Birthday Shoot

This was a really special shoot for me because I used to teach this momma, and now I got to take pictures of her beautiful baby boy. As a teacher, I feel like all of my students are my kidos. And I love keeping up with them and love seeing how God uses them in their lives as grown ups!

Amanda's sneak peak

Kids and the beach- you can't beat this combination! Look at this cutie. He was so much fun and so happy!

8th Grade Grad Shoot

How beautiful is this young lady? We had a great time wandering around Cocoa Village getting shots she could use in her yearbook ad. At over 200 edited pictures, I think she will be able to find some she likes. :)

C's photoshoot

Here are some of my favorites of my other daughter while on vacation... :)

Claire's Shoot

I had such a good time taking Claire's pictures today. The weather was perfect, and the beach was beautiful. Claire is a natural beauty and was so much fun to shoot. She and her mom even brought their puppies for the shoot. They were so cute! Here are a few pictures from today...

Jeans For Teens

My school collected over 200 pairs of jeans in one week to help the Brevard County homeless. Wouldn't it be great if everyone looked around for a need and did something to help out their community? If we could collect over 200 pairs of jeans in just 5 days, imagine what we else we could accomplish? My challenge to myself and to my students this week is to do something nice for someone. Let's see what alittle kindness can do!

Merritt Island Christian Homecoming 2010

Another successful homecoming at MICS... the week started with our anual Lip Sync and ended with a black light pep rally and black light dance at Cocoa Beach Country Club. It was beyond a busy couple of weeks for me, as I ended up in charge of the entire week's festivities again. Thankfully, I had some awesome help this year- Leigh, my best friend and fellow art teacher, who always supports me when I volunteer "us" for "everything" and cheerleading sponsors Carri and Kylie were awesome! The pep rally was so much fun that it was worth the late nights including setting up the gym till midnight. Donna and the high school teachers performed an incredible Blue Man type of performance with tennis balls. Elvis, Mr. Bopp, showed off his moves as the emmcee of the lip sync, and 11th grader, Spencer, who won the lip sync graciously volunteered last minute to wear a blow up glow in the dark fat man suit and entertain us at the pep rally. Many students helped including our homecoming King, Alex, who ran sound for us. Without all of you and countless other helpers, we couldn't have pulled off such a great event! So thank you- all of you; you know who you are even if I did not mention you by name. Even though I was "dead dog" tired Saturday from setting up the dance all day, I grabbed some unsweet tea from McDonal's and a cappachino and headed off to Cocoa to take pictures of the students. I loved seeing them all dressed up, and I felt proud of each one of them as I spend so much time with them that I feel like they are my kidos. And as I finished taking formal pictures for the dance, and began looking around to take casual shot;s and I saw how much fun they were having, a huge smile came across my face and I thought, "this was totally worth the effort!" Here are a couple pictures from our week!