On hiatus.........

Well its been over 2 months since my last post and a lot has happened. This wont contain any photos but it is a massive update for whats been going on with us. First off let me say thank you to all of you who sent emails or left a comment here and there asking for new updates on the blog. It is very reassuring for an "artist" to know that his work is appreciated, i will admit that i have contemplated many times just dumping the blog as it is time consuming and i get very little feedback so i never know if anyone reads or even likes this thing, but i thank you all for your support. Ok so why so long and no updates? One word can sum our life right now......chaos. Many things have happened in the last several months, some good and exciting and some not, while others sway back and forth. Some great things that have happened, i shot a wedding with my friend and photographer whom i respect very much Jamie Moore, super fun to shoot but i think that she may have had a hard time editing my files as our shooting styles are vastly different. Ill post some pictures from that soon even though it happened several months ago now. More work from the magazine, this of course has been really fun and of course stressful with the amount of stuff going on lately. Im not complaining though as i got to shoot and thats always fun, plus i got the cover for the Encinitas Magazine holiday issue and just found out that i will have the cover for Carlsbad Magazine in january. That one is really exciting for me as i have been trying to get that cover for a while so this is my first one. On top of that i also did the photos for the feature story in the Encinitas issue and the last issue of Carlsbad and the upcoming issue as well. Exciting thing number 3 is.........we opened escrow on a house!!!! While this has been a source of excitement in our lives it has also turned into a stressful thing lately. We are close to closing escrow, but found out recently that the house was appraised at 11K less then what we offered. This means a lot of things and none of them are good, so we went from a smooth ride and being on track to getting the house to now not knowing if we will get it at all. Ok so on top of all that what has gone not so hot........well one major event took place that really turned our lives upside down. We had a little run in with our neighbor at 3 am, it was not pleasant. Long story short is that when they moved in we had problems from day one, the biggest thing was his band and them practicing at the worst times of the night and to top it off they drank a ridiculous amount of alcohol. We had always been able to solve these issues peacefully in the past despite repeated problems. but there comes a point when enough is enough and this last time it was 2 in the morning, i told them to stop, they did not and continued till 3 am. i figured i had been patient enough and decided to leave a note on his front door saying that i would be calling our land lord...........it went south from there. Pounding on my door at 3 am he proceeded to yell at me and threatening to "f" me up, of course we called the cops and when they arrived they went to talk to him and he decided to slam the door on the cops face. he was arrested and it all escalated from there, after that we no longer felt safe there and the decision was made that we should move and the need to find a house was heightened. Tired and both of us having a great deal of work to get done we began the process of packing everything up and relocating, we did it in about 4 days. Of course we had a huge amount of help from friends and family.This all happened at a very bad time for us, as we were trying to get ready to have our booth in the Carlsbad street fair in a couple of weeks. Our lives became very hectic from then on, and that brings us to the present.........despite all that has happened, all the stress, the unknowns, the frustrations the heartache and tears when your world crumbles and nothing seems to go your way. Despite all that all i can do is be thankful and looking back i realize how incredibly blessed we are, we are forever indebted to a huge amount of people. From those of you who were there at a moments notice and helped us move no questions asked you were just there, to our friends who helped us at the street fair and despite the fact that we didnt have many things for you to do you were there cheerful and excited for us and willing to help. To our families, words cannot express how thankful i am for all of you and can only hope that someday we will be able to return the favor. Now we are just here and moving forward, what tomorrow will bring i do not know, but i have peace for i know that God is in control and all that i can ask is that we seek his wisdom and the HE gives us strength to endure. For without Him we are nothing but if we live in His perfect will we can have not everything that we want but everything that we need. Sometimes it takes our lives being turned upside down to have our eyes open and see that we are blessed beyond all reason and we are richer that we could have ever imagined. I pray that i would be wise enough to see that in the good times and in the bad until the day that i draw my last breath..........