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Energy....or lack-there-of...

2012-01-28T13:28:00.000-05:00

While WV has had an incredibly mild winter...I'm finding it hard to get any energy. I have been dealing with an earache for over a month now, it comes and goes...but today I'm living in a well again. Had a horrible migraine last night, but thank you Jesus that is gone today. I'm just in one of those LAZY weekend modes, trying to get 100% better again. Thankfully the house is somewhat clean, so I really don't have many "chores" to work on (except laundry, there's always laundry) right?

At Christmas dinner with my family we found out there will be a new little one at our family gathering next year, my dear sweetheart cousin Nikki and her new hubby Jonathon will be expecting their little bundle of JOY in August...Big sister Cierra is super excited, but I'm even BIGGER excited....B & I are going to be God Parents!!!!!! Although I'm not sure how the "real" parents will react when I bring bundle of JOY home and never return him/her! Oh well, they'll cope I guess! ha ha

Hopefully I'll be getting back into the swing of things soon...have a few Photo Sessions coming up soon! So be on the lookout, I'll be sharing pics VERY soon!

Blessings until next time!

Mel

My neice...princess "Earl" & her fiance'

2011-12-06T18:29:00.001-05:00

To my sweet Earl....I didn't get to meet you the first few years of your life...I came around a lil' bit later, but I'm so very thankful to God that I got to share most of your years with you...I have incredible memories of "playing" with you...and I'll never forget dancing in the living room with you and your brother to Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas"....you kiddos have blessed me in my life with much happiness. I'm amazed by the beautiful lady you have become...yes, I said lady...you are such a strong willed gal, and for that I can say it is an honor to be your Aunt Maw-Wissa! I love you forever girl and wish you all the happiness that life brings! Now stop growing up and go back to that little thumb-sucking, "PINK" loving, Fudge round eatin' little girl!!!! ;~)

P.S. the "Princess part is yet another great accomplishment for "Earl"...she was 2011 Mountain State Forest Festival Princess.....yet again we're all so proud!

EDIT: I forgot to mention what a HUGE challenge this was...these 2 together are such Characters!!! They are perfect for each other, if you notice that majority of the pics she couldn't look at him...if she did she busted out laughing....Oh, Young Love!

Justin (Senior 2011)

2011-10-24T14:15:00.000-04:00

my family ????????

2011-10-22T18:12:00.000-04:00

Storyboards....

2011-07-31T14:27:00.000-04:00

Sara & Todd's big day in pics....

2011-07-15T17:51:00.002-04:00

Emily & John

Introducing Mr. & Mrs. Deffet

Whispers, while being watched by Miss Hailey from the window....too cute!

The Reveal

Wedding day for Sara & Todd

2011-07-09T09:38:00.002-04:00

I'm off shortly to take pics at this beautiful place, the sun is shining after a whole day yesterday of nothing but rain! I think it's going to be a great day...I'll share pics when I get some editing done...So excited! I'm sure I'll only have about 100,000,000,000 photos to share ;~)

Blessings to Sara & Todd for a happy, healthy long life together!

Mel

new kid (baby girl, to be specific) in town...

2011-04-14T17:50:00.001-04:00

this my friends is the new addition to my family...my cousin Amy delivered this beautiful baby girl yesterday at 6:01 p.m. She weighed 7lbs. 1 oz. and is 19 1/2 inches long. She is adorable! I got to hold her and didn't want to leave! I'll be visiting her REAL soon. Now onto momma...the past few years I have thought so much about my family and how much the ladies in my family have meant to me...Amy and I grew up most of our childhood right beside one another...which at the time wasn't always good...we fought just like we were sisters...there were four of us cousins (gals) who were fairly close in age...Nikki, Amy (1 year younger than Nikki), me (one year younger than Amy), and Heather (the runt...she's the youngest...several years younger than me)...anyway we were together a WHOLE bunch growing up, and looking back now, I am SO thankful for all the times we were able to be together! I love these girls as if they were my sisters...which by the way I'm the only child....BOO! But my point is...these ladies are a treasure to me and have always loved me and each other no matter what. I am so thankful to God that he blessed me with the family I have...who do not look at my faults and love me for me....I sure do love them!!!!!!

Introducing Mr. & Mrs White

2011-04-12T18:55:00.001-04:00

WV Marriage Reception!!!!

2011-04-09T11:54:00.000-04:00

Today I'm off to photograph an 'ole friend of mine....She and her hubby Josh were recently married on a cruise (I'm jealous) anyway, they currently live in NC and are comin' home for a WV reception for the families, and she asked me to come and take some pics!!! SO EXCITED....one because this pretty gal finally got hitched, and 2 cause she asked me to be part of her special family day...I'll try to post some pics soon...get ready...they'll be coming to my site soon!!!! Oh, and by the way Spring has FINALLY arrived here! Whoo Hoo!!!!

Melissa Jo

SPRING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2011-03-21T19:50:00.000-04:00

HALLELUJAH..........Praise God, it's FINALLY Spring!!!!! Woo hoo....now if I could just get going with my pics....here are some edits I've been playing with, still tweaking....

Enjoy the beautiful weather (silly weather man says snow for Thursday)...those are fighting words!!!!

Mel

playin' with some new PW fun stuff..

2011-01-20T19:06:00.001-05:00

I found some awesome new add on's for my Photoshop Elements 8 program on Pioneer Woman's site...go check her out, she has some amazing photos, recipes, and LOTS of fun stuff!

more editing...just playing aroung this lazy day...

2011-01-16T15:42:00.000-05:00

some new edits

2011-01-13T19:38:00.000-05:00

Winter Blues SALE!!!!

2011-01-06T15:01:00.003-05:00

20% off all session fees!!!!!

New Year...NO Resolutions...just me!

2010-12-30T12:38:00.000-05:00

I am not one to really have a "New Year's Resolution", not that I don't think it's a great idea...just doesn't really apply to me. I have goals that I set for myself, and I do my best to accomplish them...seems that if I make a Resolution with any kind of time-line, I'm setting myself up to fail, my goals get done, not always in the time I'd like, but they get done with the Lord's help of course. 2010 was a really good year in ways and an absolutely horrible year in others. We built our house & moved in, which is good...but there were a lot of trials that we went through, my dear sweet Gramma Violet suffered a stroke in June as some of you know, she was really the glue for our family. We may not have realized that then but WOW we know it now. I miss her each and everyday and the pain has not lessened any and probably never will. I see the hurt in my momma's face all the time, which is of course painful to me. We know 100% she is heaven looking down on us. We all agreed that if she isn't in heaven none of us are going, cause she was one awesome lady, and our memories with her will be treasured forever.

In August my Granny Maxine found out she had breast cancer, so began that fear in all of us...she had to have a partial masectomy, thank God she didn't have to have treatments, she probably would not have done well with those she has so many other medical issues that the treatment would have crushed her I'm sure. She does have to take some medicine for 5 years now, but things could have been a lot worse!

So as you can see it's been a whirlwind year...as we probably all have situations in each of our families we wish were different, things that had never happened and words that were never spoken. Days you wish you could replay and do over, but that is not how things are in life, you learn from those times and go on to try to be a better person...and that is my goal, it seems this year many have developed an opinion whether good or bad about me, that's okay, we're all entitled to our opinions, Just know unless you ask, you don't know what I'm thinking, feeling, or wanting...I just hope that everyone looks at people with their eyes wide open to see the truth in each situation. There is more than one side to every situation and God knows the truth.

My GOAL for the new year with NO time-line is to be a better loving Christian woman...to be more like my wonderful Gramma Violet! Pure in spirit and love! And of course to take many more pictures...had to throw that in there!

So Happy New Year to all my readers...may God Bless you now and always!
Mel

Merry CHRISTMAS....

2010-12-23T11:20:00.000-05:00

WOW...it's just 2 days until Christmas...time has sure flown by this past year...it will soon be New Years, and thank the GOOD Lord above Spring...Yes, I'm thinking Spring! You see my little car does not take too fondly of the wintery roads...I have had several times where I felt like pulling over to the side of the road and crying. NO, it hasn't been THAT bad...but pretty close...one day last week I was trying to pull out from work onto the "main road" and could not get going up the hill, when I finally did get going about 1/2 way up...I got stuck, so there's a car just like mine behind me (except it was a 4 door)...he backs down to the bottom...then I backed up a bit and tried again...NO luck, then I look over to my left and there is a man motioning for me to pull into his driveway...which my first thought was "Yeah Right"....but I did successfully...and my goal then was to turn around and go further down the road and try again...well of course there was traffic...so I waited, got stuck in his driveway, so as he was shoveling me out...I look to the bottom of the hill and notice a white car like mine (but 4 doors again) is doing unexpected donuts at the bottom of the hill...where I need to go to turn around...it must have been a man cause he handled it much better than me...HA HA HA...but anyway as I sat in his driveway the WV plow trucks go up the hill (where I got stuck)...I finally got out of his driveway went to the gas station, turned around...and gassed it up that hill....I MADE IT!!! Now, to make it down...that part went well, but the roads were the worst I had ever driven in...so I get to the intersection in town...one way leads to my moms the other to our house, her house is closer and not nearly as dangerous, so I went to my mommy's!!!! Spent that night at her house...hubby made it home fine, of course...men are Braver with this stuff...He told me to just stay put at my mom's...(since I was chicken) ;~)...Thank God for keeping me safe on those roads that day and every day.

I hope that each and everyone of you has a wonderful Christmas and remember the real reason for the season...Baby Jesus! God Bless!

I''ll leave you all with a fun little video...one of favorites

Mini Session Sale!!!!!!

2010-12-09T11:17:00.000-05:00

mjp photography sale~

(Monday Dec.13th through Monday Dec. 20th)

$20/Mini - Session
1/2 Hour - 1 Hour
15 Edited Images & Disc

email me at melp88@frontier.com

Just in time for me to send my cards....YIPPIE!!!

2010-11-29T17:49:00.001-05:00

I told you a few days ago about an awesome deal Shutterfly is having for Bloggers...I found out about this deal here, she's a lovely lady who loves the Lord and has an adorable little girl who is a blessing from above...anyway Shutterfly is offering Bloggers 50 free Holiday cards...yep, that's right 50 free cards. I plan to use mine for this years Christmas photo card for me and my hubby.

I have recently as some of you may know become addicted to Photography...last year hubby got me an Amazing camera for Christmas...(have I mentioned I love it), I decided after taking our Christmas photo 2 years ago that I really wanted to get into Photography more, and thanks to hubby I am now loving taking my photos. I am going to of course use Shutterfly this year for our Christmas photo cards...check them out here...http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-photo-cards

They have some other great products also that I'm going to be trying out soon with some of my sessions, like this one http://www.shutterfly.com/calendars . You can upload all your faves and include them in a calendar...that's an awesome gift idea. They also have some Holiday Invitations that would be great to use for any upcoming parties http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-invitations

Check it out today!

THE SALE CONTINUES....

2010-11-29T10:05:00.001-05:00

I'VE DECIDED TO CONTINUE ON WITH MY FALL SALE (now we'll call it the CHRISTMAS SALE)...20% ANY SESSION YOU BOOK!!!

Please note: for all my sessions you will receive the edited images on a disk (with copyright allowance) so you can take them to a photo lab of your choice, or I also have a lab with great prices...see packages post below...ALSO...

CHRISTMAS CARDS...If you purchase any session you can order your Christmas cards and there will be no additional session fee, we can simply use any of the pics taken during your session to add to your cards, I can order those cards for you...Christmas card $'s to come soon...(note: there is no additional charge for cards the price I pay for the cards & shipping when I order is the only price I will charge you for the cards.

now for the Sessions info and pricing...

Senior~$90.00

This session includes 2 Locations, can be taken in 2 seasons, multiple clothing changes & you'll receive 40 edited images on disk w/ copyright allowance. This session includes 2 hours photo time plus my photo editing time.

Deluxe Family~$70.00 (multi-child families, including adults, NO limit to people)

This session 1 or 2 locations, 35 edited images & copyright allowance, 1 1/2 hours photo time plus my photo editing time.

Full~$55.00 (Single child families)

This session includes 1 location, 25 edited images & copyright allowance, 1 hour photo time plus my editing time.

Mini~$40.00 (1 person adult or child)

This session includes 1 location, 15 edited images and copyright allowance, 45 minutes-1 hour photo time plus my editing time.

If you have any question at all please don't hesitate to ask...melp88@frontier.com

Shutterfly Love!!!!!

2010-11-28T18:11:00.002-05:00

If you are a fellow blogger go here...and get this amazing deal!

Love this site! I found out about this fro a sweet dear blogging friend, you can check out her site here...she has an absolutely adorable little girl! Enjoy...will be back soon with more Picture info...please remember 20% off sale going on now!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!!! BE BLESSED TODAY, AND THANK GOD FOR EVERYTHING!

2010-11-25T10:18:00.002-05:00

just 32 days....

2010-11-23T18:03:00.002-05:00

can you believe it...32 days until Christmas...just 2 until Thanksgiving...I love this time of year! Getting to spend some quality time with my families...this year for my mom's side is going to be a bit hard without my sweet Gramma Violet...we all miss her so much...would SO love to see her and hold her little hand again and to let her know I love her! Where she is right now, she knows how much we all miss her and love her, and I'm so thankful that she's looking down to protect and watch over us all.

I'm going to do my best this year to get as many pictures of all those special memories...gotta get some baby bump pics of my Cousin Amy...her next little one is due on April 12th...although I'm gonna do everything I can to get that baby to appear one day sooner...the 11th...my B-day...her first little princess Brielle (now 6 years old) was born on our cousin Nikki's birthday, so I think it's only fair to get this one on my day!!

So fair warning to my families....pictures are gonna happen a LOT this year, so get your smiles ready!

Here are some pics so far of my decorating this year for Christmas...yes, my tree is up a bit early...Hey, it's our first Christmas in the new house....So ;-p

this is my table centerpiece...the doily is

from Gramma Violet...she gave me

this a few years ago...will treasure it forever!

this pic of the tree is a bit blurry...sorry...there

will be more later! ha

one of my favorite ornaments...my mom and dad got us this

one and a few more when we got married...love this one!

yes, that's my baby ornament...it's celebrating it's 32nd Christmas! hee hee...my Aunt Martha and Uncle Andy (Amy too) got me this for my first Christmas!

This is my little red wagon from when I was a little one...on the front porch

My favorite little snowman ornament from the Burnett's before they moved back to Missouri ...miss them!

This is my dining room picture...with the lights on my hutch...still tweaking this area!

Hope you enjoyed my pics, I took them really quickly so...they are a bit blurry and unedited!

Will have many more to come as I said earlier!

Hope everyone has a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving! Prayers to all!

Melissa Jo

Christmas Cards and continuing the Fall Sale!!

2010-11-17T16:57:00.001-05:00

Hello all...please remember if you are wanting pics for Christmas cards...the time is QUICKLY approaching!!! And don't forget I have extended my Fall Sale through November! Get in touch with me soon if you'd like to set up a session! I'm getting so excited about the Holidays...can't wait!!! Much Love to all!

Sessions and Pricing...

2010-11-03T17:41:00.002-04:00

Ok...so, I have been working some more on figuring all my Sessions and Prices out...So this is it, and I'll change the info on the right sidebar soon, but I'll post it all here for the time being.

Please note: for all my sessions you will receive the edited images on a disk (with copyright allowance) so you can take them to a photo lab of your choice, or I also have a lab with great prices...see packages post below...ALSO...

CHRISTMAS CARDS...If you purchase any session you can order your Christmas cards and there will be no additional session fee, we can simply use any of the pics taken during your session to add to your cards, I can order those cards for you...Christmas card $'s to come soon...(note: there is no additional charge for cards the price I pay for the cards & shipping when I order is the only price I will charge you for the cards.

now for the Sessions info and pricing...

Senior~$90.00

Deluxe Family~$70.00 (multi-child families, including adults, NO limit to people)