Jeremy & Tracy: It's Our Life

New Church Building

2009-04-18T10:18:00.000-07:00

So it really has been a while since I blogged and so much has happened. The biggest thing is that our church has relocated.

We are now in a fabulous building. It was a bitter sweet move for a lot of members. We desperately needed more space and to be accessible to all the members. So many of them were not able to attend church because of all the stairs but now with everything being on the same level and being up to ADA standards, everyone can enjoy the new facility. Move-in day was jam packed with stuff to do, the main thing being getting our sign up. It was quite a feet to get the cross and flame up, but very well worth it.

Some day we will have a lawn as nice as this but right now it just dirt, if you can imagine that.

Since we've been in the new building, we have started up our CDO (Children's Day Out) program and I have been substitute teaching. It's been a blast but also exhausting. It's one Tuesdays and Thursdays but this last week I took care of 4 children all under the age of 2. Tuesday I helped and Thursday I was supposed to do it by myself, but that didn't really happen. I tried, but it was jsut to much. One of the other teachers came to help and we decided a couple of things. 1) Octomom is truly crazy and 2) there really needs to be 2 teachers in that room, especially when 3 of the children can't seem to get calmed down.

I've also been teaching a digital photography class at a near by community college. It's been fun and I truly hope everyone is getting what they want/need out of the class. It's continuing education, so it's mainly people that just want to leard and aren't being forced to take a class for credit, like my college days were. I tought Wednesday and Thursday of last week and will do the same this week, then it's over. It's good experince, and I'm enjoying, I just wish it was more steady and more than just 9 hours. I also had a wedding a couple of weeks ago and another one last night. Look for those pictures soon. I have onther wedding next weekend and another the weekend after that. So, I'm staying really busy and taking the jobs I can get. Hopefully more work will soon come my way, hopefully something more steady and reliable.

New Blog

2009-04-04T11:38:00.001-07:00

Hi all. I just wanted to let you know that I started a new blog, Studio 1173. This blog will have updates of the work I'm doing. This blog will continue to be a personal blog to keep family and friends updated on what Jeremy and I are up to.

Thanks.

2009-03-25T16:56:00.000-07:00

A few pics from a wedding at the Westin at Galleria Dallas. It was a long night but oh so much fun. The wedding was shot with jimmages. They are so much fun to work with, I had a great time and can't wait to do it again.

Invitations, Weddings, Work...Oh My.

2009-03-23T19:12:00.001-07:00

I'm so excited. I finally got done with the wedding invitations. I'm so excited about them. I hope you guys like them too. Let me know what you think.

Also, at the beginning of this week I was officially accepted for the second photographer position at jimmages. They are going to start offering me as as second photographer at the weddings they are shooting. I helped at a couple of weddings a few weeks ago and it went went really well.

Here are
a couple
of kiddos
from the
first wedding
in Sherman.

And below,
the wedding party
did an
excellent
job of
decorating
the
get away car
and
it even
spread over
to some
decorating
on the church.

I'm even going to get the chance to use some of there equipment. Here is the camera that I will be using some for the weddings. Hopefully I'll get enough photography gigs to where I can buy my own.

I'm also helping out a company called tru identity. I did one wedding for them and am lined up to do more. The girl I'm working with is so cute and so much fun to work with.

Also, I'm getting really excited for this weekend. My grandparents are coming down for the first time. The house is still pretty clean, but will still need to be picked up some. Thankfully, Jeremy has Friday off again, so he can help me get stuff ready.

It's also the last weekend at our church building. Jeremy will be helping with the service in removal of some item for the reconsecration. I'll be taking some pics, so look for those soon.

Stayin' Busy

2009-03-12T20:42:00.000-07:00

So I've managed to stay really busy this week, especially these last couple of days. I got all my grocery, finally and our kitchen has managed to stay pretty clean all week. Today I got all the outside parts of the wedding invitations done that I'm working on. I'm so excited about them. It's amazing to think how far I've come since I did my own wedding invitations a few years ago. I'll try and post some pics of them when I get them done for you all to see. Hopefully I'll be able to get them all done this weekend and get them sent off to the bride early next week.

I'm also super excited about Sunday. Some of my family from Kansas will be swinging by for a quick visit on their way south. Considering Jeremy and I have been in our house for a little over 2 years, we still have almost nothing done in the way of decorations and still such a mess, this kind of scares me. Luckily, Jeremy will be off work tomorrow and hopefully we can knock a lot of the cleaning out. This will also be super helpful considering my parent and grandparents will be coming down in a couple of weeks. My grandparents haven't been to the house, and I'm guessing it should be pretty clean considering my mom has already starting asking if we've been cleaning...she knows us far too well. I'll let you know how it goes.

Time Well Wasted?

2009-03-10T18:54:00.000-07:00

So yesterday I went all the way to Ft. Worth to fill out a job application. I was really excited about the prospect of being able to work with animals. The place I applied at was the Humane Society of North Texas. I had e-mailed them last week regarding a position they had posted. I received a phone call asking me to come in and fill out an application. Upon getting there, I told the person at the front desk that I had spoke with someone and that I had been requested to fill out an application in person. The front desk person didn't seem phased by this, handed me an application which I proceeded to fill out. I then received a phone call this morning asking me to come back in for an interview. The interview seemed to well. This time and gas seems to have been a waste of my time though. At $8.00 an hour, 45 miles away and having to work weekends...Jeremy and I think that it's just not going to be worth it. I make more on unemployment than I would make at that job. I could find something with the same opportunities working closer to home.

I wouldn't have a problem working on the weekends if I could get some off to continue the wedding photography. I love doing the wedding photography and really hope that things will pick up with it. And I love working on the wedding invitations that I've done also. I'm going to finishing up the ones for my cousins wedding soon and I'm going to work on some for a friend from college. I just need to find a way to make a living at it. What I would really like to do is start my own business. I'm tired of talking about it, I really want to do it, I'm just scared, mainly about the taxes but also about not having a steady income...now.

Getting Started

2008-05-27T11:27:00.000-07:00

So I've decided that Jeremy and I need to finally start a blog. Hopefully we will be able to keep up with it. The main reason that I(Tracy) want to start this blog is so that we can let our family and friends know what's been going on. For those of you that don't know, Jeremy and I are originally from Kansas, where most of our family and friends still are, and we are now living in Krum, TX. It's about 45 minutes north of DFW.

Here's some info about Jeremy and me. We met at college 2001. In 2002 Jeremy transferred to the another campus which put him about an hour away from where I was still going to school. We were fortunate to be we were able to see each other nearly every weekend. When Jeremy graduated in 2005 he took a job in Denton, TX as an engineer at Peterbilt. I graduated in 2006 and finished planning our wedding, which was in September of that year. During the summer of 2006 Jeremy and I adopted a dog which was named Havic. She's a Black Lab/Border Collie mix and was about 6 months old when we got her. She really can be crazy sometimes but so relaxed and calm at other times.

When I moved to Texas I brought Havic with me and we lived in an apartment that Jeremy had already been renting. In the 2007 we adopted another dog, Willie. He's a German Sheppard/Rottweiler mix and was about 2 years old. He is the sweetest thing and most times is much more well behaved than Havic is, he's such a big teddy bear.