There is always something that will always be dear to me heart. FAMILY! I know I can always count on them, and they know they can count on me too. Family is forever. I'm very close to both sides of my family. The holidays aren't always the same now, that my Grandma Breckner passed away. We were all so close to her. I love and miss her so much. I'm thankful I still have my mama and papa Daugherty. I used to always stay at their house when I was little. I have a lot of good memories playing and growing up at their old place out in Fairmont City. I figured since it's the holidays I would share some poems about family, since they mean so much to me. I LOVE YOU ALL!
Family
A Family is a blessing.
It means so many things
Words could never tell
The joy a family brings.
A family is a bond of faith
That even time can't sever
A gift to last all of our lives
A family is forever.
Family Tree
Apart we are in many ways, and different we remain
Though we are still connected, the same blood runs through our veins
It unites us when we are lost, in dark times it is our key
Its where each one of us belong, in the Daugherty Family Tree.
The Greatest Gift
One of the greatest gifts
That life can give to anyone
Is the very special love that families share...
As years go by,
It's good to know that there will always be
Certain people in our lives who care.
For there are countless things
That only families have in common
And memories that no one else can make...
And these precious ties that bind a family together
Are bonds that time and distance cannot break.
How fortunate we are
When we have relatives to love us,
It makes the world a happy place to be...
Few gifts in life
Will last as long
Or touch the heart as deeply
As the very special gift
Of family.
Album of the Heart
Author: Lois Duncan
As the year draws to an end
We grow close again,
Turning pages of our lives,
Pausing now and then
To recall a magic time
Or a special place.
Springtime sunlight leaps at us
From a smiling face.
Summer laughter rings anew,
Mixed with autumn tears.
Seasons blend and mesh and blur,
With the flying years.
Guard the album of the heart.
There the memories are-
Gentle as the drifting snow
Holy as the star.
Family is Forever
Author: Crystal-Lynn Barringer
A family
is made of love and tears
laughter and years
It grows stronger
with the passing of time
More precious
with the making of memories
sometimes a family is made of ones
you don't like for a while and fight with a lot
But you love them for a life time
Not in numbers but in its capacity to love
It's the place you find
someone to encourage you
believe in you
Celebrate with you and comfort you
A family is where your heart
feels most at home because you're
Always wanted always welcomed
Always needed
Always Loved
And always precious to everyone
So always love your family
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Natalie | 9 months
Today I was lucky to take some pictures of my boyfriends cousins daughter, Natalie. I love this little girl as my own! I got the chance to go visit them in Wisconsin back in July. It's crazy how much she has changed since the last time I saw her. She will be 9 months at the beginning of December. It amazes me how fast time can fly by!
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| Natalie's first Thanksgiving! |
Promise
By Kristin Nicole (me)
I sit here and watch you sleep.
Longing for that moment our eyes can meet.
What makes people fall in love?
I sit and think, as our hands are held tight like a glove.
I only want to be his.
Doing so, always brings such bliss.
I don't ever want it to go away.
I will love you forever if you will stay.
So I hope you can promise the same.
Because without you it will rain.
So promise to love me always and forever.
And don't leave my side, not now not ever.
I sit here and watch you sleep.
Longing for that moment our eyes can meet.
What makes people fall in love?
I sit and think, as our hands are held tight like a glove.
I only want to be his.
Doing so, always brings such bliss.
I don't ever want it to go away.
I will love you forever if you will stay.
So I hope you can promise the same.
Because without you it will rain.
So promise to love me always and forever.
And don't leave my side, not now not ever.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Lilly | My little model
Over the summer I decided to bring my camera to a family event. I was mostly taking pictures of the family and what was going on at the birthday party. Then I started taking pictures of the younger kids. Who knew my cousin Lilly would be so photogenic?! When she was younger, she would always give me evil faces and wouldn't smile for me when I tried to take her picture. She loves taking pictures now and every time I bring my camera to my Grandmas, she wants me to take her picture! I love doing it because she is so cooperative and doesn't complain. She even does her own poses! She's my little model and I told her mom that she should be one!
A Thousand Years | Christina Perri
Heartbeats fast
Colors and promises
How to be brave
How can I love when I'm afraid to fall
But watching you stand alone
All of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow
One step closer
I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I love you for a thousand more
Time stands still
Beauty in all she is
I will be brave
I will not let anything take away
What's standing in front of me
Every breath
Every hour has come to this
One step closer
I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I love you for a thousand more
And all along I believed I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I love you for a thousand more
One step closer
One step closer
I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I love you for a thousand more
And all along I believed I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I love you for a thousand more
Colors and promises
How to be brave
How can I love when I'm afraid to fall
But watching you stand alone
All of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow
One step closer
I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I love you for a thousand more
Time stands still
Beauty in all she is
I will be brave
I will not let anything take away
What's standing in front of me
Every breath
Every hour has come to this
One step closer
I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I love you for a thousand more
And all along I believed I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I love you for a thousand more
One step closer
One step closer
I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I love you for a thousand more
And all along I believed I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I love you for a thousand more
Poetry | Giving Thanks
Here are a few poems that I chose since Thanksgiving is right around the corner. Give thanks for everything!
A List of Praises
by Anne Porter
Give praise with psalms that tell the trees to sing,
Give praise with Gospel choirs in storefront churches,
Mad with the joy of the Sabbath,
Give praise with the babble of infants, who wake with the sun,
Give praise with children chanting their skip-rope rhymes,
A poetry not in books, a vagrant mischievous poetry
living wild on the Streets through generations of children.
Give praise with the sound of the milk-train far away
With its mutter of wheels and long-drawn-out sweet whistle
As it speeds through the fields of sleep at three in the morning,
Give praise with the immense and peaceful sigh
Of the wind in the pinewoods,
At night give praise with starry silences.
Give praise with the skirling of seagulls
And the rattle and flap of sails
And gongs of buoys rocked by the sea-swell
Out in the shipping-lanes beyond the harbor.
Give praise with the humpback whales,
Huge in the ocean they sing to one another.
Give praise with the rasp and sizzle of crickets, katydids and cicadas,
Give praise with hum of bees,
Give praise with the little peepers who live near water.
When they fill the marsh with a shimmer of bell-like cries
We know that the winter is over.
Give praise with mockingbirds, day's nightingales.
Hour by hour they sing in the crepe myrtle
And glossy tulip trees
On quiet side streets in southern towns.
Give praise with the rippling speech
Of the eider-duck and her ducklings
As they paddle their way downstream
In the red-gold morning
On Restiguche, their cold river,
Salmon river,
Wilderness river.
Give praise with the whitethroat sparrow.
Far, far from the cities,
Far even from the towns,
With piercing innocence
He sings in the spruce-tree tops,
Always four notes
And four notes only.
Give praise with water,
With storms of rain and thunder
And the small rains that sparkle as they dry,
And the faint floating ocean roar
That fills the seaside villages,
And the clear brooks that travel down the mountains
And with this poem, a leaf on the vast flood,
And with the angels in that other country.
Thanks
by W. S. Merwin
Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings
we are running out of the glass rooms
with our mouths full of food to look at the sky
and say thank you
we are standing by the water thanking it
smiling by the windows looking out
in our directions
back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging
after funerals we are saying thank you
after the news of the dead
whether or not we knew them we are saying thank you
over telephones we are saying thank you
in doorways and in the backs of cars and in elevators
remembering wars and the police at the door
and the beatings on stairs we are saying thank you
in the banks we are saying thank you
in the faces of the officials and the rich
and of all who will never change
we go on saying thank you thank you
with the animals dying around us
our lost feelings we are saying thank you
with the forests falling faster than the minutes
of our lives we are saying thank you
with the words going out like cells of a brain
with the cities growing over us
we are saying thank you faster and faster
with nobody listening we are saying thank you
we are saying thank you and waving
dark though it is
MORE POEMS ON GIVING THANKS
A List of Praises
by Anne Porter
Give praise with psalms that tell the trees to sing,
Give praise with Gospel choirs in storefront churches,
Mad with the joy of the Sabbath,
Give praise with the babble of infants, who wake with the sun,
Give praise with children chanting their skip-rope rhymes,
A poetry not in books, a vagrant mischievous poetry
living wild on the Streets through generations of children.
Give praise with the sound of the milk-train far away
With its mutter of wheels and long-drawn-out sweet whistle
As it speeds through the fields of sleep at three in the morning,
Give praise with the immense and peaceful sigh
Of the wind in the pinewoods,
At night give praise with starry silences.
Give praise with the skirling of seagulls
And the rattle and flap of sails
And gongs of buoys rocked by the sea-swell
Out in the shipping-lanes beyond the harbor.
Give praise with the humpback whales,
Huge in the ocean they sing to one another.
Give praise with the rasp and sizzle of crickets, katydids and cicadas,
Give praise with hum of bees,
Give praise with the little peepers who live near water.
When they fill the marsh with a shimmer of bell-like cries
We know that the winter is over.
Give praise with mockingbirds, day's nightingales.
Hour by hour they sing in the crepe myrtle
And glossy tulip trees
On quiet side streets in southern towns.
Give praise with the rippling speech
Of the eider-duck and her ducklings
As they paddle their way downstream
In the red-gold morning
On Restiguche, their cold river,
Salmon river,
Wilderness river.
Give praise with the whitethroat sparrow.
Far, far from the cities,
Far even from the towns,
With piercing innocence
He sings in the spruce-tree tops,
Always four notes
And four notes only.
Give praise with water,
With storms of rain and thunder
And the small rains that sparkle as they dry,
And the faint floating ocean roar
That fills the seaside villages,
And the clear brooks that travel down the mountains
And with this poem, a leaf on the vast flood,
And with the angels in that other country.
Thanks
by W. S. Merwin
Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings
we are running out of the glass rooms
with our mouths full of food to look at the sky
and say thank you
we are standing by the water thanking it
smiling by the windows looking out
in our directions
back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging
after funerals we are saying thank you
after the news of the dead
whether or not we knew them we are saying thank you
over telephones we are saying thank you
in doorways and in the backs of cars and in elevators
remembering wars and the police at the door
and the beatings on stairs we are saying thank you
in the banks we are saying thank you
in the faces of the officials and the rich
and of all who will never change
we go on saying thank you thank you
with the animals dying around us
our lost feelings we are saying thank you
with the forests falling faster than the minutes
of our lives we are saying thank you
with the words going out like cells of a brain
with the cities growing over us
we are saying thank you faster and faster
with nobody listening we are saying thank you
we are saying thank you and waving
dark though it is
MORE POEMS ON GIVING THANKS
Saturday, November 19, 2011
STL Zoo | Animal Photography
Another thing I love to photograph, are animals! They will always have a spot in my heart<3. When I was younger and thinking about what career I wanted to do, the number one thing was work with animals. So I thought either a Vet or Vet assistant. But now, I thought photographers can work with animals too! I love photographing people, but there is just something about animals that is fun. I love going to the zoo and seeing the many animals in their environment. I can spend hours at the zoo! When it's a beautiful day out, it is one of my favorite places to be. Ever since I got my new camera, I try to go as often as I can!
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Loving the Scenery | Fav Thing
One of the many things I love to photograph is scenery. I love going out where nature is it's finest and capturing pure beauty! Nature has a natural beauty in every season. My favorite seasons are spring (so many pretty flowers) and fall (all the pretty leafs). I can spend hours and hours on a nature walk taking pictures. Whether it is with my camera or my iPhone. Everything seems very peaceful. All the natural colors are gorgeous and I definitely have an eye when it comes to photographing scenery.Or so I have been told :) I've had a few offers from people on buying my scenery pictures, and couldn't be happier!
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Leala and Ringo | My Yorkies!
Two years ago, I made the best purchase of my life...MY TWO WONDERFUL YORKIES! I have one regular sized (12 pounds to be exact) and that is Leala. Then I have my tiny miniature (5 pounds) and that is Ringo.
When I first got them, I was definitely overwhelmed. They were a handful. Leala was originally my sisters puppy and Ringo was mine but my sister moved and had to leave Leala behind. Honestly, I am so glad she did! She just melts your heart. And her eyes...puppy dog eyes! I love them!
Ringo has always been my pride and joy and definitely is not camera shy. He is really photogenic and I love taking pictures of him! I love taking pictures of both dogs, but Ringo can be easier to work with. They both are really stubborn. But I wouldn't change it for the world! They are my world!
When I first got them, I was definitely overwhelmed. They were a handful. Leala was originally my sisters puppy and Ringo was mine but my sister moved and had to leave Leala behind. Honestly, I am so glad she did! She just melts your heart. And her eyes...puppy dog eyes! I love them!
Ringo has always been my pride and joy and definitely is not camera shy. He is really photogenic and I love taking pictures of him! I love taking pictures of both dogs, but Ringo can be easier to work with. They both are really stubborn. But I wouldn't change it for the world! They are my world!
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