Happy Valentines

Happy Valentines Day!  I am going to do another post about me haha!!  I get to meet so many families and hear a little bit about each family, like what they do, where they work, and about their children.  If I am doing a session with a child that can talk, more than likely I probably talk A LOT to them!  haha They probably think I talk way too much.  If you have a little one that can't talk I probably talk to them too much to them and make too many noises to get their attention and think I am a crazy lady. I do it to make them smile and make them comfortable with me, maybe make another small friend so next time they remember me (even if they think I am crazy).

I thought I would tell you a little bit about me and my love story!  It all started back in 2005.  We both worked retail at the Huntington mall.  He was a manager at Rogers Jewelers and I was a manager at B.Moss, the stores were right across the hall from each other.  He was getting out of a serious relationship and so was I.  I had been engaged and was about to adventure in the life of being single and only doing things for me, something I hadn't done in awhile.  So I decided I was going to trade my engagement ring in at...you guessed it Rogers.  I walked in and he was the one to help me ( I had never seen him before that day because he had just transferred stores). I wanted diamonds, diamonds, and more diamonds. haha! I couldn't decide what I wanted and it took me a few weeks to pick out what I wanted.  Well a few weeks later he helped me decide what I was going to get to replace my ring.  Diamonds make everyone better right??

Well we started going out all the time together or meeting up after we had been out with our own friends. We really turned into great friends.   His nickname was "Mr. Rogers" and I was"B. Moss girl." We both said for the longest time "I am over relationships and refuse to be in one for a long time." We became best friends.  We would stay up really late talking about life and everything we could think of.  We complained of past experiences and how we would do things differently.  We would sit for hours and play cards, just the two of us.  He ended up moving about an hour and a half away to help manage another store.  There was never a second I thought about if we were going to be together forever.  But I refused to move anywhere for a guy without a ring on my finger.  He ended up proposing 8 months after we started hanging out, four months after moving away.

I always told him I wanted to be proposed to when I woke up because it would be like a dream come true haha!  I would not have been mad if he didn't do it that way, just always joked about it.  Well it was easter weekend and I had taken a shower that Saturday and was laying on the couch taking a nap.  He woke me up and proposed right then and there.  My dreams did come true!

We ended up moving to Virginia Beach for about a year and a half.  We planned our wedding from there and got married back here in West Virginia. A few months later we had a baby on the way.  We moved back here before Miss Bailey was born and have been here ever since.

We will be married for 5 years in May.  We have had a lot of good times and several hard times.  We brought the most precious girl into the world a year after being married on May 27th 2008.  She is our life thats for sure!  If anyone knows me close enough they know Jason travels a lot for work.  He is more than likely traveling at least 2-3 days a week every week.  I play single married mom a lot, that explains why my child randomly tags along to a few sessions.  Don't get me wrong it is very hard, but for the most part its just part of our life and absence makes the heart grow fonder right?  That also explains why Bailey and I shop a lot! haha

We started trying for baby number 2 after her being 7 months old to come to find out it just wasn't meant to be.  We have been trying for 3 years with no luck and lots of fertility drugs, doctors, hormones, tests and a miscarriage .  You know your marriage is going to last if your husband can deal with you through all the emotions you go through with hormone drugs. It has been a long road of disappointment.  But, through it all I have learned that everything happens for a reason, I mean if I hadn't walked in that store to buy jewelry we may not be were we are today.  Trust me there are days I get so angry and don't understand and complain way to much, but unless you have gone through infertility yourself you have no clue how frustrating it is.

So I get my baby fix from doing newborn sessions haha! They are so cute and cuddly and then you Momma's have to deal with the 3 o'clock feedings and all those diapers!

All marriages aren't perfect and finding that perfect someone isn't always easy.  You have to go through the bad to get to the good.  I wouldn't trade my life for anything even when my husband is at his worst.   Just remember everything happens for a reason.....what was your reason??

Love you Mr Rogers,

Your B. Moss girl!

Session of your photographer!!

I wanted put some of these pictures up on my personal facebook page the other day and thought I would share with you all.  I am normally always behind the camera...obviously! Well I haven't had family pictures done in awhile and thought we needed some done.  My sister always says she wants to learn to use my camera and join the business one day.  Well I had my sister behind the camera and I got to be in front.  We went to do whole family pictures as in: us 3, my parents, sister and grandma.  Well Bailey had an extreme melt down and wasn't in to it.  When I say I bribed her with everything I did! I told her I was taking things away and everything!  So when you all get frustrated with your child during a shoot, I have never dealt with a child harder than mine.  But, I came to one conclusion, she only likes pictures of just her.  She doesn't like group pictures, it must always be about her haha!  The few we got with her were after we bribed her with my buying her a baby doll and my grandma buying one! These are just a few, I haven't had time to edit anymore.  I also wanted to share these with you so some of you know who you are looking for when we meet!  So here I give you pictures courtesy of my sister, Misty!! 

 My parents!!