S Family Portraits

I met with the S family yesterday to take family portraits! I had a great time.  Their kids are ADORABLE! We got a ton of great pictures!! That's how hard it was to choose! That's a LOT of pictures!! Here are a FEW of my favorites.  Only a few.  It would be impossible to post all of my favorites, there were just too many.

I hope you guys love them!

Jessica's Portraits!

We met yesterday to take some portraits just because!  I think that they turned out GREAT! Jessica was so much fun to take pictures of and made my job very easy!

I also fell in a hole...but we won't talk about that.

Here are her previews!

Family Portraits!

I took some family portraits yesterday! I took this family's pictures around two years ago. It's amazing how much kids grow in two years! They took me to a creek that and I think we got some amazing pictures!!

Here are some of my favorites!! I hope you guys love them!! (click to make them larger)

Help if you can?

Hi.  It's been a while.  A really long while.  Sorry. :) Forgive me?

So, if you look up, you'll see that I added a banner that links to the Convoy of Hope page where you can donate money to Joplin to help the survivors.  It doesn't have to be $1,000 or even $100 that they have listed there...anything at all is a help.  Whether it's $50 or $10.  We have driven through several times to survey the damage (Unfortunately I have not volunteered, because I have someone that needs me all day, too).  This is something you will never in your life see...or want to see...unless, Heaven forbid, it happens in your neck of the woods.  This tornado not has effected the people of Joplin, but the surrounding towns that depend on Joplin for jobs, food, shopping, doctors, ect.  It's a city of 50,000 but it increases in the day to about 200,000.  If this tornado had come at noon on Wednesday instead of 5:41 pm on Sunday the number of deaths would have been much greater.  If the high school would have decided to have the graduation at the high school instead of the college, it would also had been greater.    If we had decided to go shopping that day/evening, we wouldn't be here either....so many things to think about. God was with many and still is.

Here are just some of the many photos out there of damage taken by a resident of Joplin:

Cloven Life Flickr

You can find so many more by Googling.

If you cannot donate money to the Convoy of Hope or Red Cross, then please at least post on your blog/website/facebook ways your followers can help Joplin.

Here is another link that gives various ways to help Joplin: Ozarks First: Help Joplin (I think most are towards the bottom of the page, but it gives different places you can send texts to donate as well as different websites) Here is another: Rebuild Joplin

Here are a few places that are selling shirts:

Restore Joplin

MU Tigers

Pray for Joplin

Carter Hulsey (Local Musician)

Big Fish Tees

Please, if you can, help!  If you've seen these stories on TV, they give no justice to the amount of damage that Joplin has undergone.  There are so many families without homes that it's hard to fathom and many, many businesses are also gone, as well as the hospital and doctors offices that served many. The damage is indescribable.

Thanks for reading.  Please repost some links or help if you can. :)

P.S. I hope you're all having a good beginning of summer.  Sorry that I'm so MIA.  I will try to do better soon! (Except it's close to time that J is out of school and summertime, so that's actually probably a lie.  If you want my Twitter or Facebook to keep in touch with me, they are linked on the right. That's the best way to keep up with things dealing with all things me, probably. :) )

Spring has sprung!

Thought I'd share some pictures I took this evening!! :)

Sienna's Graduation Portraits!

My good friend Sienna is graduating from college in a few months! I am super excited for her!!!! She's a VERY talented graphic designer! And I know that she'll get a great job and have a great future when she graduates.

She asked me to take some pictures for her and I was so happy to do so! Here are some of my favorites! Isn't she so pretty?! (click on them to make them larger.)