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Goodbye 2008 . . .

I would be lying if I said that 2008 was a fabulous year.  I was met with many challenges and my fair share of trials...you know,those things in life that get the credit for making a person who they are, or so they say.  I have learned MUCH, lost quite a bit, endured long and have emerged on the other side with a few life lessons.  I have so much to be thankful for and so much to look forward to.  I am no longer going to sit back and wait for success to roll up in my lap or depend on another to make me smile.  I am now convinced that I can do most ANYTHING I set my mind to.  I have amazing friends and a wonderful family.  I live in the best country on earth and I am RICH compared to the worlds standard.  I have learned that no matter what one day holds the sun will always rise on another, and I have learned that baby steps are a sure way to get where you are going if the journey seems long.  I am so blessed, so loved, so grateful and so hopeful of what 2009 has waiting.  So with the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009 I will watch with tears as my baby goes off to Kindergarten, I will celebrate 10 years of marriage, I will celebrate many things for the first time without my Mom, I will learn to laugh more, I will take more chances and never look back with regret, I will love more fully and most of all I will not be afraid of failing, after all isn't that how we learn.  

To all of my 2008 clients...Thank You for your support and trust, I wouldn't be here today without you!

I wanted to share some of the very first pictures taken with my brand new Nikon D700 that Santa brought me!  Matthew was such a good sport today when I drug him outside in the freezing cold to play with my new camera.  Did I mention how much I love my camera.  I am truly in heaven!  Or should I say so very blessed!  ~fara

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The words of another person

I have never been a writer, I have made many really good attempts at it but never had that gift like so many other amazing people I admire and look up to, such as Jasmine Star, Holly Brimhall, Joyce Smith or Sheye Rosemeyer just to name a few.  Sometimes I just sit and read as if I were reading some juicy romance novel.  But what I love the most and what always keeps me coming back is the ability that some have to inspire another person with just their words or their story.  Sometimes it is just a sentence, sometimes it is a couple paragraphs, either way I never walk away (from MOST blogs) without being touched in some way.  I can't tell you how many blogs I read that leave me sitting with tears rolling down my cheeks and how many I read that make me want to jump up and dive head first into this life with all I have, running strait toward the finish line never slowing for even a second to look back.  I am so greatful for the words of other people, oh how they have inspired me to love more, live more fully, laugh longer and have filled me with the desire to be better!  I hug my children alittle tighter now, I take risks that I would have probably never taken before, I try to laugh more often...I am better now because I have read the words of another person and they left a mark on my life.  I am forever greatful for that.  I am not an amazing writer...but I feel it is so important to share the words that make up the story of our lives, because...you never know who may be reading.  I am going to try to post more, write longer and share better.  I have a story too, and if it inspires just one person than why not tell it?  Thank you to all who have told their stories from behind keys of their keyboards...you have no way of knowing how many lives you have touched, or how many people who have cryed with you...I am different now...Thank you for that!

The exprssion on Mason's face in this picture is how I feel right now so I thought it appropriate to add this picture of him...taken the same day as the picture below.

JUST ONE of my greatest accomplishments and deepest joys...