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The time is nearing that we will be attending the final hearing for Moe's case. June 8th. June 7th we will be going to mediation.

Please, if you feel led, pray that we will make the right decision in this situation! such a hard place to be!

The Art Of...

Okay, so most of you know that I have a love for art. Sketching, painting, crafting, photography, Drawing etc...

I believe my talent runs in the art field. It has always been in my family but somehow missed my immediate family. My grandmother and grandfather BOTH could draw like nobody's business and even some aunts and uncles are very heavily gifted. None of which attended school for it.

I never attended school for art either. I feel that if I had I may have become someone different, getting to express and USE my talents.

Instead I went to college for Radiology. I didn't get to finish my degree. I was 2 years short of completion when I got married to J. From there, God had HIS own plans for my life. (Well from the very beginning of my life, HE had plans. but you get the picture...)

So in all the 7 years I have been married to J. Wait... 6? or 7? hmmm oh, 6! 2004-2010 :). okay so (I didn't go to school for math either) in all the time that we have been married I have never really pursued any passion of mine. Such as art, in any form or fashion. I mean I have started a few different scrapbooks but they only go 2 pages in and I have also painted some fun canvas' for some friends but that was FOR someone to bless them or their children.

Now I have been venturing into photography. I have a LOT to learn still but it is a different kind of art in and of itself. I love everything about it... minus the numbers and coordinating numbers thing...

But just the idea of capturing people in the moment is intriguing to me. The ways that you can capture people to create just the right mood or conversation in the pictures. You want your pictures to tell a story all their own, without a caption explaining what was going on.

Get rid of the stacked 5 subjects with pasted on smiles just staring into your lens for a "snap shot" to say "this is our family picture", let them LIVE in the moment and BE a family of 5 (or how many ever there are).


I love for people to interact with their surroundings, to become a part of the moment they are getting captured in.


I have always loved going back through my photographs (from when I was younger even... ones that my mother took as we were growing up.) I love seeing all that was going on in the pictures. What were people doing. What feeling was captured at that time. Was it a happy time or a frustrated time and if so what was going on around me/others. So with that I have always wanted to take pictures that told stories.

Given the circumstances I will take whatever the person wants even if that means "stacking" them and "saying cheese" BUT I want to just experiment... to create a different effect for those less daring. Capture a picture that says a million words.




What kind of art do you like?

Living on Fertile Breeding Grounds

The other morning I looked out the kitchen window to see this huge turtle traveling down our private drive.

I take Bear outside for a closer look as he is into these things now. We watch at a distance for a bit then she decides to cut off into the creek for some privacy.

We go back inside to continue getting ready to meet up with our friends for some jumping fun and pizza!

When we were leaving we see the turtle IN our yard this time, right next to our porch...LAYING EGGS!
HA! How neat is that!

I got to looking around on our property (about an acre) and have found 2 more sites from turtle hatchlings. They are already abandoned and the egg shells are scattered around but I am keeping my eye on this nest.

I looked it up online and found that they typically take 2 mos to hatch so I have to go back out in about 85 days and watch for movement, so it says.

They are Red Eared Slider turtles, they are the ones sold in pet shops all over.


Last year we found a newly hatched one wandering the same road I saw this mommy one on. Almost the size of a quarter. SO CUTE! So if I catch them in time... if you want one... let me know. They are all yours! :)


I am thinking of building a fence around the site so they can't escape. I will put a "pond" in there with some turtle food no worries. Just so they will be safe.