Curacao

I am heading to Curacao. If you don't know where that is here is a link :

Map ;)

It is a very small Island right of the coast of Venazela. I will write more later about how I got to go. I hope to blog every day. But I am not sure. I know I will be busy!

So goodbye for now!

Rebekah

Thank you God, for all my blessings.

Wow. Wow. That is all I can say.

I have been blessed more then I can ever start to say thanks back to my heavenly Father. He is amazing. He knows my every need. My every thought. My every desire. And he gives me exactly what I really need. He loves me more then I can imagine. I am definitely thankful to Him! I am also thankful for my amazing parents. They have loved me, cared for me and raised me to know my Savior. My siblings are amazing. I have so much fun with them. Yes we do fight, but we also have the time of our lives together. My friends, my house, me photography, my precious ones (That is what I call the children I babysit.) All of these, and more then I can list, is what I'm thankful for. And I pray, that I will always and forever remember these things every single day.

I was trying to get a new picture for my profile. I wanted that had me and children, or me and my camera. So Here is what I got.... please tell me if you have a favorite!

My fav: Babies and Cameras!

Sweetest boy!

Such a happy baby!

Thanksfulness-

Thankfulness. This is a word that everyone is talking about this time of year. Even though Thanksgiving comes around once a year, we all are in such a rush to get to Christmas, many of us forget what Thanksgiving is all about. I think God made Thanksgiving for a many good reasons. (He has a great plans you know :)

I have been trying to continually think of things I am thankful for. God has blessed me so incredibly! This is very hard for me, not because I don't have enough to be thankful for, but because I forget alot of times to be thankful, and instead I sit around and complain, or wallow in self-pity :( I have started praying and asking God to remind me of things I am thankful for through out the day, so I can give my utmost thanks to Him, and praise Him for it!

So, today I am thankful for, My amazing family. Not only my wonderful parents and siblings but also my extended family I love so very much!

One last note, something else He has convicted me very much on lately is desiring other man's approval above His. He is my first true love and HE is the one I should desire most of all. Not man's money, approval or time. I realize this in my heart, but the truly hard thing for me is to translate this into my actions, especially around friends. But I have been praying, and I know if it is God's will he will give me His strength so I can!

I am very excited I am getting to take a trip to Curacao (an Island in South America,) in only one week! I can't wait!! I am going to even get my scuba diving license!

Rebekah

So sorry, I feel like I have deserting my blog :( But I have been doing a ton of photography! (and babysitting.) I made bread the other day, yum yum! It's honey oatmeal bread and I LOVE the recipie. I got it off allrecipies.com so if you like to make bread try it! It turned out a little dryer this time, I'm not to sure why, but I think it is because I let it rise a lot longer... hummm it was still very good! Everyone loved it when I shared it at co-op today.

Here is what it looks like after the oatmeal has soaked for an hour, and the yeast has been added.

This is after it has risen twice, and is now in the bread pan ready for the oven!

This is done... YUM!!!

~Rebekah

iheart faces- Autumn beauty

This week over at ihearfaces, is Autumn beauty week! What a fun week! This is the first time in seven years I have lived somewhere that actually had Autumn colors so this is very exciting, I have not gotten to see them in so long!

I did this shoot a couple of weeks ago, I fell in LOVE with this girl, and this photo!

Head over to iheartfaces and check out the other AMAZING entries!

Rebekah

Pumpkin and previews

So, as I said in my last couple of posts life is crazy, let me emphasize on the CRAZY! I have been trying to get so busy, I love having relaxing days at home, and I really want to have time just to play outside, play games and etc. Anyways, I am very much enjoying and discovering more about photography and photoshop every day. I did another photoshoot on Sunday, and I love the results. Here is a small preview:

Defintly not my favorite, but I am saving the best for last!

So besides photography and babysitting, I have been very much enjoying cooking, especially from scratch! I have been making bread (LOVE IT!) and I made homemade pumpkin (like from the actual thing pumpkin.) on Tuesday. I am going to make a pumpkin pie and see how the pumpkin turned out! I wish I had taken pictures of the process because even though it was exstensive, it was very fun!

Rebekah

Craziness

Ok so after a few slow months, both babysitting an photography are really taking off. I have been getting like two calls a day for babysitting, and I already have like 3 shoots booked for November (not counting the 3 I already did in Nov.) It is absolute craziness! (But you know I absolutly Love it.) I am just praying about not being TOO busy. I am doubting life will slow down too much in the next 50 years ;)

So now I am going to let you see the shoot I did today. The shoot I did the other day with the two little girls, had so many good pictures, so it is going to take me quite a while to photoshop them.

These boys were a ball of fun. We went down on the bay (of the potomic river) again. It was a blast, and not too cold. I had some trouble for the first time. It was a bright sunny day with aboslutly no clouds insite! This left me with shadows, shadows, everywhere, which really frustrated me. Needless to say, the pictures did not turn out as well as I had hoped, but the mother seemed to like them, and that is what counts!!

This is my second fav.

My first fav.

Love the backround

ditto.

Like the backround, not the pic.

Rebekah

LOVE

So something God has put recently on my mind latley- LOVE. This is a subject I could write for years about, but I will only be doing a few posts :)

My first thoughts- LOVE is not taken seriously today. People will say I love you, over and over to different people to the point where it doesn't mean anything anymore.

One thing I started thinking on is, hey God LOVED me enough that he gave His one and only son for me, so that I may be here writing this right now! Now you may have heard this over and over, you whole life. But when you really sit down and think about it is exdradonary. Let me ask you, How many people have given their lives for you, with you having not done ANYTHING to deserve it? That is TRUE LOVE.

But now, how can I seriously apply this to my life. I started thinking a praying about this. My first answer is to LOVE my family. Show them LOVE everyday. If once a day, I count to ten and think of the LOVE Christ gave me, instead of shouting or yelling and stomping off, I will soon have a changing life. Now I am not in anyway saying this is easy, or that I am perfect and I suceed at this all the time. No, in fact that is that reason I am working on it. But I can try, and only by the grace of God will I succeed at ONCE A DAY. Second thing, is to not judge. This is something God has been conviting me on for many years. I do judge. And it is a horrible thing. It can hurt people dearly, it can cause me to not make a friend. So God really hit me over the head this Monday night while we were at bible study. Here are 2 of the verses we read,

Gal 2:6 As for those who seemed to be important—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not judge by external appearance—those men added nothing to my message.

And this has become one of my personal favorites: Acts 10:34-35 ⁴Then Peter began to speak: "I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism³⁵but accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what is right.

So God does not give one stinken care about peoples race, looks or beauty. He is the one who died for these people? He knows them by name. Why under heaven should I ever sit there and Judge them? So since God hit me over the head, I have been praying that he help me show LOVE to everyone I meet. Not judge them first off, becuase hey, you never know, the person could be my new life long friend, and I will never know unless I accept them, for who they are. So my first chance trying this out is tomorrow at co-op. I am praying, and we will see.

So that is my first thoughts on LOVE. I know it's basic, but hey, it's LOVE!

It is way late and I need to go right to bed, but I thought I would post a sneak peek of a photoshoot I did of two incredibly cute little girls!

I heart faces - Ballons :)

So I had all set up to do a shoot with a neighbor, but it did not work out. So last minute, here is my entry :)

I Love how i heart faces continues to challenge me!

Head over to i heart faces to see some more fantastic entries!!

Beautiful family.

So I sent an e-mail advertizing my business over the homeschool group and I have been absolutly crazy sense! Here is a family I did this saturday. It was lightly raining when she picked me up. We did the first half of the shoot in sprinkiling rain, then it got harder and harder till there were pretty big drops coming down! (Not pouring, but raining hard.) So if you look at one of the last pictures, you will see the kids hair getting wetter and wetter :)

So this is my fav, they are just the cutest family!!

In this one their grandma is behind me making them laugh so they all have really cute faces!

I adore this one, even though I love doing poses I also love abstract-type portraits. SO alot of the time I do a mix. This one totally says to me LIFE. I mean really, look at it :)

Rebekah :)