friday i'm in love...


with life...
with love...
with yoga...
with routine...
with fall...
with capturing weddings...
with planning props...
with the overwhelming support on
my facebook fan page (arlene giddings photography
if you want to check it out...)
with hope...
with planning ahead...
with lists...
with daring...
with warm chocolate cookies straight out of the oven...

what are you loving right now...
this second...

39...

today i turned 39.

this is my last year in the 30's.

i spent the day ::
~getting the kids ready to go back to school

~finding a squirrel at the top of the basement steps,
staring at me...as i quickly slammed the door....

~having lunch with one best friend before going to
a wake for the step father of another best friend

~coming home to find out the squirrel had gotten
into the house and was in the living room, attached
to the blinds, terrified...waited outside for my
husband to come home, catch it under a blanket
and set it loose in the backyard {hoping it does
not find it's way back in}

~chinese food for supper with husband and kids
listening to an avid breakdown of their first day back...

~back to wake this evening with husband,
who couldn't go this afternoon...

the other thing i also worked on today
was a new mondo-beyondo-GRANDE version
list...i have done one before but i feel that
since this is my last year in my 30's ....
it warrants a list of it's own...
a big list...an inspiring list...
a list of epic proportions...
but due to the strangeness of my day,
it won't be posted until later.

i have high hopes for 39.
cross your fingers for me...
:O)
{oh. and some of my list involves some of you.}
{just so you know...a heads up...heh}

friday i'm in love...


it has been a long time since i have done
a friday i'm in love....

with:

:: wedding photography...i love the intensity,
the emotion, the possibility, being part of such
a special day...

:: the first season of the office...i rented it
the other night and loved it...so funny.

:: strawberries with milk and sugar

:: new stamps and a new area to create...
sunny and all mine...

:: the promise of fall...crunchy leaves, apple
picking, riot of color...

one in the morning and i can't sleep...

i had a headache earlier today and slept
for 2 or more hours...
and now, i can't sleep...
the rest of the house is silent
other than my night owl boy
up in his room watching tommy boy
and playing with lego...
and i am downstairs at the computer
editing pictures...
i did a newborn session last week
and this is one of the shots from it...
i love it but i wish i would have been a little
more comfortable with asking for different shots...
i was nervous and didn't want to push too hard...
but i am happy with the shots i got,
i just kept thinking after of
what i could have done....

self confidence.
i need to find some more of that.