Good Morning!  Well its been almost a year since I last posted!  ha ha -

To touch base on that last post - I am still running, and I'm 42 days from my half marathon in October.    I did run the 25k river bank run, and finished in time to get a time and medal!  So that was amazing to me!

I'm starting another new phase to my health journey - and that is eating more clean and mostly Plant based.

I"m hopefully going to start journaling that here on my blog.  

I would love your comments, to hear of your journey's struggles, and things you've used to maintain a healthy lifestyle!

:) well talk soon!  Off to church now!

AMY

A time of change

SO - i've changed the things that are important to me in my life.  Its been quite awhile since I've visited or even posted.


I no longer to ebay, and only do minimal photography.  BUT I have gotten back into Real Estate, which is going fabulous for me.  I also have taken up running and will be hopefully running and finishing the River Bank Run - 25K which is 15 miles.


These post are going to be about my journey to running that race!

Artistic or Crazy - ???

I'm pretty sure there is a very fine line between the very artistic and the truly crazy!.

I like to think of myself as relatively artistic. Luckily I think that most all my children are on the artistic side as well. THEN there is the little thought about one of my children. Especially when they do something like this.

My two crazy daughters. (its always the girls right?) I sell items for people on eBay, and this lady brought in her two old Halloween costumes which are fully body bunny suits. One is white and one is brown. I asked my daughter (dressed in white) to please model for the camera so I can get a good picture.

I don't know how, but from there she started walking out into the yard, running down the sidewalk. She talked my youngest into donning the hat and going with her! Cars are waving, people laughing - oh geesh its like a circus almost.

Now my youngest is very creative. She is just entering first grade and she can draw and color out of this world. So I'm pretty sure she is artistic. Which leaves the crazy option open for my other daughter!!!

If you would like to own one or both of these bunny suits, feel free to check out my eBay auctions - user ID is GLOBALDUK.

The Big Day Arrived

The big day came and although there were a few hitches and here there. Most everything went awesome and it was very beautiful.

Here is one shot that I took - WHY do grooms always smash the cake!!??

I think on the whole I got many great shots for them to put together a nice memory book. The ministers wife was shooting also - so we'll see what she has to add for them as well.

Its definitly lots of work to take so many pictures - and there are somethings I would do different if I had to do it again.

WOW - first wedding under my belt and I still don't know half of what I need to know yet. Though I definitly want a new camera now. uh oh - need to work ebay harder now so I can get some new toys!

The Walk Through

Tommorrow is the BIG DAY! I will be a "for real" photographer at a wedding. Needless to say i'm a little nervous. Don took me over to the site (his parents backyard) so that I could see the set up and run through the routine again. Luckily Tom and Rapee were there so I could talk to them a little more about what they would want.

We did a few test shots - just so I could see what my camera would do under certain settings.

I'm pretty happy with the out come and feel a little confident that I will not totally blow their wedding pictures. We figured out where I'll be for certain shots and what my son will be doing with the video camera.

As you can see it will be an outdoor wedding - so everyone hope for the best weather ever! It looks like the rain is going to hold off, so i'm crossing my fingers on a joyous event. I suppose the worse that could happen now would be a deer running through the dining hall just as people are heading to sit down and eat!! BUT I'LL HAVE MY LENS READY!!

Taking the Camera out on the Town

Today there is a festival in town and we are going to be visiting it. I have not yet taken my camera along to just snap pictures of random people. I think today - I will try.

There is also fireworks this evening and I'm going to give it another shot at capturing those as well.

When I visit the antiques/junque sales today, I'm hoping to find some treasures. I have a new phone that is capable of Internet browsing now, so I can "check out" an awesome find before I purchase it.

Hopefully I'll be back to post here about some spectacular item that i'm going to sell for multiple times what I paid for it!!

(or watch my auctions as GLOBALDUK to see if you can guess what the treasure is that I found)

Party In the Park

Today we had a party in the park. This was put on by the Saranac Library - it is part of their summer program. The library has had some great shows on Thursday mornings to entertain/educate the kids this summer. The party is something to reward them for all their reading so far.

We had bubbles the clown making balloon animals - and she was a hit!

There also was arts and crafts to enjoy, then popcorn and water to round it out!!

Fabulous!