It's the New Year (Yay Twenty-Ten!) and that usually means lots of new all around so I just left it as "Happy New!" to cover all the bases. :)

As far as the biz goes... JFP is changing some things around with the wedding packages. Lots of beautiful things in store for my fabulous couples!!! I searched high and low for some amazing albums and could not resist these any longer! The cover options are endless with a vast array of textures and colors. The designs of the covers are classic and elegant or hip and funky and everything in between - whatever suits YOUR style! I will be using Finao for the 8x8 memory albums as well as your choice of 11x14 or 12x12 for your wedding album. There are other choice options we can discuss that are simply fabulous! In the meantime... here is a small sample of options from Finao...



Another option available is a Custom Proof Box, specially designed for you and it contains 150-200 fully edited 4x6 prints from your wedding (watermarked). A little sample from Finao...


And... another option available are Save The Date cards designed specifically for YOU with your favorite pose from your engagement session. For example...


(These will not be watermarked)

Everything I do is with YOU in mind. After all... it's YOUR day, not mine! I want to help make this special moment in your life the most beautiful it can be, right down to the tiny details. But most of all I want it to reflect YOUR personality, not mine. :)



As far as the rest of my life and the New Year... ??? I don't want to make any resolutions since it seems to just make it harder for me to follow through. Let's just say I want to spend more time with this:


The Wii Fit. Because I am SOOOOO out of shape!

And I want to spend more time behind my camera at home. I know my family is probably still sick of me and my black box mask from all the years of stalking their every move for archival purposes, but I am finding that I have been picking up my camera less with my family and those memories are so precious to me. I take the time to capture your family moments together but not mine? What's that all about? :) I want more random captures like these...



Most of all I want to see with new eyes. I have been searching and praying for my "Word of the Year" (Learn More: CLICK! ) and keep coming back to the same theme of seeing things differently. Seeing things not as they are. If I take a step back (or to the side) I can see things from a different perspective and learn something new. I want to see things as God wants me to see them. Can you image how much less worry and stress this would lead to? I'm "looking" forward to that! I thought about how this could relate to other areas of my life. As a wife and mommy, I am planning to see things differently at home too. To focus on the good and understand the things that may seem not so good because many times they are not as bad as they seem and may even be better than good! (Did you catch all that? Sorry about the run-on sentence! I'm bad about that...) I want to see how my husband is more amazing than I already think he is. I want to see how incredibly God has created my children. I want to see how I can be a blessing to them every moment of every day. I want to be a better friend too. This part of my life seems to have fallen off the face of the earth. Due to past hurts and being waaaaay too busy, I let time with friends slip and now have a hard time picking that up again. So, friends, come drag me out of my cave into the sunshine! Life will go on whether the dishes are done or not so I might as well enjoy some of it! You'll find me hidden in my home snuggled up with the boys and editing my life away... :)

I hope your New Year is full of blessings just waiting to knock your socks off! Keep an eye out with me to see these joys as some may be hidden behind a negative perspective. Life really is good, isn't it? Let's open our eyes to capture all that we can!

XOXO