Never Miss A Moment

Happy one you anniversary Never Miss a Moment!!

Its officially been one year since I made the decision to stay home to run my buisness and be a mom.

Technically Never Miss a Moment will be five years old this summer my first official payed wedding was Tabitha and Kipp 7-7-07 I still have there photo up in my office as a reminder everyday.

I can’t beleive I have actually come this far. Back when I first started I remember being so frustrated after the first year and crying to my husband “I just want to do this full time, I feel like its never going to happen.” I even took a job working for Lifetouch hoping it would make me feel better (it didn’t) Then I got to a great place in the buisness where I had a steady line up of work and weddings coming in but still didn’t feel like I could quite my full time job. So instead I was just twice as busy running the buisness, second shooting some weekends  and working 40 hours a week. But for all of you self starters out there you gotta do what you gotta do.

Then we found out we were going to have a baby! The plan was to keep doing everything the same. We would both work and I would still do photography “on the side.” Well after going back to work for two weeks after maternity leave I broke down and couldn’t do it anymore. At that time I was working for Kindercare, so I was bringing our daughter Paisley with me to work a few days, she was with my amazing neighbor Monica two days and Jason’s mother one day of the week. Needles to say it was a crazy house, who has her what day,? What to pack,? What not to pack,? How much am I actually bringing home in the end after paying for daycare? It just wasn’t working, so I literally called my husband one day and said ” I put my two weeks in, I have faith in God and Never Miss a Moment” as I hung up the phone I felt this overwhelming calm come over me.

So here I am one year later, LIVING IT!!! I have learned a lot in the past year, never to doubt and to trust Gods plan for my life and my families. Which as I write this now I have to remind myself of that very thing, Trust HIM.The past year has been both awesome and very hard. Staying at home has definitely brought on new challenges that I did not see coming. There are days that I crave an actual routine and adult interaction being the extrovert that I am, and other days that I couldn’t be happier. There is a fine balance that I am still trying to figure out and slowly understanding.

I am so excited for the next steps of Never Miss a Moment Studios, currently I am working on branching out to include cinematography. I also just became a member of the Minnesota Birth Photographers and am really looking forward to being involved with them and everything they stand for. In other aspects of our household Jason is on his way to becoming an official youth pastor for Illumination Church he has been the volunteer youth pastor for the past year and recently started school and is currently part time staff, I couldn’t be more proud of him! Paisley is 15 months and is absolutely awesome, she’s really starting to talk a lot and is a super happy, super busy little lady.

So since a photography blog cant be complete without a few photos here are a couple from one year ago exactly, when I started working from home. We had gone down to Kansas to visit our friends Glenn and Amy Fletcher for Easter. Paisley was 3 months old. I was so excited to come home after that weekend and NOT get up for work that next Monday.

Photo Taken by Amy Rae Photography