Christmas and a New Year!

Christmas was pretty low key this year, since my beautiful grandma Josephine passed away on December 5th. She loved the Lord very much, and I know she's up in Heaven. 

The holidays will never be the same again. But now it's time to make new traditions. Since I'm not married or don't have kids, and my siblings all have other plans during the holidays, it's just my mom, her fiance and me. So this year we had brunch at my brother from Seattle's place and then my mom and I went to see "The Tourist". I called the ending, about 20 minutes into the movie, I really enjoyed it though!

I've been house sitting for the family I nanny for the last week. The first couple of nights were a little freaky, since I'm not used to being alone in a big house, but I'm loving it now! 

I can't believe 2011 is just about 3 days away! There are going to be so many new things in my life this next year. But for now, I will only share the things happening first.

School starts back up on the 3rd. I'm taking 2 classes online, I really didn't want to have to go on campus. Plus I now have 3 jobs. I'm a part time nanny, working for an inventory company called WIS, and I'm going to be working for my brother from Seattle; which will be all online, so I'm able to work from anywhere! 

There's a lot in store for the coming year and I have so many different emotions toward it. But I'm excited for all that God has in store for me!

Snow days are unproductive...

Maybe I'm tired? or maybe I'm just lazy.

Either way, I don't like being unproductive. I'm looking forward to having a few weeks off of school. I'm only taking online classes next quarter (hoping it's a little more relaxing, and not more stressful than this last quarter).

Right now I'm in the process of writing out my bucket list. I will probably be working on that for quite awhile. But I look forward to getting things on the list checked off.

Like I've said before, I'm not much of a writer, so this is all I've got.

Peace!

Pretty Ladies

I had this photo shoot about a month ago, but have been too busy to edit these pictures. Until the last couple days.
We had to hurry and take pictures since the sun was setting, but I was able to get plenty of great pictures!
Enjoy:)

Mixing things up!

I've never been very good at writing all my thoughts down and having it make sense.
Since there are so many different topics that I'm passionate about, why not blog about all of them. There may be a time in my life where I want to focus on one subject for a few weeks, and others for just a couple days. But I just want to blog, share all my thoughts and feelings. What I've been up to and what my plans are for the future.
For now, I'm going to Community College for my AA in Early Childhood Development (I have a little more than a year left) with the plans of transferring to a 4 year college out of the state of Washington.
Obviously, from my other posts you can probably already tell that I'm passionate about photography. Since I've been back in school it's hard to try to find time to edit picture, or even schedule photo shoots. But I'm getting back into the swing of things since the quarter is almost done.
So, you (who you may be... if anyone) will be able to (hopefully) enjoy more of my photos.
Also, outside of school, I'm a high school youth leader at my church (Love it!) and I'm a nanny twice a week, and trying to find another part time nanny job (or just anything that works with my hectic schedule).

There's so much more to my life than this short post... but like I said; I've never been good at writing.
Hopefully this will help me get out and write more!

Ashley and Benji

It was a beautiful day at Redondo. I had fun taking this couples pictures!

Kjersti and Brandon

It was a nice hot summer day in Seattle Friday afternoon. A fun day to go to a park to take some pictures of some beautiful people!

Ashley Class of 2010

Ashley and I had a fun day in the spring going to different locations in Seattle.
She is a natural at having her pictures taken.

The Johnson Family photo shoot

On a beautiful fall day in 2009, I had my first photo shoot with the Johnson family.

We had a great time wandering around the Des Moines Marina.