Ashley and Photography

Right now, I am loving staying home with Josiah and Micah. We read together, go outside, do housework, cuddle, and learn together. The Lord has opened up the doors for me to also do some photography on the side. I started a small photography business called, "Remember This Images" See http://www.rememberthisimages.com/ . I do on location photography when Kyle or a special lady from church named Nancy can watch the boys. Kyle and I practice with the lighting together and he helps me learn a lot of the technical side of photography like, how to work the equipment and how to use my editing software. I love the artistic side of posing and creating great lighting. It's a lot of fun. I take tons of pictures of the boys, as you can see. This is a great opportunity for me to be able to have an outlet to be creative and do something different in the middle of a lot of tedious, yet very important tasks I have of mothering two young boys. They are such a joy to me and when I am done with a photography job or working on an order, I come back to them wanting to never be away from them again.

Kyle and Seminary

(Left) Kyle, being goofy while being a model for me when my new lighting equipment came in. He endured a lot of flashes. (Right) Kyle being normal.

Currently, Kyle is wrapping up the semester. This means studying, papers, and a lot of coffee! He loves all of his classes and is learning so much that benifits his preaching ministry. He's finishing a Greek composition class. Now he can read AND write in Greek. I helps him understand the language more thouroughly, which helps him when he's studying to preach. Right now he is preaching through the book of John. He is learning how to balance family, church, and school so well. He gives a lot for his family and spends a lot of time rolling around with the boys and taking Josiah down the road to "the river" (Kentucky is so beautiful). They throw rocks in the river and they cane pole fished the other day. Kyle also makes time for me and we enjoy Friday night "date night". We usually hang out with friends, Kris and Andrea, or watch a movie after the kids are in bed.

We have high-speed!

MICAH, THE DIRT EATER

Look, Mom, dirt...

Micah ate dirt...........ewww

"But, I want to eat more!"

I know we started this blog over two months ago and have added only one post. But I am happy to tell you that we just got high speed internet and we are so excited to keep you up to date on what's going on in our crazy, but fun lives. We are really enjoying this spring weather, and I have a hard time keeping up with housework because the boys and I always want to play outside. We go to the park often and we run around in the yard a lot. Josiah loves jumping off the large stump in the yard and Micah's favorite past time is eating dirt. He shoves every bit he finds in his mouth! He's walking now, taking a few steps at a time. Josiah can sing the "ABC" song with one or two prompts from us and can quote Matthew 22:37-38 all by himself. Hearing him quote Scripture like that was one of the most rewarding moments we've had as parents.