Volunteering :) 2010 Planet Green Thumb Earth Day Garden Show

I recently did some volunteer work for the Army Moral Welfare and Recreation department. I had such a blast at the Garden Show. I got to meet the famous Ciscoe Morris author of the #1 selling gardening book "Gardening with Ciscoe" he's hilarious! The venue was in celebration of Earth Day coming up Thursday, April 22nd. The Joint Base Lewis-McChord MWR did an excellent job of coordinating this event and having wonderful guests and vendors. 

Beautiful recycled glass jewlery by Genevieve Church www.recycledloot.com

A few pics:)

Beauty in bloom next to our house:)

Tough days....

Today was a day man ohhh man..We missed Ashton's wiggles and giggles (the kiddie gym lol)  and the kids were soo cranky! I was thinking to myself can't things just be easy? So, I begin to get frustrated by the little things...plates not being put up, toys on the floor, you name it, it upset me.. we go to town ( I call everything town because I come from leesville, la and that's what we do...we go to town lol) It's like the road and car make us all better for the moment lol. Thhheenn it's time for Tball. I've conversed with my Asst Coach (my awesome neighbor Jodi) and we have our game plan worked out for the practice and then wakes up grumpy pants Abby lol....Stompin around being a gruummppyy bear well, that passed as all fits do and off to practice we go..o. So, we get out on the field and WHOOSH, out of NO where (actually it was out of the south haha, but that doesn't really matter) the wind and freeeeezing cold rain come Abby was crying scared the wind was gonna take her away lol...and we come back home I cook dinner and WWIII breaks out with the kids lol. I'm stressed just from the day and things not going according to plan and I just took a step back and began to pray and realized it's not the plan that matters, it's not the house being clean, it's not the kids being perfect angels (although that would be amazing  lol) it's all of the hard days and cruddy things we go through that make us who we are and bring our family closer together. God gives us storms and trials to help us stay close to him (At least, I think so) Little happy moments shine that much brighter right after the storm has calmed....Somehow throughout our crazy day my beautiful children sat on the floor and hugged one another and looked right at me and of course I had the camera near me as I always do :) So, on the bad days just know you have your family and things will be ok....another day will come and that storm shall pass:)

Just some thoughts...

So, I was just browsing through my photos from the last few weeks and noticing how everything tells a story. These are the things my sweet little family did. The moments I won't ever forget because now I have them in a picture. My kids are getting so BIG! Abby is FOUR and Ashton is 16 months!!! Where has the time gone??? So many things have happened, but I'm soo thankful that someday we will be able to look back on my computer that runs at the speed of a dinosour because I have JAMPACKED this thing and my external harddrive with a bizillion pics of them, the things we did, and saw and remember those moments together:) Everything happens for a reason and maybe one day if it's in a picture we can look back and know the reason it happend (if that makes any sense I don't know, but it did in my head lol) Here are a few moments I want to share.....

OPLOVE:)

I am so excited to say I am now a member of OpLove.org. It's formal name is Operation Love :) It's for all of the soldiers putting their lives in danger on the battlefield and for their families. My husband serves in the U.S. Army and I know how hard separation is and I also know that reuniting is so sweet and now OpLove enables me to volunteer my passion and my job through a coordination service that connects  me with other military members or their families that are currently deployed so, that I can be there to photograph the homecoming, the moments before deployment, or for their R&R :) I can't wait for the sessions to begin! This is my little way of saying thanks to all of the soldiers out there serving for our freedom so, THANKS!!

God's Beauty!

So, I should be cleaning and finishing up school work because my parents are on their way for a visit to the beautiful Northwest, I'm just hoping the weather will cooperate so, they can get the full experience:) I just wanted to take a moment out to say that I am so blessed to have been given this gift of expression through photography because it helps me to capture God's greatness. Today I was on the phone with my amazing sister and we were talk about God and how sometimes we may not feel as close as we should be to him, but in that moment we have to remember that he is always with us and his reminders are simply a glance out the window. In everyday life God's greatness shines and through rain, sun, sleet, or snow he's always with us. Through every storm (emotional or physical) there he is to bring us through. God is good and how thankful I am to know him and how blessed I am that he gave me such a beautiful family (inside and out) and amazing friends.


This was a pic I took in Steilacoom, WA just wanted to share God's beauty with you.

I hope everyone has a Happy Easter!!!

<3 Candice

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