i’m a georgia voter

thats what the super sweet sticker says that i got after i voted today!

the line’s weren’t too bad:

we were excited…

and 30 mins later….

phew… now let’s just hope for the best!

 

I’ve seen two movies in the past week, and i must tell you about both.

First of all, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3 –  SENIOR YEAR

was UH-freakin-MAZING! seriously.. if you liked 1 & 2, i’ll tell you…High School Musical 1 & 2 were POO under my shoe compared to HSM3. I was skeptical about this movie,  because usually the more sequals there are to movies, the worse they get. Also, the previews for HSM3 were so modest- they didn’t let on how awesome this movie was going to be at all. The production is just way bigger. More dancing, more singing, and best of all…more Efron.

i took my 12 year old brother, and 16 year old sister to see it, and we were all so very impressed. GO SEE IT! i’d totally go see it again on the big screen if you need a movie buddy!

I also saw The Secret Life of Bees:

I went to see this movie with my friend Tracy for her birthday. It was way better than i expected and had a few of name actresses in it: Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah & Alicia Keys. Dakota Fanning seriously gets better the older she gets, and she’s so big now! it’s crazy. I loved this movie because each character represented the different ways people handle their emotions, and i found myself relating to each character for specific reasons. i just loved it, so if you’re a girl.. you should go see it.

 

i’m really excited to see my friends on friday.

go vote!

cracked & dry

The sky is grey and the light is far
The sea is a rage within my heart
I turn my sight to the crashing waves
I cry in the night just to be saved

I need eyes to be my guide
I need a voice that’s louder than mine
I need hope I need You 
Cause I can’t do this alone

Grace I call Your name
Oh won’t Your smile fall over me
I’m cracked and dry on hands and knees
Oh sweet grace rain down on me I need You grace

I pray for dawn a new day to live
I pray for mercy only Jesus gives
Though darkness falls and a million cry
I believe over all there’s a greater light shining for us

Come down and save me

readddyyyy go.

so i spent a considerable amount of time trying to think of a clever blog title..

and i kept typing and backspacing, and typing and backspacing.

i asked mal for inspiration and this is what i got: readdddyyy go.

so there you go. blog title credit: malloree morgan

 

tonight i had kinda last min plans to go with my family to a halloween party at a friends house.

i know that everyone is requesting the Velma in me, and i promise i’m going to try my best to have that costume ready by the 31st, but tonight i had to hurry and scrounge. So of course, i defaulted to Audrey. (my wardrobe just fits her style) so here’s my outfit for the party tonight:

 

tonight was one of the few times i was actually really impressed with my parents creativity!

my mom was Sara Palin, and my dad…my dad wore a Tshirt that said “Russia” with a Russian Flag on it..and he held a window pane in front of him all night. They walked around together and it was hilarious. 

They even won the award for the most original costume of the night. yea!!! way to go rents!!!

surprisingly enough, it was a really fun party even though everyone was older than me. everyone was either way older than me, or way younger than me..(lil chitlen runnin around)

it was fun, i enjoyed myself.

and only ONE person mistook me for Jackie Kennedy instead of Audrey this year. PTL!

keep voting on the post below…i’m beginning to get some Kat Von D votes…uh oh!

halloween

lets take a vote!

here are your choices:

1. Audrey Hepburn (i’ve been her many many times for Halloween, never gets old)

2. Velma (from Scooby Doo):

3. Kat Von D:

(i’d have to get extensions since my recent hair cut, of course)

 

you decide:

a sneak peak at love

just a little preview on the 2 most recent weddings i shot:

Lindsey & Gavin’s Wedding:

Mal & Zach’s Wedding:

and of course we can’t forget the Polaroid shot…

(a special thank you to my best friend, malloree for assisting me in Zach & Mal’s wedding)

weddings are very tiresom, both physically and emotionally. I love to shoot weddings because i’m a big believer in the L-word. But it is ALOT of work, work that i cannot physically do alone. Starting in 2009 there will be many changes in KLP, starting here- in the wedding field.

Even though, it is a lot of work, and kind of annoying to look at couples enamored by eachother all day long during both the actual event..AND the post production.. looking back on these photos makes me incredibly happy. Happy for my beautiful friends who are joyfully in love, and hopeful for myself as well.

love…quite possibly….is my favorite emotion to capture in a photograph.

what do you think?

new experiences

I am so excited about this weekend! it is full with fun photoshoots.

well really only 2 photoshoots. one friday, and one saturday.

Friday I am shooting a ‘pin-up girl’ series for engagement gift of a couple who will be getting married this year. I think it will be a lot of fun. I got an email from this girl, Jessica, asking if i was comfortable taking ’sexy’ photos haha. No one has ever asked me that before! After throwing some ideas back and forth and after hearing out her ideas i feel completely comfortable with it. She loved my idea, for the ‘pin up’ girl look, and i am more than excited to not only shoot her but help her pick out outfits and do her makeup and hair as well. Saturday i’m doing a family portrait session so that will be lots of fun as well.

sunday i’m recording back up vocals for my friend Jonathan Thomas’s new CD. Another new experience! He’s asked me quite a few times over the past year or so and it never really worked out schedule wise, or with my nerves. hopefully this will be a fun day, and not nerve-wrecking like i imagine it being. i’m scared to pieces!!

I can’t remember if i blogged this or not.. BUT we had an awesome time last friday! Me, Mal, Caroline, Brian, Jake and some other folks went to Fright Fest..we had a blast… HOWEVER….

Let me tell you a story:

So before we enter the park i’m telling everyone how much i LOVE scary things, I tell everyone that i’m pretty good with scary stuff, like i don’t get scared easily at all..except with clowns. I just wanted to for-warn everyone..if they get scared, i’m there! Cus you know..i’m the tough girl of the group. Those words barely escaped my lips when we entered the park and the FIRST THING I SEE, is the scariest clown these eyes have ever seen. Caroline, trying to be considerate after what i had just told them outside said loudly “Krissy don’t look now, there’s a clown!” (bless her heart) however, she said it a little too loudly. The clown snapped his head our way. This is when i hated myself for wearing a RED hoodie. He began to walk toward me, and i had no idea what to do, like i was honestly really freaked out by him. So what did i do?

I ran.

I ran and hid in the first store I saw.

The stores were all closed now, because they aren’t open at night at the park.. so the lady working there who is sweeping the floors says ‘ma’am i’m sorry but we’re closed, you can’t be in here’

and i proceed to say ‘i’m sorry ma’am but i cannot leave. that clown just scared the shit out of me and i’m not leaving this store until he goes away.’ 

Then she proceeds to laugh at me, as if this was some sort of a joke. 

Then the phone rings, and she goes to the back to answer it, leaving me in the dark store alone (there are two doors on either side of the store that are wide open, mind you) and i’m not kidding i said to her ‘you CANNOT LEAVE ME IN HERE ALONE’ but she ignored me.

Then i look toward the door to the left (caroline and brian were standing out there waiting for Mal to come back) and slowly but surely that GOD AWFUL clown sticks his head around the corner and starts giggling. Like an evil giggle that could never come from a real human (he must have had a voice box on or something) 

this is, literally when i begin to cry.. and brian is saying ‘krissy DONT COME OUT HERE!!!’

so finally a manager comes into the store, and he’s like laughing at me. and i said ‘i am NOT leaving until that clown goes away, you work here you can tell him to go away.’

it was awful. He finally left. BUT that did not stop him from finding me at least 3 more times that night (thanks, red hoodie)

like, you guys probably think that’s a joke. but i was HONEST to GOD scared out of my mind. I think i may have even peed my pants a little. I’d like to take the time now to thank Brian Carl for being my human shield all night against that horrible creature.

Then we all rode the Goliath twice(which i hate, but was a good sport about it), The Scream Machine (broke my back), Batman & Superman (my favoritessss!)

then all of a sudden on the intercom they’re saying that the park would close at 9 (literally like 20 mins away) this makes me mad because on the six flags website it said Fright Fest = 6-11pm.

so mal and i ended up RUNNING to the haunted house, and we were in the last group to go in.

that junk was scary. and it was especially hard to run with this new appendage on my back (mal), haha.

I can’t even count how many times the words ‘OH SH**!” came out of my mouth.. literally screamed them out of fear. 

 

after that we went back to customer service and got complimentary tickets since the park was closing 2 hours earlier than advertised. They said they were sorry for our inconvenience.

none the less, it was a fun night. I hope you got a kick out of that story. 

 

15 days till my birthday, and i’m excited! but i don’t really have anything planned.. :/

 

pray for me this weekend!

the changing of seasons & the meaning of home

i am having mixed emotions about this season. i love autumn, and i love the leaves, and wearing scarves and boots, and coffee and fireplaces and all of that.. i love it. but something about this year…from last year, just doesn’t settle right in my heart.

this season marks an entire year that has passed since i did my TOMS internship. I’m sad. I miss California, i miss the people, the atmosphere, the mission i had being there, i miss the growth that happened in me while i was there..and i wonder sometimes how much more i would’ve grown if i could’ve stayed.. and not come back. I was a different person there, free from a lot of stuff. But i guess ‘home’ brings out the best and worst in a person. 

I sometimes wish my home wasn’t really my home.. that i could find ‘home’ somewhere else.

somewhere far away, from here.

i want to continue growing the way i was while i was in california, but i feel like i’m held back here. i’m held down. 

i love this season, but i hope it’s the last season i feel this way.

Well I cant let go
No, I cant let go of you
Youre holding me back without even trying to.
I cant let go
I cant move on from the past
Without lifting a finger youre holding me back.

 

home is where your heart is, but sometimes i wish i could call someplace new, somewhere new, and someone new my home.

 

growing pains!

i am so thankful in spite of these mixed emotions. God is faithful, i know that to be true.

21 till 21

21 days until my 21st birthday!!! (was actually the 15th, but i’m 2 days late updating my blog)

in celebration, here are 21 things you may not know about me:

1. i am, for the most part, a nocturnal being.
2. whenever i shampoo with TRESemme, i always sing out loud “tresemme, ooo la la”.
3. my top two love languages are physical touch, and words of affirmation.\
4. it is impossible for me to sit in any car without some sort of music playing, no matter how short the ride.
5. i love almost every vegetable. except cauliflower.
6. i get chocolate cravings often.
7. i HATE time alone.
8. it is impossible for me to sleep without some sort of fan in the room.
9. hoodies are like security blankets for me.
10. i am most comfortable in skinny jeans, vnecks and TOMS.
11. i struggle with looking like a boy, most days.
12. i miss my long hair.
13. i like to sing at the top of my lungs in the car, even when i know it sounds awful.
14. i LOVE theatre/broadway productions & musicals.
15. believe it or not, i like school and i miss the learning atmosphere.
16. everything i know about photography, design, or playing any type of instrument has been self-taught.
17. i was Little Miss Chesapeake 1996. crown, sash, wave & all.
18. i was born in Virginia, and moved here in the 4th grade.
19. my sister, hannah & brother, evan mean THE WORLD to me. mess with them, and die.
20. i am deathly afraid of clowns.
21. i am a book worm. I loveeee to read.

well that isn’t as interesting as i’d hoped. maybe i should’ve put more thought into it.

or maybe i’m not as interesting as i’d hoped!

tonight a group of us are going to Fright Fest and i must say that i am so excited because it will be my first time there! I LOVE ALL THINGS SCARY! i love to be frightened while knowing that i am completely safe. (that fact was for free) this haunted house better be legit! or i want my money back.. haha.

i love you guys, i’ll write more soon.

Rainy Day Syndrome & The Art of Being Captivating

what the heck is it about rainy days that i both love and hate so much?

let me sort this out:

i love rainy days because:

1. rain is the perfect nap time scenario
2. rain is very musical
3. rain washes everything clean
4. rain leaves everything glittery and shimmering after a storm
5. rain is so much fun to dance and play in

i hate rainy days because:

1. rain never fails to fall when I’m wearing TOMS (the most inappropriate footwear for rain)
2. rain depresses me, and makes me feel incredibly lonely
3. rain makes me want to read more, and i always end up reading something way too sappy
4. rain, sometimes is very reflective of my emotions (i’m a girl, get over it)

yay for the first list being longer than the last.

yesterday, Jenna and i went to Lifeway to look around. My original intent of going into Lifeway was to purchase the book Crazy Love, by Francis Chan that absolutely everyone has recommended for me to read. But alas, they didn’t have it. So instead i broke the bank and walked out with: Captivating, Boy Meets Girl, and The Divine Romance. All of which i am excited to read, and i pray will help mold me into a more reflective woman of Christ.

Today i went on a date with myself to Starbucks.. to have some coffee and dive into my first book of the bunch..Captivating. Probably wasn’t the best book to start reading on a rainy day, but I am way too excited about this book to wait for clear skies. I wanna share with you guys some excerpts from the first chapter that really stuck out to me:

“I know I am not alone in this nagging sense of failing to measure up, a feeling of not being good enough as a woman. Every woman I’ve ever met feels it- something deeper than just the sense of failing at what she does. An underlying, gut feeling of failing at who she is.

I am not enough, and I am too much at the same time. Not pretty enough, not thin enough, not kind enough, not gracious enough, not disciplined enough. But too emotional, too needy, too sensitive, to strong, too opinionated, too messy. The result is Shame, the universal companion of women. It haunts us, nipping at our heels, feeding on our deepest fear that we will end up abandoned and alone.”

wow. hits the nail on the head, huh?

for the most part, i feel ‘not enough, and too much’ all of the stinkin’ time. But that opinion of myself is solely based on life experience thats has shaped the way i see myself. It has everything to do with dad relationships, any kind of relationships with the male gender and even failed friendships. Every time I have failed in any kind of relationship i look back and i pick out everything i hate about myself…and try to fix it. fix fix fix. I am always flawed, i am always broken, always imperfect and undesirable. I keep trying to become a ‘better’ woman of Christ. What does that even mean? Reading this book, so far has opened my eyes to a lot of life changing stuff.

For instance…Girls..Women. We are emotional beings. We desire to be sought after, pursued, fought for and most of all loved, I’d go so far to even say..we long to be adored. (i love that word) God created us with those desires. It wasn’t on accident, and it wasn’t so that we would just forever be on the last nerve of every man within a five mile radius of us. He created us that way, because it is an accurate reflection of His own heart.  Men and Women were both created to reflect God’s own image.. we just reflect different parts.

I so agree with everything John and Staci wrote in this book, yet at the same time it just seems so unreal.

I know God intended men and women to be this way.

He intended men to fight, and women to be pursued.

But I’m not sure if i believe it exists anymore.

Another excerpt that Staci wrote about her now husband, John:

“John wrote me letters, lots of letters. Each one filled with his love for God and his passion for me, his desire for me. He spent hours carving a beautiful heart out of manzanita wood, then attached it to a delicate chain and surprised me with it. (I still cherish the necklace.) I came out to my car after my waitressing shift ended to find his poetry underneath my windshield. Verses written for me, to me! He loved me. He saw me and knew me and pursued me. I loved being romanced!”

probably every dude reading this right now is laughing. The author(s) of this book say there is something wrong with that. I’m not gonna lie, i scanned over it like it was fiction. It’s not anything i can relate to, or something i think exists. But the Lord fashioned our hearts for this. Jesus tells a husband to love his wife just as He loves the church… Our love is supposed to reflect Christs love for us. It’s a crazy tangled web of love.

It’s been a while since i’ve felt loved, or pursued for that matter. And I’m not saying that i want that.

Because right now, i don’t. But what i DO want…is to change this attitude:

I don’t want to only feel loved and pursued when i am loved and pursued in the flesh.

I want to re-discover Christ’s undying love for me.

He is romancing me. He unashamedly loves me. I am breath-taking to him, and he is completely ravished and Captivated by me. And in my opinion…he is totally out of His mind crazy. But that’s how i know it’s real.

Crazy Love…He is crazy for me.

And i want and need so desperately to desire that, acknowledge that, and take hold of that truth.

and most of all…I want to be crazy in love with Jesus.

photos photos photos

 

joy, tiffany & benjamin james

 

so i have a whole shoot uploaded. i’ve been uploading everything to facebook because my flickr account  is full, and it will not let me upload anymore photos until i purchase a professional flickr account.. which equals no can do, because thats another expense that i cannot pour into quite yet. but ANYWAYS…

the photos i uploaded can be found here they are photos from Me, Tiffany, Joy & Benjamin’s trip to athens 2 weeks ago. I bought new memory cards and we decided to fill them up it was a fun day. If we look rough in the photos its because the night before all 4 of us slept in the back of an X-terra in the parkinglot of UGA. long story. we ended up waking up, driving to a racetrack to change clothes and brush our teeth and hair. it was cool. i say we look pretty good for lookin haggard.

 

okay so later tonight i promise i’ll update with that story i’ve been wanting to tell you guys!

love you.