More wedding pics

The veil

I love this pic of the veil.....with the natural light coming thru the door

My first wedding

So last Saturday I did my first wedding. My friend got married and she insisted that I do her wedding. It was a small, outdoor wedding. She knew that I didnt do weddings and I told her, I wouldnt mind taking them, as long as she had another photographer.

I will name numerous reasons why I dont do weddings.

1. I dont have enough expereince in photography just yet, especially weddings

2. I dont have the equipment for it

3. I dont have a back up person for me

4. Honestly...Im not confident in your big day. Its a day that you cant take back or redo. If I was to mess up, I would feel horrible

Those are some of my main reasons why I dont do weddings. I need to build up my portfolio and learn more about photography and build up my equipment. I have had 3 offers for weddings, and though its hard to turn it down. I do have to turn it down. Who knows....maybe one day, I can say yes!!!!

But I did have fun at this wedding. The lighting was kinda hard, cause it was getting so dark. (some other things I need to learn about). But here is some pictures of the wedding. I will be posting more later. I have been so busy, that I only have loaded up one memory card so far and have edited some. Im also in the process of switching over onto a external drive and getting pics off of my computer.

I know this last one is a bit dark...but I love it like this!!

Faith in God

Mark and I have been talking about babies. I, at least do everyday. Its always on my mind. When am I going to get pregnant? I pray and ask God, when is it going to be our turn? And I hear him say....."Just wait". I do hear Gods voice. I have talked to some people and they tell me they havent heard his voice, but when I ask a question to God, most of the time he gives me an answer. I can hear his voice and can make it out over any other voices. Now sometimes he dosent give me a direct answer, but he will say something like Just wait.....

I want to be pregnant so bad. More than anything right now. Its been over a year since I lost my little ones and I always thought I would be pregnant by now. But right now we dont have insurance. It wouldnt be the right time to get pregnant right now anyways. Though we are still trying....We have asked God to give us a baby in HIS time and I do think, its going to be soon. Im hoping the first month our insurance kicks in. I did tell myself, if Im not pregnant by October, then Im going to the Dr. again.

I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would be the woman that told everybody that "we are trying". For some reason, I just always thought it was going to happen. But we are....and its okay. Sometimes things happen in our lives that we never expected to happen. But we learn and go through it and depend on God. I know God has given me this desire for a baby and I know hes not going to let me down. Hes an amazing Father and has given me so much more than I ever deserved. Please keep us in your prayers!!!

WINNER

For the couples is Mindy Dorman!!! She wrote a very good reason why she needs some pictures done!!! Im so excited to be photographing her and her husband. So dont forget to check back with those!!!


Also, on the maternity and the baby session giveaways. Since no one entered anything with those, Im going to be extending that till July 10th!!

So dont forget to write me and tell me why you or someone you know needs their pics done.

Pictures from the last trip

We went to San Antonio this past March and I didnt post any pictures. I was going through my pictures on the computer cause I needed to clean out some space and then I saw these and wanted to share!!!

Love this old timey car!!

Thought I would have fun with the good ole Texas Flag!!!















This is in Marble Falls.....thats the big, long, bridge you cross!! We were dining at Chilis and next door is another restaruant.

Thought this was neat!!

So much fog going down there...

Big ole Rocking Chair...you know where in Texas!!

Love it!!

Theres the river where we were at in Marble Falls!!

Gotta love Texas!!!

I loved this sign....had to take a pic of it!!!

This touched me.....

This is something my friend just wrote me......it made me tear up, because she was the closest thing to my family, than anyone else when I was growing up. She knew my mom, grandpa, and my whole family. My mom always told me and her, if something was to ever happen to her parents, that my mom would adopt her. We had some hard times throughout highschool with each other, and we didnt talk for about 5 years. Now that we are friends again, I think we just naturally picked up and is learning each other all over again. We always talk about the past, and what it meant to us. Though Im married and she has a child, sometimes its like things never changed. Shes a good friend!!! But I just wanted to share something that meant so much to me.





Rachel, that made me cry! I love Bubba too and wow... Rachel, that made me cry! I love Bubba too and would be so sad if something were to happen to him. You were so right when you said that he is the nicest person who you would ever meet. I think he is the nicest person I have ever met. :) Im not trying to be funny at all but when we were younger I felt like he was relative too. Like if i ever needed anything he would be there for me also. I knew he cared about me because I was your friend and he LOVES you so much, ya know? Your mom was so like a mom to me. I could talk to her about so many things that I could never talk to my mom about and I miss that. I bet by now we would have had some REAL GOOD talks!!LOL Almost every time I watch the Golden Girls I think back to your mom busting out laughing at something one of the girls said. I'll never forget those moments. All I can tell you is that you had a WONDERFUL mom who LOVED way more than any mom I know, and the same goes for your grandpa (Bubba) you are blessed to have had him in your life this long, and when his time comes you have to think he is going to be with his wife and Shirley again, and your precious babies, so it will not be a time of saddness it will be a time of re-joice!! I love ya Rach

Happy Fathers Day

I want to tell my husband Happy Fathers Day. I know that we have angel babies in heaven, here on earth, but we are still a mother and a father. When we die and go to heaven.....I will have 2 baby boys waiting on me :) Makes Heaven that much more special!!!

My husband is going to be an excellent dad one day. Hes always concerned for my safety and my well being...I just know when we have a child or children, he is going to be really protective of them.

I also want to say Happy Fathers Day to my grandpa. Hes the best dad any man has been to me. Though he has always been my grandpa, Im just so blessed to have him as a male role model in my life, since my dad was never in mine. Its strange when I was little, and I would go to my friends house and their dad was there....I never felt different, or say...Wow...I dont have a dad. Maybe its because my grandpa was always there, or maybe its because my mom did take the 2 roles in my life. Maybe its both!!! But hes the closest thing to me as a dad, and I call him my parent :)

I love you both very much....and this day is for you two!!!

Last Day for Giveaways

Today is the last day for Giveaways!!!! Remember.....write me and tell me why YOU or someone you know wants or needs pictures done. If you dont need them, try and think of someone who you may know who might need some pictures taken.

Free Maternity Session

Free Baby Session (Newborn up to a year)

Free Couples Session

Deadline ends tonight....I will pick a winner this weekend.

Hurry Hurry!!!!

My grandpa....and some stories

I just wanna say, that I love him so much. Sometimes I get aggravated at him cause hes old and he does things I dont understand. Hes memory is slightly going, which I hate, because there are things I wish he could remember of my childhood and things from his past. But I love him and Im so happy that God has him in my life. Hes my only "parent" I have left, and it would mean everything to me if he was here when I finally do have a baby. I know its going to be hard when Im pregnant and when the baby is born and me needing my mom to ask her the hundred million questions there are. My dad was never in my life, and my grandma died when I was little. My grandpa is going to be 80 this year....yes 80!!!


He is the most nicest person you will ever meet. He gives and gives and never is picky. Sometimes I hate the way I act toward him, because I just get so aggravated. We finally took him to a hearing test today. He kept telling me he had "selective" hearing, and I was getting upset cause I had to repeat myself like 3-4 times on things. Well, we found out he does have hearing loss....now hes telling me, he dosent want to wear a hearing aid. lol....I knew he would do that. Thats my grandpa for ya.


Deep down, I need to say, that Im so scared for my grandpa dieing. I mean, hes all I have left. No other grandparents or parents. I have Marks family, which is great, but its not my family. I told my grandpa that hes not going to die till hes 150, so that leaves me like at 90 or something, lol.


In February 2007, my grandpa felt really weak, so I took him to the dr, and the dr. said he looked very pale, which I never noticed. He checked his blood count and he lost like half of his blood. He has had bleeding ulcers in the past, and we thought thats what it was. But the Dr. told him to go to the hospital to get some blood and he will be out of there the next day (ended up staying for 2+ months). So we take him, but they kept giving him all this blood and it never stayed. So they went to check his colon. He ended up having colon cancer. The SAME DAY, he has a heart attack in the hospital. I will never forget that. ( My cousin came in town and we went to go eat, and we came back to see him and his eyes were wide, and I was like, "whats wrong"...his heart was so fast. They had like 15 people in this small room trying to help him. Me and my cousin were outside crying, cause we knew something was really wrong). But anyways....so hes in the hospital for a week or so, because the Dr's are arguing about which surgery to do first. If they worked on his heart, they would have to put him on blood thinner and then he could bleed to death. If they worked on his colon, his heart could give out and he would die. So my grandpa was like chillin in the hospital, eating regular food, not hooked up to anything. But they ended up doing his heart first, and then a few weeks later, his colon. The BAD thing about this....is I got married in March of 07. The Wednesday before my wedding, they called me and told me to come to the hospital, because he just died while giving X-rays and they revived him and dont know how much time he has left. Let me tell you, all the things that are going in my head at this moment. I mean....here is my wedding....my grandpa is suppose to walk me down the aisle (which by the way, he didnt, and i was devastated. My mom couldnt do it, cause she passed and my only parent left was my grandpa, and hes in the hospital....mind you...he didnt get to walk his daughter down the aisle, cause my mom never got married. So this was as much as important as it was for me, as it was for him). Do I have my wedding? Do I plan a funeral instead? Will all my friends and family be coming to a funeral instead of a wedding? Do I wait? Do I have it early? What am I going to do without my grandpa? That was such a hard time in my life....I felt more like a grown up at that moment than I ever had. No one had to make this choices but me. Life changing choices.


My grandpa, of course pulled out of it and is healthy as a bug now. His heart is awesome and his colon cancer is gone. He ended up having a tube down his throat on my wedding day, but after our wedding, me and Mark drove up to the hospital in our attire and I showed my lovely grandpa, what I looked like, on my wedding day. I asked him, if he wanted us to go to the honeymoon or not.....well I told him to give me a thumbs up, or down, lol. He told us to go ahead. That Monday we are loading up on the boat of our honeymoon and I kept calling. Finally one of the nurses said....Honey...hes great...he pulled the tube out of his mouth this morning and is sitting up and talking. Just enjoy your honeymoon and have a good time!!! I was so happy he was okay. I felt like our life was going to be good then, and he has. Im blessed with a wonderful husband and a wonderful grandpa. Lifes not easy, and sometimes things happen and we dont know why. I KNOW my life will be fulfilled when I have that baby that my heart desires so much. I know its in God time, and Im hoping its soon. I can feel it. I feel like God is just telling me WAIT!!! He has something special in store for my husband and I.

Let me explain real quick on this picture of my grandpa. So I just got my camera and Im driving around with it, in my life....I know....its crazy!!! I took this pic of him while driving. On cafemom, I entered it in a photo contest on cutest grandparents and he won!!! Well then they put all the winners from different categories and he won the all around best!!! Who knew, how much of a stud he is!!! Hes so adorable!!!

FREE GIVEAWAYS

Im going to be honest and say that Im confused? surprised? shocked?

I have been advertising that Im giving away a free session of Maternity, Baby and Couples. I have a deadline till Friday and that I will pick a winner then. All you have to do is write me and tell me why you or someone you know deserves this shoot. I thought I would try and have options here and make it fun. But the thing is.....no one has written me. Im just surprised. Its FREE!!! You have the option of buying them if you like, but no obligations. Who knows that the deal is, but my giveaways are still going on. If you are the only ones to write me, then you win!!! lol.

You can write me on here, or email me at Shirlrach03@aol.com......

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