Weddings are really picking up this year, we have 11 already booked and more inquiries coming in. We are so excited! Life is such a blessing right now, and I really thought I wouldn't be able to say this for a long time, but God is so good. Jesse and I started a Wednesday (formerly Tuesday) night home group, and even though no one comes but our roommates it has been pretty good. I feel that God is building Jesse and I back up and we are really learning a lot, I am getting a completely new perspective of who God is.

Jude is growing like a weed. I can't believe that he has already become his own person. He will be 2 in May and we have already started the very beginning stages of potty training. He thinks it's really fun to sit on the potty with his pants around his ankles.

If you want to come to our home group it's Wednesday nights at 7pm at our home in SLO, 614 Rancho Oaks Drive...we would LOVE to see you there.

Shannon

Ok...this is just crazy that I never write on here anymore. I am sure you are all waiting in anticipation about what is going on in our lives, or you have been keeping updated thanks to Facebook. But I really like blogging, so I am going to try and keep this alive.

Things have been great! Life really has a new outlook when you are poor and can only rely on God and your family/friends. We are lucky to have both on our side. People might think I am crazy when I say I am actually happy not knowing my future and living on the brink of being completely penniless. There is something very comforting knowing that God is in control of my life, not me. Odd right? Who thinks like this? I never thought I would, that's for sure. But when you have been through what we have and seen that your decisions don't work out but God's always do, your mind is changed about the way things work. Jesse and I have been going to church regularly again and are actually wanting to go, it doesn't feel like an obligation. We have responsibilities, but are excited to be doing it. I have taken myself out of my comfort area and I just want to glorify God and do His will. I am not ashamed to fail, I just have to at least try. This is so new to me, I am usually the one that doesn't take chances. So with that, our wedding season this year is tremendous and Jesse got a job. I am a little wary, I don't want to get comfortable and loose focus again. I just want to get out of the debt we are in, put money into the business and bless our friends and family who have helped us through these past 5 years.

On a new note, Jude is awesome...as always. He is growing up fast for sure, I am enjoying this age. For those of you that have kids and have gone through this faze, you know what I am talking about; the "talking", the hand holding, the kisses and hugs, the cuddling, it's all great. Jude has a great sense of humor and a love for music, people and fruit.

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