2010

As always at this time of year people start thinking about the up coming new year and what it may hold for them. I am no different and I am hoping for many positive things in this new year 2010.

My husband is running for the office of Constable. I think this would be so awesome. I held public office before and I ran in an elections. It is fun but stressful as well.

I am hoping that my daughter continues to do well in school and be a happy little girl. Her and I are so close and I am always fearful that when she gets older and enters puberty that may change. So I hope in the new year that we remain close and she never stops thinking I am a cool mom.

My husband and I both would like to quit smoking. I would like for my back to improve. Living with chronic lower back pain is a very draining thing and literally effects every part of my life. Although aside from back surgery I don't have much hope that my back is going to get better on it own in the next year. Lord knows I have tried everything in this last year.

I would like things to improve where my ex-husband is concerned. He needs to find a job so he can go back to helping me with Megan's tuition and her medical cost, and get current on the $8,000.00 he now owes me. I would even more like for him to have a better relationship with Megan for her sake. She has already found out he is unreliable, and he very often dissappoints her. The two things about that that bother me is one, it kills me to she her upset by something her Dad did and did not do. Two, because I am always the one that is there to mend her broken heart and it is not fair. I hate that he can not get his life together or at least make her a priority in his life. He saw her the least in 2009 than he has since we have been divorced. Each year he sees her less and less. I love that I don't have to share her and I get to have her most of the time, but I know it is a dissappointment to her that he is not around for her.

She loves my husband but she know that he is not her Dad, and she wants her Dad no matter how many faults he has.

I also would like Lloyd and I to be in better financial shape in the year 2010. I wish we both could get better jobs but unless the economy turns around I don' see that happening anytime soon.

Well tonight I want us to have just some family fun at home to ring in the new year. I am going to get some snacks, we are going to make hats for ourselves that represent our personalities and have a contest. We are going to go outside at Midnight and bang pots and pans like we did when I was a kid. Well that is if all of us can make it until Midnight. If not we will just celebrate New Years' with New York and then call it a night.

So let's all pray that 2010 will be a good year for all of us and for our Country!

Happy New Year!!!!


We welcome 2010!

Christmas and Megan

Megan went to see Santa on Sunday. She is so cute, she wasn't sure whether or not she wanted her picture taken with Santa or to just talk to Santa, but I was able to talk her into a picture.

I am going to miss this pretty soon when she will out grow wanting to do this, and I wasn't sure if this is going to be the last year, so I just had to get a picture of her with Santa.

I have her first picture of her and Santa when she was 3 weeks old. It is pretty funny picture because Megan was so tiny you have to look real close to see the tiny baby in yellow on his lap. It is a good thing I didn't have her wear red that year!

I have a picture of her and Santa at 2 years old, and she of course like most 2 years old was not liking Santa too much and was screaming her head off. I knew after standing in line for 2 hours with 3 of my girl friends that number 1 I wasn't giving up, and number 2 it was hiighly unlikely I could get her to quit screaming a take the picture. So in the picture she is crying and wiggling out oof Santa's lap. No I wasnt being mean making her do it either, all the way up until the point where it was our turn she was very excited to see Santa and to sit on his lap, but some where along the way from her stroller to his lap she changed her mind.

When she was 4 years old, she made me sit on Santa's lap with her, so I have a picture with both of us on his lap that year.

Well here is this years picture and I sure hope it won't be the last time as that means my baby is growing up.....

Models

I recently shot some models at a park in Scottsdale, it was what is known as TFCD or trade for CD of images. They donate their time to me and in exchange they get images of themselves, and I get to use their images for my portfolio. It is a win-win situation for all.

I have more images on my flickr page at: www.flickr.com/photos/kathleen68

As always I am looking for paying photo jobs, I do on location shoots, you choice or mine, you can bring props and multiple outfits to suit you and your family. These are YOUR photos so I want to capture you and your families personality. Standard rates are for up to 4 family members and each additonal person is $25. Please email me for my pricing and to discuss what how I can capture you and your families personalities.