Another Year Down, A New Year Awaits, and More Stories to Share

Well, it was an exciting year last year!  All of you helped make it one of the best years ever!  I truly believe they are only going to become better and better, so I am looking forward to many more wonderful years to come.  But with new years, come new triumphs and troubles, and with another year down and a new year started we were hit with some unexpected news of some very special people in our lives passing away within a week and a half of each other.

To say the least, we thank many of you for your patience while we were closed and spent the long days with our families, reminiscing on those important times in our lives.  But when death happens to someone close to you, it really makes you evaluate where you are at in your life.  It makes you think about the things that are most important to you and what really matters!...  And it's all those things that you can't seem to put a price on, at least one that truly fits when it is all gone!

It struck me hard, that at both remembrances, our family and all of the guests stopped and really enjoyed the photographs. As we were watching, sharing, laughing, crying, and telling the endless stories the photographs had behind them, I was reminded in that moment, that pictures really do say a thousand words and with tears whelming up in my eyes, I muttered, "Wow!  You can't tell me that pictures aren't worth a million bucks!" and sighed a sigh of relief of thankfulness for the family portraits we had with our family and loved ones before they left to be with our Heavenly Father.

And in that very same second, I was also gently reminded, that what we do everyday is invaluable!  I think that God gave us this gift of photography to help comfort us on earth when it is their time to go... So this year, when we take your photographs, for when someday they are left to to do the talking for your families and for years to come, we hope that they share some amazing stories of you are were as a person, spouse, relative, child, sibling, friend, and most importantly as a Christ Follower, just as ours did for us! :)