Trendy God

I would like you all to go and check out my friend Shannon's blog, Trendy God. She is amazing in that she's devoted her blog to encouraging you in the Word and to keeping God a priority in your daily lives. She gives you a quick note and scripture and then follows it with a question to help you get thinking. Today her topic is School Daze as we all (well a lot of us..) are going back to school/work and how it's about glorifying God and doing His work. 

Thanks Shannon for the awesome daily encouragement!

Take care!

Blog Names,Tattoos and Sick Husbands

Okay guys! Here it is! The new tattoo! I love love looooove it. My husband did such an awesome job! Sew perfect! Hahaha. Get it??

Anywaaaaays, after much deliberation between some friends and myself, I finally settled on a blog name! Hobby Hopping Housewife! So cute! I also want to thank Megan, she references hobby hopping in her wonderful blog. Thanks Megan!

So at the current moment, my husband is "deathly" sick. Poor guy, I feel for him. Being sick is terrible! And he's so awesome because he is still going to work in the morning. What a trooper! But what makes it funny is that he says, "I'm so sick I'm going to diiiiiiie. Make me feel better! Don't you want me to live?!" What's with men and being overdramatic when they're sick? I'm never that way! I'm pretty much just mopey and ya know, sick. Somehow he's super sick and still finds time to not just be overdramatic, but also funny. What a jerk though, he'll be better in a couple days, whereas me, it would last at least a week!

Any other women out there notice the same things of their husbands? Any funny stories you'd like to share??

I just roll my eyes every time. Hahha.

Take care!

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Chore Time!

And thinking about:

-tattoos! I think I’m getting another one later this evening! Woo! Post on that one later!

-wanting to take a new self picture (see also: selfie)

-how I wrote today's to do list in extremely sloppy writing

{which brings me to:      

          -how it’s driving me nuts

          -how looking at it stresses me out

          -and how I just need to rewrite it (for the umpteenth time)}

-my identity as blogger

      -I think just pretty much all things: crafts, life, photography…?

-being away from Justin too long makes me irritable and pretty stupid emotional

-how almost every movie/book/person portrays marriage/relationships as fighting is normal

*NEWS FLASH* It’s not normal, nor is it even the slightest bit healthy.

-how I can’t wait to honestly get back to work!

-working with special needs kids is fun and rewarding! Can’t wait for this school year’s funny stories!

-future blog topics (I think all the aforementioned things I will probably divulge more into at later times)

                

Gotta start making some dinner now!

Later gator!

Now that I'm thinking about it, dinner can wait. Nap first!

Life Is Cray

Crazy.

 Life is craZy.

Stupid husband. He jokes about the lame things people say like, "that's so cray." He mocks them by repeating what they say, but he says it so much that it becomes part of his lingo. But because he says it so much, it also becomes part of mine. We say it jokingly, but we still say it. Ughh, we're lame too.

I hate sitting at the doctors office and waiting. All I can think about are things I can/should be doing right at this moment but can't, because I'm stupid waiting. Oh well. I should look at it as break time. Especially because its giving me the chance to write this blog.

So why is life cray you may ask? Drama. Drama drama drama drama. I hate drama. I try not to make it and I sure as hell try not be around it. I know, we all say that and still it happens. 

But what happens when you're in a place filled with drama and you can't get away?! And some how, by the efforts of someone else, your words get twisted and things just blow up and get out of control! And you're just doing the best you can to keep the peace and pick up the dominoes as they fall.

Here's what I did:

- I meditated on Mark 6:34. Jesus had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd.

I meditated and then meditated some more.

- I prayed for patience. A lot.

- I apologized for any possible miscommunications. 

- I was even more friendly than usual. Well, I sure tried to be anyways.

- I walked away when I couldn't handle a situation. People say that to walk away shows extreme cowardice. But really, I think just the opposite. It really shows strength. To walk away from a situation before it gets out of control, a situation where you may be thinking hurtful things and might possibly say them and to walk away and not say those things, is strength. I don't want to say things out of hate or angry. I want to them out of love and when I can't, I walk away. A lot harder than it sounds.

- and when I finally got home from what felt like the longest day of my life, I cried. A lot. And then cried a little more.

- and then I thanked and praised God. For a lot of things. For Him, for the patience and strength he'd given me throughout the day, the opportunity to shine His light through my kindness, my husband who held me while I cried, and for the kindness and good things throughout the day that I may not have seen then, but realized when I got home, and then cried a little more. Mostly for His grace.

I sure tell ya though. I'm not perfect. And I'm certainly not trying to portray myself as so. Because honestly, I used the f word a lot. Though mostly to myself and a lot of the time I made the f sound in its place or effin instead and though in the company of people who were sharing in my discomfort. I also did not give someone a validation card.

But hey, we've all got stuff to work on right? And now I know what those things are.

Take care,

What Is A Blog Anyway?

Well, whatever it is, I'm pretty terrible at it!

In hopes of becoming better and/or writing it more frequently, I've made it a lot cuter and not just limited to my photography stuff (which we all know I wasn't doing that anyway!)

Sooo, here it goes! My blog is now going to consist of my latest photography shoots, hobby obsessions, my life in general and me trying to learn how to blog!

As for anything else today, I would just like to thank God for giving me able hands to do this fun kind of stuff <3

Lata gatas!

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A Day at the Orange Circle

Such a beautiful day it is today! Just hanging at the Orange Circle taking photos while my husband plays his guitar. Life cannot get any better this <3

Especially because I get to spend it with this incredibly handsome and talented man. So blessed.

Those Silly Brayton Girls

Meet the Brayton Girls. Sarah, Megan and Kathryn.

The funnest day I have ever had doing a photoshoot. They were fun, goofy, easy going and just ridiculous.

Megan was the silliest I have ever seen her and the other two played off her silliness. Sarah was actually pretty sick, such a trooper... and ya can't even tell in the pictures!

The bond between these three girls is incredible. They way they talk to each other and look out for each other, I'm so proud of them.

You rock girls!

<3 Chels

Business Cards!!

Tweaked the business cards a little... Debating whether or not to put facebook and email on there... The website has a facebook link and a contact me form that also has my email, but do more people just want to look at facebook nowadays? Ughhh. Hahaha.

Also, I was very excited to add Chelsea Zerwekh to my business cards.

<3Chels

Twenty 13

Just finished and published some changes to the website! I have to say, it's looking mighty fine. 

I really can't wait for all the new and exciting things to come. 

Just booked a photoshoot for next weekend and in the process of booking some more!

<3Chels

Golly It's Been Awhile!

Okay, that was silly. But boy oh boy has it been awhile! So much has been happening and it's been hard to keep up on everything!

I am very proud to say that I'm a married woman now folks! Well, been married for 4 months now <3 data-blogger-escaped-br="" data-blogger-escaped-does="" data-blogger-escaped-fly="" data-blogger-escaped-sure="" data-blogger-escaped-time=""> 

Here's a few things to keep an eye out for:

-a little bit of a new look!

-website update

-more Facebook posts

-more frequent blog posting

-and more client photos!

So stay tuned!