head switching

I know I've been saying I don't do head switching anymore with photos but this one was just asking for it. The girls were super adorable but little Jenna was getting tired and hungry so I only snapped a few of the two together. Jenna is chewing on baby Cheetos puffs or something like that. So, here's what I started with:

I combined the two pictures in photoshop using magic and ended up with this after some tweaking and masking and cloning and curves (for you photoshop peeps) I came to the final picture. Aren't they adorable! They are mini-jen's with their stylish threads!


Don't worry, I'll add more pics from the shoot soon. :0)~

hair

My hair has needed some attention for a while and I finally scheduled an appt with my guy for tonight. I walked in and I knew he was going to tell me something specific. I totally knew but was hoping I was wrong. I've been going to my hair guy for about 8 years now. I'd consider us friends. I feel I know more about him and his life than I do some of my friends. He's just really real and open and genuine. Another friend mentioned recently that they were somewhere and had a deeper conversation with a stranger than they have ever had some some of their friends. I feel the same way about hair guy. I wonder if he's so open with all his clients. I honestly hope he's not as I can't see how that could be good for his life or heart. So, I sat down, asked him what was up and he told me exactly what I feared he would tell me. My heart still hurts for him and everything he's going through. He mentioned he feels like Job. And I would totally agree. He's just going through an amazing amount of crap at the moment. I don't understand what God is doing but I do pray hair guy and God have a really good, long, chat and God draws him to himself.

Even though it was really hard listening to him it was also refreshing is some wierd way. And I felt. I really felt. Sure it was pain. But somedays I wonder if I will ever really feel anything again. (ok, thats a little dramatic but somedays I just want to really feel something and stop pushing everything aside or bottling it up) So, hair guy did a great job on my hair. It's a bit shorter now but its cool. You'll be fine with it. So I gave him a hug, said a few words and continued on...

Josie Walking

Here's a little video of Josie walking and talking. I am trying to figure out how to use a flip video. I am a photographer not a videographer so excuse the shakiness. :0)~

You Found Me by The Fray

I found God on the corner of 1st and Amistad
Where the West was all but won
All alone, smoking his last cigarette
I said, "Where've you been?"
He said, "Ask anything."
Where were you, when everything was falling apart.
All my days were spent by the telephone that never rang
And all I needed was a call that never came
To the corner of 1st and Amistad

Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me
Lying on the floor, surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late, you found me, you found me.

But in the end everyone ends up alone
Losing her, the only one who's ever known
Who I am, who I'm not and who I wanna to be
No way to know how long she will be next to me

Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me
Lying on the floor, surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late, you found me, you found me.

The early morning, the city breaks
And I've been calling for years and years and years
And you never left me no messages
You never sent me no letters
You got some kind of nerve taking all I want

Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me
Lying on the floor, Where were you? Where were you?
Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me
Lying on the floor, surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late, you found me, you found me.
Why'd you have to wait, to find me, to find me?

I've heard this song a bunch lately and was thinking about it. I like it. Yes, the theology is probably a little off but I am not bothered by it. Sometimes you just express where you are, what you are feeling. It just is.

well...

I don't have alot to say.

• I need to go to bed
• I had a fairly relaxing weekend partly b/c I did my homework on friday and didn't wait til Sunday night like I have been doing.
• I did a little photoshoot with Josie. It was windy. She was adorable.
• I went to the H.E.L.P. launch party Saturday night. then Sunday ...
• I enjoyed a burger with some super right-wingers. ha. :0)
• I am curious to see what all happens with it all.
• Listened to a Beth Moore teaching Saturday about work. Quite good.
• I need to be given the freedom to succeed. I am just saying...
• Oh, I saved the company a bunch of money again today.
• Work is tough.
• I can't cook chicken, I just can't. Good thing I have a chic-fil-a hookup. :0)
• I really like old Sixpence... back when JJ was playing bass.

Deadman

I added a few pictures from a recent shoot I did of the band Deadman to my photoblog. Its a friends band. They seems like a musicians band. Ya know. A band that's too good for the casual listener to really get.