Growing up in a Pentecostal church was an experience that has stayed with me.  If you have never been to a “camp meeting” then you are missing something!  Back in the old days there were big tents and little old ladies with their hand fans or better yet a fan fashioned from an old church [...]

View the VIRTUAL Issue of TOPS in Lex- WOW Weddings here We did it!  Schmidt Studio & Gallery has been put on the “publication” map!  We were featured in this summer’s installment of Tops in Lex’s Wedding Edition. I have to brag a little because we were being featured with the TOP 5 wedding photographers [...]

Its official!  The house is on the market as of Monday.  Troy Todd, our fabulous Realtor, came and put the sign in the yard and I thought that it would be an emotional time but truthfully I am REALLY excited about the new ventures and possibilities in our life!  I know there will be many [...]

As I sat in the hospital I thought about how this New Year came with such a sense of hope.  I guess one would think that maybe being admitted the second weekend of the year does not bode well for the rest of it but I beg to differ.  I fail to believe that God [...]

If you haven’t been watching The Sing-Off on NBC… you should have been.  I was totally blown away by the amount of raw talent!  Troy and I kept seeing the previews and I am SO glad I remembered to set the TIVO!  We laughed, we cried, we cheered…. and our favorite won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When Nota` sang [...]

What has faith done for you?  Its a simple question that I will venture to guess would have a lengthy answer from anyone you pose it to.  If you have been reading this blog for any amount of time you know that faith plays a big part in my life.  You know that i believe [...]

We all do it. We hide. Hide from problems and confrontations in life. We make things out to be a bigger deal than they have to be. We stress ourselves out worrying about things that may or may not even be. We hide from so many thing. We hide from sadness, anger, weakness. We put [...]

There have been so many “technical difficulties” around here lately… if you are a normal visitor to my blog… you probably recognize that something is WRONG.  I finally did too!!!  If you are viewing this in IE… it looks nothing like if you are looking at it in FF.  Also, somehow, it has started randomizing [...]

I made this cute little banner to hang over our manger scene.  I saw it on Etsy and thought… I can make that!!!!!!!!  So I did   LOL  As it hangs in my living room it makes me smile.  I walk past it and it truly helps me to remember what it is that I [...]

I do.  I know many of you do to.  I would like for you to meet Becky.  She is 10 years old and has been battling bone cancer for two years.  Her doctors have told her parents to “take her home and enjoy Christmas” as this will likely be her last.  While Becky’s family continue [...]