Relay for Life Luncheon

I got the honor of attending and photographing the Relay for Life luncheon. No matter how you look at it cancer plain sucks. Cancer has never affected me or my close family personally but I have a dear friend who has been suffering with it and she is a true inspiration to me and she is why I will continue supporting and helping out the Relay for Life. Chris you are amazing.
Now on to the event this event is put together by two amazing people with alot of helpers. Shelly Pennington and Melissa Nunn are amazing and are very dedicated to helping find a cure for cancer and raise as much money as possible. Thank you ladies for all your hard work and dedication. You did a fabulous job on everything.

Here is "the Harvey sisters" Christy and Cheryl singing for some entertainment. They have great voices. They have been providing entertainment for the last 3 years. They sang one of my all time favorite songs Grandpa.

This is Melissa's aunt Nedra and she was the guest speaker. She is a survivor having her last chemo treatment in Dec 2007. She definately had a great sense of humor. I enjoyed hearing her story and glad to know she is doing good.

Here you see some attendees playing heads or tails. It's $1 to play and the last one standing won a great door prize. If you picked tails 90% of the time you were a winner. But they got one winner finally.

Here you can see a large group that showed up to help support this great cause.


Here is a look at all the decorated tables.

Fruit-A-Licious by Shelly Pennington


Summer Glow by Kristi Trantham and Cheryl Marquardt


A Touch of Red by Melissa Nunn


It's all Black & White by Tami Estep


Hope is Eternal by Connie Brashears and Lorrine McKain


Spring is in the Air by Mitzi Neuman & Picolla Hudsonpillar


Saddle Up by June Shepherd and Tammy Reese


Hoppin' For A Cure by Tawanda Nunn and Bev Taylor


Some of My Best Friends are Flakes by Pam Johnson


Save 2nd Base by Kari Scott


The Tunes by Kim Turner


Twilight in Tuscany by Sandy Linton and Michelle Bishop


Life is Sweet by Dessa Hunter & Donna Teer


Roses of Black & White by Shelly Pennington and Melissa Nunn


Grandma's Garden by Shelly Pennington & Melissa Nunn


Somehow I missed a table and it was Happy Birthday by Laurie Urban and Cindy Oard sorry about that. All of the tables looked great. I couldn't pick a favorite but the top 2 in my opinion were the Save 2nd Base table and the Saddle Up table.

The lunch was served by some great kids I know I will leave someone out so I better not mention names so no one gets left out. But I will mention this one. Chase

Chase just recently had cancer removed from his shoulder. He seems to be doing well until mom put her hand on the wound! He didn't like that much. Thanks Chase for helping out.
The silent auction was a great succes.

On behalf of Shelly & Melissa I would like to thank everyone for attending, helping, or donating. You are much appreciated and we hope you will come out for the Kick off March 8th at the Kay Room at 6pm.
Thank you for all the table sponsors, Taco Mayo, Mazzios, Napoli's, Huttons Pharmacy, Elegant Nails, Eskimo Joes, Retail Therapy in Kansas, Stage Department Store, Harvey's Meat Market, Ponca Twin Theater, Karen White, Brace Books, Head Country, Shutter Full of Dreams Photography, Kristi's Hair Repair, Andrea Dice, B&B Theatre, Carmike Theatre, Payless Shoe Store, O'Reilly's. Tawanda Nunn, A Sweet Success by Laura Sheik, Frock's & Fashions, Rusty Star Jewelry, Linda Brown, Oklahoma Redhaws, Patty Stuever, Rita Jackson Family.
The grand total raised only yesterday at the luncheon was $3,310.81. Thank you again.

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Steven a senior from South Haven

Steven came here from South Haven for his senior pictures. The weather was beautiful thankfully. Steven is going to the air force after he graduates. It's always great to hear what goals & dreams the seniors have when I photograph them. I think I wore Steven out of smiling. Here are a few of my favs.

Mallorie is already 9 months well almost 10 months!

Children grow up so fast. Mallorie is already almost 10 months old. She is so funny. She had some visitors stop by the studio to make sure she was doing ok. Her cousin stopped by and he wanted in the pictures to. It was very cute and sweet they gave each other a kiss. I actually missed the kiss but got the puckering.

Evan turns 1 on Sunday!!

Evan came in for his 1 year pictures this evening. He was perfect! Although this he didn't like it when mom sat him down.



But he quickly warmed up! He was definately full of cute little smiles. He kept playing with his toes also.





Thanks for coming in Evan I hope you have a great birthday and get lots of cool toys!

It has been a baby month!

It has been one big baby month!! I've had several adorable little ones lately. Here they are...


Lil Man James. James is 9 months old and will soon be playing for the Vikings. James thought we were all kind of goofy. He was adorably cute we tried the snowman outfit he was cute but he wasn't having it!





Miss Madalyn came in for 3 month pictures I'm thinking yellow is her color she looked so cute and it really brought out her eyes. Madalyn thinks I'm funny for a split second because thats all I could get her to smile. Smiles or no smiles we still captured some cute pictures!






Sweet little Relic only 8 days old was so precious. So tiny. I love my job. I love being able to hold these precious babies and be able to capture their life. Relic had to eat before we could get started he thought he was still hungry. The little guy finally crashed after trying to get him to sleep for awhile. I had lots of ideas for him but we didn't get to do them all. But we got some great images. Congratulations Emily and Ron he is precious!









Lil Man Kaeson we struggled with him at first he was hungry or tired or just didn't know what he wanted but then he decided I was funny or wasn't going to give up on him and we got some shots! Ok maybe his belly was just full. I just love his little smile on the Valentines day picture!








Jake was in a perfect mood!! I'm pretty sure we made record time with his shoot! He smiled and giggled! He's already 6 months old. I love watching how they grow and change. Jake I'm so glad you were in a great mood!








Hunter is already 9 months old. It seems like yesterday when I took his mothers senior pictures! It was alot of fun especially when he got down to a diaper! He didn't want any clothes! Little ones expressions are so much fun.





Drake was so cute! He was wonderful I was so exited about his session. He was smiling and this boy wow look at his eyes wow! He brought his cousin in for some pictures together as well. It was alot of fun! Before you know it he will be one!!






Meet Emily. She was Blackwell's New year baby. She was precious. She couldn't have been better. Never cried or fussed. She was perfect!










Meet Mr Kytan he has some gorgeous eyes! He is going to be athlete and they are training him up now. He was alot of fun to shoot.