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Name: Chelsea
Interests: Hmmm, lets see.... travel, peoples and cultures of the world, ethnic food, photography, my husband and daughter, photography, mountains, travel, friends, photography, 24.... oh wait, did I mention that I love photography? Oh yeah, and travel too... don't want to forget that!
Occupation: Wife, mother and photographer.
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sort of.
man, i have been wanting to write, process, document, ponder on this blog for awhile now. but now i don't even remember what i wanted to write, process, document, ponder.
in the meantime, i DID get around to processing some personal pics as of late. funny how these always get put aside, forgotten. and the whole reason i take them is to never forget these days, moments. they fly by. lightning speed.
going through these, i remembered again, why i don't want to forget. these are precious. priceless.
first up, my birthday weekend. friday was spent in Sedona shooting this amazing wedding... Then, on Saturday morning, my birthday (nov. 7), I hopped in the car and headed east to the tall pines where John and the girls had staked out a campsite off one of the forrest roads.
it was heavenly... weather , location, lingering fall colors, silence, trees, breeze, empty
fields, elk hoof prints to track, hot drinks to heat up, lots of
snuggles and lots of short walks.
serenity
 
  
  
 
 
thanks to john for taking over the camera so i can get MY 15 seconds of fame with these cuties...
 
 
the first elk print discovery
  
 
the fam....
wide open spaces
 
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lastly, a little jaunt down to the local Veteren's Day parade with neighbor friends.... Adelaide and Kai are sweet pals. good times in the neighborhood.
  
 
  
 
  
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| head on over to the OTHER BLOG to see some of the lastest pics of Adelaide and Sydney....
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| Life.... it just never stops, eh? So here are the cliff notes of our last month or so... along with directionless meanderings.
INDI - she's about 13 weeks or so now. she is getting better. still not my favorite dog... apparently she is John's favorite dog ever. she has him wrapped around her paw. she is pretty cute. she'd be even cuter without the defecating in the house.
 
ADDIE - She is growing up waaaaaay fast. its really been hitting me lately. some fun tidbits about her as of late...
* she is in part-time preschool now. three mornings a week. its fantastic. she loves it. she also had her first class field trip to a pumpkin patch/farm in town. it just ain't right when you are sweating profusely in october picking out pumpkins.
  
 
* she got her first "just because" gift from a boy in her class today. his mom was shocked... i was shocked. he told his mom " i just want to give this to adelaide because, well, girls just like gifts, don't they?" i told his mom to keep drilling that one in over the years for sure.
  
* after reading a little Bible devotional about God looking at our hearts and our attitudes (i.e. the "inside"), i asked her what God saw when He looked inside of her..... she replied: "Food." :)
 
* she has hit the "oh yea, its so fun to change clothes 15 times a day...." stage. oh yea. consequently, we have hit the " mommy is going to take away whatever clothes are left on the ground and not put back after you change " stage. yea!
SYDY - she says "peees," " hi, bye" " NiNi" (Indi).... daddy, momma, ball, sheeewws (shoes), and uh-oh every time i get in the car and don't put on my seatbelt fast enough. i didn't know being the seatbelt police was genetic. (my grandma must be smiling down remembering my ultra hyper seatbelt policing days)
* we kissed the passi bye-bye a couple of days ago. i actually just lost it and she fell asleep for her nap ok so when i found it, i hit it. so far so good. next up this week... moving to the bed and out of the pack and play (i have found her balancing on the top bar a couple of times already.
 
ARIZONA - finally, FINALLY, welcomed some cool air in the mornings and evenings. i can handle triple digits if it would only hit the 70's or 60's each night. its been heavenly. tomorrow it is hitting triple digits again and that is just somewhat depressing. we are hoping to make a couple of trips up north of us in the next two weekends to get at least a teeny taste of fall. i sure miss Golden October in Berlin right about now.... it was always my favorite time there.
PHOTOGRAPHY - has definitely been picking up, which is exciting! i thought my weddings were completed for 2009, but just got a last minute one in Sedona the first week of November. its going to be just gorgeous.
CHURCH - John and I have really been blessed to be able to plug into a church with a growing heart for missions (short term and long term, local and global) and for social justice issues. its really been growing us and challenging us in some amazing ways.
* we have been asked to head up the missions conference/week in the spring... to bring some fresh creativity and vision to it. while that is incredibly intimidating, its also really exciting. so if any of you have some memories of fun, memorable, motivating, challenging missions conference expereinces under your belt, i would love to hear from you about it!
* i am excited to be on the team that is spearheading a ministry to women in the sex industry here in the city. God is really expanding my heart in this area. last month i got the chance to go to LA with two amazing women from church who are also a part of this ministry/outreach. we went to a weekend of training with this organization: Treasures. other than me getting violently sick with allergies/asthma issues, it was an AWESOME weekend with these ladies and all of the others we connected with. we are excited to see what God has in store for us in our own city.
pics from LA trip:
sweet cruiser... no turning radius... almost hit a wall or two. these two ladies? A M A Z I N G women. i had so much fun being the youngster of the group and being with two (cool) moms for a weekend.
 
i got to stroke my love affair with H&M and keep that fire going. oh how i love you H&M.
 
yeah...... ok the smog? completely and totally leveled me allergy and asthma wise. the orange bronco? my dream car. seriously/ i LUV it.
 
FAMILY - seems like one of the ways we continually reconnect and revive as a family is via driving to new places. thankfully, we discovered a gem only 45 minutes away from our house... a river. i love rivers. i love them more than any other body of water (including swimming pools). my idea of heaven includes rivers, the sound of running/rushing water, and wind blowing through the trees. i sure hope there is a place like that there.
 
 
 
LIFE - it seems to be spinning out of control fast these days. just busy busy. i am thankful for the things that are on my plate... but mindful of boundaries and limits that need to be revisited frequently. i am wanting to get my hands on the book "Not So Fast" by Ann Kroeker. i don't want to run past these days and not even know they were here. i have been finding amazing encouragement/inspiration in this area from some incredible blogs/women/resources lately:
my dear friend, Alyssa, at http://www.xanga.com/resolved2worship
ann at http://www.aholyexperience.com/
beth moore from her "Psalms of Assent" bible study
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| head on over HERE to get a glimpse of a super duper rainy day wedding!!
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| This past Friday, I flew to San Antonio to shoot a wedding in New Braunfels on Saturday. I had just enough time in between landing in SA and the rehearsal at the wedding venue that night to squeeze in a super, super fun family shoot with some of my dear, dear friends. I love this family.... LOVE them! I love hanging with their kids... yeah, for real. I love it when my girls get to play with these kiddos, and I love hanging out talking photography and life with my dear friend Alyssa. So when she said she wanted to hire me to do their yearly family photos, I jumped at it. She basically describes that shooting her family is like shooting a bridal party... with almost everyone under 11 years old. :) It was crazy fun... and Lys just ROCKS putting together outfits, props, and locations. It was also a HUGE assett to have her cousin, Jo, there to jump up and down behind me, read books practically straddling me as I was shooting and ticklying me with Elmo to try to get ALL seven kids looking at one time. And it worked!
You can see a large handful of my favorites over at the FACEBOOK album HERE.
Also, some HERE.
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