Well I promised myself to be a better blogger and share the little details of my life, so here goes.

I have had a rough week but also a great week.

Someone stole my bike out of my garage.

I spilled chardonnay on my laptop on the plane and now it is the hospital (aka apple store), to the tune of I-can’t-even-say-how-much.  Just suffice it say I had to go through the 7 stages of grief.

My kitchen sink is clogged. Like, really clogged.  Like, I think we have to get takeout tonight so I won’t make any more dirty dishes that I can’t wash.  Landlord is looking at it tonight, hoping it’s an easy fix.

What a week I’m having, right?

But then I got to go to NYC for 5 days in the middle of that and see my love.  And I have returned and I am very at peace.  {maybe not having the laptop for a few days is GOOD for me?}

It has been a tough couple months, trying to coordinate all of the moving parts for his move out here.  But after much worrying, and over thinking, and asking one million questions and generally driving him insane (not really, he is so patient with me)-I have decided to just let it be.  I am confident in what we have and whether it’s June, or August…it doesn’t really matter.  I am lucky.  So very lucky to have found him.

And after what always seems like the LONGEST DEAD SEASON EVER, the flowers are blooming, the birds are singing, and the phone is ringing.  Why do January, February, and March always seem to drag on so long?  Every year it happens and every year I fantasize about moving somewhere warm and green where I can shoot year round.

I’ve recently been inspired by this book and if you haven’t read it, you should.  Do you follow her blog?  I’ve been following her for years and to read her entire story in this book was fantastic. I couldn’t put it down.  Makes the week I just had seem pretty easy, really.

Oh and I think something is wrong with my printer now.  But I’ll leave you with this:

he's going to kill me for posting this.

Lots more where this came from on my Instagram feed.  Still plugging away with my Project 366, one day at a time.

Happy Wednesday!  And remember, it will all work out.  Really it will.

Well here it is another month gone by and I haven’t posted since last month’s 10 on 10!  Gah.  So many ideas in my head and I desperately want to express them here…but for some reason can’t put fingers to keyboard.  A little afraid, I think, to say what I really want to say.  But anyway…I took these images on Easter and I think it says alot about where we are right now.  Happy. Relaxed.  Comfortable in this rental home, and ok with maybe being here longer than we had originally planned.  A certain someone tells me this all the time and more every day I know it to be true:  everything is going to be ok.  It is.

My 10 on 10:

Easter Prep

Pretty flowers

Table set

Egg hunt

Fun with bubbles

The traditional dying of eggs.  Yuck.  I hate hard boiled eggs and throw them away as soon as we are done, every year.

Sisters

My Sue Sue.

Be sure to continue in our circle and check out the next talented photog:  Mary Schannen and see her 10 on 10 for this month!

We could also call this…the day I just got off my computer and did other things.

Sometimes being a professional photographer is hard.  We’ve all read on facebook, on the blogs…our market is oversaturated and each one of us has to work 1,000 times harder to eek out even a tiny corner for ourselves.  We are flooded with sub-par images and news that so-in-so is charging 50 cents for an entire disc of images!  Yay!  And then we start to doubt ourselves.  Maybe I’m doing something wrong.  And there’s a barrage of people telling us what we NEED to do.  Take a workshop!  Buy this template!  Rebrand yourself!  It’s all just so much noise…and after lunching with a friend the other day and discussing this exact topic…I decided to just unplug for the rest of the day.  I needed silence.  So I did a few things:

I picked up poop in the backyard.  Not the most glamorous, but boy is it nice to look out there and see a clean yard, now that the snow is melting.

I did some dishes.

I sat in my girls rooms and admired the mess, the non made beds that were supposed to be made, and thought about what good people they are.

I cleaned my dirty tub.

I took a nap.

I cleaned out mr frog’s tank.  Disgusting.  I can’t even talk about it.

I thought about how much I love these chairs from ikea.

I straightened up my closet.  This actually looks GOOD.  Couldn’t even walk in there before.

I finally sewed up a hole in a sweater that had been sitting out for a month.

And you know what?  I felt better.  Because sitting in front of the computer seeing what everyone else is doing on facebook or what everyone else is shooting or charging isn’t helping me one bit.  Taking care of me, my home, my kids…does help.  The business will come.

Now, continue in our circle and check out Amy Schilling and see her 10 on 10 this month!

Well hello.  And here it is March.  I can’t believe it!

Lots of good things happening…working on my materials for high school seniors!  Will be announcing promos and pricing very soon.  I am on the preferred list at Mountain Vista and Heritage this year…so if you know someone at one of those schools, look for me!

Been keeping up diligently with my Project 366 on Instagram and I even created a Tumblr site you can check out here!

Going to post this entire session next week but for now I thought I’d share this:

I was there for an in-home lifestyle newborn session with baby brother and could.not.resist sister on this white bed.

Happy Friday all…I’m headed to the mountains with some wonderful friends.  P.S. I don’t ski.  But you can guarantee there is some wine & shopping & snowshoeing in my future!

Until next week….Lisa

OK so when you are tasked with taking pictures of your life hour by hour during the day…you really realize just how boring your life is.  So GET READY.  Super exciting stuff coming up!

Here’s my day…and sorry I ended at 7:15pm, but after that I was scurrying the girls into bed so I could watch the Bachelor.  Ha!

Check out the next talented photog:  Kimberlee Edwards and see her 10 on 10 this month!