a Famous Rock Star! you don't have to have a voice to be a rock star ..ha
Here's a few photos from the most recent photo shoot I did!

2. Would you rather have a house at the beach or a cabin in the woods?

oooh that's a hard one. Ok I would like to have a Cabin in the woods near the beach. :)

3. Is there any meaning or reasoning for the names you chose for your child/children?

Well I have no Children but I do have Banjo and Birdie. Banjo got his name because Sean named him before I got a chance :) Mr. Banjo Bojangles, I think his name was taken from a couple names from his ancestors from his papers. Little Miss Pretty Bird got her name because "little Miss" was her mommas name and Pretty Bird was something I always said as little girl ... Birdie went along with Banjo, plus she's a duck dog hence "bird." Here's Bird's most recent photo...sorry banjo.

4. What is your guilty pleasure? (I know we've done this one before, but I'm guessing people's "guilty pleasures" change frequently. At least, mine do!)

Ice Cream, chocolate Ice cream from Shake's If you've never been to Shakes then you are missing out, it's actually frozen custard and man I really want some right now! Check out Shake's to find one near you...you won't regret it...but your thighs may :)

5. Do you live in a house that is deep cleaned or straightened?
Neither!!! ha!

I wanted to also share a song that I heard this morning that totally spoke to me. Those of you who follow me my know that Sean and I have been having some bumps in the road latley. This song really gave me chills.

For those of you who can't play the video, here are the lyrics:
Dancing in the minefields by Andrew Peterson

Well I was 19, you were 21
The year we got engaged
Everyone said we were much too young
But we did it anyway

We got the rings for 40 each
from a pawnshop down the road
We said our vows and took the leap
now 15 years ago

We went dancing in the minefields
We went sailing in the storms
And it was harder than we dreamed
But I believe that's what the promise is for

Well "I do" are the two most famous last words
The beginning of the end
But to lose your life for another I've heard
is a good place to begin

'Cause the only way to find your life
is to lay your own life down
And I believe it's an easy price
for the life that we have found

And we're dancing in the minefields
We're sailing in the storms
And it was harder than we dreamed
But I believe that's what the promise is for
That's what the promise is for

So when I lose my way, find me
When I lose loves chains, bind me
At the end of all my faith to the end of all my days
when I forget my name, remind me

'Cause we bear the light of the Son of man
So there's nothing left to fear
So I'll walk with you in the shadow lands
Till the shadows disappear

'Cause He promised not to leave us
And his promises are true
So in the face of this chaos baby,
I can dance with you

So lets go dancing in the minefields
Lets go sailing in the storms
Oh, lets go dancing in the minefields
And kicking down the doors

Oh, lets go dancing in the minefields
And sailing in the storms
Oh, this is harder than we dreamed
But I believe that's what the promise is for
That's what the promise is for

Have a wonderful Weekend!! Stay Warm!!

It's a give Away!!!

2010-11-03T20:06:00.000-05:00

Ok well I'm back again :) Hopefully I will be able to blog daily now.. whew it's been a busy couple of weeks. I can't believe all of the people who have emailed or facebooked me Thank you all so much!! It meant so much!! So Now, I'd like to give a little something back!! It's a give away!!

My Blog Spark and Yoplait and Kitchen Aide have teamed up and sent me their new smoothie and a blender and They want to give you one too!!!

WhooHoo these are wonderful!!

And Man I LOVE me some BlueBerries and these are Amazing!!! The Kitchen aid Blender Retails for $99!!

To Enter Just leave a comment, For TWO enteries follow me and let me know you're a follower!! Be sure to tell everyone about the give away and tell me about it for an extra entry!!

This Giveaway will end Friday the 19th!!! Good Luck!

A Butterfly & a Bull Rider.

2010-10-31T00:03:00.000-05:00

Happy Halloween Everyone!! Banjo and Birdie LOVE their new outfits!! Poor dogs.. ha
They both didn't mind having the outfits on...they were really interested in chewing on each others costumes though!

You may notice that Bird is still skinny...She had a false pregnancy so no puppies until next spring. That may be a good thing though because that means she'll get to go on her first duck hunt here in the next few weeks!

The Cowboy on Banjo the Bull's back did not last 8 seconds. Birdie had him chewed up in about 2.4 seconds!

Happy Halloween!!! Be Safe!

Forgotten Winner

2010-10-21T23:05:00.000-05:00

Well I'm still here. I'm still blogging along. I forgot to pick a winner for the Gluten Free Bisquick and PanCake Pen. Ok I'm gonna go to random.org and let them pick a winner.
And the winner is...

Number 9!!
Oh that was my mom! Ya'll I swear I didn't do that on purpose!! Congrats Mom!! You won the Gluten Free Give away!! WooHoo! Now you can enjoy the Gluten Free pancakes too!! (or you can mail them to me and i will enjoy them again)

Well Congrats Mom, I hope you and dad enjoy the Pancake Pen and Pancakes. :)

Thank you

2010-10-14T22:55:00.000-05:00

First of all I'd like to thank each and every one of you for all your loving and kind comments and e-mails. I will respond to each of you individually as soon as I'm able to figure out how to get into my email while away from work without using my blackberry. For some reason my e-mails don't stay in my black berry after I open them so if I look and don't reply right away they dissappear...i didn't realize that!!

I'm so thankful that I have such sweet blog friends!!

I would love to share some photos of what I've done this week with sweet Kinley but my card reader was left at home :( so I'll have to share them later.

I'd like to share a little thingy i found. I really liked it's message:

It's called "I believe..."

I believe...

...A birth certificate shows that we were born; a death certificate shows that we died; phictures show that we lived!

...That no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.

...That you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.

...That it's taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.

...That you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.

...that we are responsible for what we do, not matter how we feel.

...That either you control your attitude or it controls you.

...that heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.

...That money is a lousy way of keeping score.

...That maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.

...That our background and circumstances my have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.

...Two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.

...That credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.

...the happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything: they just make the most of everything.

Well those are some words of wisdom i found for you for the day! Hope one of them speaks to you as some of them did for me!

Love Ya!

In which I whine about Life

2010-10-13T00:42:00.000-05:00

I hate whining about things on this blog but ya know sometimes you just have to get it all out into the world so people can read about your problems and feel better about themselves.

1. I woke up late this morning because I had a sleepless night that involved two dogs hogging the bed and a husband on the couch. I got ready in 10 minutes and got to work with a crappy hair-do and little to no makeup.

2. Best Buy called to tell me my hard drive was unreadable but I could send it off to a data recovery service for 500-1500 bucks. Ew. There goes all that hard work at the rodeo taking photos....

3. Don't know if you know this but Arkansas is having some very dry weather, drought like. I honestly can't remember the last time it rained. It's so dry that the cows in our pasture kick up dust each time they walk..and I live in the river bottoms. It's dry people. Someone started a fire a few miles away from us and it ended up burning 500 acres of timber. Smoke has filled the air for the past two days and there are hunks of ash all over the ground. For some reason this 90 degree dry dirty october weather is making my allergies act up and I have a bad cold. This isn't really that big of a personal problem but it just added to my misery today.

4. I also lost a camera card with photos on it from the homecoming shoot i took last weekend. I took photos of the girls getting ready and switched cards and put the card in my bag. My bag must have come unzipped because the card was not there when I got home and that zipper is known to not zip well. I tracked my steps three times and my mom did once. I'm afraid it's gone forever. I'm sick at my stomach. I have plenty of photos to give the girls, like probably 150 for each girl, but they really wanted those of them getting ready. I had hope that my mom would find them when she looked at the highschool this morning but she had no luck.

5. I don't want to go into my personal problems here on the web, but lets just say there is a major storm blowing and I need all the prayers I can get! Like I said, I'm not going to get into it because it's going to all be ok. God has a plan and it's going to work out. He loves me and won't give me anymore than I can handle. I'm staying with family for the week and I believe I will be back home in no time with a better attitude and nicer demeanor. I'm trying to stay positive and be strong...

But sometimes it feels sooo good to just cry.

I was in Best Buy when I finally just broke. I was trying to pick up my hard drive on my way out of town. I was stressed to the max, upset, but trying to stay composed. It was starting to look like rain outside, but there was only a slight chance so I didn't really think twice about it. As i walked up to the Geek Squad counter I smelled a very familiar old smell that instantly brought back the memory of my Grandad. I don't know what combination of smells it was, probably aftershave, cigarettes, and soap but it took me back to hearing his loud voice walk in the door and yell "jenna jenna jenna" like he always did increasing the volume with each "jenna" I remember his hugs would almost snap your ribs and how proud he was of all of us grandkids. I miss him so much. It's been seven years since he lost the battle to cancer. But that smell made it feel like it was only yesterday he was making me pancakes.
The man in front of me was a bigger man, just like grandad. He had suspenders holding up his jeans, just like grandad wore. he had a gaudy ring on his finger, just like grandad. I wanted to hug that old man...

I felt a lump rise up in my throat, but I held it down. Then out of nowhere the clouds opened up and the rain came down in sheets making it pound on the roof of Best buy so hard that I couldn't hear myself think. Thats when i broke. I started crying and cried all the way to my car and for a few minutes after that. The rain was the straw that broke the camels back, though I'm sure there were a few customers in the best buy parking lot wondering why I was crying at the rain..

It felt so good to just let it all go and to let the rain just wash it all away.

The rain quit within five minutes but Man it made me feel better to just let it all go.

Thanks for letting me vent. I miss my grandpa and my husband. I want my photos to all magically appear, I want it to rain a lot...and I want world peace, and beach front property in Arkansas.

I have so much to be thankful for, but sometimes it helps to talk about the crappy things to get it out of your head!

Thanks for listening,

Good and Bad

2010-10-11T17:06:00.000-05:00

Hey, Mondays Suck. Can I gripe for a minute? Ok good.
I will pepper this post with photos of the Homecoming ceremony I took photos of this weekend. So you can look at pretty photos or read about me and my whiny problems. :)

Weren't the dresses pretty!

My portable hard drive that I put all my photos on crashed. That would be 45,000. Yes FORTY FIVE THOUSAND photos gone, in one second. Gone. That would be...what 5 years worth of photos? Did I think of backing it up? No, I had it on a external Hard drive, I thought that was fool proof. I guess I will buy two external hard drives next time, keep two copies of every photo plus burn a CD.

The Run through. Our small down has lots of school spirit for the football team. I was super impressed with the massive helmet. We didn't have that when I was in school. Though we did have a player my age who had an unusually large head.

Thank goodness I didn't put any of the current photo shoots I was working on on the external hard drive, I still have all of them but you know what I don't have?

The rodeo photos. I worked for two SOLID weeks putting in probably 60 man hours into that stupid rodeo for nothing. I've got the Geek Squad looking into it right now and hopefully they can pull the photos off. If not they said they could send it to a data restoration place that gets all clean and wears white gloves and are static free and take the files off for hundreds of dollars. I guess if that's what it comes down to I'll have to do it...either that or give people their money back and really that's not an option.

This is our high school's football stadium. Mulit-millions were spent. I hate to say this but it's nicer than the college I went to's stadium. There are flat screen tv's underneath the bleachers where the concession stand is so you don't miss a play...AT A HIGH SCHOOL stadium!!

The other Option I have is to take the files off my Compact Flash Card. I've been told you can download a file extracter offline and take the files from the card even if they've been deleted. So maybe that will work.

On the bright side I went to pay my property taxes today and apparently we already paid them when we bought our house. Whoo..I feel like I just made money off taxes.

This is my little sisters boyfriend making a touchdown..yeah she dates a younger man :)

My husband is very insensitive.. Change of subject by the way. Do any of you other women have this problem? I'm a woman, I'm emotional, I get my feelings hurt Very easy. He doesn't try to be sensitve towards me, he just tells me to "get tough and deal with it" when my feelings get hurt. Am I wrong to think that isn't right? Shouldn't he compromise and meet me in the middle? Shouldn't he try to be a bit more sensitive and I try to be a bit tougher?

Me and my sisters. We didn't mean to dress alike but we did.

He was raised by a tough mom and a tough dad and he's been tough his entire life. He wrestles steers for fun and has no less that 10 bruises or cuts on him at one time. He's tough and he has zero emotions. I'm 100 thousand percent the opposite of that. Any ideas on how to deal with that problem??

Go Scrappers Go!!

Hope you enjoyed that confusing two in one post. Maybe Tuesday will be better...

Gluten Free & a Give away!

2010-10-07T13:31:00.001-05:00

Did you know that October is Celiac Disease awareness month? Well it is! So you're about to find out all about it and then I'm gonna give away some Gluten Free Bisquick!!

Celiac Disease is a Pain in the rear. Seriously. You always have to worry about what you are eating and in my case, I'm always sick or tired because I accidently eat gluten a lot. I should be more careful, and I do pretty good but it's just so hard!

You can visit this website to get a more indepth description of Celiac Disease but I'll give you a quick over view. Basically your body can't digest the protiens that make up Wheat, called Gluten. The villi in your intestines are attacked by your immune system because it looks at gluten as a bad guy. So when your villi are damaged by your immune system then you can't absorb any nutrients from your food..which can be very very bad and lead to TONS of weird problems.

The Major symptoms include:

Children have more of the intestinal symptoms, while adults show more of the other symptoms. And Celiac can be misdiagnosed easily!

abdominal bloating and pain chronic diarrhea
vomiting
constipation
pale, foul-smelling, or fatty stool
weight loss unexplained
iron-deficiency anemia
fatigue
bone or joint pain
arthritis
bone loss or osteoporosis
depression or anxiety
tingling numbness in the hands and feet
seizures
missed menstrual periods
infertility or recurrent miscarriage
canker sores inside the mouth
itchy skin rash called dermatitis herpetiformis

Irratibility is a big problem in children and in Me...just ask my husband :)

Gluten Free food was REALLY hard to find back when I found out I had Celiac disease in 1998(ish) but now it's everywhere! And Guess Who's gone gluten free now!!! Bisquick! and I"m so excited because i LOVE Breakfast foods!!

So Bisquick and Blogspark asked me to try the Gluten Free Bisquick and to give away some to my readers! So to sign up just leave me a comment! you'll win this...

A box of Bisquick, a spatula (which is super easy to flip pancakes with) a cast iron skillet with little pancake forms, and a Pancake Pen..Which I promise you want...because it was so much fun to play with!

So Last night Sean and I made Brinner (Which is what we now call breakfast for dinner after hearing that on a Scrubs episode)

So it was So easy to make because all I had to do was add milk, oil, and eggs...

Laid by her...

to the bisquick and viola, Pankcakes!! Usually for gluten free pancakes you have to make them from scratch! And just for the record fresh eggs from my backporch chicken made the pancakes that much fluffier!

So I mentioned that you just really want to win this give away because of this awesome Pancake pen! It was so much fun to play with and if it's fun at 25 you know your kids will love it!

So here's the pen.

Just add the batter....

I have a newfound respect for the pioneer woman...it's very hard to photograph while pouring. So check out the pancake I made!!

Just for your information if you spell out letters with your pen..you need to make them way thicker...or when you flip them they will look like this...

I'm pretty sure that is the most fun I've ever had making pancakes and they were DELICIOUS!!!

So to win just leave a comment! I'll be picking a winner next Friday the 15th!!

Good Luck!

2010-10-06T00:10:00.000-05:00

Hello all. I am proud to say I am blogging from home for the first time since like May. All I had to do was download a program from Verizon but never really got around to doing it until now. I've had a long, though productive, weekend/weekbeginning and hopefully it will settle down some tomorrow.

The Rodeo I took photos at this weekend was very very stressful, but very fun!! I only almost died twice! Once when I almost got trampled by some team ropers...see below..My Partner Shannon caught that moment in action.

Then I almost got ran over by a bulldoggin horse...but I got an awesome shot! A few seconds after the photo below, that horse on the right was 2 inches from my shoulder...I saw my life flash before my eyes.... it was quite boring.. I got a great shot though!

after that I decided I might ought to stay out of the arena or at least close to the gate. I still got in some of the photos though! Shannon took the one below and I got in the corner..hehe

I got a good shot of Sean...he won a little bit of money yay!!

Shannon got this really cool shot of Sean in the Box before he ran. I did the edit..I thought it turned out kind of neat!

Anyway. That almost sums up my weekend.

Oh and a special thanks to Dad's horses who gave me the workout of a life time. It was quite fun to run three miles chasing after them down the highway in the dark. I almost threw up and passed out at the same time. I caught them though! Thank goodness no one was hurt from hitting them!

have a great thursday!

Friday Bull

2010-10-01T10:28:00.003-05:00

Happy Friday! I'm so exhausted that I have fallen asleep at my desk probably 10 times. Once I was in the middle of typing and another time while holding a diet coke in my hand. I swear I'm just worn smooth out. Last night was the first night of the Arkansas Rodeo Finals. I am the "official" photographer, along with my partner Shannon. I stood on my feet from 6 to 11 and never sat down. It was horrible. I never knew I was so bad out of shape that it would hurt to just stand!

Sean split first in the Steer Wrestling though..woohoo! I've got TONS of photos to post, but I'll just post the exciting ones today! But First it's Five Question Friday!!

1. Did you have a pen pal when you were little (or now)? Where were/are they from? I DID!!! Ashley was my pen pal. She moved away from our home town when she was in the second grade to Kansas and we were pen pals up until Internet got big when I was in High school. We are now Facebook Friends!
2. If you could do a different job for one day, what would it be?
Just for one day I'd like to be a Carney. I totally want to work at the carnivals, the state/county fairs that is. I want to work in one of the booths, like maybe the balloon dart throw, or oh I know, the ball throwing into the glass of fish game! I love that game! But I'd only want to work there for a day because something about working at carnivals makes you loose all your teeth and smell like onions.

3. Do you remember your biggest fear from when you were little?
Yes, I was afraid of the dark. On nights that I had a night mare I would go to my parents room and sleep with them. We have a really long hallway and I would run as fast as I could from one end of the house to the other, where my parents room was because I was so scared, or I would just stand at the end of the hall and scream for my Momma. One time while running My imagination created a pirate that popped out from one of the doors with his sword, it was the captain crunch pirate, but meaner. I got so scared my mom and dad had to calm me down and put a cold rag on my head. ps. i'm still scared of whats in the dark.
4. What do you think is a waste of time? Why?
Reality TV Shows...particularly the bachelor. Don't get me wrong, I watch and I love it, but two people aren't going to fall in love while one is dating 20 other women in a few weeks. Not gonna happen people. Only once has it happened actually. so I guess it wasn't a waste of time for Trista and Ryan.

5. What is the oldest item you have in your closet?
My Dad's old baseball glove. I think it's around my age. I still use it though, it's in great condition!
Here's a few exciting photos from the Rodeo! Have a great weekend. I'm going back to the rodeo tonight!

No person or animal was seriously injured while shooting these photos.

I Be on Ebay

2010-09-30T10:45:00.000-05:00

I Lost 100 bucks.
It all began with a stupid decision to buy photoshop online for only 100 bucks. I should've known better. It was a scam. I wasn't the only person they did this to. There were three other bad comments from other buyers. I had NO idea there was a time limit on how long you could file a complaint with e-bay and get your money back. I kept waiting because the person kept telling me they had sent it. .

47 days later I find out the deadline for getting your money back is 45 days. Way to go Jenna. I did a little research and the person selling it used their real name in their e-mail address. They also used their real location. Well I just jumped on facebook and found that person and sent them a nasty message. ... ok I say nasty but for me it's nasty...
I said:
Hey. I bought an item from you on ebay and I would like my money back. You never sent me a refund. I've contacted the district attorneys office in (where she lives) and we have filed formal charges against you. I will drop all charges if you return my money. I have requested it back through pay pal. I hope you are happy with yourself for ripping me off. I am on a very tight budget and this was going to be a gift for my husband. It has put a huge strain on my checking account. I will pray for you and I hope you spent the money on your kids and not on drugs or alcohol.

oooooh nasty... yeah well I did my best. I really didn't call the district attorneys office. I just lied...and I feel guilty for it. I also lied about it being a gift for my husband, I thought it sounded more dramatic.

Apparently she isn't very well educated because she copied and pasted the definition of "defamation of Character" and told me she was calling the police. Idiot. I sent you a "private" message..meaning it harmed you financially and damaged your character in NO way. And I was asking for my money back for the scam you put on me...and unless there are two people by your very unique name in that small southern town then It's not a "false accusation."

I really liked it when she told me that she, "don't know what I talking about cause i do not be on ebay" Beautiful grammer. Beautiful. well...if she don't "be on ebay" then someone from her home town is using her name to scam people on ebay.

When I told her that I hoped she spent the money on her kids and not drugs and alcohol and that I would pray for her she obviously didn't like that because she made a very dirty remark back. Then she blocked me.... So I couldn't even send her back a message telling her how stupid and pathetic she was for copy and pasting the definition of Defamation of Character and trying to pull it off like she knew what she was talking about.

I would love to paste her message but I better keep it PG.

Ah, i just love getting all hot tempered and taking it out on someone who deserves it!

I'm gonna go Be on ebay now and buy some more stuff

Family Photos

2010-09-29T10:21:00.001-05:00

Hello, Happy Wednesday. I'm bored beyond all belief. I'm trying not to build up much work because tomorrow and Friday I will be at the Arkansas Rodeo Finals taking photos. I'm nervous but Excited! My rented lens came in the mail yesterday and I had so much fun taking photos last night...except that I didn't bring them to work to upload for you. sorry. they weren't all that special anyway.

So this is the lens I got..The Canon L Serices 70-200 2.8. Yay I Like it a lot! Except it's really heavy.. I should've started lifting weights last week to prepare myself... I bought a mono pod so that will take some of the weight off my arms. I rented this baby for the week and paid only 90 bucks insurance, shipping and all from lensrentals.com. I could've just bought the lens for $1600 but decided after looking at my tiny bank account it would be best to rent. :)

So, There's a photography studio in my home town that is posting old photos that they had left over from way back on face book. They are trying to sell them for chairty. I got a notice on my cell phone yesterday that they had tagged me in a photo! I ran to the computer and jumped on facebook and saw this...

Nope that's not me, not my mom... but My dad! How cute is he sitting with his legs crossed while the girl stands.. I wonder if this photo was a joke or if it's for real. If so, then dad needed to uncross his legs for sure.. and maybe cut his hair. I'm pretty sure he still has that same suit. I think he wore it to church last month. This was taken his senior year, 1978ish?

This was the latest photo I could find of Dad on FB. It was like 2004ish. Which as I look at it it makes me wonder. Was I adopted?

My sisters look exactly alike, A lot like my Dad and his side of the family.

And me...I guess "I get it from my Mama."

So now that I've bored you with my Family.

I wanted to show you a few photos of the shoot I did for my friend Holly's kids last week. I may have already posted these, but I'm doing it again.

I went to the flea market and picked up so super cute props last week. We used a few for this photo shoot. Can't wait to use more of them! Oh..and that super colorful quilt... My Great Grandmother made it!! Thanks MawMaw for letting me use it!!

Have a great Wednesday!!

Dinner

2010-09-27T10:51:00.000-05:00

Dinner the Rooster April 2010 - September 25, 2010

Dinner, 6months, of the Circle T Ranch, died Saturday. He was found in the middle of the Highway after a Hit and Run accident. Police are still investigating.
He is survived by his wife, Lunch and six unhatched eggs.
His cocky attitude and proud display of color will be sorely missed, along with his 5 am wake up calls and flogs to the leg.
Funeral services were held Saturday at the dumpster.
Donations can be made to the "Eat more Beef" fund in lieu of flowers.

I told you not go get in the road! I will miss you, you little cocky rooster.

Hey Guys!

2010-09-22T09:14:00.000-05:00

Hey, Long time no post.

I just haven't felt like sharing my mind latley...due to lots of work and lots of laziness.
Sean's finally home from his 10 day trip to Canada. He brought back TONS of laundry. TONS. And EVERY pair of Jeans are full of dirt...well Sand actually. So when I pulled all 10 pair of jeans out of his laundry bag sand went everywhere. I have about 10 lbs of sand on the floor and about 5 lbs on my washing machine. Ya know what i did with it? I left it there...he can clean it up.

Birdie is still not fat. We're going on week four of her pregnancy. Maybe shell get fat this week. According to the chart I found online this week, week four, she will loose her appetite and gain weight in the rib cage area. So far she's still eating like a 150 lb great dane and still skinny... maybe she's faking the pregnancy. I sure hope not!

The Chickens are about to be "accidently" eliminiated. Well, just the rooster maybe. I got out of my car at lunch on Monday and the rooster came running at me from under the porch with every feather he had standing up. He was coming in for the kill. I took off running and was chased about 50 feet from my house before he stopped. I should've just kicked him or something but he really took me off guard. I was a little embarassed at myself for running from a chicken. I made sure no one was around to see that...

I threw some rocks at him until he was distracted and I made a b line for the house. He did the same thing when I walked off the porch. I was chased to my car. They migrate in the same pattern daily. Mornings are in the front yard, lunch is under the back porch, afternoons are in the neighbors back yard...ya i know they hate me... and night is on the front porch. So really they don't bother me except for at lunch.. I didn't go home for lunch yesterday.

On a happier note about the chickens, our hen is finally laying eggs!! She actually used the little nest I built for her! Here are the first four she laid. She now has five.

I didn't know what to do with them so I just left them there. I'm not eating them. What if I crack it open and a baby bird pops out? Any tips on eating fresh fertilized eggs? Should I just get rid of the rooster all together? I mean I am kind of getting used to his crowing every morning at 5 am.

Chickens were a stupid idea.

Have a Great Wednesday!!

Hello Again

2010-09-13T16:50:00.000-05:00

Hi! Have you wondered where I've been?? No? Didn't realize I was gone? Ok..

Well I was on a semi-vacation. My Grandfather had a Heart Attack on Friday and I stayed with him and my Grandmother and Mom & Aunt and helped them out for a bit. He is doing great after three stints were put in. For 87 years old he's pretty lucky!!

After staying there for four days I was worn smooth out and came home to a Husband who was less than thrilled with my cleaning abilities...Which I will address later in this post....Anway I got really stressed out so I just loaded up and took a few days off to go to Mom and Dad's house to just relax and sleep off the stress.

I guess I really needed the rest because I slept for a long time and then had a very therapeutic horse ride with dad in our indoor arena on his cutting horses ,while the rain pounded on the metal roof, and the quiet sounds of country music floated over from the radio. Man, there's nothing like a good horse ride to ease all your stress.

When I got back home Sean and I went to a rodeo and then he left for Canada for a few days. He just called a few minutes ago to tell me he crossed the border!! A friend of mine is camping out at my house for a week so I'll have company! Isn't that sweet of her?

In The past week I've been to three Rodeos..two of which Sean was in. One of which I babysat a precious little girl and took her to the Fair and we went to the rodeo to see the "bumpin Bulls" which is what she called them instead of "Bucking Bulls." I worked on editing photos All Day Long on Saturday..then went to a softball game. You would think sitting and working on a computer wasn't work at all but try sitting for 5 hours straight and you'll go out of your mind and you will make your butt numb.

Sunday I shot photos at a wedding and then came home and CRASHED. I was also flogged by my rooster in between those times...
Anyone have a good chicken soup Recipe?
...

I've had a busy week and am now back to blogging.

Ok..So Remember a few paragraphs ago when I said I have a cleaning problem..well acutally I have a lack of cleaning problem. Im so busy and when I'm not busy I'm sleeping so I need to learn to make time to Clean! I seriously think My Husband will divorce me if I don't learn how to keep a clean house... I usually just let the house get dirty and try to clean it all at once, which is just overwhelming and close to impossible to do in a day. So I end up just doing half of it and so our house remains messy.. So I'm going to make a schedule of chores to do each day..do you think that will help?!
Any suggestions on how you keep your house clean through out the week...and no, hiring a maid isn't an option.

I'm about to google "how to keep a house clean" and see what I can find! I'll share results later..I guess just need to grow up and clean...but I HATE it.. HATE IT!

Oh ps. I had photos of All the things I've done in the past week but I left them on my home computer. I'll try to repost them tomorrow.

Hating Mondays,

Boys of Fall

2010-09-03T10:14:00.001-05:00

It's Friday!!!1. What do you do when you have time to yourself?
Take a long bubble bath. Sleep. Read. Take long walks with my Camera..cheezy I know. I have time to myself all the time with Sean gone all the time so I do lots of stuff. My favorite thing is to cuddle with the dogs. Sean won't let me cuddle and love on his "hunting dogs" So when he's gone and I'm bymyself I let them sleep with me and cuddle with them.

2. When you look out your kitchen window, what do you see?

Well, I would take photo but I'm not at home. I see A Big Tree and then the back pasture. Sometimes I see Cows and Horses and sometimes I see Chickens on the Grill. That's my kitchen window..so I have a great view of the back porch

3. Who/What would you want to be reincarnated as?
Well, though I don't believe in reincarnation, I would want to come back as a Bird, so I could Fly...far, far away. I would love to fly!

4. What is your biggest pet peeve about other people's kids?
Um, I don't have kids so every kid is "other people's." But I can't stand listening to kids throw fits..it's annoying. And I don't mean like babies throwing fits, because that's normal. I mean older kids that whine and throw fits because they want something and are spoiled rotten.

5. Regular or Diet soda?
Coke Zero, I have one a day! I'm actually drinking one right now!

Tonight is the First Night of HighSchool Football in AR and Tomorrow is Arkansas' First Game of the Season! Go Hogs Go!!! Whooo pig sooie!
This video got me pumped up for football season and for the cold weather coming!
Have a Great Friday!!

Today

2010-09-02T16:36:00.000-05:00

Today is 9.02.10

Update

2010-09-01T15:41:00.000-05:00

Is It me or is this week
just..
dragging..
on..
and..
on?
Here's a bit of an update on my Photo Studio..

Yesterday I bit the bullet and decided to start scrubbing my studio clean!
I couldn't start without the help of this baby..

He's my hero.

So I went to Home Depot to get a filter for the shop vac to work better. I got home with $60 bucks worth of cleaning supplies and forgot the durn filter..
So after another trip to Home Depot for a filter I vaccumed the ENTIRE place Celing to floor and got about 5 gallons of dirt. You couldn't believe the amount of River silt and dirt that had depostited itself in those floorboards after the flood last christmas. It was Unreal!

Upon further inspection of the floor I have decided it will be best to rip the whole floor out and have Sean replace it. Though Sean doesn't know that yet. I don't want to but the floor is so water damaged and so old that it's starting to splinter apart and there is extensive termite damage in one corner and If I have to replace that I might as well replace all of it!

The next step that I will do tonight will be to sterilize the entire place and make it stop smelling like "old people"

So Here are my wepons of Mass destruction...

It took me awhile to find the TSP but finally found it in the paint thinner isle..not the cleaning isle which Is where everything else was.. and where I would think the "all purpose heavey duty cleaner" would be..but I was very wrong...

The job will be doozy but It will get done!!!

Wish me luck!!

Uneventful

2010-08-31T11:26:00.000-05:00

So I had an uneventful weekend for the first time in awhile... I worked on photos all weekend and on Saturday night I attended the Saline County Fair pagent. A friend of mine has a little girl that is an amazing dancer and she danced inbetween pagent age divisions as entertainment. I took photos of her dancing..I thought they turned out pretty good... She's a beautiful little girl!

She is also an international pagent winner and gets to go on a cruise next spring! How awesome is that?!

I got really tickled watching the young girls in this county fair pagent. It was totally like watching toddlers and tiaras during certain moments. I really got a kick out of how serious some of the Moms got. We did pagents when we were little but I don't remember the Mom's getting so mad and worked up about things.

So ok, since this is an "online journal" for me, I thought i'd talk a little about what is going on in my life so I can look back and see how far we've come.. or not come...ha... My life has been pretty uneventful, this hot weather has really bummed me out. Now that it's cooled down a bit I've been going to some rodeos and riding horses a little bit. I wish I was brave enough to take my camera but I'm afraid I'll drop it or something..My blackberry camera will just have to work for now. The long horns were curious of me yesterday..and I saw a water moccasin..scary!

Sean has been doing pretty good in the Rodeo world. He's sitting 5th in the International Professional Rodeo Association (ipra) which is pretty awesome considering the season started in January and he didn't start until mid May. He's planning a trip to Canada for a rodeo and a trip to Atlantic City for a rodeo. He wearing me out with all this rodeo traveling. I wish I could just have a normal husband with a normal job...

...but that's not an option for him. Guess I'll just have to live with it. I would love to go to Canada but he'll be gone for a couple weeks. The rodeo is announced in total French..I think that would be funny to go watch. hehe

My Studio is at a small hault right now. I'm just waiting for Sean to help me out on the floors, he's super busy right now trying to save up and get ready for Canada. I've been super busy working on all these wedding photos so I'm totally ok with that small break.

Birdie is being very clingy...won't get within 5 feet away from me or Sean.. She wants to be touching you all the time..Is that a Pregnancy thing? Is she pregnant!? I hope so..I can't wait 4 weeks to be able to tell, I'm too impatient. If she is I'm going to start advertising for the puppies pretty quickly, just to get the word out. I had a dream last night that she had three puppies and they were Doc's (my parent's corgie) puppies..it was a nightmare!

My mom thinks my grandmother is getting alzheimer's. I think it's getting pretty bad. If anyone has any experience with this and has any suggestions, it would be much appreciated!

Well that's all the news in my household for now. Thanks for sticking around and reading the whole post if you're still reading..ha!

Have a great Tuesday!

Five Questions Friday

2010-08-27T16:21:00.002-05:00

It's Five Questions Friday!

1. How many pets do you have?

I'm going to say five but technically two of those five aren't "pet"-able. Those two are edible and if they keep pooping on my front porch and crowing at 4am we might just go down to 3 animals...

I have my Chocolate Children,

Birdie

And Banjo

My Horse Zero, who is fat and lazy and has been ridden like 4 times this year...2 of those times were this week...
And the Chickadees, Lunch & Dinner.

(I texted this photo to mom and told her that I had just put chicken on the grill and to come on over and eat when your hungry. ha..I crack myself up)

2. If you could switch places with anyone in the world for one day, who would it be? I would switch places with My husband...so I could spend a day in his shoes and figure out what it's like to think I am right 100% of the time.

3. What is your favorite money saving tip?

Close my eyes and pretend I didn't just see that super cute item..

And buying non-brand names, using cupons when I can, and turning out all the lights!

4. What do you want your kids to be when they grow up?

Mature and Responsible and happy.

5. What is your favorite quote?

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway-anon..

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways" declares the LORD. "As the heavens are highter than the earth, so are my ways highter than your ways and my thoughts than your thought." Isaiah 55:8-9

Ok so..

Sad news: My home down had a terrible fire and lost about four of its main street buildings, all over 100 years old. Firemen from all over the county came to help and within hours they had it undercontrol but the buildins were a total loss. ..sad day.

I took these photos off facebook, from Justin Bellinger and Flowers By Johnny

In happier news, I went to the rodeo last night and got to visit with my Mom..Sean did good and we had fun.

Can you tell we're related??

Sean did ok...

Sean's mom roped...

And this cute little guy won the Mutton Bustin' it cracked me up so I took a photo...

Alrighty have a great weekend everyone!!

Thursday

2010-08-26T15:07:00.001-05:00

I just Realized that I hadn't read any blogs on my GOogle reader since Last thursday... I'm being a bad blogger..
But Lately..I've been enjoying the weather and doing a little bit of this...

Taken with cellphone late in th evening so it's a little shakey but those are the chocolate children in the upper corner incase you didn't know. And Zero's head.

I've started to enjoy riding again. We've been around the pasture a few times and it's been great. We have around 500 acres or more to roam so It's never boring...just relaxing.

In other news Birdie's due date is October 25th...don't think I won't be counting the days down!! I have a ticker too on my side bar! I'm so excited..I really hope she is pregnant.. We won't know for 4 or 5 weeks...but the vet said the "outlook is good."

I took these photos of Sean's Cousin's little Girl Claire...I thought they turned out pretty well for indoor photos with no studio lighting....I can't wait to get studio lighting.

To see more of this shoot visit my Photo Page.

Have a great Thursday..I'm off to the Rodeo.

In a Nutshell...

2010-08-24T10:57:00.002-05:00

I took a small Leave of absence from my blog...I've been extreamly Busy and when I wasn't busy..I was lazy. So here's what I've been doing...
Watching Sean Practice:
They bought a new white horse...that's Frosty on the left (sean's bulldoggin horse) and the new horse on the left....I don't know his name..But they are they look just alike.

Wouldn't you love to do that Laundry??? Ugh..

Oh!!! Guess who found a Boyfriend?! Birdie!! If everything goes like it should we should be having puppies ready to sell by Christmas!! I'm SOOO excited!

We took her Friday to the breeders to Meet her new Boyfriend, Rush...that's him in the photo below.

He was a beautiful, sweet, awesome dog! He's an amazing hunter and loves water, just like Bird! He's won a bunch of championship Hunts and comes with an amazing bloodline and an amazing list of accomplishments from competitions.

I'm going to pick her up this afternoon and I miss her so much! I didn't realize how much I liked having her around! If all goes as planned we should have puppies in 55-65 days!! I'll keep you posted Of course!

Saturday I helped my mom at a Fundraiser for the local TV Station in my Home Town and then On Sunday I took photos at a Benefit Rodeo for our friend Shannon. He was a good friend and a good cowboy and he lost a long battle with cancer at the young age of 35..

I was asked to take photos along with my friend and Photography partner Shannon Bean (girl). We are also taking photos at the Arkansas Rodeo Finals in October and I'm SUPER excited about it!!!

She took this super hott photo of me...ew.

It was hot and humid yesterday and I sweated A LOT...I'm a retard.

I got some great steer wrestling and Team roping photos though!

I also Scored majorly at the auction and got 75 sq ft of wood flooring for my studio for $5 bucks!!! FIVE BUCKS!!

Last night I went on a moonlight horseback ride and it was amazing! It was a full moon and it was so bright outside that you could see for miles! Me and my MIL and Shannon Bean saddled up and rode all over the ranch. It was relaxing and surreal and It was so cool by the river.. I want to do it EVERY night this week!!!

Well that's my weekend in a nutshell!
Have a great tuesday!!!

These little Posters

2010-08-19T11:02:00.004-05:00

While Cleaning out My new Studio I found these little posters...

I'm a little curious about them. They are older, and risque, and prejudice, and sexist... and kinda funny.

I'm a little confused at the perversion of some of these... it's weird..

like the one that you can barely see at the top, "Mark my word Eve the discovery we made list night will interest all mankind." Who would want that on their wall??

Or the one that says, Honey you ought to wear pants on windy days. He's putting his arm around a pig and touching it's butt, but think's it's his wife...that's just weird.

Or the one below... Drunk guy thinks fire hydrant is a lady's breast??

haha, ok that one is kind of funny.

I like the one below..."here's to our wives and sweethearts, may they never meet" Let's hang that one above the fireplace..

Seriously, what are these for?? Who would want these on the wall? And why the neon colors?? I wonder if these are really old or just junk thrown in the studio recently from a yard sale or estate sale, or if they are older than that.... Any Ideas Blogland??

For now they will just sit on the shelf in the Studio...maybe I should take them to the Insurance office and hang them in the hallway... or maybe not.

2010-08-17T17:01:00.001-05:00

When Bulldoggin off a Horse that has never been jumped off of....

Sometimes he works Great!

And sometimes he doesn't....

Thats Sean in the dirt, no steer in site... I think it bruised his butt...

SCF

2010-08-17T15:57:00.000-05:00

Here's a facebook post I made today. Birdie is ready to have puppies, we just can't find a Baby's daddy. :) The Lab we were going to breed her with "ran away" last week. Now, we are having trouble finding a good duck dog to breed her with and we only have a few weeks window.

Haha...that last comment made me choke on my diet coke :)

Know anyone in AR with a Duck dog!?

Have a Great Tuesday!

To Clean or Not to Clean?

2010-08-16T10:26:00.000-05:00

Man, Mondays make me want to throw up in my mouth a little bit...

I hope the start of ya'lls week is good. Mine hasn't been bad, it's just that waking up, every 5 minues this morning for a full two hours to Sean's alarm clock was just a bad way to start the week. I was having this dream that I was locked inside of a building and we had to figure out the combination to the doors to get the alarm to go off and no matter what we did we couldn't get it to quit...

Then I woke up and turned Sean's alarm on snooze... and started all over again 5 minutes later...

I thought I'd post "phase two" of my project, that I'm going to refer to from now on as "Project Photo Studio." After cleaning out a few things last week, upon further inspection this is going to take a lot longer that I had initially inticipated... due to major water damage...

Heres the right side..Notice the water line on the cabinets...That's how high the water got when the River flooded twice last year. This building is about two feet off the ground too... the water was high!!

All that junk above is trash waiting to go to the dunp.. It has since been removed by Sean...

Above is the left side, I've got to somehow get that file cabinent cleaned out and put somewhere else...It's full of Receipts, paperwork, and books of checks from 1965 Thomas and Son's Cattle Compnay. I might just keep it for storage and paint it a funky color...what do you think??

The couch I have pictured below is currently for sale to the highest bidder. It comes complete with a mouse hole and plenty of dust bunnies... It's turquoise vinyl incase you were wondering...

That door behind the couch is really a screen door hanging over the window...It's nailed into the wall, over the window, which is really confusing to me because the window has a screen in it that is perfectly intact...I can't figure that one out.. It will be coming down and painted white and put up in place of the door that all the screen was torn out of.

After begging for about 5 days I finally got Sean to move this couch.. I wasn't about to move it in fear a mouse would jump out...and we all know how I feel about mice..ew.

After moving the couch we found that the floor in the corner is very water damaged, along with a little bit of termite damage. We are going to have to rip up about three square feet of the floor in the corner and replace it. I'm also going to have the place retreated for termites. The good news is that I didn't find any alive termites..so I think think they were terminated during the last Terminex treatments. The corner is the only place that I can find termite damage so that is a good thing.

I've decided to not replace the entire floor and just put a rug down in that corner after Sean fixes it. That is the corner I will have my computer desk in anyway so It wont show that the floor doesn't match. I'm going to use faux floors for any photo shoots anyway so I won't have to worry about the floor enough for photo quality.

Ya know, Sean replaces and installs hard wood flooring as a day job, so he's going to make me some 3x5 floors of different colored wood that I can pick up and change out for Childrens photo shoots. I'm also going to make fake walls with funky wall paper--aka. material stretched across partical board, with molding across the bottom to make it look like a real room... that Way I can change out the back grounds easy and have different colors and different patterns.

My FIL offered to build on a little changing/storage room to store all these floors and walls....don't worry if you can't picture what I've tried to explain. I have this vision...I'll have to show you my Vision once I complete it...It's hard to explain what jumps around in my brain..infact you'd probably be pretty scared if you saw what jumped around in my brain...

Next step in the process...CLEAN! I'm researching the best way to clean hardwood after water damage from mold and mildew. Although,I cant see any mildew or mold damage, the smell in the house is very "old housey" kind of musty and needs some major cleaning.

After googling I have found that the best way to clean hard wood from mildew and water damage are as follows: Use TSP-trisodium Phosphate, which I have been told I can get a Lowe's, mix with water and scrub away. I was also advised to add bleach if necessary...which in this case I think is necessary. After scrubbing for a few hours, rinse and shop vac up all the water and set up fans to air out for a few days. Then after the floor dries I can sand it down and polish it up!

That sounds very doable...so I'm going to get to doing! Of course...photos will follow with my progress!

Have a great Monday!

5QFthe13th

2010-08-13T10:41:00.001-05:00

It's Friday the 13th! OOOooooOOOooo. That's my scary voice..

Here's a little Luck for you on this Friday the 13th. It rained on Wednesday and a Rainbow landed IN MY BACK YARD...no kidding! I looked for the pot of gold, but someone must have already gotten it, because it wasn't there.

I also one $5 on a scratch off lottery ticket so my JuJu is looking pretty good on this Friday the 13th. ("JuJu" is Sean's word for "luck"...He says I give him bad juju at the rodeo if I am ever negative about anything.)

So Today is 5QF with Mama M.

Today's Questions are...

1. Have you ever visited another country?

Yep, I went to Mexico the summer after my Senior Year in High School on a cruise.

And then went back to Cancun my Senior year of College with my best friends....

And Sean and I went to Aruba on our Honey Moon.

2. Where is the strangest place you have ever been?
When Sean and I were looking for houses I looked at the strangest house I'd ever seen. It was totally weird...the upstairs bedrooms didn't have doors and they had a doggie door in the wall and dogs running everywhere...I can't explain how strange this place was but I wanted out ASAP...it was strange.

3. What is your favorite season?
Fall, well actually right now it's anything but 112 degree heat! But I really Love Fall..

4. What one song will always cheer you up?
Well Music with a fast beat in General Cheers me up, but the song comming to mind right now is Bringing Sexy Back, by JT. I love that song it makes me feel good.

5. What Disney character do you resemble most?

Well I can't find one I look like...i guess Disney doesn't like my face...But I did a Quiz and apparently I most like Alice personality wise..

Have a Great weekend! I'm Doing photos at another wedding and a birthday party for Sean's Cousin's little girl She's 1!

Help Me Rhonda

2010-08-12T10:17:00.001-05:00

Happy Thursday Blog world. I just had a sudden craving for Guacamole and Lettuce ...can't wait until lunch!

I just wanted to fill you guys in on a little project I've been working on. Thanks to my Father In Law I have been working on a small Photograpy studio for my new love of photography!

Now, I don't know if I've blogged about this before or not but My father in law's farm (which I live on) used to be a Huge Cattle Buying operation back in the 50's and 60's, when Sean's Grandfather was still alive. He was a Cattle buyer and ran cows in and out of the farm all day long. He passed away when my FIL was a young boy and the Cattle operation was no longer, but the farm and all the buildings and barns and everything are still there and still in service.

So withough further ado..here's my new studio.

Yeah..I know it needs a little work. Ok Ok..it needs a lot of work. It has been sitting since 1965...i know because the calendars on the wall is still on 1965... It has been a nesting place for rats and catch all for all the medication used to doctor the long horns in the past 50 years. So I've been cleaning..in the 105 degree weather.

So I opened the door to this. Holy pile of Sh*t! I thought for a second that I was crazy but then decided to push through the craziness and start chunking stuff.

I found some neat things. Like Tit Milking Needles. Yes I just said that. A whole bag of them. They make it easier to milk cows..make the milk flow more... We have zero milking cows. Wonder how long they've been there....

Also that fridge in the back ground...it still works!

So here's the other side of the building... do you see that blue stand with the white belt hanging off of it? It's an exercise machine. You put that belt around your belly and it shakes off the fat....it still works. Sean demonstrated for me. He wouldn't let me take a photo but it was hilarious... all those old fans work too!!

Notice the beautiful hard wood ceilings, floors and walls...they are to die for..but in dire need of cleaning and conditioning.

This is the scale...It has to stay.. I'm going to cover it with a thick black curtain to keep the light out from the huge window. See all those pipes outside the window? Thats where you load the cow in to weigh it. The scales are hooked to a platform outside. I weighed me birdie and banjo. We weighed 275 lbs. :)

Last Christmas when the river flooded this little shop was about a foot under water...so I've got a lot of mud and sticks to clean out...and apparently a deck of cards. We're very lucky even though it flooded the wood floor is still in great shape. Banjo tried to help but just kept slobbering everywhere...

So you can see I have a lot of work ahead of me... I've already cleaned out a lot of the trash...I'll post photos of that later..

Any suggestions on how to clean hard wood floors in that bad of shape? Any suggestions on how to clean those walls and ceiling?

I need all the help I can get!

PS if you need any of those milking needles or the exercise machine let me know... I also found some sweet garage sale items that have been put back for 20+ years...talk about junk!

Have a great Thursday!

Mr. Monday

2010-08-09T11:26:00.000-05:00

Dear Mr. Monday,
Remember this morning at 5am when you woke me up suddenly for no reason? Yeah? And Mr. Monday, did you notice that when I let the dogs out how it wasn't quite light out yet, and a mouse jumped out at me from behind the flower pot and freaked me out...did you think that was cute? Because It was too dark to see where the mouse went so I was afraid to move and I got freaked out...
Oh and Mr. Monday, Did you think that it was funny when the dogs jumped after the mouse and knocked down all the stuff on the porch shelves and I had to clean it up without knowing where the freaking mouse went? Yeah...that wasn't funny. It also wasn't funny when I walked back into the house to get a mouse trap and noticed that Birdie had gotten sick again on my dining room carpet. ha. ha. real. cute.
I spent the rest of the morning cleaning up dog mess and listenting to Sean's alarm go off for 5 minutes at a time because he can't hear. Did you also think it was funny to make the rooster crow...all. morning. long. so I couldn't get back to sleep for even 15 minutes? All in all Mr. Monday, it's not even lunch and already..you suck.
Thanks for being a real jerk.
I hate you.
Jenna

Dear Friday Saturday and Sunday,
You guys are THE best. You always make sure I get plenty of "me" time. You always make me smile and make me so happy to know you're coming at the end of every week.
I love you guys.
Jenna

Seriously though, After I laid back down for 10 minutes before my alarm went off, A big ol' smile spread across my face.. God has blessed me with so much, I'm so thankful that I have dogs that love me to clean up after. I'm so thankful to have a house to chase mice around, and I'm thankful to live in the country and listen to chickens. I'm so thankful for my husband who can't hear and for all the amazing things that God has blessed me with. Instead of sleeping I spent the next few minutes in prayer thanking God for all my blessings.

This weekend I did Photos for a Wedding...here's a sneak peek:

I also started cleaning out the new tiny studio I'm going to start using. Here's a before photo...I'll post more about it later: Yikes...

And then we ended the weekend with a beautiful sunset, swimming, and home cooked ribs! It was a great weekend.

Thank God for all your blessings!

Happy Monday

5QF

2010-08-06T14:56:00.001-05:00

Friday has snuck up on me this week. It has been good to me so far...I found a 100 dollar bill in my wallet this morning that was hiding in one of the many pockets and I have no idea where it came from but I will Gladly spend it!!! Whoo HOo

It's 5QF So I thought I'd tell you a little more about myself and then give you a few little extra tidbits about myself afterwards...just because I love you.

1. Are you a neat sleeper or a messy sleeper?
I am actually a neat sleeper. I can get in bed and wake up the next morning and my bed is still practically made. Sean on the other hand, I think he wakes up in the night and jumps on the bed.

2. Fill in the blank. I wish I was more ________ Neat. By far. I'm very messy and very disorganized and even though I get things done and I know where everything is, it's not a very organized system. For example I know that my shoes are under the laundry basket in the living room and that my purple shirt is in a pile of clean clothes at the end of my bed, and that the scissors are on my desk underneath the people magazine. ...see even my thoughts and examples are disorganized...Any suggestions on how to make me better at this?

3. What is something that you wish you had been warned about?
My husbands obsession with rodeo. .... yeah that's a whole nother post.

4. What was the best thing you ever found at a garage sale/flea market?
I found my trunk at the end of my bed at the Habitat for Humanity store... If you've never been there YOU NEED TO GO! It's an amazing "flea market" type store.

5. If you could have any meal brought to you right now, what would it be?
Yeah..i'm not really hungry right now.

Ok so I'm going to start going through my old photos and posting some of my favorites for you and telling you a little story behind them. I'm doing this because I can no longer thing of creative things to blog about...my brain is all out of creativeness..

This is a photo of me when I was a wee freshman at Arkansas Tech University.

I was a Zeta Tau Alpha...Zeta's is what most people called us. This was my Bid day. I was a legacy..meaning my mom was a Zeta when she was in college. I had the best time in college and I wouldn't have had near as much fun without my Zeta Friends. We get together once a year now that we are out of college and I just got a text about a "reunion" next spring for all the Zeta's and SigEps (fraternity) that were real close during our short years there.

Below is my favorite photo of all times...it shows how much fun we all had when we got together. This is at our spring formal. We were singing our "theme song" by David Allen Coe. "You never even call me by name" haha good times..

Can you see me with my hands in the air singing my little heart out? Yeah...I was so skinnny.

I hope your weekend is as much fun as my photo is!!!! Have a good one!

Car Doors and Baby Corn

2010-08-05T11:29:00.000-05:00

Well Today is Thursday. I've got a lot on my mind and a lot to blog about.

First of all Momma Kat's Writing Prompt Is Today! I chose 5.) Describe the first date you went on in a boy’s car... I'm going to cheat a little bit and tell you about a date in a boys car...but not the first one I ever went on.

I dated a punk in High school for awhile and he had a like 1980-something Ford single cab truck that had a few problems. Like sometimes I wouldn't start and mostly everything inside the cab didn't work....like his driver side door handle. He had to roll down his window and open the door from the outside...It was super ~~embarassing~~ cool...

We used to "cruise main" on the weekends and hang out with all of our friends.
One particular afternoon we got in the truck and my window wouldn't roll down, which normally wouldn't matter but when I went to open the door, the door handle came off in my hand. So to get out of the truck I had to wait for my Boyfriend to roll down his window, open his door and come around and open the door for me..which I didn't mind because it made him look like he was a sweet boy...which was a little bit of a stretch..

Later that evening we were all hanging out in a parking lot somewhere and one of our friends slammed the drivers side door a little to hard and the glass shattered...if that doesnt tell you how old this truck was then I dunno what to tell ya! This wasn't a big deal because it just saved him from having to roll the window down before opening the door from the outside. :)

The very next night we went on a date to town again and it began to rain before we left the house. We had to tape a trash bag over the window so we wouldn't get wet. So we got to town and pulled into Sonic and realized....we couldn't get out of the truck. My window wouldn't roll down, his was taped shut, my door handle was broken off and his didn't work... After a few seconds of laughing we honked the horn until we got someones attention and had them come open the door for us. ...ah to be 17 again.

Man I'm so glad my husband has a nice truck! :)

Now second of all

I was asked a couple questionson my FoamSpring box. Ask away if you would like, It's on my side bar!!!
Erin, my cousin. Asked me a very random question "do you still like those little baby corns? ha! i ate some today and thought of you -ef." I'm a little impressed that Erin remembers my love for baby corns. Yes I'm still obsessed with baby corns on my salad. I was really upset with our local Ruby Tuesdays when they quit putting the baby corns on their salad bar.
I just google searched for a photo of Baby Corn and this is what I got...haha

Images from google images.

Aw.. But no that's not the baby corn that I'm talking about here...

I'm talking about these baby corns...

What about you other bloggers out there....Do you like baby corn??

Erin, I think Kinley would really enjoy baby corns . You should let her try some during her next meal. I have a feeling you have been depriving her from baby corns! I also think that when this Heat wave breaks, K should come visit me on the farm and hang out with the horses and chickens.

I was also anonymously asked what the Worst Movie I've ever Watched was. I've really pondered this question for a couple of days and I'm going to have to go with Sex & the City 2. THough it's not the worst I've EVER watched. It's the worst I have watched at the movie Theatre in a long time. I was bored the entire time and It really didn't have a point. I really liked the first movie..but The second one was all about fashion, which I don't really care about because I can't afford it. ....sorry If I offended anyone with that answer.

Have a great Thursday!
-Jenna T

Wednesday

2010-08-04T16:56:00.001-05:00

Hello BLogworld. It's Now halfway through the work week and I'm getting super excited about this weekend! I have another wedding to shoot and after last week's Wedding Shoot I can only hope This one goes just as well!!

Oh and still no Air conditioner...my Air guy is STILL out of town. Thank goodness for the 73 degree weather inside my inlaws house because the 105 degree heatwave inside of mine would kill me ...it's already melted all of my chocolate!

Ok so I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon and Play Wee Bit of Me Wednesday with Kelly at Leigh Ashley's

So enjoy learning a wee bit about me...on wednesday...

{one} what website do you spend the most time on?BLogger, Ebay, Facebook.I was thinking to myself last night.."what did I do before the internet?" I'm so addicted to being "connected" that I'm scared when I'm all alone without phone and internet... It's almost sad. {two} what's the furthest you've ever travelled?Sean and I went to Aruba on our HOneymoon.

{three} what's your guilty pleasure tv show?I don't really have a guilty pleasure show. Although, every time I see Toddlers and Tiaras I can't help but watch...I just can't look away! Everything else I watch Guilt Free... {four} if you had to give up one favorite food, what would be the hardest?Well being a Celiac I've already given up my favorite food but I would have to go with Peanut Butter on this one. I would probably also give up my fat a$$ when I gave up PB too..which wouldn't be so bad of a trade off... {five} if you could become any fictional character, who would you be?I'm really lazy so probably a character that doesn't have to cook or clean...like one of the Harry Potter people...then I could fly too.
{six} what's your favorite season of the year?I don't really have a Favorite Season, but I LOVE the changing of the Seasons from Winter to Spring and Summer to Fall, Those are my favorite times of year! I just can't wait to see the Leaves turn this fall! {seven} what's your biggest phobia? Aichmophobia... Wikipideia describes is as "a kind of specific phobia, the morbid fear of sharp things, such as pencils (like needles, knives, a pointing finger, or even the sharp end of an umbrella)" So there are people out there scared of pointing fingers?? huh..While I am not scared of pointing fingers or umbrellas, I am very scared of needles and knives that could pierce me andohmygoshthatmakesmesickatmystomachjustthinkingaboutit.I have the whole vasovagal thing where I pass out...it's annoying. {eight} would you rather swim in a pool or the ocean?The Pool. By far. I can't see what's in the ocean...oddly though I'd rather swim in the lake verses a pool. {nine} what did you eat for breakfast today?a piece of bacon that My MIL had on the table. It was good.and of course my normal meal of Coke Zero and Chocolate Milk. {ten} if you could only listen to one song for the next month, which song would it be?
If I only had to listen to one song, I'd just turn of the radio and sing to myself...And because it's wordless wednesday...here are some photos..so now it's Wordy Wednesday.

Have a Great Day!

If you've got a problem....

2010-08-03T10:33:00.000-05:00

So Yesterday and Today are predicted to be the two hottest days of the year. On these two days, my air conditioner...MY BRAND NEW AIR CONDITIONER.... decided it wanted to loosen up some nuts and bolts and leak out all our freon. We have no AC. Again.

Our temperature reading in the house was 90 degrees....NINTEY DEGREES!! 9-0! Last night as Sean and I set in the Living room with Fans blowing on our faces and sweat dripping from our brows, he looked at me and said, "Want to go to my Mom and Dads for the night?" I said, "Yes, lets make like a Baby and Get out of this Mother." and he looked at me like I was retarted and I acted like I just hadn't said that. I think the heat was getting to me.

We went to my in-laws and they welcomed us with open arms...well actually they were sound asleep and we snuck in and they didn't even know were were there until I walked out of the room this morning and got to see my FIL in is underoos drinking coffee on the couch...nice way to start the morning. :\

After a beautiful nights sleep in Sean's old childhood bedroom, I decided I want to confiscate the king size pillow top cloud that we slept in for my own. I wonder if his mom will notice it's missing.

I also took some photos last night while Sean was practicing at the arena. He was having a convo with another guy about steers or horses or something and I was just clicking away. Sean is totally used to this and has gotten good at ignoring me, which can be annoying. The guy he was talking to stopped midsentance and said, "Man is she always like this? That would drive me nuts." My sweet husband said yep she loves it and I've learned to just live with it! poor guy..

So here's some photos of Sean...because Darn it I think he's good looking....even if he won't look at the camera and smile.

And here are my dogs.

Have a Great Tuesday...Oh and I about to post some wedding photos on my Photography Website...Go look and see!!!

Camera Stuff

2010-08-02T17:13:00.000-05:00

Happy Monday. We had a Great weekend. I had one Mary Kay Party, One wedding, one bridal shoot, and Sean had three rodeos. All together Sean and I made a boat load of money!! Yay!

I thought I'd talk Manual for a little while. What Manual you ask?? If you have a DSLR Camera, then Manual is where you get to set all the setting on the camera all by yourself! Scary huh? Not at all...these are digital cameras...you get to delete whatever you don't like FREE of charge!!

Today let's talk about your Fstop or Aperature as it's also called.....

Here's a new lens of mine...
I bought this little baby for all the weddings I have coming up.

It's a 50 mm F1.4 Lens. I was VERY happy with the results...the only thing I didn't like was that It stays at 50 mm and no more, no less. But right now I can't afford anything that zooms...this will have to work just fine for now!

So you might wonder what the heck's so special about that tiny thing? Well it has an F stop of 1.4 which allows me to have a more narrow Depth of Field. Your Depth of field is how much or how little is in focus behind your subject. A narrow depth of field has very little in focus and a large depth of field had a lot in focus in the background!!

The F stop tells you how wide your camera lens opens (aperture) A 1.4 is a HUGE Aperture.. and a F22 is a SMALL aperture. But wait!? Isn't the number 1.5 smaller than the number 22? Yeah it is....But In Fstop Language, your number is really a fraction. So it's really and F stop of 1/1.4 and 1/22 So now which is smaller??? F1/22! Does that help make sense???

The Larger the aperture (F1.4) The more shallow your depth of field will be.

Look at this photo I took of these rings.

See how the rings are in focus, along with a couple of words...and you can't see the rest of the words??? That is a very shallow depth of field. My F-stop was set a F1.4 My aperture was open very wide. It also helps to get closer to the subject. I was about 1 foot away from these rings.

Had I have closed my aperture to maybe an F10 and backed away...more of the words would be readable and Infocus!

Make sense??? No...then Go Visit Ree at What the Heck is Aperature...She's way better at explaining these things. And a lot funnier.

Here's a preview of the wedding photos.

I'll post more later..

Have a Great Monday!

Five Question Friday

2010-07-30T15:33:00.000-05:00

Well First of all Congrats to Lil Pink Socks, who won the Kroger Gift Card!!

Now, it's time for 5 Question Friday at Mama M's

1. Did you have a favorite blanket or toy as a kid? If so, do you still have it?
Yes, I had a small bear that was either my mom's or my aunts when they were small. His name was...Bear. He was filled with tiny styrofoam balls and he was brown cloth with a yellow belly. He was not furry...I can't explain what he was made of...it reminds me of a washcloth.

Once Bear got really flat from all the love I gave him, my grandmother preformed "surgery" on Bear and made him nice and round again. He still has a scar on his back from his "surgery".

Bear is still in my closet back home. I might need to introduce him to Sean....But I'm afraid The Chocolate Children would eat him.

2. Do you dream in color? Yep, My dreams are so realistic, I sometimes think they really happened. I'll be like, "He Sean when you had that screwdriver the other day where did you put it." and he'll be all like, I never had the screwdriver. and I'll be all like "Yeah you were fixing that clock and then it turned into a dinosa...oh nevermind I must have dreamed that."

3. How tall are you? Do you wish you were shorter or taller? I'm 5'3" I kind of wish I was a few inches taller and that I had long, model like legs.

4. If you could have anyone's (celeb or other) voice as the guide on your GPS, who would it be? I would have the guy that says "Lets Get Ready to Rumble!!!" his name is Micheal Buffer. But he'd have to say it that exciting every time... "Lets Get Ready to Turn Right in 3 Miles!!!"

5. Do you return your shopping cart to the corral or leave it wherever in the parking lot?
I used to not worry about it. Then I breifly dated a boy that was really really really nice, Like too nice. And we went to wal-mart and he returned the cart to the corral that was WAY across the lot. I asked him why and he said because it makes the job for the Cart guys easier and he felt bad for them. Ever since then I've always helped the Cart guys out and returned the buggy to the corral.

Oh and I'd like to give a HUGE shoutout to UPS who tried to deliever my new F1.4 55m lens and I wasn't home so they left me a note saying they'd be back Monday...well I can't wait that long so I called and the UPS guy is going to Meet me later this afternoon and hand deliver my package!!! Thanks UPS...don't make me regret praising you buy not hand delivering my package today!!

Have a Great Weekend!!!

Rodeo

2010-07-29T16:29:00.000-05:00

My Husband is a Ra.tard.. and I mean that in the nicest way ever.

Tuesday night we went to a small rodeo nearby. I was drug along to try out my new flash and wasn't real happy with the photo quality but hopefully I'll figure it out next time..

Ok so he rode a new horse that they are traning...she's never been to a rodeo before and did bad and went too far left...Sean fell to the ground..

Then he caught the steer by the tail and chased it (still holding the tail) all the way down the arena.

The he somehow pulled his way up to the horns...

Hooping and hollaring the whole way...embarassing the crap outta me. (see his mouth wide open in the photo above)

Then he preceded to take his hat off and start fanning the steer to be funny...

Which was pretty funny..I'll have to admit.

And then he threw the steer down in a whopping 15 seconds...ha

There weren't many guys there so if he wouldn't have fanned that stuipd cow he wouldve won his entry fees back... dumb ass

But a storm rolled in ad the sky was breathtaking and it was cool and breezy so over all we had a great night!

My Grandad has LongLegs

2010-07-26T13:58:00.001-05:00

Well After a long tiring weekend that was very unproductive and involved lots of naps I feel much better and am looking foward to a wonderful, but hot, week.

I came home from my hometown last night to discover clusters of these....

Granddaddy Long legs...or Daddy long legs..which ever you prefer. Now, I understand these are not harmful, but six or seven clusters of those things on my porch celing, freaks me out just a tad. Any one have any clue as to why they are doing this? Are all the clusters going to ban together to make one huge army of legs? Amy I safe? Any one?

I almost came home with this little guy...but was given a Hell No from my husband..to which I was afraid to disobey because of the seriousness his "hell no" conveyed across three states (He was in Indianna)

He's finally home after a 2 week rodeo stint..bringing with him a little bit of sweet cash and presents for me.

And lastly, I bought this little contraption for my camera for the weddings that I have comming up in the next few weeks. I've been studying on flash photography and they explained the benefits of a flash bracket, and I have to say they were right... This thing hooks to my camera and allows the flash to set much higher, preventing the harsh shadows that flash can bring to your photos. It also allows you to shoot poitrait and landscape with the flash by just a simple flip of the bar.

It also makes me look all professional and stuff.

Have a great monday!

A few things...

2010-07-23T14:20:00.000-05:00

First of all this has been a bad week and I'm glad it's finally friday!

Second of all I'd just like us all to pause and take in the size of the mosquito in the photo. I was trying to take a photo of the treefrog on our door and realized when I put the photo on the computer that I had gotten a mosquito in there too. That is what I live with frogs and huge mosquitos. I have no less than 27 mosquito bites on my body...i'm serious.

Second of all, Monica at Blessedmamma gave me an award!

I'm a versatile blogger! Thanks monica! Her birthday is tomorrow so go wish her a happy birthday!

The rules are to post 7 things about your self and then pass it on.

1. It's 2 pm and I haven't eaten anything today. I'm starting to get light headed...I should probably go eat.

2. I would like to curl up under my desk and take a nap.

3. I peel my bananas from the end without a stem.

4. I have a huge wall clock in my kitchen that I still haven't sprang foward. I almost changed it yesterday but figured it was to close to time where we Fall back so i might as well just leave it.

5. I just ate some popcorn

6. I can stand on my head for a really long time.

7.In kindergarten I wrote a love note to a boy..it said "I love you -Jenna" I gave it to him and he read it and I got embarassed and grabbed it and ran away. I flushed it down the toilet when I got home and clogged up the toilet.

And Now on to Five Question Firday brought to you by Mama M.CLick on the icon to see more!
1. What were your school colors?

High School -Orange, Black & White. We were the Scrappers
College- Green and GOld, we were the WonderBoys...feel free to poke fun.

2. What's the best compliment you ever received?
Probably when my parents say they are Proud of me.

3. Do you buy cheap or expensive toilet paper?
I don't know I buy Charmin. I bought some yesterday and accidently bought the ultra strong and I don't like it. I feel like I'm using a paper towel or something...why would anyone need toilet paper that strong?

4. Have you ever had a surprise party thrown for you? Or have you had one for someone else? I have never had or thrown a suprise party.

5. What is one material possession that you "can't live without"?
Well I would say my camera but I could probably live with out it. Um...a toothbrush, I couldn't live without a tooth brush.

Well I hope this weekend cleans off the bad week I had and I come out on the other side feeling 100% better!

Have a great weekend!

Add up the Savings GiveAway

2010-07-22T14:15:00.001-05:00

Hey Hey Hey! Who wants 25 bucks for groceries???

Anyone?

Well I'm giving away a $25 gift card to Kroger through MyBlogSpark!!!
So while your out and about in this sweltering heat... be sure to stop at your local Kroger Family of Stores (which includes Kroger, Ralph’s, King Soopers, City Market, Dillons, Smith’s, Fry’s, QFC, Baker’s, Owen’s, Jay C Food Stores, Hilander, Gerbes, Food4Less, Pay Less Super Markets and Scott’s Food & Pharmacy) to take advantage of their

“Add Up the Savings” Event and stock up on your favorite General Mills & Kimberly Clark brands From August 8 through August 21, when you buy 8 participating items from any Kroger store, you’ll receive $4 off of your purchase. Some of the great participating brands include: Cheerios, Yoplait Yogurt, Pillsbury Cookies & Biscuits, Kleenex, Huggies, Betty Crocker Brownies, Cottonelle, and Lucky Charms.

Woo Hoo! I think I will buy 8 betty crocker gluten free brownie mixes :)

Oh And do any of you guys collect Box Tops??

In addition to these great savings, be sure to take advantage of the special Bonus Box Tops Offers and get a jumpstart on helping the participating school of your choice this year.

All you have to do, if you haven’t already, is register at www.RewardYourSchool.com. Once you register, you will automatically receive 5 Bonus Box Tops just for signing up! You will also receive custom offers for Bonus Box Tops for purchasing participating products.

These great offers are:
Buy any 4 Box Tops products and get 10 Bonus Box Tops
Buy any 8 Box Tops products and get 25 Bonus Box Tops

The offers you select will then load onto your Kroger Shopper Card to be redeemed once you purchase the items. It’s extra easy because there’s no clipping! Just remember to scan your Kroger Shopper Card and the Bonus Box Tops will automatically go straight the participating school of your choice.

So Wanna Win This Gift Card?! Just Leave Me a comment and tell me How you're staying cool this summer!!!

Giveaway ends Next Friday, July 30th!

Wedding Songs

2010-07-22T09:31:00.000-05:00

I have these family members who have AMAZING VOICES! A whole family of em! My Aunt and Uncle, who live in Nashville, TN are very musically talented and so are their kids. When I got married it was a no brainer who I was going to ask to sing, the problem was what songs to pick. There were sooo many to choose from. I couldn't narrow it down to just two.

..that was until a few months before my wedding when I popped the new Brad Paisley CD into my player and heard "Oh Love" Wow. It took my breath away. I loved the sad, dark tones even though it was a love song. It was real. Love isn't always pink roses and butterflies. It's hard.

I wish I had a recording of my cousins singing this song. It gave me chills. I do have it on wedding video I just don't have it on computer. They Rocked this song. It was better than the brad/carrie version. My Cousin Jason played the guitar and his wife Miranda and sister Emily sang the song with back up from my uncle Danny and Jason. I only wish I could've been out in the audience. I'm pretty sure eveyone was spell bound by their voices.
Here are the lyrics for those of you who can't do sound at work :) (like me)

Strong like a mother holds her child
Free as horses runnin wild
And real as a prayer on a lonely night
And sure as the ocean tide

Oh love, Oh love
All the many colors that you’re made of
You heel
You bleed
You’re the simple truth and you’re the biggest mystery
Oh love, Oh love

Deep as the life from God’s own breath
Endless even after death
Gone like the sunset
You can break a heart in pieces
Put it back together again
You can break down sweet forgiveness
You’re the one that never ends
Oh love

The second song I choose I had heard a million times but totally forgot about it until I ran across it on a website that suggested wedding songs. It fit us I thought. It's sweet. My Uncle sang it immediatly after my dad Gave me away and as Sean walked me up the stage to where the preacher was waiting for us. I just had him sing the first verse and the chorus so we wouldn't be standing there akwardly for the entire song.

Just look at you, girl
Standin` here beside me
Starlight on your hair
Lookin` like a dream I dreamed somewhere
And look at me, girl
You got me actin` just like a lover
In an old time picture show
And how I got the part -- I just don`t know
But it`s written all across your face
Plain as it can be
You`re the one that I was lookin` for
Now you`re all that I can see

You mean everything to me
And I`d do anything to have you stay forever
I`m an ordinary man
But I feel like I could do anything in the world
When I look at you, girl

This is brought to you by Mama Kats writing Prompt. Go visit her to read more!

Wordless Wednesday

2010-07-21T16:09:00.001-05:00

Ok so I don't know what the deal is with blogger but it's not letting me read anyone elses posts today for some reason...thanks blogger.

It's wordless wednesday scroll down for photos of swans and stuff....

Ok so First of all I would just like to say a HUGE thank you to all of you guys out there that commented yesterday and gave me such positive thoughts! You guys are Awesome and I love blogging because of all of you!! Thinks are starting to look up a little.

Second of all, I won this Key Necklace!!

I won this Amazing Giveaway from ohmishka from sway.com and Its my FIRST BLOG GIVEAWAY WIN EVER!!! I'm so excited!

Third of all, I'm going to have another give away up tomorrow for you guys! It's a $25 gift card to Kroger...my favorite place to shop ever (for food that is)

Forth of all, I did a photo shoot this morning at a beautiful park in Little Rock. Check out this swan on the lake...it was beautiful....but really mean, it hissed at us the whole time.

Fifth of all, I must tell you about my night last night. I was jerked away last night at 3am and It took me a minute to realize what had woken me up...it was what I thought to be my Smoke alarm going off. The dogs were getting annoyed and for about 3 seconds I thought, "holy crap my house is burning down, lets go Collect some Insurance money!!" I then woke up long enough to realize that, though it was loud enough to be my smoke alarm, the tone just wasn't quite right.

I stumbled into the hallway only to realize that horrific noise was comming from the celing and it was a Grasshopper, not a cricket, but the loudest most annoying grasshopper my ears had ever heard. At first I thought it was coming from the vent above my extra bedroom door so I grabbed some roach and ant killer from the laundry room and proceded to pain my vent and maybe a little bit of the walls with bug spray.

When the noise didn't stop I thought maybe he wasn't in the vent and began to follow my ears a little better. By this point I was wide awake and pissed. I finally found his little antennas sticking out from behind the molding at the very top of the celing...I couldn't reach him so I sprayed him with bug spray and beat the molding with the can until he quit...I think he died because I never heard from him again. Amen.

I hope your Wednesday is Wonderful..

Random photos

2010-07-20T16:28:00.001-05:00

I guess today I will go deep into myself and pull out some happy thoughts and words because I feel like blogging but don't feel like depressing eveyone with my emotional self....but i just feel like it's time for a change and like sam cooke said

"There've been times that I've thought I couldn't last for long
But now I think I'm able to carry on
It's been a long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come"
...just say a prayer for me. thanks.

anyway

You MUST go visit my Cousin over at It's a Freeze Freenzy. They are making their way across country on an RV trip to Yellowstone and She's telling about it daily. It's pretty funny and there's some really cool stuff she's taken photos of!

And since I have nothing else to say that won't put eveone into a bad mood... here are some random photos from my camera phone...do you guys ever take random photos you don't realize you take....or is that just me??

This was accidently taken from my desk at work... I know the you may think I have to stare at a wall all day but the entire wall behind me is a window!

I don't know when or where this was taken but apparently it was sometime a few weekends ago at the lake..

And that's totally not our camp site..?? Did someone borrow my phone?

I send this to Sean to ask him if our Air Conditioner was supposed to look like it got snowed on...apparently this was a bad thing...

I took this to make sure my hair looked good, I poofed it in the car and had no big mirror... It looked ok I Thought..

I took this out of my car window...I ALWAYS have my big Canon with me and the one day I don't the sky looks like that! I was mad.

And here's another random accidental desk shot...

Wow this post was so interesting..I hope all five of you reading are still alive out there...hello?

Pop Corn 5Qf

2010-07-16T11:55:00.000-05:00

All Right, my butt is in trouble. And I literally mean my butt. Our office just bought this...

a popcorn machine... don't ask me why but they did. Which might not be so bad on my rear if they didn't make it with 8 lbs of butter and oil. And they make it with Coconut Oil which makes it taste 10x better!! I can't stop eating it!

Look at all the butter they put on this popcorn!! I'm going to be HUGE if I keep eating it. I will just have to say no to the popcorn.

...I will not eat the popcorn

I will not eat the popcorn..

Ok maybe just a little...

No! I must not eat the popcorn!

But it smells so good and our office smells like a movie theatre and I can't help but want the popcorn!

Ok, I will not eat the popcorn.

Ok so Today is 5qF which maybe will keep my mind off the popcorn.

GO Visit Mama M. at My little Life to join. Ps. I'm her Date of the week!!

1. Do you collect anything?
When I was a young girl I collected a lot of stuff. Now All I collect is fat and dust.
2. Name 3 celebrities that you find good looking.

Patrck Dempsy

Marky Mark ( i'm obsessed with him)

And My Vacation Partner, Taylor Lautner

3. Do you have any scars? If so, what's the story behind it (them?)?
Yeah, I have a few. One is on my middle finger. I'm a horrible cook and I burned myself on the oven rack trying to get a dish out of the oven. It burned really really bad, Like turned my skin black. so now I have this ugly round scar on my middle finger...

4. What is a food that you like to eat, but others might think it's gross or weird?
I can't think of anything I eat that people thing is gross, but I do eat a lot of Gluten free food that others don't like.

5. Have you ever seen a tornado in real life? No, and you think I would living in Arkansas. I've seen tornado clouds, and wall clouds, but never a real live tornado. I dream about them all the time. As a matter of fact I dreamed a tornado knocked down all the trees in my yard last night..it was a nightmare!

Well That's it for me! Have a great weekend!

Oh no

2010-07-14T23:43:00.000-05:00

Excuse me Ladies and Gentlemen but it was brought to my attention recently...5 seconds ago.. that King George did not in fact sing Diggin up bones as I stated Here. After researching this I did discover that I was wrong...it is Mr. Randy Travis, or as mom called him the big square headed guy.

I apologize for any confusion this may have caused.

Thanks Mom.

Spiders dogs and sno cones

2010-07-14T09:22:00.000-05:00

Because We are under a 98* heat advisory today in Arkansas (not including heat index) and because it's Wordless Wednesday and because we finally got the new AC installed and I froze my butt off last night ...yay! I thought I'd provide you with a photo of The Bird, playing in the snow.

Now does that cool you off or what?!

If that doesnt, maybe this photo will give you chills!

I found this photo on one of my old SD Cards. It's a photo of a spider in front of the full moon. It took me forever to take this shot and it still didn't turn out like I wanted but it's still spooky

And if those two didn't work will these?! I LOVE snow cones!!! What is your favorite flavor?? Mine is Pina Colada and I buy like three a week at the shaved ice shack here in town!

If you're still hot, I'm sorry...theres no help for you!

It's Wordless Wednesday!

Diamond are a girls Best Friend!

2010-07-13T13:40:00.001-05:00

Well It's day two of this week and I'm already wanting it to be over. Sean Leaves tonight for a week long Rodeo trip and I'm gonna be super lonely. I guess me and the Chocolates will kick it at my in-laws since our AC is still broken.

Last Saturday, Mom and I went to the Diamond Mine in Murfreesboro for a photography clinic. I hadn't been to the Diamond Mine since I was a little girl and thought it would be fun to go take some photos, learn a little more about composition and let Mom learn a little more about her Canon Rebel.

Did you even know that Arkansas had a Diamond Mine? You can learn more about the Crater of Diamond State Park Here. It is the only Diamond Producing Mine in the world that is open to the public. The last Diamond was found on June 30th! There's almost one found every day! Last year someone found a 5 carat diamond. The largest ever found was in 1975 and it was 16 carats!
Here are some of the Photos I took, Momma had a bunch of good ones too!

These two kids above and below were brother and sister. He was carving a knife out of a rock and she was building a home for animals. They were precious.

I was informed that this guy is at the Diamond Mine Daily. I asked him how many Diamonds he finds and he says 8 to 10 a year is his average! Wow!

This Is an actual mine shaft that is really old. It's no longer working and you can't go inside.

Mom, showing off her photo skills.

This is how you sift for diamonds.

Well hope you enjoyed! Have a great Tuesday!

Hey Check it out, I went and put this in black and white. This could totally pass for a really old photo! cool huh?

Gorilla Attack

2010-07-12T10:03:00.001-05:00

So every year in my small home town, the big ta-do is the 4-ball golf tournament and the party they have on Saturday Nights. So this weekend I went home and Friday night got together with a few girls who were in for the 4-ball. Seven of us sat on the porch by the pool at a friend's house all night, gossiping and catching up on what was going on in our lives....you know how girls are when they get together..

Anyway we were just talking and laughing when all of the sudden out of the corner of my eye I saw something big, dark, and hairy jump out from behind the fence and run towards us. There was a column blocking my view from what was standing there whooping at us but I swore on my life it was a gorilla. A big, black, hairy gorilla with blonde hair escaping from it's neck.

I was quite startled that a Gorilla was in South Arkansas about to attack us. I jumped out of my chair around the same time that two other girls did and all of the sudden everything seemed to go into slow motion...

The girl sitting beside me (who is a parole officer and always on the defense for her parolees coming around) stood up and chunked her beer bottle at the gorilla. The way she threw it had the bottle flipping end over end, spraying beer all over me and her. The beer bottle grazed the gorilla, hit the concrete and glass shattered in every direction. I was then tackled into the door, still very confused and scared at why a gorilla was in the back yard in South West Arkansas.

I then relaxed when the Gorilla collapsed on the ground and started laughing and the three other girls on the porch, totally unsuprised were laughing too. The gorilla took it's mask off and the blonde hair appeared. It was Kacey who had gone in for a potty break a few minutes before.

Aparently she had found PW's old Gorilla Suit in the closet (we were at his cousin's House) and she thought it would be funny to scare us all. This suit was very realistic by the way...it even had gloves that looked like gorilla hands!!

So after my heart started beating back at a normal rate, I had to laugh and then help clean up the glass and wipe the beer off of me. It was a really fun night, with the exeption of smelling like beer the rest of the time.

I had a great weekend, Mom and I went to the Diamond Mine (the only one in America!) and took a photography class and some photos. I'll post some of them later. I also had a couple photo shoots for a friend who is getting married and her little girl, my cousin Kinley, and my friend Holly and her family.

Here are a few of the little girl of my friend. Her name is Ayden. Ill post the other's later!

Hope everyone has a Wonderful Monday!

Day dreamin

2010-07-09T16:28:00.001-05:00

It's Friday...finally. It's 5 Question Friday too!!

First though, I'd like to let you know that I plan on seeing the Twilight movie this weekend becuase I'm Dying to see it and haven't had the time and Sean wouldn't go with me.....

Secondly, I really need a beach vacation.

Once upon a time when I was single. Me and my BFF's went to Mexico for our Senior Trip. (college senior trip..not high school.. like my parents would really let me go to mexico in high school? )

We had a lot of fun

And I was skinny!

And Taylor Lautner was there

We laid around in the water

And took long walks in the water, with tennis shoes on...

Wait...maybe that was a dream.

Oh well. Hopefully after watching the movie this weekend I'll have sweet dreams again!

Team Jacob!

Ok on to 5 Question Friday

1. What is one food you could eat everyday?

Guacamole. and Chex cereal..though not together that would be gross

2. Are you working in the career you thought you would be when you were 18?
When I was 18 I didn't know what I wanted to do. I Still don't!...actually I do, I want to take photos!

3. What is something that you wish you would have done when you were younger and you didn't?
When I was a Junior in High School I was in a Pagent..yeah I know..

I tried to scrounge up a photo but couldn't find one.
I was Miss Howard County and I decided I didn't want to go to the regional contest and comptete because I had to wear a bathing suit and I thought I was too fat for that. I wish I would've done it now because I was TINY now that I look back!! oh well... I can always say I could've been Miss Arkansas Fair Queen...

4. What color are your kitchen walls?
Olive Green!

5. Do you remember what your very first favorite song was?

I'm pretty sure it was Diggin up Bones by George Straight. I have a recording of me when I was like two and my mom is trying to get me to sing Jesus loves me and all I wanted to sing is Diggin up Bones.

2010-07-07T23:46:00.000-05:00

Our AC is still out. It's been a cooler than normal week, highs around 90 and rainy so it's not been that bad...until tonight. It's humid and sticky and i'm melting as I type. Do you know how miserable it is to blow dry your hair after a hot shower in an unheated house? It's hell.

The AC guy Sean's BFF was going to come fix it tonight...but apparently his brother knocked him in the head with something accidently and he had to go get stitches... My Confort is much more important than gashes in heads but whatever.

I took some photos around the house today.

Don't you love Sean's Hat Tan? And his black shirt and navy shorts..thats a pet peeve of mine (black and navy)

Show off..

Look though, I finally got my photo on the blog! That is very rare so enjoy it..ha! But ignore my nappy hair..it was raining and hairspray and osis do not mix well with rain.

Zero liked trying to bite my shirt and nudge my face. hes so fat.

Have a great Thursday!