"Thankful" by David Foster and friends

Mason Family

Happy Thanksgiving all!! I know it has been several months since my last post. I thought I would share a few photos from a family portrait session I completed this last week. This is my cousin and her little family.









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Life Update and Book Review: The Help

Hello all! I hope you are doing great! I just finished reading the book "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett. This book is fantastic and was recommended to me by my mother. I did not grow up in my beloved south during this time period, for which I am grateful. This book will hit almost everyone of your emotions. There is sad and happy, funny and serious and stuff that will down right make you mad. I have never understood the dynamic of ring leaders and how they become ring leaders. I give this book 5 stars.

Well summer has come to an end, and I finish up my internship at the Carolina Conference of Seventh-day Adventist next Wednesday, August 31. I have learned a lot that I will take with me and wish I could stay longer, but such is life. Cannot wait to see my family and friends back home.

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Happy Late Fourth of July!

Hey all! Sorry it has been quite some time since my last post. I hope you all enjoyed the pictures from my last clients. I know it's July, but I have been thinking about this song all year. I love this song and Andrea Bocellie and Katherine Jenkins are amazing together. Enjoy!

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Lia, 22 Months

Hello all! I love taking pictures of little children. Here is a beautiful little girl on the verge of turning two years old.

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Family Vacation

Hello all, I am sorry that it has been a couple of weeks since my last post. I have been settling back into the swing of things. I was in North Carolina for a week before heading out on our family vacation, my first vacation in three years. Needless to say it was much needed. We went to Tybee Island, Georgia. It is an island right off the coast of Savannah. It was beautiful, peaceful and the week before peek season started.

I headed down early on the Sunday morning, before the rest of my family left, so that I could spend some time in the heart of Savannah by myself. Savannah is a beautiful historic Southern town, full of charm and tourist (laughing). I had my camera and my book (for bookclub) as I left the paid parking lot to just enjoy the city.

If you have never been it is a good size town with a small town feel. There is a large number of town squares, parks really, almost every other block. No playgrounds; just tree draped with Spanish Moss, park benches and swatches of grass bordered by flowering plants. The breeze from the river wash over the city keeping the town folk cool and refreshed.

After taking some pictures and walking around a bit, I found a nice quite square that no one was inhabiting and nestled down on a bench as I was sucked into my book for the next couple of hours. It was so peaceful and made me wish we had these squares around our house. I got up and headed down to river street.

When driving around earlier, I had made the mistake of driving my car down river street. Now you have to remember I have a tiny little sports car, that does not have luxury shocks. It was like riding around in a rock tumbler on those cobblestone streets. I had bounced around and even bottomed out a couple times before finding my way back up to a parking lot off the main street, this time I was heading down there on foot.

I browsed my way through multiple shops, took lots of detailed pictures before heading on out to Tybee and checking into our families condo for the week. I spent most of the week in the sun with a book and my iPod. But every morning I would grab my running shoes, my iPod and my Nike+ chip and head out for a run on the beach before breakfast where I would run a 5K. Later on in the week I was able to take my family back through the charming city and enjoy some more shopping.

Vacations are always sad though...eventually they come to an end. It is so easy to get sucked back up into the hustle and bustle of everyday life when we return home, but never forget the memories that you shared with your family and friends. I cannot wait for my next vacation and I hope that I do not have to wait as long this time.

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"Nothin' can be finer than to be in Carolina in the morning."

(photo by: Janita Herod)

Hello all! Sorry that it has been almost a month since my last post. The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of events in more ways than one.

I am interning again in the Carolinas for the summer and loving every minute of it. But before I left home, even before I really started to pack, we along with the rest of the southeast were torn apart by tornadoes. I have not been through anything like this before, and I spent two and half years in Kansas! Out there, tornadoes were just the norm. But praise be to God we did not get the worst of it. And while we have to get a new roof, lost a few trees and possibly replace one of the cars in our fleet, that is minor compared to others. God has been so good to our family. Please continue to pray for the rest of the victims of this storm.

Talk to y'all soon!