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a little bored on the bus. Thank you Iphone for entertaining me)
Hey I didn´t think I was going to blog this monday. See, I´m out of town, at my sister´s  and I just didn´t think I was going to bother. I´m here for support, because of sickness in her family. She needed me here,and Josh said "GO!",so I went.  Even if the circumstances are not so great, we are having some good laughs together, and it makes me happy to see that I´m of some help:)

Anyways, so, traveling.. It´s a love/hate type of thing really. The boredom, the stress. - not so much love .(ok, so she lives 2 hours away with bus, so no,- nothing to complain about this time , but I thought it was a good time for writing the post about traveling )
But what I do love, is the excitement of getting to see friends and family, or new places you have never been to before , The sound of airports and train stations and the people, The very special feeling you get at the beginning of your journey, when you stand there with your bags, trying to find the right sign and direction.
Also, the whole new perspective you get on things ,to bring back home with you. And the memories. (and the souveniers)
When we travel to see our family back in Boise ( which is a 30 hour type of thing ) , traveling is a pain in the behind. But Oh so worth it!!  You forget everything about the stress, the crappy food, the fatigue, the temper tantrums of your 2 year old (and your self)- when you get to be with your beloved family again!
The whole problem however with traveling, ..is the part when you have  go home and leave loved ones behind!

( i´ll be posting some pictures taken from my Iphone, from time to time, (like the one above) since I have decided to challenge myself with taking photos with a not so good camera. I think it might be fun actually )
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Yes Yes, I do love them. If you read this here post, then you already know that! But I don´t want to have them just because they are owls. My favorite things has to have a meaning and a memory. Therefor, I very rarely buy things like these for myself, just because. These ones here, has a very special meaning to me. I just got them saturday from A dear friend. She had asked me, me! , to photograph her babys christening! What an honor! It was my first "shoot" someone asked me to do ever! I am in a learning process, and my skills are questionable, but this was such a great learning experience for me! And I had so much fun!! (scary as it was). - I will post some of the photos later on-
To thank me, she had gotten me these lanterns. I have put them on my shelf above my desk, to remember this experience, and to think of what a great friend I have to trust me with this! Aren´t they awesome?
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Honestly. do I have to say much more? Reading, working on photos, having coffee with a friend,Sitting in the darkness thinking and praying, with nothing but a single flame to light up the room ...
Candles! I love them :)
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text taken from " Heaven will be near me" sung by Michelle Tumes
Skies in the evening! Makes me dream. makes me calm. makes me think, at the end of a stressful day, that it´s time to rest, And that heaven is near, and we are in His care!
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I didn´t use to read much at all when i was little. I loved comic books though ;)
It was´nt til my later teens that i started to discover the magical world of books!
It was the world of fantasy that I first entered! And how i loved that world! I still do, but recently it´s more the true stories and biographies that I´m drawn to.
My favorite books ever has to be the triology by C.S. Lewis -"out of the silent planet", "Perelandra", and "that hideous strenght" . And of course what started it all - the "Lord of the ring" triology.
in my current pile of books you can find : " about a boy" by Nick Hornby, "The vision" by david Wilkerson , "Streams in the desert" by L.B. Cowman, and of course, always the book of books, - the Bible!

What better way to escape a little at the end of the day, with a book, some coffee,a lit candle and a comfy bed !



Now, i would like to wish you A...
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Oh really...what a surprise ;)
I have always loved to look at pictures,  especially other people pictures. I love to take a look in other peoples scrapbooks, and my own, from when I was little . And I always loved photography as art.  But i never did it myself. ..
Til a couple of years ago, when I picked up my husbands D-SLR... I was hooked! I was in a not so good place at that point. Micah was still a baby, and my world was turned up side down, and I must say, I was pretty low.
Using that camera made me take focus off of myself and on to someone or something else.
Now, It makes me smile when I´m down. it lets me express the feelings in me that I can´t seem to find words for.  And it makes me giggle when I find something really exciting to photograph.
I´m not a "photographer". I´m self taught, not knowing all that much. i don´t make money out of it. My photos are not technically correct, and so on and so on.
BUT.. I am in love in photography anyways.
I love to document life as I see it. I guess you can call me a snapshotgrapher..
yes..I like that name :)


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I thought i would start posting some of my favorite things in life, on Mondays. To make my blogging a bit more regular, and to share some things about myself. ( if you care that I share)
This is my first one :
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it´s a lamp behind me, if you are wondering about that ;)
Music has, like I think it has for most people, been a big part of my life. No, I do not play any instruments. I do not sing ( except for when i´m home alone, cleaning, or sometimes, in the shower. ( I do not even sing in church, because I don´t want the person next to me to be frightened )
But, I have always found comfort in listening to music! It makes me happy, gives me inspiration, and comforts me when I´m down.
I find good songs in almost all types of music. it all comes down to the lyrics nowadays. ( ok, sometimes only the beat )
I re-found this song by accident the other day. It is by sixteen Horsepower, and I can´t understand how I have not listened to them for so long. I found the CD " Secret South" almost ten years ago. I actually bought it on sale, because the cover was cool, and I was looking for new music. And I Loved it. As I listened to this song, that I haven´t heard in so many years, i reallised it had such a different meaning to me now. I was thrown away by the emotion in these lyrics. Now, I listen to it over and over again, and it moves me deeply. So, I´ll share!
(lyrics below)
SPLINTERS
(sixteen horsepower)
self sent a twister
a tearin' after me
gonna bust my house to splinters yes
an' take all that's dear to me

you say you saw it comin' yeah
but still you did not flee
i was too weak i couldn't move
held by growth of a tree

an' yes i fell upon that rock
i did not die jus' badly broken
an' in time my healin' it will come yeah
by the words that he has spoken
i fell upon that rock

who is it now that loves you
straight in the front door
an' crooked out the back yeah
what is it now you're a slave to
on your knees out in your shack

i fell upon that rock yeah
he's beyond the shadow
of your doubt an' mine
he's no man's opinion
he is truth divine

self sent a twister
a tearin' after me
done bust my house to splinters yeah
an' took all that's dear to me

who is it now that loves you
straight in the front door
an' crooked out the back yeah
what is it now that you pray to
as your world begins to crack

i fell upon that rock yeah
he's beyond the shadow
of your doubt an' mine
he's no man's opinion
he is truth divine

an' yes i fell upon that rock
i did not die jus' badly broken
an' in time my healin' came yeah
by the words that he had spoken


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