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Relaxing weekend

Its been awhile since we've had a relaxing weekend. A weekend that we didnt think about work (okay so that didn't happen exactly) and simply caught up on rest and took some time to do a few things for ourselves. This weekend we were able to do all of the above.

Saturday we got a late start to the day after getting up fairly late. As we went to lunch before running some errands we talked about some things related to work. This wouldn't last long as we knew if we went down that road we wouldn't have a good weekend. I believe that there comes a time for everyone to step aside from work and concentrate on those things in your life that matter the most, family, kids and your spouse. Right now thank God we don't have to worry about kids. I often joke sometimes that our business is our kid. As a small business owner, it seems that work is your life and your life is ruled by work. As we tried to distract ourselves from the normal routine of "work talk" we settled in and had a great weekend. I was able to catch up on some much needed rest yesterday afternoon (Bridget of course can't take naps) and as it turned out we had a very relaxing day.

Today we served in the children's ministry with the 4-5 year olds at church and only ended up having two kids in our class, Cole and Mikeala. This was a welcome change since we've been used to having upwards of 16 kids when volunteering with the 2-3 year olds. Today was the last sermon on the series on Johna, When Life Takes You Under. I don't know how someone can say that they aren't rejuvenated for the week after going to a service at Fellowship of the Woodlands. We've been at Fellowship for almost two years now and I haven't once thought that we needed to look elsewhere for a church home.

This week will prove to be another challenging one as we have many major projects to tackle. I will continue to teach the grueling schedule with my two courses at North Harris. In little over two weeks the Upward Bound Video class will come to an end and I'll simply have just the Tuesday and Thursday Intro to Multimedia class. Say a prayer that our work schedule at the studio survives while I am teaching the two classes.

Lindsey & Brian's Wedding

Last Friday we shot Lindsey & Brian's wedding. What an awesome day! Lindsey's parent's are good friends with my parents and are in a small group at our church together. Of course it made it a little easier working with them since we already knew each other. Despite it being so brutally hot out everything went perfectly.

We started the day at John & Amy's (another small group couple) house to get ready and to shoot all the family portraits. Lindsey and all the girls were a little late arriving, but that didn't seem to put a damper on our photo schedule of the day as a whole. John and Amy have a beautiful house in Spring and it made the perfect backdrop for the wedding photos since shooting outside was basically not an option.

Lindsey and Brian's ceremony and reception were held at Shady Oaks in Spring, just a mile from our studio. It had been sometime since I'd worked at Shady Oaks. Thank you Nancy for being so nice to us and for making our experience working at your venue a joy. The ceremony started just after 7 PM. Since Lindsey and Brian had agreed to see each other prior to the ceremony (great decision) we only had to shoot the photos of the entire wedding party after the ceremony. I can't stress enough how important it is (in some cases) for couple's to see each other prior to the ceremony if they are passionate about having exceptional photography for their wedding. In Lindsey and Brian's case they didn't have a lot of time after the ceremony to take portraits. Also, the chapel doors at Shady Oaks would not be opened until just 30 minutes prior to the ceremony, thus taking photos in the chapel before the ceremony was out of the picture. Also, it would have been suicide to take the family photos out doors, thus it was necessary for everybody to meet at another indoor location to shoot almost all the photos prior to the ceremony.

Thank you so much Teresa and Les for allowing us to be such an important part of Lindsey and Brian's wedding day. It was a pleasure getting to know you all more and being there with you Friday. We appreciate you guys and wish blessings upon you and your family. God Bless.