Monday, March 30, 2009

Happenings of my week:

A lot of you know that a little over three years ago I went through a two month long girls program in Dallas. I was there with 74 other girls, and was on a team made up of eight girls and a team leader, and rooming with two of those girls on my team.
Well, two of my teammates were a part of the leadership team for this semesters class, so one of my roomates, Daphne, and I decided to go to Dallas for their class graduation. It was a short trip, but it was so much fun to see old friends, some of whom I hadn't seen in almost two years!



Elisabeth and I on the very first day of EXCEL over three years ago.


Over three years later . . .



This is a picture of my two roomates and I 3 and 1/2 years ago, the very first day we arrived in Dallas for the semester.

And here we are together again this last weekend.

Rachel and I


My team the day we graduated.


The five of the nine from our team that were there this last weekend.


I grabbed these shots the other night while we were out on our front porch. I am sure you all are probably getting a little tired of pictures of Emma, but she is so photogenic, and the most willing of all my siblings to have her picture taken.

Her eyes are so beautiful . . .







On Saturday night we had Luke's long awaited birthday party. He had a bunch of his friends over and the all went out to the woods behind our house and had an airsoft war. How's that for a guy party for ya?
Luke


All the guys . . . armed and ready for war.

And the last little exciting thing, is that I got to take some of my brothers senior portraits this weekend. I say some, because we are planning on doing at least one more shoot. Between his busy schedule and my somewhat erratic one, we are having to do a little here and there when we can. That's what you get when your sister is your photog.
Anyways, I am not going to post them until we have taken them all, but here is a little teaser :)





Other than that, just looking forward to another happy busy week!

~Jessica Shae

3 comments:

Allison Joy said...

Aww...how nice to reconnect with such Christ-lovely ladies!

OOoo! I love the pics of Emma, she does have pretty eyes!

Looking forward to the rest...looks good so far!

Allison

Ruth Ann said...

Ah neat, I love the 'teaser' for your brother's senior pictures. I have a sister who is graduating this year, and we're already planning to do it at several different times, as we want to try out different locations & outfits. It'll be fun!

chosenhunter said...

Cool Jess!
Luke’s party looks so fun! Dan and Dave had one like that once, Sarah, Esther, and I were nurses.
At first none of the boys wanted to pretend they where hurt (we would just put big old-fashioned bandages on with fake blood, then give them pain killer (candy) ; )
then one boy wanted to be "hurt" just so we would take care of him, after that the whole field was full of casualties. : )
Then my brother picked up the wounded on his army vehicle (it is called a "mule" it looks like a table on wheels)

Daniel wants you to tell Luke "Cool party" he also said he wants to send him pictures of his paintball war he is having soon. : )

I wish you could take some graduation pictures for me... I found this awesome alley in GV for pictures. Next time you come I must show you.