A new leaf

I'm about to jump on a soap box so if you'd like to skip it jump down to "NUTSHELL VERSION. So I woke up this morning at 5:30 am. This might not be early for some of you but I regularly like to get out of bed 7:30-8ish (tough life I know). I tried and tried to fall back asleep. Fail. My brain would just not shut off. I was thinking about my photography business and about blogging. Here's the ugly truth folks. I've kind of been a pansy about my photography business and MY BLOG POSTS ARE BORING. There I said it. First I need to clarify that the people in my blog posts are NOT boring. They are the cutest most fabulous people on earth, thank goodness or I would not get any traffic on here. But for some reason I have the hardest time coming up with anything clever so I end up writing about the weather conditions of the photoshoot. LAAAAAME. So now that I've clarified that lets get back to me being a pansy cause I'm sure you want to hear all about it. Lately I've been contemplating whether or not I should continue to pursue the photography biz. It seems like having your own photography business is kind of a fad right now and I just felt like another person jumping on the band wagon. Then I had a light bulb moment this morning. I am afraid. I'm afraid and I am just making up excuses not to go for it. I'm afraid I'm not good enough to jump on the band wagon. I'm afraid of what others will think. I'm afraid I wont be as good as other photographers. I'm afraid that if I try, I will fail. And then another light bulb, a brighter one...quite being such a big baby! DING! Everyone one feels this way at one time or another and you can either let it control you, OR you can not be a pansy and just do it. You only have one life to live. ONE. So just do it. JUST DO IT! That was my internal motivational conversation I had going on with my self this morning. I could not lay in bed any longer. I had to get this out or I felt like I was going to burst. So here it is...MY GOAL: turning my business and my blog from lame...ness to greatness. Wow...remarkable. I might have to work on that but you get the idea. Ok I'll be turning off my soap box now.
NUTSHELL VERSION: me. pansy. light bulb. desire to no longer be a pansy.
Ok now that we've got that out of the way here's what you will be seeing on the new and improved blog. Photos, recipes, attempts at craftiness and personal stories. Sound good? Good. Let's kick it off with some great photos of my amazingly cute kids. Some of you have seen these on facebook but they look better bigger in my opinion.









We call this one THE SKYDIVER