Rainy Christmas Eve: Check.Chaotic Family Get-Together with the family: Check.Lots of good food and good times: Check.Tonight, I received a little book that will hopefully keep me blogging more frequently. It's packed full of random nuggets of questions, quotes, and wisdom. It is called "Keel's Simple Diary." There is a page for each day. There are several multiple choice questions and statements, and...
Well, people keep coming up to me and saying, "I was a (insert # here)."After giving them a confused look, recognition floods my face as my brain scans all of the possible Facebook statuses, pictures, or blog posts they could be referring to. Guilty as charged-- my last blog entry was way too long ago, and I need to update so as to...
Well, today was crazy.Kristi left for Florida and will be gone for a week, so I'm manning the shop by myself. I actually really don't mind being alone and enjoy the independence, but I am finding that I miss having a team mate! Especially on days like today. Everyone decided to stop in. I LOVE visitors and customers, but it was just busy!...
I am SO not a morning person.But this morning, I took a deep breath and braved the dark, early hours of the morning... all in the name of "getting things done."What has this world come to?I obtained a wonderful 3rd shift job last Spring. What 3rd shift jobs are wonderful? The ones in which you are paid to sleep. =) Anyway, my shift...
Being downtown has so many perks. One of my favorite parts is establishing relationships with people.Normally, our mail man comes quite early-- around 9am. This is when Kristi and I arrive on most days, but on days that we are late or at a shoot, we miss the mail.Today, I had dropped my car off to get fixed (down the road from where...
Well, I'm sitting here in the office on a late Sunday night. There are twinkle lights in our window. There's an empty popcorn bowl on the ground beside me. There's music playing from my speakers thanks to itunes. And I just finished up with about 2 hours of work on my church website job... still have many hours to go!Kristi and I were...
When I was at the conference this past weekend, my heart was moved to support a beautiful little girl from Honduras through Compassion. One of the speakers at the conference put it well: "We are often more concerned about our standard of living than we are about others living." He suggested that instead of buying the pumpkin spice latte that we think we...
So, I've decided to try to update more regularly by giving myself an easy blogging task. My job is to post something every day or so about the day, most likely concerning office life. Since that seems to be consuming a large portion of my time right now, that's probably what I'll write about.However, I'll note that I just returned from an awesome...
I'm back, and with a "top ten" in tow!But first, a preface...The latest and greatest in my life concerns moving our Imagine Artists business office into a brand new location in downtown Morton! We received the place at the beginning of October and have been diligently working in it ever since. This includes numerous days and nights of rolling mustard yellow paint onto...
Fall is officially here.I can't believe it, but somewhere in between Pumpkin Festival activities and moving into our new office, the weather has cooled down. This past week hasn't done much for me... gray, cloudy skies with cold rain isn't my style... BUT, I will say, I am thankful that the weather up until that point has been beautiful. And I don't doubt...
I don't want to fall back into the "posting once a month" habit... so here are my efforts at denying that possibility. Today, I'm posting a few fun images that will give you a little "behind-the-scenes" taste of what it is Kristi and I do.Whenever we go on shoots, there are 2 of us. We love the teamwork and the mixture of different...
August has come and gone... and my blog has remained the same.This is what happens when you get busy. And not only busy, but when you return to your blog every few days and see the same post still siting on the shelf, and you allow yourself to think, "Oh well. It's been this way for awhile... why sweat it? Plus, too busy...
A short video on children. These are among my favorite subjects to capture. I love how candid and uninhibited little tykes are before the camera. Enjoy! ...
This is what I learned yesterday.Just because you plan a day at the lake, it doesn't mean it will be sunny.Some girls and I had an excellent day planned at a lake. Kristi and I planned to take the day off of work, even though we had a lot to do. We have 2 weddings this weekend so we decided since we're working...
Lately, I've been thinking.The Lord began working in my heart at the beginning of last week. I had the thought, "Is my Faith evident to others? Am I a Christ-like witness? Can people look at me and know what I am about? Who have I touched lately?" Not that it's all about me. Certainly not. My worry is that my "self" is getting...
I posted yesterday with intentions of not coming back for awhile, but today was monumental.Well, not really.But post-worthy.So, the morning started out like any other... with me being slightly klutzy and tripping or knocking into something and saying, "Ouch." This is nothing out of the ordinary.Then afternoon rolls around and Kristi and I are loading up her car for a photo session. I...
I was recently in the car with an individual who will go unnamed and she told me:"Taryn, don't take this the wrong way, but, lately you have not posted anything on your blog that has made me laugh.I need you to make me laugh again."Lucky for me, my self-worth isn't placed in how hilarious I am on my blog. Unfortunately for my unnamed...
5 things about today.1. it was one of the hottest, most humid days of the year. and i was privileged to spend 2-3 hours out in it. and these hours were not spent a) swimming, b) lying directly underneath a sprinkler, or c) immersed in cold ice water, which, as far as i am concerned, were the only 3 sane ways to spend...
Today was one of those days...first day back from vacation.The first day back from vacation is never a happy feeling, but come to think of it, today wasn't half bad considering. I always picture those days as awful, early morning, slow-moving, yawn-invoking times, but today was endurable. Maybe it had something to do with all of the coffee and caffeine I had today.running...
Today was the first day in a long while that I was able to enjoy a full day uninterrupted in Morton church. With all of the wedding photography that Imagine Artists has been shooting, my weekends lately have been filled with pictures. It's a wonderful thing... but, I will say, staying in one place all day today was quite a treat. I sat...
I fear that I have been going through a bout of writer's block.Every time I come to the posting board, I freeze. Usually, all that I really have to do is pull up the white screen and start typing, and some sort of post formulates.Lately, it hasn't come. For the first time in a long time, I cannot put 2 sentences together in...