My new old Hobby

I used to love photography but it was set aside as I leaped into motherhood. My loving husband had purchased my dream camera for me and I have regained my hobby! I was able to host a photo shoot last week, take my nephew's senior pictures and will be doing pictures for an old friend and her baby boy! I am loving taking pictures of the kids at every opportunity and am learning the photo editing programs! If you can't tell, I'm a bit excited to have something for myself while I am acting as mother, father, and dealing with all of the things that Steven used to take care of, including our cars. I am grateful for my talents that our Heavenly Father has blessed me with, including my music and now an art. So, here's a few pictures I've taken over the last 3 weeks...enjoy!!
I used to love photography but it was set aside as I leaped into motherhood. My loving husband had purchased my dream camera for me and I have regained my hobby! I was able to host a photo shoot last week, take my nephew's senior pictures and will be doing pictures for an old friend and her baby boy! I am loving taking pictures of the kids at every opportunity and am learning the photo editing programs! If you can't tell, I'm a bit excited to have something for myself while I am acting as mother, father, and dealing with all of the things that Steven used to take care of, including our cars. I am grateful for my talents that our Heavenly Father has blessed me with, including my music and now an art. So, here's a few pictures I've taken over the last 3 weeks...enjoy!!

RE: Miracles

Hi everyone,

It has been awhile and that doesn't matter because here I am writing something really quickly.

I listened to a BYU-Hawaii Devotional talk this past week online and it was wonderful. Ironically, the sister who gave the talk looked my mom...it was like watching her with a completely different personality and outlook on things.

Anyways...her talk was on miracles and recognizing them. Sometimes we go through life thinking that we do each day by ourselves and that God doesn't have a hand in any of it. She gave some wonderful examples of how we can recognize Gods hand in our daily lives and the "small miracles" that take place. Here are just a few and some that I have added to the list because it makes sense:

brushing my teeth...miracle, some people don't have arms and hands to do that

driving to work...miracle, that I have a job to pay for the car to get to work and then to make the money to get the home that I have which I was given by God, which is a miracle because it took forever to get!

warm or cool clothes (depending on the climate)...at least I have clothes to wear and hand me downs that people can't or won't wear...this is a miracle...some people in the world don't have clothes and if they do, they wear the same thing every day and go naked to wash it and clean it. Miracle!

Miracle...Joseph Smith, Jr prayed and asked God the Father for truth...when was the last time that you asked for truth?

Miracle...the atonement belongs to EVERYONE...God just didn't select a few to receive it...he provided a Savior for the everyone.

Miracle...someone who knows how to at least play a few notes on the violin and know how to record and do recording improvs and do it now...and be in the right place at the right time at the exact moment that it is needed and prayers being answered.

Miracle...people actually like people and are nice to one another

I just thought that I'd share this with ya to remember that 1, life is what it is and 2, Heavenly Father throws little miracles in our laps every day and we need to stop and thank him for them even when we think that they are not.

Love,

Karen

San Francisco Trip

I added pictures of our trip to my blog site. Please go there and see them. Here are a few of me while we were there.

This is at the Oakland Temple Visitor Center
This is on the BART from San Francisco to Concord. I think it was a 45 minute trip.

This is at the windiest street in the world, Lombard St. I was so tired, we probably had walked 10 miles by this point including the HILLS. I was so worn out and it was freezing.

I'm not sure where this was taken, I will tell you this, we walked it and I was so tired. If I'm not mistaken, that is Alcatraz behind me. That was awesome.