Stillness of Summer

Be Still

And know that I am God.

Ps. 46:10

The kiddo

When my brother and sister-in-law were down for a brief visit I got to snap some photos of my newest nephew! He is so irresistible with all his sweet little faces.

That pouty lip!!

He fits right in with the rest of the family... lucky enough to snag a few of the other kiddos that day as well.

Proj366

Yowza... it's been a while... I assure you I've not been lazy. I have been behind the camera more often than not - just haven't been posting.... Now to catch up on Proj366... didn't realize it's been three weeks!! So.... that makes about 21 pics in this post? Yikes. It's gonna be a long one.

March 11th. Sunday. Wow. I forgot about this. Looking back on the pics for the past three weeks... we had SNOW? That's just ridiculous.

March 12th. Monday. Easter Season = Candy. While I like "eastery" photo. The candy was gross. But I've never really been a fan of jelly beans.

March 13th. Tuesday. The weather report for Lakewood still hasn't changed (3 weeks later)... Anaheim's just getting better. Heading there soon!

March 14th. Wednesday. Got a new book in the mail. Still trying to trudge my way through it. Not the easiest read in the world. But so helpful at work.

March 15th. Thursday. Just so you know. Cookie season has come and gone. And it was a good one this year. These are my favorite. We won't talk about how many I consumed all on my own...

March 16th. Friday. "Play Day"... A friend invited us to a play at our local playhouse - "The Farnsworth Invention"...

March 17th. Saturday. "Play Day" also consisted of dinner at CARRS restaurant... = delicious leftovers for the next morning.... Coconut shrimp skewers and garlic mashed potatoes. 

March 18th. Sunday. My four favorite words - "All You Can Eat"... We met up at an all you can eat Korean BBQ for a little hanging out and a little planning/dreaming/"envisioning" for our youth group.

March 19. Monday. We went down to my mom's to celebrate our friend's birthday... Nephew got into the chocolate a little early.

March 20th. Monday. Over the weekend took a sweet little one-year-old's photos... this is what happened when the hubs helped me edit.

March 21st. Wednesday. The weather broke. The sun came out. My shoes came off.

March 22nd. Thursday. Reading night at the elementary school I work at... we conned a friend of ours (and co-worker) into being "Tilly the Tiger"... He was definitely overheating in there.

March 23rd. Friday. These little pens are all the rage at work. They get us through the more "stressful" times.

March 24th. Saturday. Spent the better part of the day doing an engagement shoot - and saw these little "deers" along the way...

March 25th. Sunday. We had a near perfect weekend. This is the weather that greeted me for another photo session in the morning.

March 26th. Monday. Our Daily Bread. It was a good one today.

March 27th. Tuesday. We get these sun breaks every once in a while so I try to capture them when they come. I wish they weren't so brief.

March 28th. Wednesday. Where are our Disneyland Tickets??? We leave in less than a week?!

March 29th. Thursday. After a long.... long... long... day. Sitting at home with the hubs. Watching... I don't even know what cause I'm pretty sure I fell asleep right after this picture...

March 30th. Friday. After a long long week and a couple 14hour work days. A friend and I took some time for a little pampering...

March 31st. Saturday. Right where I want to be.

All photos taken via instagram, @chrisklas or online!

I want to ride my....

My new helmet came in the mail... Spent a pretty penny on it since I've got to ride my bike on the freeway in order to get anywhere. I love "my" bike.... A hand-me-down from my father-in-law... who rode it in France way back when they were stationed across the lake. She's seen a lot of life. And this season... she's seen a lot of dust. I'm not a hard-core cyclist who enjoys riding in the rain. I'm the kind of girl who likes to take the bike out on a Sunny Sunday afternoon and ride the 10 miles to the ice cream shop in the neighboring town... or take it out early in the morning to ride the 5 miles to work on a Sunny spring/summer's day...

We haven't had any of those yet. I want to wear my new helmet. But people think it's weird when I'm not riding my bike. Hopefully the rain will let up and my bike (and my body) will see the sunshine again.

Thankful Thursday

Proj366

There's no time for this! How do people find time to keep up with all of this.... AND work??

I'll do my best "bloggy world"... but there are no guarantees...

All photos taken via instagram, @chrisklas or online!

Finding Order

You know how you get to that point when you find things are just piling up? (both literally and figuratively) .... The laundry's been neglected, the dishes, and at work - things have gone undone because they've always been at the bottom of the checklist - and now all of this sudden it feels like everything needs to get done at the same time and I am having difficulty sorting our the priorities...

That's me right now. (For once) this is not a complaining post because, for the most part, I am grateful for those things that I have to do - they are all good - it's just SO much! I've picked up a 1/4 time job (on top of the one I've already got) and I couldn't be MORE thrilled for these few extra hours of work (a longer post for another day)... but - it's definitely adding to my work load and I'm feeling the stress of it...

Ants. If you look closely. These photos were taken "pre-macro lens"...