End of 2014

Wow what a year.

I received my college degree in May! Never really saw that happening! Wooop Wooop!

Got to see Sanibell Island. Got to see my first in the wild alligator. He was a pretty quick fella!

Then there was the Scotty Convention….Where I got to spend some time with some of the Duck Dynasty cast!

I am truly blessed to have so many people in my life to help me on my journey.

I dropped 14.75 inches off my body in 2014. Never to be seen again. I don’t own a scale so that update will come in Feb when I go back to the doctor.

Thank you for being a part of my blogging life. I have enjoyed sharing stories with you and hearing your comments. Ive enjoyed getting to know you along the way as well.

Here is to a 2015 that is full of dreams fulfilled and love beyond our imagination. See you next year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

LOVE,

OHIOPHOTOGRL

Dec 30

Playing back Christmas pictures….

As I sat this morning cleaning off my memory cards from Christmas I came across this one.

This is what we have instead of stockings full of stuff. As my father tells the story this is what his treat was as a child. My father grew up in Newhall West Virginia and is one of 13 kids. They each had a brown paper sack on christmas morning that had one apple, one orange, some walnuts, a candy cane and some sort of candy that they liked. My father has continued this tradition with us. He now just sets it on the table but the Memory is still there. We snack on this while we are waiting to open gifts and through out the holiday season.

I love that I have so many memories from my childhood that are still in effect today! Makes me truly blessed!

Dec 29

What now…

So I have caught some kinda cold :0( Pretty sure my sister gave it to me over Christmas. So as I have been in a cough syrup funk the last few days, I have been thinking to myself, where do I want this blog to go. I am a photographer yes and I am working on a website for that. I have my muses website (www.mrpsadventures.com), but what about this one. So this one will be a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Some of you will dig it, some of you won’t. That OK!

As the year comes to an end I am grateful for all I have learned from your comments and from reading your blogs as well. On the first I am going to list my goals for this next year and with your help I can put a big dent in making them a reality.

I have started an accountability group on Facebook. Some past coworkers, high school buddy’s, friends and I are helping one another stay on track. It has been a blessing being able to be a light at the end of the tunnel. We aren’t perfect, you know that and so do I. Sometimes we just need someone to say that s ok you can start again tomorrow. That what we all need.I am really looking forward to seeing where this leads us all.

Thanks for being a part of my blog! Thanks for reading, commenting, following!

You never know what will happen next!

Dec 18

Everyone has that one gift they always remember

Growing up I only remember my mother wearing 3 different pair of shoes. Dress shoes on Sunday, crappy shoes that she had forever to do lawn work in, and loafers.

Up until the year she passed away my father would go out the week before Christmas and go buy her the same pair of shoes….EVERY YEAR. He would go into Elder Beerman and walk up to the shoe counter and get the same size 8.5 pair of shoes.

On Christmas there would always be a shoe box wrapped by him and she would say….I wonder what is in this box.

As you can see it was her favorite gift….lol Now that I am older I am pretty sure it was her fav because my dad went out and bought it himself. Every time I see a pair of loafers I am reminded of the many years of mom unwrapping the loafers and always acted like she had no idea what was in the box.

Nov 28

Double

This was a rough one for me. That’s why it’s a day late…sorry about that.
I thought hard on what I could do for this challenge and it hit me….a selfie!

My double! This is my oldest niece and when while she has been growing up her pictures look just liked when I was little! So they all her mini me.

Nov 28

Triumph

This was an easy one for me today. Although the picture is not great it was a triumph.

My first ever from scratch pecan pie!

Nov 26

Edge

This one took me a minute. I started out with one idea that totally changed when reading the assignment again.
Being I have been helping prepare dinner for tomorrow I thought you would find this interesting….

She was so funny.
But my first thought turned to cutting edge which is where I started my morning.

I stopped in to see the guys at Proto Build Bar in Dayton Ohio. This is there Huge Claw machine. It has been to the Super Bowl, Vegas and a few other well known venues!
Cutting edge technology right in my hometown!

Nov 25

Glass

I get the word of the day at 8pm my time so I get a little bit of time to think about it before I shoot. As I went to warm up the car this morning I saw this….

The reflection on the glass of my truck was amazing this morning so I had to share!
This weekend I took this shot and thought it would be interesting….

What do you think?

Nov 24

Treasure

Another great word.
One of my greatest treasures is my family and I love that I can set a self timer and get in pictures with them…

Of course with Christmas right around the corner I had to do this with one of my Shelties.

She’s a good spot.
This is Nanny.

Although I did not take this picture it is one of my dearest treasures. Nanny is no longer with us but the story behind this picture is worth more then any amount of money. On this cold Dec afternoon went to I picked up Nanny and take her to the mall. She had tried everything to get her daughter to call and cancel our plans. Her daughter did not call. I pulled up and we got Nan ready to go out. When she stepped out and saw my truck she asked if we were riding in that. I said yes and she said well then let’s go (I have an Orange Chevy Colorado.) We stopped at Macy’s and wrote letters to Santa, got hot pretzels and made our way to see Santa. Nanny had never sat on Santa’s lap so I was going to make sure that happened! As we stood in line to see Santa Nanny told a little girl that she had seen 99 Christmases. To my knowledge Nan never told anyone how old she was, especially strangers. I’m not 100% sure what she whispered in Santa’s ear but the picture they took that day is priceless. We had pictures printed to put in her Christmas card when we got home. Nan passed a few days later. The joyful part was her friends got the picture of her enjoying life at 99. What a great treasure I have!

Nov 21

Another look at Swarm

So I couldn’t find this picture yesterday…

These little boogers scared the crap out of me. I opened the car door, started screaming beeeeeeeeees and took off running. my neighbor says “I never saw you run so fast”. My response was I’ve never been chased by a bunch of yellow jackets before. Let me just say this….I did not get one sting. I’m guessing that wasn’t Gods plan :0) (towels off forehead)

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