During this past trip to Lake Tahoe, I had a blast taking a million snapshots of one of my favorite places in the world on my still somewhat-new DSLR. The icky, uncomfortable, painful part of the blast came immediately after I would hear the click and go back to look at the photo I just took. Without doubt, almost every single time I breathlessly ( Read more... )

This morning, I realized that making my perfect coffee is a bit like tuning my cello. Even a horribly out of tune instrument can be changed into something pleasant and just right through the process of adjustments. It's about taking something at the outskirts of that just-right feeling and then pulling it towards what you know is the perfect ( Read more... )

Sometimes, when I survive for so long without hanging out with people... I mean REALLY hanging out with a group of people, I begin to wonder if maybe I'm really an introvert, and that I simply am denying my identity as such. But mostly, I wonder this type of thing because I'm not dying and withering from the lifestyle of a private introvert ( Read more... )

HI FRIENDS. I'M GOING TO BE AN AUNT. SAME WITH JEN AND APRIL. AND JOHNJOHN WILL BE AN UNCLE. WOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

You tore the veil
You made the way
When you said that it is doneSo goes the climactic bridge of one of hillsong's older masterpieces, "At the Cross." Ever since I graduated from songs like Father Abraham and began listening to music that could/would be playing in a carseat-less vehicle, I've always had a song of the moment sort of thing. It's nice ( Read more... )

So rumor has it that God created the world with a few breaths and a couple of words.

How wonderful would it be if, with every breath I took and every word I expelled, I created?

I just flipped through and gently placed on my desk "the Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo. Man, can that woman write. Every time I see her name on a cover while browsing the children's section of the library, I can't help but snatch it before some other 8-year-old decides she wants some warm and fuzzies for dinner. And boy, ( Read more... )

www.maureenandvictor.blogspot.com

As of now, Victor and I have yet to create a wedding website, and with it a wedding blog. For awhile I was thinking of having the blog just ON the wedding website, but now i'm leaning more towards having them be separate. The blog will be more about planning and such, whereas the website itself will probably be for the actual wedding. SO, Victor ( Read more... )

So on a beautiful, sunny Saturday, Victor packed my newly purchased DSLR camera, his gift of a tripod and myself into his car and we took a drive towards the beach in an effort to get some nice shots with my new toy. We arrived at the beach, which had an empty parking lot, some gray-ish colored water and a lot of seagulls. Needless to say, it was ( Read more... )