update

well i just got back from L.A and i'm sick as a dog..
it was a great trip and I learned alot-but not in the places you think -- i'll have to share more with you soon..
It's going to be a superbusy weekend -- i have a huge wedding in Springfield.. some portraits but it will be a lot of fun..

i'll update soon-- w/pics

new member to the weinbrenner family

well here she is ..
click here to see our new baby...

summer

originally uploaded by Imij Creative.Life. Photography.

this is why summer has gotten so much better..click here to read more

Everybody Blingo!!!

So I was reading a post from a friend and he was talking about blingo.. It's a search engine that if you use it they reward you!! and it's not like those crazy emails from Bill Gates and the Gap..They give you iTunes gift cards and cool things like that...So sign up and use it like a search engine because if you win I win..

song writing

So I stumbled on this link for a songwriting contest..
The John Lennon songwriting contest
So if you write you may want to enter..
the deadline is june

For Becky

I read about how you touched them and they were healed
Or even if someone just touched your cloak they were forever changed
You let a broken women bathe your feet in her tears
And you washed your best friend’s feet
I am just wondering though did you just ever hug people

I mean I know that it is a silly question and all I am sure you would have why wouldn’t you
But its one of those things that was never mentioned that got me thinking about it

And how whenever there was a touch from you sins were forgiven and sickness fell
I think I’m caught up in my sins last time I checked all my body parts were properly working, nothing special here
I am just a kid with a heavy heart these passing sunrises and sunsets

I don’t think our encounter would have ended up in the gospels or anything
Because all I really need is a hug
That is ok for me to imagine right
That’s not going to be conflicting with any sort of theology is it
Ok good, then hug me

But not one of these side ways one arm around the neck type hugs
Or the ghetto right hand clasp fists elbows to chest pit pat on the back back
Or you put your right arm over my right arm and I put my left arm over your left arm and we make this weird sort of diagonal thing
Nah none of those

BEAR HUG ME MAN
Take your old school carpenter arms and throw them over my upper body leaving my arms dangling underneath yours somewhere and I can barely move them because your squeezing so hard But don’t pick me up and make my back pop because I hate it when people do that

And hold me, hold me here in your arms until I start to cry because
I WANT TO CRY
But I just can’t seem to do it on my own
I have been teary eyed once recently but not even enough for a drip down my cheek
Theres just hurt in my soul that needs to be purged so hold me in this hold pose until the pain is flowing from my eyes and nose

The Hug poem by Bradley Hathaway

death and life

So I'm back from the Ozark Mountains..
This past month has been a whirlwind... Someone once told me that you can't experience life until you experience death..
My grandmother passed away after a brief stay at the hospital.We called her Amie and she is the one who taught me to love music....
She hit her head and started to hemmorhagein her brain and it was all down hill from there. She had some TIA strokes and then finally let go.. It was bittersweet we all were so sad to lose her but knew that she was probably alot happier and not in pain. The night she died Doug said to me," Do you think she is dancing in heaven right now? "
I have great memories of my Grandmother.. When i was young she used to live with us and take care of me. I remember if I skinned my knee or got hurt she would always say -- Don't worry it will be better before your married.. or if I was ever sad that I didn't get something I thought I deserved --she'd say " What's for you can't be un-for you -- don't you know that God is still on the throne.. ? Before she died she was in and out of a coma my mom put the phone up to her ear and I got to sing to her.. a song she taught me. --'it'll soon be done all our troubles and trials when I get home to the other side. i'm going say hello to the elders -tell all the people good morning,i'm going to sit down beside my jesus --sit down and rest a little while..'
When I finished it sounded like she was trying to talk. My mom said that she even opened her eyes -something she had not done all that day. She passed the next day.
It is always so hard when you lose someone you love.. but as a follower of christ i know i'll see her again.