Looking both ways

First... HAPPY NEW YEAR!  It is minutes into 2010, it's warm inside and puffing tiny icy dots of snow outside.  Chase is lighting a fire in the fireplace and I can smell the spicy aroma of the logs catching fire.  And it's got me thinking about how great the past year has been (and hopefully how great this next will be).  Sure, bad things happened like every year...but here we are on the other side relatively unscathed (or maybe even better for the experiences).  Like always the turning of the calendar is a chance to keep doing the good things we did, and work on the other stuff.

Over the last year, our Nashville wedding photography business has grown and through it we've made friends we would never have had, taken our knowledge and built so much more on top, we've grown closer to each other and we've really had a lot of fun. If it weren't for one brave new year's, we wouldn't have come the distance we have.  Of course, we have a great journey ahead, that we hope will include many more great things for us and our families...don't think I mean we're done.  I just take it as proof that an idea (or a dream?) hatched at the beginning of one year can blossom into something bigger, that will carry on years past when it was first ventured. 

So, what I'm getting it is... If there is an idea in your head or (wait for it...) a dream in your heart, don't hold back and wish for something to make it happen.  Take first steps towards that goal.  And if there isn't something pressing on your consciousness that you need to take by the horns... then maybe look towards a smaller positive change you can make.  Maybe I won't set a goal that will change my life this new year's (I don't have anything offhand to share in the goals department, other than the standard "lose weight, get healthy" goals...yet), but I can still take the things I have and work to make them better. 

That's my thoughts for tonight folks... It's worth what you paid for it ;)

CHEERS to the new year ahead (and God bless us, every one)!

Until next time!
Kristin

P.S.  I've been on holiday, and you know that means I've been lazy about my blogging... so count on some photos from some of our awesome November/December shoots in the next few days (week?).