"Its the last piece of the puzzle but you just can't make it fit
Doctor says you're cured but you still feel the pain
Aspirations in the clouds but your hopes go down the drain "

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Another shoot in Gtown this evening. Seems I'm there almost every day.
I think we should move there, if we don't go to New Zealand that is.
Had a nice Easter, hope you all did as well. Had a nice lunch at the
Banglesdorfs with a bunch of people, and got to serve in a communion
emergency. The crowds were record setting at church and they needed
warm bodies to refill the juice quickly so I was given a 10 minute
reprieve from my serving ban ;-) It actually felt so good to help
again, even if only for a moment. I was asked twice in the last 2 days
leading up to Easter to help at a service and had to tell them I
wasn't able to. That sucked. Especially cause I didn't want to go into
the 'why' I couldn't serve. Oh well. C'est la vie.
In other news my 16 year old just returned from the beach with her
friend Zoe. She's completely sunburned. Still needs her mama I
suppose :-)
Rene is going to the Masters in Georgia. Without me. :-(
But we get to go to Tulsa in a small plane the week after to shoot
photos of another plane :-)
Still no job, but have made money shooting photos this week!
I dropped the fountain head into the pond so now we have a tower of
water shooting up. That's weird.
I need to go buy some grass seed to fill in some holes in our yard.
Don't buy a house on a hill. Soil runs away with evey rain.
Smoothie time!!

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Found a helicopter- now if only I knew how to fly it...

one of many favorites

Wow. That was cool. 7 hours of shooting, 2 hours of sleep and
contorting my body into ridiculous stances to get 'the shot' make for
one wiped out woman. Going to bed now. Will post a preview later if I wake up.

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About to get started on phase one of the photoshoot. We are doing a
calendar with classic tasteful dressed women on and around these World
War 2 planes that are here at the airport. This is gonna be fun.
Except that the start time of phase 2 is at 6am :-(

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Been cruising around this afternoon with the top down. Got the mild sunburn going on.. sipping a smoothie ( I've become a smoothie junkie ) ( but there are worse things to be addicted to) .. Waiting on Rene for a pre church shopping date. Buying some props for our big photo shoot Friday morning.

I'm doing ok, btw, thank you all for your kind words.

"MarkBatterson - sometimes the Lord leads you down a street to get you to another street to get you to a side street you wouldn't find any other way"

I can't start serving in church until July. And missions is off the
table indefinitely.

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Smells like slow cooked onions and chocolate in here. :-)
Making a pot roast for dinner, and there are brownies in the oven. Looking forward to everyone being home tonight.
I have a meeting with Karen at 4pm. THAT, I am NOT really looking forward to. I should find out if I'm allowed to serve again. If she says no again... I don't know.. Josh says I'm stronger than I think I am. He may be right. But it will have to be a total God thing to not come unglued after all this preaching by Pastor Joe about serving and forgiveness and moving on ,lately, and then it not applying to me.
Doesn't matter, she's going to say yes, and I'm going to be restored. What the enemy tried to take from me will be reinstated 100 fold. God is in the business of restoration.

Another beautiful week being served up in the ATX!
Currently gardening in a tank top and shorts.... Ahhhhh feels soo good

I knew today would be better! I logged on to a stock photo site that I sell on, and guess whose picture is on the front page?? Mine!!! These guys represent photographers from all over the world!
God is so good. Just yesterday I wanted to hang up my camera strap forever out of discouragement and frustration. I prayed for confirmation, guidance, and direction. I think I got it :-)

(panama boat on the right)

Not gonna lie, today sucked. Kept hoping something good would happen
that I could write about. But it never happened, just kept getting
worse. I am frustrated, sick, tired, stressed, and hurt.
But tomorrow's going to be better. I just know it. I won't let life
get the best of me. I'm on the winning team. My God will not forsake
me, He will rescue me in my time of trouble.

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