Neglected!

I was listening last night to my itunes playlist while cleaning out my closet and the song that my blog is named after came.  I thought to myself, "oh my blog!" I forgot that I have negleted this thing for the last couple weeks.  It probably has something to do with this

  Well not just this, but isn't my new green wall in my bathroom oh so pretty?  The painters were scheduled for Monday morning to come paint all of 9A.  As I was preparing my room to be painted I made a game time decision to do something a little fun with my bathroom.  I really really love it! 
After a week of moving all our furniture around, taking everything off the wall, having about 10 painters overtake our apt, smelling paint fumes for days, and then putting everything back together again, 9A is looking oh so spifffy!  It's amazing what a fresh coat of paint can do to an old apt. It was a crazy, upside kind of week but we survived!  And now I just need to decide what to do with my fun green wall!

The blog will most likely continue to be negleted for the next couple weeks, although I do want to post a few of the photos from the many photo shoots I have been doing with families.  I leave Thursday to go back to Texas to be a part of my good friend Joanna's wedding(you might remember me talking about her shower last month) and then I'm on to Florida to spend a few days at the beach with my family! I am so ready to be out of the concrete jungle for more than 2 days and to have some fun times with friends and family.

I have so many things the Lord is teaching me right now, specifically as I have taken this month to be off the internet (for the most part) and to spend some much needed extended time in prayer.  I hope to share some of that on this blog of mine at some point. 

For now I am off to spanish lessons and then to meet friends in Central Park to lay in the sun and enjoy this beautiful day we are having in New York City! 

A Texas Wedding!

This past weekend I jet planed it to Dallas to celebrate Hannah and Lance's wedding!  

The weekend started with a little party for all the out of town guest.  

The Bride with some of the 9A bible study girls! 

 The beautiful bride on her wedding day!

 The first dance.  

 It was a quick weekend trip, but fun to be a part of the wedding festivities.  I was also able to spend time with one of my dearest college friends, Heather, who lives in Dallas (pictured below) and a friend from high school who I hadn't seen in 10 years!  

Congratulations Hannah and Lance!

Happy Mothers Day to my Mom!

I meant to write about this earlier, but now that Mothers Day is here I want to make sure I make note of this.  I blogged about my weekend of hosting showers here and here, but what I didn't really talk about was that my mom was here for 5 days during that time and went above and beyond to help me!  she served sacrifically and with joy!  Multiple times that weekend I thought to myself, "I could never have done this without her help".  Sometimes you just need a moms magic touch!  

But the thing is she is alway that!  She has served sacrificially my whole life.  

Everytime she comes to NYC I want to make sure we do fun things, but sometimes you just need your mom to come and help you with life. I am so thankful to have a mom who will fly up here for days at a time (and a dad who pays for it:-))  and spend time with me and serve me!  She is always willing to help me in whatever way she can.  

She has been a great mom my whole life and I am so thankful for her!

Pictures above were taken when we went to "Live with Regis and Kelly" in November and "The View" in April!  I guess having a daughter who lives in NYC and has connections to tv show tickets is a little bit of a perk to her trips:-)

And I don't want to leave out a Happy 1st Mothers Day to my sister!!!!

I remember last year when I wrote a Mothers Day post I prayed that this year Catherine would be celebrating too!  The Lord hard and he answered!  

I continue to pray daily that one day I would be able to celebrate this day as a mom as well!

Happy Mother's Day Mom and Catherine!

Happy 7 Months

Everytime Catherine sends me a picture of Mary Blake I cringe a little at how big she is getting!

This month she started sitting up, sitting in a high chair, eating baby food, and rolling everywhere! Next thing you know she'll be going to kindergarten.  

Maybe I'm biased but i think she gets a little cuter every month!

Now that she is 7 months her big focus is her upcoming beach trip! 

I guess she wanted to try on her bathing suit and beach hat to help get ready! 

I always love the months when I know I get to see her!  Looking forward to being at the beach with her in just 23 days!  

Happy 7 Months Mary Blake!

Random Wednesday Thoughts

• I leave on Friday for Hannah and Lance's Wedding in Dallas! Looking forward to a weekend away celebrating the couple and spending time with friends!  
• Speaking of traveling I have a lot of traveling coming up in the next couple months. I was trying to find my plane ticket today for the weekend and found 4 plane tickets in my inbox. whew!  Between 2 weddings, a little vacation with my family, a work conference, and a missions trip it is going to be a busy couple months!
• YES a missions trip!  I am so excited to be going to Ecuador in July to parnter with some good family friends at Bayside Medical Missions.  It will be a different type of trip than the ones I've been on, but I am excited! 
• I'm raising support for my trip now.  Support Raising is such a faith process!  I always feel overwhelmed about it, but I know the Lord will provide! If you are interested in supporting this trip please do let me know and I would love to send you the information!
• And speaking of all the traveling, I am doing a lot of baby-sitting and photography to help fund these trips.  The Lord is providing to which I am incredibly thankful!  
• YES Photography!  I really love photography and have had a lot of fun doing some family photography sessions in Central Park.  Because I am so connected to families through my job I really haven't had to advertise at all.  It's been a good creative outlet for me and a nice little extra income.  
• And speaking of hobbies I registered for a tennis clinic this summer and have asked a friend to start doing Spanish lessons with me once a week! I'm really trying to do all the things I've wanted to do.  It's helpful when life can feel very routine.  
• On my commute to work yesterday a man wearing Christmas zip-up onesie pajamas and a sailers hat carrying a cup of coffee (in a real mug) walked by me on the subway platform and I thought to myself "huh thats interesting"  then it hit me how "normal" life in this crazy city has become.  I honestly didn't even take a 2nd look at this strange site.  
• A couple weeks ago on my day off my dad texted me and told me to go outside b/c the retired Enterprise Space Shuttle was going to fly over Manhattan.  I ran out and had a perfect view of the space shuttle as it flew directly over my apt building.   
• My whole family is coming to NYC to visit me in August.  Surprisedly as much as people have come to see me, my whole family has yet to come all at once!  I think my friends here are as excited as I am that Mary Blake is coming for a vist.  
• We are in the process of doing some apt re-decorating at 9A.  We made the scary Ikea trip a couple weeks ago and came home with some goods.  Now my mom is making us new curtains and we have a few more things to do.  I will have to post pictures when we are finished! 
• I think those are enough random thoughts for this Wednesday! 

1 Year Old Photo Shoot!

I did a one year old photo shoot with this little boy and his family!  

 We landed on the Great Lawn in Central Park.
I love the faint view of the city skyline in the background.  

 When his grandmother came to town we met in the park again to snap a few more pictures! 

He was a happy little one year old and a sweet photography subject!