Meet My Friend Sara K!

Meet my friend Sara K, a graduating senior at A&M Consolidated! There is so much to say about this lovely lady! She is just wonderful. Her passion and heart for missions is inspiring, she loves deeply and has a contagious laugh. I've loved getting to know her from church and seeing her grow these last few years.

I'm extremely excited to see where the Lord is going to take her as she steps into this next stage of life. Love you, Sara!

Pink, Red, Adorable.

As if all of the stores haven't thrown up pink and red hearted adorable-ness lately, here's some wedding fun for y'all to check out on this romantic holiday:

Nerdy love notes. You fog my spectacles. Genius.

Travel themed engagement photos are quickly becoming one of my faves.

There's something organically beautiful about ribbon streamers.

Cute little animated proposal.

How fun is inviting some flamingos to enjoy your big day?

Loving options for different stationary papers. So cute, elegant and fun!

Muppets + Proposals = Loving both this couple and their fun attitudes!

Super colorful and cute bachelorette party.

 Backdrops of sheer genius.

With all of the Will & Kate hype long gone, I still think this picture is pretty neat.

There's something about graphic designs on walls like graffiti that I just love.

A terrifying way to take the plunge into marriage.

Not sure where I am on the long vs. short wedding dress debate, but I would say 'I do' to the skirt of this dress.

Website

I have redesigned my joyephotography website and wanted to show it to y'all.  I hope y'all enjoy it. It needs a lot more updated photos, but I wanted to get it up and running again. Let me know any feedback y'all have!

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At least this week I've been consistent with my inconsistency of taking photos. Somehow I've made my Project 365 into a Project Take A Photo Every Other Day. Hopefully that will change this week.

These past few days, I made some new friends and worked countless hours on my COMM 485 paper over social media. The good news though is that my paper is done! It possibly has the longest works cited ever though. It was supposed to be a 12 to 15 paper and despite it ending up to be much longer, the works cited ended up being 15 pages in itself!

In other news, I got to visit the clinic this week. No parasites here! :)

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I didn't seem to have my camera on me much these past two weeks. We had the BIG Team in from Arizona. It was a youth team and although it was fun, it really made me miss my youth group in CS. I'll be back there soon though!

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After being tired from our second St. Andrews team, we had to gear up rather quickly for the Ziner family mission team that came in the next morning. This week proved to be quite interesting; along with a bit of frustration, a ton of laughter and getting to see what the Lord had in store for this past week was great and something that none of us could have even imagined or foreseen. More to come on that later.

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& Some Prayer Requests.
- Strength. We have four weeks back to back with teams. That's about 3 mission trips back to back but without the downtime in between of a weekend to watch. In each case, our "down time" which means time to wash and restock supplies is about 24 hours or less. Pray for God's timing, no stress and for details to fluidly come together.

- Stress about school. I can't get in contact with the professor I'm working with for my summer Communications class. I have no idea when I'm supposed to turn it in. I won't have internet for the next four weeks really but I'm not sure that even matters since my topic has never been researched before no matter how hard I look for even just one article to appear.

- Confidence. I left mine somewhere when it comes to translating, especially in large groups of people. I don't enjoy speaking in front of large groups of people. When I'm not sure what I'm saying, the anxiousness inside of me is even worse.