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So….yes, the day has finally arrived. For the last 2 weeks, I have been sulking in this reality that I’m just getting older. But the 30s are the new 20s (so I hear)…so I will try to embrace it.  This morning I woke up from a dream at about 5am. My husband stayed in from work and told me to get ready…that we’re going to New York (ahhh…that’s the highlight of the dream). B/c then I started crying when I realized I had nothing to wear. lol  That’s when I woke up….  No, there wasnt a NYC trip in today’s agenda, and no I wasnt crying over clothes.  Yes, I was still huge and pregnant! lol  But then I started to realize that, wow…I am 30!!!!! I am 30…..married to the love of my life, mother to a daughter that adores me….and that I love more than anything….and carrying a precious life that we have been blessed with…we have a roof over our heads and we are all healthy. Ya know….the little things that we all sooo take for granted every single day.  God has granted me another year of life to enjoy these things, and I only pray that I would live this year glorifying Him in everything!!!

So yeah…how about that giveaway!?  I thought I would make this extra special by gifting a lucky person! Then I thought, why not have 3 lucky winners!! Here is the deal. Comment below and I will select 3 winners to win 3 different giveaways. The order that each winner is selected will be the giveaway number they are winning. So, for example…first selected winner wins prize #1, second name drawn will win giveaway #2…and so on!  Here are the giveaways!!!

GIVEAWAY #1:  50 CUSTOM, LINEN CHRISTMAS CARDS FOR THIS COMING HOLIDAY. CAN FEATURE IMAGES FROM A PAST SESSION OR FUTURE SESSION.

GIVEAWAY #2:  $50 GIFT CERTIFICATE TO ANTHROPOLOGIE (MY FAV!!!! and since I cant wear it now….why dont I treat you to a little something!)

GIVEAWAY #3: COMPLIMENTARY SESSION WITH AP AND A 20 PAGE CUSTOM PHOTO BOOK FEATURING OUR NEW BOOKS/ALBUMS (ALL OTHER PRINTS AVAILABLE A LA CARTE)

There ya have it! You must be able and ‘ok’ with any of these giveaways to enter.  Cut off is at midnight and names will be announced tomorrow morning via the random number generator. You can enter as many times as you like. Oh, and be nice and tell your friends!  Good luck! Off to spend some time with my baby and parents…and my honey later on (since he didnt take the day off)

Congrats Jen Lawson!!! Contact me to pick out your poster details!!  yay!!

I have thoroughly enjoyed miss little sweet cheeks over the last year or so. She’s a big girl now and about to be a big sister too! So fun!!! Here are a few from our last session together..

I know I’ll be seeing more of you guys soon!! Always a treat!

It really feels weird logging into my blog.  It feels like forever ago that I posted the last time.  Oh blog…how I’ve missed thee!!!  Well, this season has been VERY abnormal…to say the least. It has been one of my busiest, and most trying season of all.  There were alot of unanswered questions (the most popular one being ‘WHY?’…on my part).  There has been ALOT of good, but also some bad, and some lessons learned.  Anyway, here is a breakdown of the last few months:

-Massive computer crash (yes, lost a ton…even from my back-up disk). Insert ever-most popular question..WHY? and HOW?? I still cannot answer them!!  I cannot thank my clients enough for the amazing attitude they’ve had towards this. The patience and understanding for what I had to go through to pull myself through this has been very gracious.

-Finally recovering from that big mess, and I was hit with a virus that was attached to my website by a 3rd party. Basically, there were ‘malicious codes’ inserted into the index files of my site (anyone speak that language? Not me!)  Figuring this out with my website people and getting it cleaned up was an absolute nightmare.  Needless to say, I was paralyzed from this too…b/c everything associated with my site was down, and clients couldnt place orders, couldnt view their galleries, couldnt get emails! Talk about alot of phone calls to make and frustration to go with that.  But again…my clients really are THE best!!

-One word:  Stalker.  Yes, you heard me. Yes, I WISH i was joking. As if I didnt have enough going on with my home and work life…let’s throw in a complete physco stalker in the mix to make it more exciting. Unfortunately, I wont go into too much detail (although some of you secretly crave juicy details…sorry!!).  Let’s just say it was definitely uncalled for, lasted too long, and absolutely freaked me out. I was honestly scared that Ava and I were in danger as when this person decided to follow me…Ava was always with me.  Well, it has been taken care of (ok…that doesnt sound good, lol. It’s not like that).  And my life goes on. Its nice to know that I can go about my business without always being on the ‘lookout’.  WHO KNEW that it was so draining in every sense of the word??? Unfortunately, I can now say that ‘I know’.

-On a more positive note, I’ve had the opportunity to do a commercial shoot for a new clothing line here in Bham, launching VERY soon. (MORE on that later!!)  It was all so exciting, and I cannot wait to share my end of it all.

-Sickness sickness sickness!! Anyone else battle a ton of sickness in their household??  A friend of mine told me that when Ava is older, both she and I will be some of the healthiest chicks on the block. B/c we have honestly caught EVERYTHING under the sun! I kid you not.

Well…my life in a miniature nutshell there for ya!!  I really am crazy for sitting here at 2am on Christmas eve to type this. Sleep is for the birds!! HA!  At least my chocolate pies are done, my house is clean, presents are wrapped (with the last gift bought today at 10pm), and I will be enjoying time with all my family for the next few days.  I definitely got my second wind, so couldnt possibly put off a blog post.  However, DONT count on me sitting here and catching up on all my sessions…I will start trickling them in little by little.  And to start things off…here is a sweet family I have had to pleasure of photographing for the 3rd year in a row.  Never a dull moment!

Aren’t they just too cute??

Ok….i’ll be back very soon with more!!

-B

Well…it’s hard to believe that 2 weeks of my vacation has come and gone…I’ve got the rest of this week and next week and I will be home.  I hope everyone is enjoying their summer as much as I am.  I’ve got my laptop with me and thought I’d see if I can get caught up with sessions that I never got to post before I left.  Not sure if I have all the sessions, but I’ll have to do a quick scan and see what i’ve got with me.  There are some major cuties that i have to showcase, that’s for sure.

In the meantime, I wanted to show you guys some of the places I’ve been able to see and photograph during our stay here.  This is only a small small fraction of all the pictures I’ve taken so far.  But it’s too beautiful to not share…so…here are some of the sights we’ve seen so far!

This is the Bucegi Mtns…a neat little section of the Carpathian mountain range. I have hiked up this mountain many times before…but it was Jason’s first time up to the cross (built to honor those who fought in WWI).  It is approx 7000 ft above sea level and definitely Romania’s best kept secret.  

Above image:  the town of Busteni as seen from the top of the mtn. I absolutely love this mountain range that leads to and beyond my favorite city in Romania…the city where I was born (but only lived in until I was 2)…the city of Brasov:

These umbrellas were everywhere. There were cute little restaurants all over the square, so it looked really neat. I would have to agree

Jason and I walking the neat cobblestone roads (not the sharpest image…i have short arms) 

These neat doors and gates were all over the back roads we walked through

Well…this is all I’ll be posting today. I have soo much more, but if I tried to post all my pics, I’d be sitting in this chair the rest of my 2 weeks here.  One of our friends that we hiked with joked that I got a picture of every tree on the mountain range. I kinda believe him  I also have beach pics that I need to post from the Black Sea where we’ll be going to again in a few days. I’ll be posting more on Facebook…so if you’re on facebook…check it out!

Hope everyone is having a great summer! More client sessions coming soon!

-Becky

So…..are you on FACEBOOK?  It’s ok if you are. It’s not like myspace where you were embarrassed to admit it. lol. Facebook is actually ‘cool’.  Cool enough for AP to have a page. HA!  j/k   Anyway, if you are, you MUST become a FAN of our page and get the latest. I’ll be doing fun give-aways and FACEBOOK ONLY specials…so that will be the only way you’ll hear of it.  I’ve been on facebook for a while, just havent made it public. So there it is…my PSA!

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