A day with the horses...

My friend, Lisa from "Cakes by Lisa Marie" called and wanted Sassy to come and get on the horses. Sassy was super excited!! We head out and go to the farm where Lisa keeps her horses...Sassy and Lisa's grandson had a blast until one horse still in the pen started jumping....which caused Lisa's grandson's ride to buck which made the horse Sassy was on buck too...
Sassy got bucked right off...she was fine! Cried for a couple minutes...it knocked the breath slap out of her. It scared the pee pee out of the grown-ups!! Sammi is ready to go again and Ms. Lisa told her soon as it's spring. Sassy has been asking "how much longer til Spring?" She is so ready to go and learn more about the horses!
I got some cute photos of Lisa's grandson and a couple of Sassy!!!

Sassy and her date...

So my girl, Sassy, went on her first "date" last month...the kiddos went to the Prince and Princess Ball! They looked so cute but in my head all I could see was my girl going to her senior prom...I was having that insurance commercial run through my head that has the teenagers in a car but they still looked like 5 yr olds in their parents eyes...and the dad is saying to not text and not this and that!!! I had the opposite reaction! I was seeing my kiddo grow up right in front of my eyes....any how here is the photos!!!

I am SLACK...

So, here I am on a Friday night sitting here BORED out of my head....I really should be working on photos. Just not in the mood :/ though!!! Then, it hits me I haven't written anything on my blog in a good minute!!! Hmmmm maybe I will write...Hmmmm I can't even remember the dang password to my blog...how sad is that??

Well, as you can see I figured it out....lol!!!!!!!!!!!

I have no clue what to write about and if any of you all do read my stuff then you know I will ramble about all and nothing! So let’s see where should I start???

Photography wise I am doing awesome and I am getting lots more work...

I got some cute photos of Sassy and her date for the Prince and Princess Ball…

I had an awesome day photographing Ms. Yvonne Harvey-Williams last month…

I puttered around the backyard and took some cool outside photos…

I caught Sassy blowing bubbles…

I got a few shots of my Honey one foggy morning…

I will post those photos in separate blog posts (they deserve a whole post each):0)

I have another photo shoot scheduled sometime in the near future…this chick is wanting to send my photos to Victoria’s Secret (how cool is that?) she has already submitted some BUT they wanted more! YAY ME!!!

I am so enjoying this weather and the fact everything is green!!

Out of the hospital and I had a photo shoot...

Well, my Honey is out of the hospital. I just gave him the last injection of his blood thinner. I give lots of praise to nurses. I am too shaky and a weak stomach for that!!! My honey is on the mend...it's a slow road!

Ok, so yesterday, I had an awesome photo shoot! It helps to get awesome people for clients! I have known Crystal for a good while...I watched her grow into the woman that she is today...she has had a few struggles over the last few years. She also has had many joys come into her life...One of the joys that she encountered is her BEAUTIFUL daughter...did I mention that she is BEAUTIFUL!!! OMG this child is a natural beauty and exudes innocence in the photos. Crystal recently got married and right now is a few days from having her beautiful son. We had been planning on doing photos before yesterday but life is busy and it finally happened yesterday.

Here is a sneak peek of Crystal, her hubby Matt and her beautiful daughter!

My girl is growing up...

Today when I got home from visiting Bob at the hospital, I checked my Facebook messages. There was one from a friend of mine...Her son was wanting my number so he could call Sassy. She said he was wanting to ask her to the Prince and Princess Ball next month. This dance is for the elementary school kids and the proceeds go to help with childhood cancer, if I remember right. Sassy hasn't been to school this week, So I haven't received the note yet.  Anyhow, I gave my friend Sassy's phone number...I had already gave Sassy the heads up that he was gonna call...He did and he asked her...she said "ummm sure"...I looked at her funny and then she said "I would really like to go with you." His mom said he was so nervous that he made her write down what to say so he wouldn't forget...aaaawwwww!!!!! I think the kiddos are super excited! Sassy done got out the dress she is gonna wear...he was wanting to know cause he wants to get her a corsage!!! AAAAWWWW! My girl is growing up so fast...it brought tears to my eyes. A bittersweet moment!!! 

Getting Better & Parking Spots & The Handicap

Just a quick update on my Honey and a long ramble...
He seems to be doing better...he ate a few bites today...got up and walked around some...The 3 or 4 laps he walked in his room slap wore him out though. I am super glad his color is improving and his face ain't so sunken in. He seems to be enjoying all the attention he has been getting from family and friends. Him and his buddy's may not talk all the time but they are there for when times are rough. It's cool to sit back and watch their friendship!

I am still pretty stress out and I am exhausted...I am also majorly cranky and irritable. I am aggravated about the self-centeredness of people nowadays. Everyday this year I have seen it and its only the 4th day into it. Today I did a good thing for the wrong reason. Its kinda bugging me...When Sassy and I got to the hospital, we had to go through the parking garage. I know not to even look on the first couple levels cause those parking spots are always taken.  We get parked up on the 3rd level...headed to the door to take you to the elevators. WELL...this lady whips in to a spot right in front of us...Sassy popped off with "Mom that's handicap!" That really well dressed woman driving her Chrysler Aspen was getting out of her vehicle right when we got up next to it and heard Sassy say it...my response was "she must be a retard"...the spot this woman took was right nest to the elevator door that has those blue lines going across it to keep from parking there. You know they're right next to a van accessible handicap spot. There was maybe  a foot of room between her fancy dancy SUV and the rail on the passenger side and she squeezed out on the drivers side.
I was stewing and Sassy thought it was hilarious she would NOT ride the elevator with us. I know it seems like I am not setting a good example...I REALLY DO! Well I am a smoker so I went to my car to smoke. I had to pass  by the SUV and I was stewing again. I got to my car and all I could think about was someone needs to say something to that women. I reached in the back seat floorboard and got the paper floor mat the mechanic left in my car. I flipped in over and dug a marker out of my console...I wrote her a note. I was not very nice BUT I was aggravated. Please no one get offended with I put because I will explain my reasoning for how I worded in a minute. I put...

You must be really be a retard...I see no handicap tag or placard or any thing on your fancy dancy SUV. You are parked in the a spot for the handicap, for people to be able to get of a van in a wheelchair...I hope and pray that you never end up in a wheel chair. You are just a retard...oh wait handicapped mentally challenge people get placards & tags...so you must just be plain STUPID! I left the note on her windshield. Nothing like having a note the size of a floor mat on your car with the words facing out for everyone to read...I know my wording sucked big time...give me a minute to finish this and I will explain. Well I went on back up to the my Honey's room and I told him what I did and he thought it was funny. The nurse walked in when we were discussing it and she said I should report it security. SO me and Sassy waited a bit and went to see if was still there. It was so I took a pic of her tag to show security cause I sure couldn't have remembered the it and I had nothing to write with. I talked to security...they said they couldn't do any thing because it was a federal offense that he would call the sheriff. He was on the phone with them when me and Sassy headed back to the room...I did holler back and tell him apparently someone else didn't like it either and had left a note on the windshield. HE said "really?" Sassy said "yes sir!" I did the right thing kinda just because I was taking my frustration on someone that didn't deserve it...even if she was in the wrong too.

OK I grew up with a sister that has cerebral palsy. Her and her friends all handicap were normal to each other because they were the same. I was always the oddball to them. Us that do not have their limitations call them retards. My sister and her friends used this logic against me...I was not like them I was the retard. Makes sense to me...but in my opinion a retard is just a label for someone that has no intelligence...I do not call handicap mentally challenged people a retard because in their own way they each a have a gift that's unique. This chick lack the intelligence...It aggravates me also because I have a former employer/friend that is paraplegic. He does drive and he needs all the space he can get to get his ramp out so he can get out because he is strapped to a wheel chair.

So if any of you park in a handicap spot be prepared to be humiliated by a note to your window or a  ticket and fine! Please think of those that truly need that spot because they are doing the best they can with the limitations they have. Whether they are handicap physically or mentally you will never know how hard it is until you are in their shoes.

My NOT so Happy New Year...

Yes, you read the title of this post right...it's only day 3 of 2012 and this year is sucking big time. I know this is my now my photography blog but I'm needing to vent some about my life. Kinda like if I write it out its a release cause I am having to be so strong and grown up the past few days. =(


So, I bet your thinking what could be so sucky, huh? Well, those that have read my blog or are my real life friends know my Honey drives a truck. Oh and before I write any further, let me apologize for my A.D.D. (i might get to rambling and go off topic), the bad grammar and slang. I am gonna write like I would be describing it my voice...so those that are reading PLEASE read in a thick southern drawl...one from south GA with a little bit of North Carolina in it...not the fake TV kind either or one from Florida, Tennessee, or any other place besides south GA or the mountains in NC...yes, I do know that some of you cannot tell the difference in them like ya'll northern people! We do they same with ya'lls accents too...I couldn't tell if someone was from NJ, NY, or the fake TV kind...I really do know how to speak and speak right but sometimes you have to let your roots come out...I also when to lay the accent on thick...like when I waited tables at a truckstop. You wouldn't believe how many customers would say "say something else"...my response would usually be "something else" and they would laugh and then I would in my thick southern drawl would say "OH sugar you say...say something else"...

Well, anyhow my sucky start of the year actually started before Christmas....My Honey that drives a truck thought he had gotten food poisoning  from a truckstop at the beginning of December. Even went the local doctor...he went to the doctor three day in a row...and got 6 shots in those 3 days...his hiney was a pin cushion. Felt some what better and left back out trucking a few days later. He started feeling like crap again it was an ongoing thing, feel good for a bit then feel bad again. On Christmas day we got in a pretty heated argument. I felt that he needed to go to the ER. That didn't happen cause he was expected by his boss to leave out. He left out got to feeling like major pile of crap. BY Tuesday, it was worse. He asked to be able to come home so he could go to the doctor. Well he finally made it in on New Years day.

So I spent New Year's eve alone...and most of the next. When he got home we went to the ER. He was put throw a boat load of test, blood drawn, ultra sound, CT scan, the works. He got admitted right away and was put in ICU. Poor thing had appendicitis. He also has a blood clot in the artery attached to his liver. One of the pus pockets on his appendix was hid behind his colon so at first they thought he had a tumor on his colon. All I could do was start thinking the worst...Today he had surgery...they took his appendix out...thats when they found it wasn't a tumor on his colon. He will be on blood thinners for 3-6 months for the blood clot. He has to stay a few more days because they are keeping an eye on the clot and his liver. He already started feeling better...so yes my start has been rough and sucky!!! I am hoping I am on the uphill now.
Sorry for rambling but I felt the need....I have been trying to hold hit together be strong when on the inside I am scared to death.
xoxoxo's