Troy Young's Ordination

Troy Young's Ordination
Originally uploaded by Todd & Barbara

Sunday, February 24th was the day that all of us at Pole Line Road Baptist Church came to the realization that, yes, Troy Young, definitely is moving on to his next calling. Troy was ordained as Youth Pastor at the Vacaville Trinity Baptist Church in a beautiful, meaningful ceremony. His beautiful family, wife Tracy, children Ashley, Josh, Abigail and Jacob were all a part of the ceremony.
Exter and Jeff, our pastors, participated as well as Yemi and our Deacons.
We will all miss the Youngs...(that leaves an entire pew empty!) But mostly, we'll miss Troy's inspiration and the beautiful example of his Christian family. Fortunately, they are not far away and so I know we will be seeing them often. Todd & I also will have fun checking out Troy's photography!

Total Eclipse of the Moon

We packed up the dogs and headed to the country to watch the moon disappear last night.
It was really fun. If you watch it with binoculars it is spectacular! So beautiful! It looks like a translucent ball just hanging in the dark sky. You can see the other stars around the moon, too.
It would have been fun to be in a plane and view it.

Todd & Barbara Win the Picture of the Day!!!

This was an exciting morning. When checking our email, we discovered that the picture I had turned in last week made Steve's Digicam Picture of the Day! This is a picture of the adorable baby Christian G. It was so amazing that Christian actually caught a bubble!

His mom, Rikke, had said to me a couple of times "You should enter this picture in a contest". So that was what inspired me to do it. I'm sure glad I did! You can see it in the archives for Feb. 14. Valentines Day. I hope you all have a LOVE-ly day!

here is the link: http://www.steves-digicams.com/daily_dpotd.html

if you look at this after valentines day then use this link

Picture of the day

if you don't see this picture, scroll down to the archives and look under Feb. 14th.

February 5th, Noelle's Birthday!

Hooray! Noelle turned 15 on Tuesday, Feb 5th. We had a great little party for her at the Dairy Queen. Sue, Megan, Pastor Exter, Otavio, Barbara and Noelle all celebrated. Try putting 15 burning candles on a dish of ice cream! that was a challenge. Exter had the Dairy Queen decorated with Birthday balloons, a banner, and 2 beautiful bouquets of pink flowers. Even the owners and family got involved. They had fun watching noelle try to blow out the trick candle that Barbara sneaked into the "cake". We were just missing Aimee, Noelle's mother, who was in the hospital trying to get well from a blood infection.

Kelly's Birthday

Kelly had a big birthday January 26th. We got to be a part of the celebration. We had dinner at Mortons! Yum! I had Lobster! It was a really fun evening. Kelly's sister, Whitney and her husband Dave were there and Cy's best friend, Eric was also there. Great people!
Kelly's parents, Sally and Pete, bless their hearts, stayed home with baby Hunter, thereby making this whole evening possible.

The Two Babies

One evening in January, we got a visit from Kim and Jennifer and "the two babies". That was so fun. Todd quickly set up the studio lights and we had a quick photoshoot! Our poor friends, can't even stop by without being attacked by our cameras! But they were good sports and we got some cute shots.

Baby Hunter is 4 months old now!

Another big event in January was Hunter's Portrait session. He is so cute! Todd was off coaching the golf team, so I did this shoot by myself. Well, Kelly helped me by making sure Hunter didn't fall off the table. We figured out that this session went well enough, so the two of us can just keep on photographing Hunter on our own. Maybe we'll let Todd do a few sessions with us. We did have a lot of fun.

What happened to January?

Wow. Our last comment was "Merry Christmas"!! Time to get back on the blog track.
January just seemed to breeze by. We had lots of rain, so didn't do any outdoor portraits.
We did have one wedding, and that was on a beautiful day! Kirk Freeman, an old friend, married Rebecca McNeil at the Community church in Davis. It was a very pretty wedding. It was fun seeing Kirk's 3 oldest kids, Sheena, Cody, and Marleah. Cody looked so smart in his Marine uniform! After the wedding, we had another date at Morton's for Kelly's BIG birthday party!
What a day!