clever title

so i wake up this morning and almost immediatly remember that i never retrieved my keys from libbys console. (libby = tiffany’s golden jeep liberty).

what a dreadful feeling.

so i had to catch a ride to work this morning. thankfully kristen was cool enough to let me ride with her to work. she’s awesome. speaking of kristen, and awesomeness, she is doing the 3 day walk to benifit susan g comens cure for breast cancer. click her banner!

so today’s a long day at work. 9-6, but its good cus i need the money.

this friday i’m shooting a girls school portraits, so if anyone else wants to do a shoot contact me and we’ll knock it out on friday as well! krissyleighphotography@gmail.com

here ya go jake:

 

blog headers are so ‘in’ right now!

love you guys

call me old fashioned, but…

 

its finally the perfect weather for turning the air conditioners off and opening all of the windows in the house.

its seriously my favorite. 

i wish i could record what i just heard out of my window.

the wind in the trees, birds chirping, and the ice cream truck somewhere distant in the neighborhood.

(i didn’t even know ice cream trucks still existed, but they do and thats awesome!)

such a cheerful sound! i love it!

ah, summertime.

this will be the best summer yet.

ps.

i made this header for mal’s blog today:

she is beautiful.

and i made a new one for me too:

work all day tomorrow,

night folks.

take heart.

this letter both haunts and heals me.

written by Jamie Tworkowski – A letter to himself.

“Dear jamie,

The only justice is love. Just let it go. You don’t have to write back. You don’t have to explain. This is not about being right. There is something true in the song that you can’t stop listening to. You don’t feel at home anywhere, but you feel at home when Aaron sings that song. Someone calling you a criminal does not make you a criminal, just as someone calling you a hero does not make you a hero. Nobody gets to name you. Find your identity in the one true place. If someone gives you something and then takes it back – that’s okay. If someone says something or sees something, and then they don’t – it’s okay. Do not be like some broken lawyer, always asking for answers, always reaching for rewind. Guilt and regret, those are awful places. You know that. So don’t live there. Do not despair. Do not be afraid. Grace is the interesting thing. Hope.

And God must be a pretty big fan of “today”, because you keep waking up to it. You have made known your request for a hundred different yesterdays, but the sun keeps rising on this thing that has never been known. Yesterday is dead and over. Wrapped in grace. Those days are grace. You are still alive, and today is the most interesting day. Today is the best place to live.

These things deserve your attention: Your family, your friends, the people you will meet today, the strangers with their stories. “We are all in this together.” It is absolutely true. That girl with cancer in her stomach and chaos in her mind. She’s with us. That guy with tears in his eyes and ghosts in his heart. He loved her, and you could see it. You could see it, and you told him it wasn’t his to carry. You told him about grace, and you told him about the song. And you believed it. You were certain of it. So if it’s true for him, then isn’t it also true for you?

Wake up. You’re alive.

Your Friend,
jamie

PS: And that thing… I know you think about it a lot. I know you don’t know what to do with it. It does not define you. It never did. Then or now. You can wear it around your neck. You can throw it to the sea. It doesn’t matter. It’s not your name. You are free.”

today, this letter haunts rather than heals me.

it’s annoying when the answer is right in front of you, and you can’t even open your eyes and look into it’s face. you are afraid. 

i am unable to speak up for my heart.

unable to make a sound.

waiting is the hardest part of life, Lord.

——-

 

so i just got back from dinner with tiffany and alex.

yes at 2:47 am.

at the cheesecake factory.

thank you jesus for your timing and wisdom through my  beautiful friends.

thank you for alex, he is such an awesome mentor and friend to me.

you encourage me in ways that i thought weren’t possible.

my heart is satisfied in you in this moment.

i learned something important tonight:

Faith, is acting on Your opinion of me.

and i have NO authority over that opinion.

thank you jesus, for your stubborn and unconditional love for my heart.

i adore you.

 

friends, take heart.

for He has overcome the world.

 

 

my heart

this is my heart:

 

best friend, home is always waiting with arms wide open.

when you are gone, our hearts miss yours.

this week has been pretty crazy. and next week is going to be even crazier.

today i’m working all day with a little break in the afternoon, then shooting a prom tonight

woohoo!

tomorrow northpoint with miss sweet tiffany leigh, and then picking up mr. daley hake at the airport.

shall be great fun.

if anyone has any used cowboy boots they’d like to donate to a homeless friend of mine, email me at krissyleighphotography@gmail.com

your donation would be both grately appreciated and recieved.

i love you guys,

more later!

-krissy leigh

needle & thread

i’d be a terrible friend if i did not share this with you:

“When the world welcomes us in,
Were closer to Heaven than well ever know.
They say this place has changed,
But strip away all of the technology
And you will see
That we all are hunters,
Hunting for something that will make us okay.

Here we lay alone in hospital beds,
Tracing life in our heads;
But all that is left
Is that this was our entrance and now its our exit,
As we find our way home.

All the blood and all the sweat
That we invested to be loved
Follows us into our end,
Where we begin to understand

That we are made of love,
And all the beauty stemming from it.
We are made of love,
And every fracture caused by the lack of it.

You were a million years of work,
Said God and His angels, with needle and thread.
They kissed your head and said,
Youre a good kid and you make us proud.
So just give your best and the rest will come,
And well see you soon.

All the blood and all the sweat
That we invested to be loved
Follows us into our end,
Where we begin to understand

That maybe Hollywood was right:
When the credits have rolled and the tears have dried,
The answers that we have been dying to find
Are all pieced together and, somehow,
Made perfectly mine.

We are made of love,
And all the beauty stemming from it.
We are made of love,
And every fracture caused by the lack of love.”
go listen:

www.myspace.com/sleepingatlast

love you, friends.

the sun is up, the sky is blue. it’s beautiful, and so are you.

I took Mallory and Zach’s photos this past week, they are happily engaged. and so very cute.

here are some of my favorites:

yep, i had a lot of favorites from this photoshoot.

they were so much fun and the day was just perfect.

tomorrow = the rocket summer show with tiffany.

friday= best friend is home! breaking twilight show.

next week is going to be lots of fun shooting with daley hake.

check out his work because he’s pretty much amazing.

i’m super stoked about that. i’ll keep you guys updated.

love you,

-krissy leigh

we are Yours

on my way home from work today i was listening to my ipod and the live version of charlie hall singing ‘we are yours’ (from last years passion) came on. I am very sad that I was unable to attend Passion this year, however i’m sure it was for reasons i could never understand really. While i was listening to ‘we are Yours’ i just started praying for my friends there at Passion, and i kept thinking about how God moved so much in our lives last year.

this song became my prayer for you guys, i know that Jesus is pursuing you guys hardcore right now.

I want you all to know how blessed I am to have you as my closest friends. You all inspire me every day to continue chasing after the Lord’s heart. I look up to, admire, and strive to live genuine lives like you do.

I love you guys, so very much, and I hope and pray that you’re learning something just amazing right now.

Come home and share with me.

This is your song, friends:

We are Yours,
We are Yours,
We are Yours,
We are Yours, We are Yours, We are Yours
We are Your sons and daughters
You are our holy Father
All our fountains are in You, Jesus
We open wide our mouths and You fill us
We are a generation
Touched by Your salvation
Made by You and for Your glory
You’ve marked us here to alter history

I believe every word to this song, and I hope that you do too.

We are sons and daughters of Christ, brothers and sisters, living lives of purpose.

I’m praying for you, and I love you with all of my heart.

-krissy leigh

new blog

i thought i could make virb cool.

i thought wrong, haha.

so with the addition of hannah marie to my list of friends here on wordpress i figured i’d move mine over here too.

hello wordpress!

love & faithfulness

Megan Erica & Tyson James have now been married for 4 days, and it’s only now that i can sit and pull my thoughts together. Really the past two months, my brain and heart have been just busy busy thinking and praying about the day that Meg & Ty would give their lives to one another. I am every day, reminded of this season in my life, friends getting married left and right. It is wonderful to see Gods faithfulness in their lives. Megan has waited all of her life for ‘the one’. She made no mistakes, and guarded her heart so that she could someday give it in it’s complete, whole and un-scarred form. Megan is so brave, strong and beautiful. There aren’t even any words to describe who she is, except that she was faithful to her Jesus, and now He is keeping His promise to her. I am very proud, and envious of my precious friend. I have never seen anyone look as beautiful as Megan looked on April 5th. She is the most beautiful bride my eyes have ever seen. Not only was her dress, hair & makeup. But gah lee, Meg just shone a light like none other. She was glowing, I cannot describe it. Ty was the most handsome i’ve ever seen him, and i’ve never been so proud of my sweet brother. It was truly on honor to get to stand with them and support them as they professed their love for one another and for their Jesus, and then to commit to them as they commit to each other. Their faces were priceless, and I cried like a stinkin baby the entire ceremony. I cried for so many reasons: Because Megan and Ty were perfect, the whole wedding was perfect. Because I was so proud of my brother and his bride, one of my dearest friends. Because God was fulfilling his promise to them, and His faithfulness was so apparent that day. I also cried, because I am so so so afraid that i’ve already ruined my chance at receiving such Grace. A couple of years ago, all i thought about was getting married, sharing my life with someone and commit to loving them and following them on the journey to make so many dreams come true. And now, today… I am the furthest from that outcome. I cried out of fear, and bitterness. Bitterness for no one other than myself. There are days when I feel like I can overcome the world through Christ, and there are other days when i hate myself for not deserving the ending (rather beginning) that Meg & Ty have received. Today I found out that my friends Mary Ellen & Jacob just got engaged. I am so happy for them. Shay and her boyfriend will be getting married within the next year.. GAVIN & LINDSAY ARE ENGAGED…and there are other friends whom i’m certain will be taking that road in the near future — — Not to mention the 2 weddings of friends my age whom i’ll be photographing this year! Mer just said the other day to Mal… she said ‘this is only the beginning of all of our friends getting married” And she’s right. This is only the beginning of such a wonderful season of our lives. When did we all become such adults? It saddens my heart because i know i’ll be the last of the group, if at all right now. The Lord continues to confuse my heart with what His will for my life is in that area. Meg told us, she said that WE deserve the same love and happy ending that she has been given. She promised us that the Lord will be faithful.

I know that he will.
But i don’t think that i deserve it.

I must have faith that my heart will be taken care of.
I must believe in that love again.
Its true.
It exists.
I saw it this weekend shine through the hearts of two of my closest friends.
Now I wait.

Jesus I sit here, and i make a commitment to you.
A commitment to wait.
Not to wait on ‘him’, but more so to wait on You.
Show me your face Lord, I am in desperate need of Your love.
Give me a desire to center my life around You daily.
You are the breath that fills my lungs, now give me a reason to breathe.
Remind me.

I love you Lord Jesus, and I thank you for what’s left to come in my life.
In complete and utter blind faith, faith of a child I thank You.

Thank you for Meg and Ty and the tangible example you have made them for all of us.
They are Love as You designed it to be.
I pray that you will continue to bless their marriage as they continue to lay down their lives, TOGETHER for your purpose.

You are ever faithful to us God.
I love you.

(ps. Please pray for Murphy Lee Dog, he hurt his back. He means a lot to me (and many) so please keep him in your prayers. Feel murph dog i be lovin you!)

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