*Erica Joyce Photography* BLOG

All right – another extended holiday weekend!   Have to just love that!  I am actually going to spend two of the three days working at the fire station this weekend.  You know, with three babies on the way – a guys got to get all the overtime that he can!!!

Just the whole word “labor” got me thinking today about how important it is to love what you do and do what you love.  This may be more evident of photographers – because the love of the “art” can quickly get covered by the everyday running of the business.  I made a few mistakes when we first started our business – and I easily mis-prioritized many things.  I am working very hard now to remind myself that I love what I do and I am so very fortunate to do what I love.  I think when you are doing something from the heart – it shows – and people recognize that.

I love being a photographer.
I love taking photos.
I love seeing people smile.
I love black and white.
I love that you are still reading this!

I don’t love sales tax paperwork.
I don’t love 100+ degree days.
I don’t love being behind on anything.
I don’t love to disappoint anyone.

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I just want to add that my super wonderful, and strikingly beautiful wife has entered into the blog era!  That’s right – she has started her own blog…telling all about our lives, our story and will even continue as we bring home all our new additions next year!  I am so proud of her for taking the time to do this – and making the commitment to make it work.  I hope that our story and lives can be an inspiration to other out there!  Just click on the link below to visit her blog and be sure to bookmark it so you can come back and visit again!

www.mylife.ericajoyce.com

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We did an awesome candid photo session last weekend and these kiddos did GREAT!  I think that they truly had a great time – now how many times do you think that actually occurs?  We ran, skipped, hid behind columns and even played in the water – such a fun time!  I can honestly say, I loved what we did!  Great job kids!

Yes…it’s that time again!  Back to school!  The kids are back in school starting today – whew, we survived another summer, although that isn’t exactly true – we did have the whole Sea World on the Sun trip a few weeks backs that left us all scarred!  All in all, it was a great summer, with a lot of great things happening and a lot of change.  This time around – the change is mostly good!

We had a great, but busy weekend, as usual.  Saturday I was shooting a wedding again with the Photogenic Images gal, Dori.  I always have such a great time shooting with them and it is always fun!  We also did a couple portrait sessions on Sunday.  Check out the photos below – some are from last weekends session and the last two are sneak peaks from the wedding this weekend.

Hey bloggers…many of you have “bookmarked” our blog so that you can come directly to it, and we love that, but take a second and visit the main page again, www.EricaJoyce.com.  We just completed the first phase of our new site design and we’d love to hear some feedback on what you think!  We originally were going to wait until we had the entire design phase completed before we “launched” the new site, but since we were stunned with some amazing news this past week – we realized that time is NOT on our side!  In the future we will be replacing a lot of the existing photos on the site and galleries with newer, “tweaked” images to make the direction of our business.

Many, many things will be changing come 2009!  We had plans to fine-tune our business this winter, but with our triplet news we decided that there would be no better time to launch our new direction than Jan 1st 2009!  More to come on all that stuff later this year!

OK, for the IVF gang that pops in here for an update: we go back to the doctor on Wed this week.  This will be the 1st appointment we’ve had since the news about the triplets.  We were SO shocked from last weeks adventure that we didn’t really have an opportunity to ask any questions – and we are hoping this week for a good ultrasound photo for the blog!  So…check back later this week for more news!

We had two great sessions this weekend…and for the 1st time in several months, we did a session outside!  We really love shooting outside, but it has been so stinkin hot that nobody could stand it.  Anyhow – we met up at the park in the morning (9am) and it was already pretty warm out, but not too incredibly bad!  Here’s a few teasers from our park adventure!  Hope everyone has a great week!

Jake~

(Don’t ya just love that open-mounth kiss)