Little Hearts, Big smiles

This

Girl

Is

Adorable

Oh darling little Shannon! 

I give everything over to You Lord

Let Me Be Transparent

So the new year is settling in after the chaos and countdowns are finished. And.. It is settling in quite nice. The excitement of a new year still lingers and the flash backs of where we all were just a year ago flood the minds of many. It's been a beautiful 2009, but I'm ready for a little push. Here I come twenty10! I've already heard people say, "I wonder where I'll be in 2011?" Wow! There is still a half an hour left of the first of January, yet people are questioning where they will be at in exactly one year from now. Personally, I've been reminiscing on 2009 and the growth, accomplishments, mess ups, and fall backs that have occurred during the duration of last year. The past always seems like such a mess to me. Not necessarily in a bad way but more so in a big jumble of life way. If that makes sense. It lacks specific details and smells, places and faces. Everyday brings its own new adventures I just can't believe I've lives seven thousand three hundred of them. Somehow I'm still kickin' and life hasn't stopped! I'm thankful for many things from 2009 that have carried over to 2010. God's grace and knowing God in general. My boyfriend who still smiles at me like when we first met, (sometimes even cuter!) The support and love from my brother and sister-in-law. The laugher my sister and I still share. My parents and I being able to talk openly. My passion for people and the care I feel for so many. My love for dance. My growing desire to learn how to rap! (Oh boy!) Photography. Art. And... My strong desire to have alone time with me to remember who I am. Although I have decided that one thing needs to increase in my life. I want to write to God more. Sounds simple? It's hard sometimes going to the person who knows you better then you know yourself. It forces you to look at the hard stuff in life, the things you have allowed to come before God, the things you've ran from and disguised with smiles, laughter, and the occasionally fake, "I'm doing good thanks!" It also I don't really believe in new years resolutions. (Not that it's really something people believe in the first place but...!) I think daily resolutions between you and God, for each day, is the best way to stay close and connected to Him. Talking with him throughout the day and possibly even laughing with Him!! I love God. So I will toast to 2010 that it will be an even greater experience getting to know my Father. Cheers to 2009. But I'm sorry, 2010 is now in play. Ready... Set... Live

I give everything over to You Lord

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Merry Christmas eve! And Merry Christmas! 


I give everything over to You Lord

Le Jessa Vintage

Can you do me a huge favor! 

Check out my good friend Jessica Cary's vintage clothing blog. She puts entire outfits together for affordable prices that look like expensive designer brands. She has a knack for finding unique outfits suitable for any occasion. We collaborated on a recent project were I did the photography for her first set of outfits. It is a delight working with someone I've grown up with since I was young! Please, please, please check out her blog!  

Under My Links you can find her website to see beautiful designs and more. 

I give everything over to You Lord

Achievement Doesn't Measure Your Success

So maybe the 'something' that captures your eyes and pulls at your heart is the exact thing that keeps it beating. The stroke of beauty that leaves you completely mesmerized and entranced in the realm of the unknown. Love. Everyone seems to kick and push and fight for a fearless, romantic, and captivating love. When was love something we had to work for. Isn't love the sweetest and freest gift possible. Let's be honest, of course it can be hard to give and sometimes harder to receive, but love covers every wrong. I suppose we wouldn't know what love felt like if we had yet to experience the depth's of loneliness. The night's when you look at the ceiling and realize the agonizing longing for that one chance to be completely engulfed in love. Drowning in the purest, refreshing love. It's almost humorous in the way we long for love so deep. So passionate. This love doesn't necessarily come through a touch or kiss, it's something that goes beyond what everyone has defined love to be. It is the opposite of what this loveless world has settled for. Possibly striving for something more then the average, "I love you," can lead you to the most rewarding fulfillment you've ever achieved. Can you feel the hollowness when you step foot in front of screaming fans? Or is the screaming fans the drug that keeps you going? Or perhaps the closes thing you've felt to love. Your body shuts down from this constant drive to feel and fulfill the gap between happiness and depression. No human can ever satisfy that need. It's discouraging, but life's not always going to blow kisses. Facing your enemy loneliness can lead you on two paths so completely different then each other. You can let the lies of loneliness over take you, bury you alive, stealing every remanence of thrill and excitement that once filled your lungs. Remember when you could almost feel love running through your veins, straight to the rhythmic pounding of your heart? Or, you have the chance, while being along, to really get to know you. The deepest parts of your heart, your emotions, the thing that makes you a complete masterpiece. What's the one thing you need to know about yourself that will completely soften the internal and external facade you've defined yourself as? A false, superficial, and artificial appearance of love will never withstand the hardships of life. Love. Genuine. Real. Breathtaking. Peaceful. Speechless. Intriguing. Powerful.  I suppose the question might be "Who put this desire for love within me. The desire that keeps me chasing after it with such fervor and diligence?"

I give everything over to You Lord

Love will come find you

I drench my eyes with what the world determines and titles perfect. I wash my eyes with the burning sent of perfume. And I'd get down on both knees and ask politely if I knew I would finally capture the eyes of myself. If I live through this, I promise I won't look back. It's crazy to stand tall when you feel like your missing out on life. I'm a speck in a state. Something so small, yet, I was told that I could take on the world if he'd allow me. I wonder. If this life is fake dream and I've just been living it for to long. I really do question  now. 

I give everything over to You Lord

Everything Is After The Fact

I finally found it. The song that inspired me to write again. 11:48 pm. I'm captured once again to write and to spill my guts. To release and to find. To know how to clear my mind. The things, the thoughts, the place and people, I have been holding them in when I knew all along the only thing that would help was the sound of my computer keys following my every touch.  I've shattered my knowledge that led me to believe I knew the depth and greatness of my God. I run away from the thought of judging people because the person my mirror reflects has a lot to work on herself. I feel so busy, as always, but I fill every empty minute with a task because I don't really want to hear my own thoughts. I can't face how I've been doing. I don't want to find out. Probably a scary thought. But I haven't been letting myself think about it much. I have been pulling and poking at every aspect in my life. I have so much to get out, I really shouldn't have waited this long to write. School has been the most constant and regular friend that knocks on my door. It's finally freeing to know my grammar and miss communicated ideas and my miss spelled words don't count against me. There is no grade for my thoughts, as some might believe. I have a disguise hiding something within me, but I haven't pin pointed it. I can write a million words and it may seem like I'm insane train wreck, and I might be, but I'm writing free, just don't take it literal if you don't know the reality. 

I give everything over to You Lord