Oh to Pic....

Day 17: Favorite Picture of Yourself and Why

Ok, so bear with me on this post.  My favorite pictures I have ever had taken of me are from my engagement shoot.  I still remember very vividly how nervous I was.  Nervous that I wouldn't look pretty.  Nervous my hair wouldn't work right.  Nervous I would have zits on my face.  Nervous the trees wouldn't be colorful enough.  Nervous it would be raining.  Nervous I would have weird smiles.  Nervous my outfit wouldn't look cute.  Nervous our personalities wouldn't show up in the pictures.  Just plain nervous about almost ANYTHING that there was to be nervous about.

I have loved engagement pictures my whole life.  I love looking at them, whether it is someone I know or some random person.  I just think they are so darn special.  It is at an adorable exciting time in your life and you are so much in love with your fiance and that always shows in the pictures.  Plus you will have those professionally done pictures for the rest of your lives to display in your homes to remember how good you used to look before you had kids... :)...

What if after all that, I didn't like my own engagement pictures?!?!

Well,  The Lord blessed me yet again.  I absolutely positively adore my engagement pictures!  Our photographer, Emily Rodgers (whom I would totally tell everyone to look up and hire if she wasn't retired), was amazing and captured us perfectly.  I love the colors she enhanced and the ideas she brought to the table.  I was so relieved to get the pictures and to love every one of them.

Sooooo, all that being said.  My engagement pictureS are my favorite pictures of myself.  All of them.  I couldn't choose.  Lucky you gets to see them all.....

And there you have it Folks! My favorite pictures...

It's A Hard NOT Life

Day 16: Something difficult about your "lot in life" and how your are working to overcome it

I'm just gonna go ahead and throw this out there.... I am super duper ooper blessed.  I don't even understand how it happened.  I have an amazing family, I have incredible friends, I have had wonderful opportunities of employment, I have always had food in my belly, a bed to sleep on, a roof over my head, shoes on my feet (unless its summer, because I prefer to be barefoot...) the hope of My Savior, travel experiences, a great education, the abilities to serve and give, and many of life's little pleasures.  I don't say this to brag, I say this to acknowledge my blessings.  I don't deserve one ounce of what I have been given.  I recognize my lot and thank the Lord for it.  

All that to say, I just don't feel right about saying something "difficult" about my lot in life.  However, I will let you in on some curve balls that I was thrown and how I'm swingin at them....

I've got some crazy frizzy curly hair, y'all

So, I consider my straightener one of my best friends....

I grew up with two meaner older brothers...

So, I learned how to fight back and to dodge their attacks

My friends and family live far away, so I visit and surprise them every once and a while...

I  have a husband that is so much better looking than I am, 

So I try to keep up..

My husband grew up with a mom that fed him real well... 

so I stole all her recipes

I have a teenage daughter that doesn't like taking pictures with me... so I bribe her with peanut butter

I know, I know.  It's a rough life.  But as you can see, I am doing my best to get by....