So it's been awhile since I have posted. It has been a crazy month but it seems like things are back on track. We have taken the engagement pictures which I will say turned out wonderful. Tanya and Ryan Dunn did a wonderful job. If you have time please go to http://www.creativelydunn.smugmug.com/ and check out the photographs. I enjoyed spending Sunday afternoon with a wonderful couple. They worked together so well, one would have the vision and the other would snap the shot. It amazes me when a couple has that love that they can make any vision come true. To hear them drop little stories about there relationship was great. Things that they had done together or as a family. Ryan's love for Tanya and wanting her to have all she needs to make her photography wonderful is so awesome. We took pictures at several places that Tanya had creative visions on and a few places that were special to us. It was very chilly that morning and I love looking at the pictures because Ashley would press so close to me to keep warm. It's confusing to me sometimes how I let time pass me by and not see what I see in those photos. Her face shows warmth, vulnerability, beauty and a love that I take for granted somedays. I need to remind myself everyday that photographs as beautiful as they are memories in the past now. I need to catch every moment of the now, that I have with her let her know know how I feel about her. In some of the those pictures you will see the most wonderful little creature God has given to me. His smile is genuine and eyes tell you how wonderful he is. I thank Ryan and Tanya for catching some of the most precious moments of Royce and our future family together.
I would like to thank Megan Parsons for helping Ashley with finding some center pieces and taking the time to drive to all the Targets in the Des Moines area to find them. Ashley is starting to put a lot of the details together now. Lisa has been getting some more details on Copper Creek to make sure it is going to meet the needs of the wedding. I can't thank her and Greg enough for the time they give us each week. Lisa drives so far but her love her daughter I'm sure makes it worth every trip. Thanks again Lisa.
I heard a few things in the past month that have made me think so much about the future. We choose to love, we choose to put ourselves out there and not to hide from it. It's scary, it hurts sometimes, it's unknown but each experience is worth it. I smiled the other day thinking of every wonderful thing that I have learned from every relationship I had been in. It has helped me to overcome the bad days that Ashley and I have had reminding me of all the wonderful times we have together. I have also learned that in order for love to grow we need let ourselves be loved. I need to let myself take every touch, embrace, question, look not as something to be guarded against but as what it really is... passion, sensibility, reassurance but most of just unconditional love. Ashley tries so hard to give that to me everyday. I'm blessed but, I catch myself everyday needing to return it. To return what she is so good at.
I want everyone to know that everyday we have the chance to love someone who needs its. It is hard to look passed others faults...but when we accept ours we will be more willing to accept theirs. I hope in time we all can learn from them, change them and become the people we want to be.
Royce: Dad I won two medals today; Me to Royce: you deserve those medals for always waiting for your turn to be recognized. He never says a word.. just Dad. He is my mentor daily.
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