On September 4, Rachel & Adam were united in holy marriage! It was a beautiful night and we had a lot of fun My awesome sister, Amy, assisted me shooting, and my amazing and talented friend, Danielle, assisted me with editing. All of us together gave this couple a special set of pictures I hope they will treasure forever. You can see more here.

The last few weeks have literally flown by in the blink of an eye. Some highlights:

• I for real ran out of hard drive space.
• My dvd burner is broken so I asked Brian to get me a new external harddrive. He got me this Passport portable 400gb in a deep red, almost suede texture, and I love it, SO cute and fast.
• The snow has been unbelievable already and it’s not even December. It feels like the dead of late January. I totally missed the window to pick up leaves. At this point they’re staying till the spring.
• Some of my main favorite people in my life all have the same name. Kristin H., Kristin L., and Kristin U., Christy B., and Christa P. It’s… A LITTLE BIT TOO MUCH people.
• Day-job work has been busy
• I am behind on my freelance and photos. I have a few in need of editing. I Hope to get some work done over break!
• I have 3 weddings scheduled within 2 weeks of each other for May of 2009. I am psyched.
• I am officially taking off all the time in between Christmas and New Years from said Day-job. This is the FIRST time I’ve ever done this. I am so excited. The hubs is also off, so this makes things wonderful.
• When you’re least expecting it, things go wrong in your home/car/etc. so, it’s essential to have an emergency fund set aside for when your car just needs an oil change but it ends up costing $200 for other problems you’ve been putting off, and/or you accidentally clog the drain/disposal with angel hair pasta for $369.
• I’ve seen Twilight/movie/twice. I’ll restrain from any opinions on it. All I know is I want the boxed set for Christmas and I’m now listening to podcasts about it on TwilightSource - the mugglecast peeps!! Also the soundtrack for the movie is haunting and addictive.
• I’m not sure why I feel the need to clean and vaccuum my house from top to bottom before I go out of town. It’s some weird OCD thing. 
• I have no idea what I’m going to get people for Christmas. I almost want to tell everyone they are all getting gift cards. LOL!
• Google picassa updated it’s desktop software, which I’m glad bout because I use it to organize all my originals and backup copies of photos, and it was getting really really clunky.
• I’m wide awake even though it’s 12:31 am and we are leaving at 7:00am tomorrow to drive to Maryland to be with Brian’s family for Thanksgiving! I’m so excited to see them all and have some good away-from-Erie time. 
• The cool thing about this trip is that we are combining the drive with some great friends which hopefully will make the trip go fast and more fun, and save resources and wear and tear and money. They will be continuing on to Myrtle Beach after leaving us in MD.

Happy thanksgiving people!! ]]> http://puremotif.com/2008/11/thanksgiving-away/feed/ 1 http://puremotif.com/2007/12/winter-pictures/ http://puremotif.com/2007/12/winter-pictures/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:39:44 +0000 Rachel http://puremotif.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/winter-pictures/ You probably already saw these in my flickr badge, but here you go anyway….

happy winteryness

kitty enjoys the sun:

oh, and that’s me.

let it snow!! just keep me cozy inside!!

For some reason… I’ve already done a ton of wrapping. The thing is, all the packages are empty! I did about five or six rather large empty boxes that will be used as a prop for our sermon series about “presents/gifts” … of course it will be tied back to God. We’re not that materialistic! And the others I was inspired by Danielle to just wrap a few cute sized boxes under the tree so it doesn’t look so bare.

I have some awesome paper that I got from Ikea last weekend… it is so adorable. They have an incredible line… pretty much every color you can imagine. I’m also not afraid to shop at Big Lots to get affordable ribbon and other papers! Here’s what I’m using this season:

Now if money was no object, I pine after these beauties from TheContainerStore.

and so many more!

My problem with posting is for some reason it takes me so long to decide on which photos to post, and what you guys even care to see…. so as I was taking the wrapping paper, I also did some Christmas decor. I Hope you enjoy….

zelda says hello.

• My relationship with Christ. He sticks by me despite my doubts and struggles. He died for me so I could share eternal life. He gave me all that is listed below.
• For my family. Everything about them is awesome and I love that we are so close that we are sharing information and all aware of what is going on so we can pray for each other and support each other
• My incredible friends. Some of them have been working so hard lately and yet remaining positive and awesome. A few are going through their own difficult times right now, yet are still there for me with my own problems and issues.
• My grandmother. We found out that they are leaning towards Ovarian cancer, but we still aren’t positive. She will begin treatment, but she says the peace of the Lord is with her. She is an inspiration and I love her.
• My husband and my Zelda. I can’t say how much these things mean in my life. All bring me so much joy.
• My home. Although it comes with its trials for sure (loitering, cars hitting it, expenses)… I am still thankful to have a comfy and cozy roof over my head and that we can afford a place to live.
• My Maryland family. It’s so awesome to have another place to come to and be with and share time with on the holidays. And an excuse to come to beautiful Maryland
• Our new church and the staff and people who have made it happen. It is still an adjustment for sure, but it is amazing and such a cool time for us all. I still can’t believe we’re there.

Have an amazing day everyone and DO overeat turkey.

 

The other day, I had to take some photos for the new church building… Danielle & I are working on some photography to put up as artwork! She is getting some today, I’m sure they turned out awesome. Anyway, a few were ok… and of course there were some beautiful fall colors. Here are a few for ya:

Goodnight everyone….

Ok, enough whining about it….

Update on my grandma…. it’s not good right now. I mean, it is a waiting game. She had a biopsy on a growth… and she has fluid in her stomach… and a partial obstruction in her colon. She is extremely weak and tired and hasn’t een able to eat for 2 days. She’s in pain and so nauseous she can barely drink. She is hooked up to IVs. She is totally lucid and conversational and was happy to see us. She’s just in a really bad place right now. It’s amazing how life sort of goes on hold now… waiting for the biopsy results.

They are trying to rule out cancer.

Cancer.

That word…. I hate it.