2009: Full of Love

Life is absolutely beau­ti­ful. I believe this with all my heart. Yet there are days, where I look at this world, I see the bad things, and I won­der how can I pos­si­bly believe that? There are so many bad things going on all around us and far away from us. I have my own heartaches that life has dealt me. I read about tragedy on Face­book. I lis­ten to a loved one’s cries. I’m exposed to the cru­elty in far away coun­tries. How can I pos­si­bly believe that life is beau­ti­ful? The answer is: love.

Love is such a pow­er­ful gift that each one of us pos­sesses. We can either share it with oth­ers or choose to only love our­selves. As I think back to 2009, I’m amazed at the amount of love Vitaliy and I were able to doc­u­ment through our pho­tog­ra­phy. I hope that each one of our clients will choose to look back on their pic­tures and remem­ber the amount of love that was present. When the hus­band and wife begin to face dif­fi­cul­ties in their mar­riage, I pray they look back on their wed­ding images and remem­ber the strength of their love and the com­mit­ment they made to each other that day. When the new­born baby has grown into a ter­ri­ble tod­dler, I hope that the strug­gling mom can look back at the pic­tures of her pre­cious baby and find the love to get her through her child’s tod­dler tantrums.

Life never stops and it’s always chang­ing. I’m so happy that our pic­tures cap­ture a moment in time so that it will never be for­got­ten. 2009 was a year full of love! Look­ing back on these images inspires me to dream big for 2010. My hope is that we can con­tinue to bless oth­ers with the gifts our good God has given to us.

“Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worth­while.” - Franklin P. Jones

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Love: A hus­band and wife real­iz­ing what their love has become.

Love: A lover’s kiss.

Love: A fam­ily tak­ing a moment to remem­ber their father who passed away. (I miss you, Uncle Dave!)

Love: A mother prepar­ing her daugh­ter for her wed­ding day.

Love: A mother wait­ing for her unborn child.

Love: A bride and groom see­ing each other for the first time on their wed­ding day.

Love: A father hold­ing his daugh­ter after a long day at work.

Love: Laugh­ter.

Love: A hus­band and wife of 5 years still smil­ing and danc­ing together.

Love: Friend­ship.

Love: A beau­ti­ful fam­ily all together.

Love: Being wrapped up in the arms of the one you love.

Love: The first kiss, the first embrace as hus­band and wife.