News Years Eve

Well the end has finally come. To celebrate the end of the year and the end of this blog, Christina and I got cupcakes. She insists that frosting is gross while I disagree.Anyway, thank you for those that followed me along this journey of photos. I shall not leave you empty handed should wish to continue blogging with me. At midnight my new blog starts up: As Ruin Falls. Check it out sometime.

Anyway wrap ups for the years 2010:

• Faced a lot of rejection but got through it.
• Returned to Fresno where God challenged my ideas about ministry.
• Started my teaching credential program and realized how much I love working with kids.
• Went to a LOT of weddings.
• Started up my photography business.
• Moved in/out of a house five times.
• Took well over 2,000 pictures throughout the year (my computer likes that one)
• Got three new cameras (and had one stolen).
• Made new friends, saw some go.
• Drank beer from at least 10 different countries in December alone.
• Turned 23 years old
• Rode a horse
• Got into at least three new tv shows 
• And had a lot of awesome adventures and stories 

Ok 2011... you've got some catching up to do.

The Friend Who Saw it All

This is my partner in crime throughout the year (well only for the last half since it was a graduation present). But it is the Robin to my Batman, the Pinky to my Brain, the Sheep to my Moses... ok enough of that but seriously, it has been a good journey friend.

P.S. I still have don't have a name for my camera. Suggestions? (and the first time I've asked for audience feedback. This is fun).

Wonderful

I consider myself a very fortunate person because I have a lot of amazing friends. Many of them have been featured throughout this blog and as it comes to an end (and naturally I become all sentimental) I once again realize how much God has blessed me over the past year.

When I was asked to go back to FUI (Fresno Urban Internship) I was very taken aback, the whole thing had come by surprise. I had already faced a lot of rejection of other internships and positions I had wanted so to be basically handed this was weird. I had never planned to return to Fresno - I even told everyone I went on the project with that I would only go once, that was all God wanted of me. But exactly one year ago - at Urbana I felt God call me to go back to Fresno. So many things happened while I was there that I never would have predicted but what I was most blessed with was a new and important friendship in my life.

I never expected to be such good friends with Sol past FUI. Not at first. Only when we realized how similar we were and how we faced very similar things in life, did we bond like atoms. Her friendship help get me through the hardships I faced during the summer. She sat and listened as I verbally vomited all over her but also wouldn't let me settle in it.

So today I celebrate her birthday and the awesomeness that she is while also remembering how far God has brought me in a single year.

Ukulele

I'd have to say this is one of my all time favorite Christmas presents. My ukulele. I've been practicing cords so I can play real songs (not that Braelyn is Going to Fail Her Math Test wasn't a real song but it wasn't very well received). I've learned a couple of cords and played Jingle Bells at least once.

Knight and Day

"I've been trained to dismantle a bomb in the pitch black with nothing but a safety pin and a Junior Mint, I think I can get you in and out of some clothes without... looking.... I'm not saying that's what I did."

Christina and I have been on an action movie theme lately. We watched the A-Team and now Tom Cruise's Knight and Day. We didn't watch because it looked like an Oscar movie but because wanted to a) watch a movie where things blow up and b) watch Tom Cruise be crazy. We were satisfied in both aspects by the end of the movie.

Snow Capped Mountains

One of the many benefits to the mass amounts of rain California experienced last week is now our mountains have snow on them. This barely captures the awesomeness that was this site.

Christmas Carols

Christmas was one of the few days where I felt pressured to put up a good picture. Since it's Christmas, I thought at first it should be something related to Jesus. Then I thought that I should show the thankfulness for all the wonderful gifts I received. But as you can see - neither of these made it to the list. Yesterday's picture I think captured the meaning of the season for my faith and today I've focused on family.

Because these two wonderful characters have been a part of my grandmother's household for as long as I can remember. Every Christmas we spend at my grandmother's house, eating too much, and talking too loud.

Christmas should also be about singing - well every day should be about singing so I guess that is now an unrelated point.