Jesse's youngest brother Nathan was admitted to the ICU sometime early this morning for a head injury. Apparently he went downtown last night and his friends last saw him walking to another bar. He was later found by a stranger unconscience in bubble gum alley. He was taken to the hospital and has some critical head trauma, but they are saying he is going to be ok. He is in an induced coma until they can get the pressure released in his head and get a cat scan. Nathan woke up in the ambulance on the way to the hospital and started fighting the EMT's, so they are keeping him asleep. Please be praying for Nathan, his brothers (Jesse, Ryan and Cale), and his parents (Stave and Cathe) who are trying to get home from Hawaii.

Our lives have been turned upside down again and I am sure you are all as sick of hearing about it as I am talking about it. But the search is on again for a place to live, and we are both still in need of jobs. We have been booking weddings, which is awesome, but we are still weary about trusting that photography can and will support us. But we are tired of making the wrong decision, and by wrong decision I mean the one that God has not made for us. So we are being patient and waiting to see what He has for us.

The church plant is going good so far, new faces every week. We dedicated Jude last week and then had a baptism at the beach. I am working on the photos as I am writing and will hopefully have them up soon. For those of you that might not know what a dedication is, it is us dedicating Jude to the Lord and making a promise that we will raise him in a Christian home. Willie and Kim got Jude his first Bible, it's so adorable. :)

Well the pictures are done uploading so I am going to get going.

I have been so busy lately it feels I have no time to just sit and think about nothing. There have been so many projects and most of them I am severely procrastinating on.

As many of you know we had our Moore Photo Booth launch party last week (another thing to check off the list of things to do) and it was a lot of fun. I felt like I was in a whirl wind, but people were having a good time so I was having a good time. We have it booked so far for one wedding next year, and we are in the works of another. Next year is already looking more promising than this one was.

Jesse is still out of work (we don't really refer to 5 hours a week as a job) and we are just turning in applications and hoping for the best. This month is the hardest of them all money wise. Our bank account is empty and we have two car payments and rent due. Yikes! Weddings please!!?!! I don't really want to just complain about these things at you, but nothing else is really going on except praying we can make it another day.

Some other things I had on my plate included an Etsy purchase of two ring bearer pillows, two boutonnieres, a guest book and a pomander for the flower girl. I finally got it all done and will be shipping it out today or tomorrow. The wedding is in three weeks in Georgia, it was fun to get this job and really test my crafting skills..which includes lots of hot glue gun. I packaged everything up already without taking pictures of everything. But I have some photos to share.

The color scheme and samples...

The ring bearer pillow...

I also put on (with a lot of help from Michelle, Steph and Lacey) a baby shower for my dear friend Melanie. She is due next month with a little girl...so exciting! The shower was fun and intimate. I made the invites and decorations and I also made her a stuffed owl. I am going to make more owls as soon as things calm down. I still have an album to design and some other photos to work on.

Here are some photos from Mel's shower...

This is the owl I made her...

Moore Photo Booth Launch Party!!

SAVE THE DATE: September 17th Moore Photo Booth Launch Party, featuring music by Sierra Chavez with John English, and Black Water Union!! Where you might ask...Sally Loo's in SLO 6:30pm. ALL PHOTO BOOTH PHOTOS...FREE!!!!

If you have any questions please send me an email. We would love to have you there.

shannonmoorephotography@gmail.com

Cute Photo Update!-Jude with blueberries in his teeth

I got a phone call from my dad last week, he sold his house in Texas and was getting on his way to Fiji soon. But he is making a detour to California first...for a month. If you guys know anything about my dad and the relationship I have with him, you know that this makes me nervous. I have seen my dad once in the past 6 years and 4 of those years we didn't talk. So...as it stands we have a really awkward relationship. He got mad at me when I told him I was pregnant and has yet to meet Jude. He even came to California around Christmas and found it more important to hang out with his ex-wife (from before my mom) than me and his only Grandson. Pretty sad!, but nothing that isn't expectant of my dad. So we will see if he actually calls me, and if he does, if I see him more than once. It's his loss really, Jude is one awesome kid he really should get to know. Afterall, I don't see my brother settling down, getting married and having some kids anytime soon. My dad and brother have a better relationship, they have more in common....marijuana. And since I brought up my brother I must let you know, he isn't in jail. He has a court date in about a month, and he thinks it's going to be a long one and he wont ever really end up going to jail or prison. We will see, my brother doesn't have the best judgement.

Well, to end this blog post...Jesse's birthday is on the 25th, wish him a Happy 27th Birthday!!!!

I just got off the phone with my mom. My brother will most likely be in jail again in 8 days. My mom didn't know too much of what he is being charged with and how severe it all really is because the police are listening in to his phone calls. I just don't know what to think. I do know he needs to learn his lesson, but how many times does he have to go to jail for all his stupid decisions? Drugs are not worth this. Last time I saw him he was sickly thin, and when I said something to him about it he just shrugged me off. This sucks, I really don't need this on top of all the other things I am dealing with.