HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

Well here goes NOTHING :-)!!! I put on my facebook page that I was going to make a HUGE annoucement and well here it is . . . I have hired an assistant, Amanda Livingston, to help me out with editing photoz to get me caught up!! I am behind on editing EIGHT photo shoots, the steer photoz from the fair, Relay for Life photoz and one wedding . . . so I'm soooo super SWAMPED with editing photoz that it's soooo NOT funny!!!!! I strive for PROFESSIONAL quality photoz that you can hang on your wall, but I also LOOOOVE to take random/funny photoz that you can have as memories. So with that said, I give you ALL the photoz that I take!!! Most sessions end up with over 400 photoz . . . and I KNOW that you won't print them all, but after A LOOOOOT of thought and prayers, it's just who I am and I can't change NOT giving them ALL to everyone!!! It's totally the scrapbooker in me, but also doing that I put in A LOOOOT of hours editing ALL your photoz so that's why I'm behind!! Things are going to CHANGE and I won't edit ALL of them, but you will still get ALL of them. I will be changing my prices and charging MORE for ALL the photoz starting next year. I'm excited to work with Amanda and get CAUGHT up!!! She's a GREAT friend of mine and a fellow photographer!! I had to put up this photo of MY family taken by Amberlee Harder, who is also a GREAT friend of mine and an AWESOME photographer!!!! Thankz for this photo Amberlee!!! :-)

I will be doing things a lot differently NEXT year with my business!!! I am sooooo VERY THANKFUL to ALL of you out there for your love and support of my photography business! I've said it a million times and here it is again, NEVER in my wildest dreams did I think my photoz would be this popular and my talent would be in such demand. I LOOOOOVE it!!! It's what I LOVE to do, BUUUUUT it's also taken soooo much time away from my precious family!!!

People ask me how I do it and really . . . I don't!!! My house is a PIG pen . . . I LOOOOVE pigs, but am tired of living like one!!! I have mounds of laundry that doesn't get done or folded (who doesn't right, but REALLY we live out of a clothes basket)!! Bills don't get paid on time because I don't take the time to pay them!! My toliets are growing and I won't even begin to talk about my tile floors!! I'm just way too super busy . . . I spend ALL my time at my computer!! I know it's crazy and I've done it to myself, but I can't deal with this anymore . . .

This is my little Oaklee CRYING because I have just YELLED at her and told her JUST A MINNNNUTE!!! And here is my little MaLayni YELLING at me because I have just YELLED at her for pulling on my computer chair for the millionth time today . . . these two little girls NEED their MOM!!! :-) A mom that is NOT so ornery with them!!

I SOOOO LOOOOOOOVE what I do, but I can't say NO to my family anymore . . . I need to say NO for the rest of the year . . . I'm soooo DONE taking photoz for the year 2010 . . . I'm sorry if you wanted an appointment, but with four weddings and 25 photo sessions on my calendar from now until the middle of November, I just CANNOT take on ONE more session!!! I have to take a break and slow down . . . I miss this little guy all the time, too!! :-(

As most of you know, maybe some of you don't, but I delivered my baby boy, Riley, who was stillborn in May and I still have really ROUGH days and just think I need some time to deal with my emotions and my little Oaklee's problems because of Riley leaving us too soon!! And then here's my GORGEOUS Mom . . . I'm FINALLY going to listen to HER and NOT take on soooo many photo shoots next year and NOT edit soooo many photoz!!!

THANK YOU MOM!!!! I LOVE you and you're the best for believing in me and understanding my TRUE passion for taking photoz!! :-) And then there's this guy that I call my "Cowboy" . . . he needs his wife back . . .

While he's out checking water and our cows or playing with our girls, I am sitting at the computer!! I'm missing out on sooo much with my OWN family!!! I LOOOOOVE all of you and LOOOOVE capturing your memories with my camera and giving you ALL those photoz, but I have to say I LOOOOOVE my family MORE!!!! So what does all this rambling mean . . . well it means that I've had it basically . . . I'm sooo tired of staying up until 3 AM editing photoz, falling into bed exhausted, and then TRYING to wake up in the morning. Crying myself to sleep because I miss my baby boy, but am sooo ornery with my girls . . . and knowing that I'm sooo far behind and then have another photo shoot scheduled for the next day. I'm tired of having to tell my girls NOPE we can't do this and we can't do that because I have too many photoz to edit . . . I'm NOT quitting although I've thought about it. I'm just NOT going to schedule ANY MORE photoz for this year 2010!!! I'm booked until November and then I'm taking December through March OFF!!! I want to learn how to be a better photographer. I want to learn how to edit better and FASTER! I want to just enjoy taking photoz AGAIN because right now it's NOT fun for me anymore and I want my PASSION for it back!! :-) I'm ending this heart felt post with my signature shot . . . me and Matt DIPPING taken by my little Oaklee Rayn!! :-)

Like I said, I'm NOT quitting, just NOT taking on anymore photo shoots this year . . . I will be back from a break hopefully BETTER than I am now and with a new refreshed attitude. I will have NEW prices and NEW print packages and things will just be a LOT different. I have to change things up because right now it's sooo NOT working for me!!! I REALLY do appreciate ALL your love and support. I mean that from the bottom of my heart!!! I LOOOOOVE taking photoz, but just NEED A BREAK . . . well after the four weddings and 25 photo shoots already on my calendar. Thankz everyone! I am referring everyone to my AWESOME photographer friend, Amanda Livingston, here's her link . . . http://www.alivingstonphoto.com/ Tell her I sent ya!! Love ya, Rayni :-)