Ahh! Its been 2 weeks since my last blog! I can't believe it! I don't think I've gone this long without blogging since I left Sarah's house in June!!!

This weekend has been so much fun! Friday started out pretty normal until I received a phone call that I was supposed to play in Karen Lafferty's back up band that evening. I hadn't rehearesed with the band, didn't know any of Karen's songs, it was awesome. I had an hour to learn her songs off of her CD, then I had to go straight to the church and get up on stage and play with the band, without any run-throughs! In case nobody knows who Karen Lafferty is, I work for her under Musicians For Missions Intl, which is the organization that helped me put on my BarlowGirl concert last summer. Karen is probably most well known for the hymn she wrote back in the 70's called "Seek Ye First". I'm pretty sure that if you grew up in the church, you know that song.

Karen was holding a benefit concert and silent auction featuring some amazing musicians. Fletch Wiley, one of the best trumpeters I've ever heard, and Benny Prasad, a wonderful man of God who's guitar playing I can only relate to the movie August Rush, the only difference being that Benny is Indian, his worship songs have a wonderful Eastern Indian feel to them, and his guitar has drums built into the front of it so he can play drums and play guitar at the same time. Amazing.

So Friday was wonderful. Today I swung by my favorite cafe and grabbed a cup of THE BEST vanilla chai in the world and headed to a gorgeous park with a couple friends to read and take pictures. It was so much fun, I want to do this every Sunday!




And, as if today couldn't be more beautiful and remind me of God's beauty, just now as I was writing this blog entry the sunset was amazing! I had to pause and take a couple pics of it too. ;) I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend as well!

Can you believe this is the sky?! Ahhh!

So I had this amazing opportunity this weekend to photograph this city-wide event called Fall Gathering. I was pretty excited because this was the first concert event that I was the main professional photographer for. It was so much fun! I shot from about 2:30 in the afternoon until about 8:00pm. Though I'm really sore this morning, I'd do it again in a heartbeat! The bands were all so talented, and the atmosphere was perfect. (I was shooting at the Plaza in downtown Santa Fe, which if you've been, you know its the most cultural, beautiful spot in the city) Anyway, I have some pictures and also made a slideshow from the day. On a side note, I love making slideshows and I don't get to do it that often, so I was just excited to have something to make a slideshow out of. ;)

Hello everybody!

I feel like today was actually like 10 days, I've done so much. Really, I've just been walking EVERYWHERE today. I got a call a few weeks ago from a church in Dallas letting me know that they felt called to put on a major concert/revival in Santa Fe and asking if they could pick my brain about putting on a successful concert, since they have never done it before. I don't know why they wanted to talk to me, since I'm no expert with concerts, but I agreed to meet with them. It turns out that they've invested so much into this event and have invited several major artists and bands to perform, that I couldn't so no, I just had to be involved and help them out with their direction. They've invited Los Lonely Boys, Salvador, and Jaci Valasquez to play, among several others during a 7 day revival in downtown Santa Fe. Since they'd never done any concert promoting in the past, they really had no clue how to go about organizing or advertising the concert. I put them in touch with a few of my contacts to help out with advertising, but I also wanted to help out personally. My good friends Chad and Meagen called me to ask if I wanted to go with them around Santa Fe hanging fliers for the event, and of course I said yes. I think we went to about 20 businesses today. We had a blast, we always do.



We stopped at this local youth community center to promote the concert and I found this wall, I was sad that I couldn't find a picture of me on it:



After about 3 hours of hanging fliers everywhere, I left Chad and Meagen and headed over to Joyful Ministries, an AWESOME ministry here in Santa Fe full of a bunch of Godly prayer warriors. I always love seeing these woman. They had asked me if I'd join them on a prayer walk through Santa Fe, and it was amazing. Such a good time, and beautiful scenery.





I'm wiped out now, but I thought I'd blog anyway....I know, kind of random. Hope you're all well!

Yesterday was SUCH a busy day! I had so much going on, and today I am all but dead. It's taken all the strength I have to even get out of bed!!! So let me run through everything I did. I woke up and went to my glamorous job, then came home and finished up some stuff I've been putting off, then drove an hour to Albuquerque where I had the funnest photoshoot with the most adorable couple, Shea and Erin, who I get along with WAY too well. We had so much fun. I think we were joking around with each other the entire time we were together. Pictures to come soon. ;)

After the shoot, Shea, Erin, my friend Emily, and I all headed over to a concert with my favorite band Fireflight. Let me just tell you guys, if you haven't heard Fireflight, or seen them live, you must go out right now and buy their CD and check their tour dates because they are AMAZING. They put on such a great live show. I was so surprised at how small the venue was, maybe 100 people there, but that made it sooo much better! Yep, I highly endorse this band and think they're one of the most underrated bands out right now. Sheesh people, go buy their album.

After the amazing concert, I headed back to Santa Fe to Borders for a midnight release of Breaking Dawn, the last book in one of my favorite series "Twilight". Yep, I've said it before, I'm a big dork. It was so much fun waiting in line like we were about to meet some famous person, but really we were all just there to buy a book, haha. Tons of fun.

By the time my day was all over, I was sooo beat, but somehow still had enough energy to stay up until 3:30am reading the first 3 chapters of Breaking Dawn. Ahhhh, so good.

Anyway, here are some pictures from the concert last night. Seriously, go check out Fireflight now.