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 [...]

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 have to say that my biggest fear in life has always been failure.  I am always afraid that I am going to let someone down so I hold myself to these standards that are impossible to achieve.  I am a hopeless perfectionist.  I want things to be perfect but the sad fact is that [...]

I took this photo at one of our fall weddings this year.  I looked up through this perfect sunset and there Troy was in perfect silhouette.  It brought tears to my eyes… I am not usually one to get emotional over that kind of stuff.  I think all too often, when you are married for [...]

Series courtesy SimpleMom.net 7 Weeks Till Christmas: Organize Your Family’s Holiday Calendar Photo: Country Living 1. Write down some descriptive words. Take a few minutes before the craziness of the holidays sets in and physically write down what the holidays should MEAN to you.  What do you WANT the holidays to be above the presents [...]