A puppy P.S.

Do it Heather!

Puppies!

We took my mom today to get a new puppy!  She wanted a golden retriever.  We soo lucked out and a friend had a friend who had a friend (don't you love the bar business) who had pure bred golden retrievers that she was giving away.  Just to clarify, pure bread in my family really means nothing.  Every dog we've ever had has looked exactly the same.  I just call them "Detroit" dogs.  If you live here, you know what I mean, they are all black and brown.  In pictures of the dogs my family has owned, we never even know which one is which.  They're great dogs, and we always would get an older dog from the humane society, cause my dad always told us that somebody else will take the puppies, we needed to save the adults.  There are two in my family right now, my mom has Rudy and my sister Heidi has Cali.

Cali, example of a "Detroit" dog

So back to the puppies!  It took all of my will power not to bring one home!  And I mean all.  Tim and I are both super softies when it comes to animals.  He is sometimes worse than me, always wanting to get another cat (his reasoning being we don't have one in every color yet, yeah, he's that cute or crazy!)  We made it out of there without a new baby, but I'll tell you, it is still on my mind.  We left the last of a litter of 9 all by herself, with no more brothers and sisters.  On the way out, I couldn't talk, for fear that the tears would start.

Crystal is the woman who has the mama, and also an older brother of these adorable little ones.  She was so great and welcoming to us!  I appreciate it so much.  It is always nice to meet people who are so kind and actually care about their animals!  Thank you Crystal!

You've always got to make out a lil before going home together! : )

This is us pouting to Tim that we should all go home together.

This one is my favorite!  How funny are they?  I think it's love.

And this is Rosie, she actually got to go to her new home tonight!

Church Recordings

I did a post awhile back with a pic of the amazing Ryan White recording in a church. Well, on the same day some of his friends also recorded in the church and I shot some pics for them also. I am in the process of processing them and here are just a few. I am embarrassed to admit it, but I do not know the name of their band! I will post it, as soon as I know it! I promise! (So bad, that is so bad!)

Elwood

This post is for one of my greatest friends, who happened to throw her back out, and as a result is spending more time on her computer than she usually would. Looking for things to keep herself occupied, she's reading my blog. Yip-ee! Readers!

I never wanted cats. But thanks to Elwood, I am officially a "cat lady"! You see, it's his fault because I went with Heather when she went to get him. The Detroit Humane Society is where I fell hard and fell fast for my dear Oden. He choose me that day, and he is definitely one of the greatest things that ever happened to me! So Heather these are for you. We will have a real shoot for him soon, I promise! I hope you feel better soon! But even when you do I hope you keep reading my blog! :)

Elwood

He of course wanted to know what was in the lens, which made him too close to focus on.
Still cute though!

Amazing Job

It's unbelievable the job that firefighters have. Last night at the corner of our block, a house caught on fire and ended up burning to the ground. The fire was so big and the embers were flying so much, there were a few moments when we thought we were going to have to pack up the monsters and leave the house. Although it is completely devastating that the family lost their house, they all made it out safely, Thank God.

So please, everyone, I know we're freezing, but make sure you turn off and unplug things like space heaters!

I don't have many of the fire up close, the family came back and didn't want to
make a spectacle of myself.

They also used the hydrant at the opposite end of our block.

The hose went all the way down the middle of the street.

These are from my back yard.

The Path

I actually picked this photo to post before I started writing the post. When I was done writing and looked at it again, I realized it is perfect for what I had to say. I love this photo, I have since i first took it. (It's actually more than one photo stitched together.) The path under the trees looks to me like such a exciting, interesting, and scary place all at the same time.

(This one is a good one to click on a view full screen.)

I am going to try and post on a regular basis. Eventually, I will have my own photography business. This is a way for me to document how and what happens, while sharing some of my work and experiences along the way. The idea of working for myself and taking pictures is so exciting to me that I often cannot fall asleep at night. That's okay though, it's fun to not be able to fall asleep when it's because you are thinking of something so exciting!

a little OCD

Not only did I stay up until 2am last night messing with this blog and another blog on wordpress, it's 1am right now and I've been at it again, forever! Is it possible to have selective OCD? I know that you are going to look at this blog and think, "Huh?" I know, I know, what could have taken me so long? OCD + so many options= hours and hours! On top of the OCD, I actually find it kinda fun to try and figure out the HTML. Maybe I shouldn't be admitting that! Anyway, I am going to try and leave this alone for a bit...but I make no promises. Everything could always be better...

The point of this blog is to be to be able to post more photo's more quickly. It is me so, I'm going to guess that posts may be drawn out and a lil personal sometimes. If it bores you, skip it! For the few of you who do read this (Uncle Gary, Mom, & Barb), "Thank You!" I promise to try to keep it interesting!

This is Braylin saying "ooohh so exciting!"

is it time to move?

So far I have been blogging using iweb. So far I have not been blogging very much. It just isn't very convenient. Every time I want to post a new post, I have to republish my whole site, and it takes quite awhile. I also don't like the way it posts photos or how it displays the posts. I am going to try this for a while and see if I like it better.

If it doesn't work, this may be the look on my face!

Oden doesn't exactly love the camera!