Let the traveling begin!

I’m going to start this blog with this statement: I am lucky.  I love my job.  Have I mentioned that? I mean, I really LOVE my job! I find my smile getting even bigger when I am describing to people what I do for a living.   One of the primary reasons that I love my job so much is that I have FREEDOM! I have quite a bit of work lined up for 2010 so far, but I am going to spend the first 2 months doing alot of traveling…and I am beyond excited!

January is typically a pretty slow month for me, so a few years ago I decided that I was going to declare January my “month of travel.”  I’m typically “stuck” the rest of the year working, so I have planned to take FULL advantage of my down time and TRAVEL! I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned on here how much I love to travel.  I’m almost positive the primary drive behind that desire is so that I can come back with photos of much different content than what you are used to seeing.  Photographing people is my favorite, but I like the challenge of shooting something new.  So….don’t expect to see alot of wedding stuff for a few weeks.  (I’m actually not shooting a wedding until MARCH! Crazy!)  But hopefully you will still be interested in the other things I am working on!

My first adventure starts on December 30th.  I am traveling with 14 other people from my old church in Kentucky to Costa Rica for 11 days.  I have been dying to go on a mission trip for about 5 years, but almost every one I hear about is during the summer.   I NEVER have 2 weekends in a row off in the summer, so I was more than thrilled when my sweet cousin, Sarah Parrish, told me about this opportunity.   To be perfectly honest, I don’t know many details about this mission trip.  Which, for those of you who know me, you know thats hard for me not to know exactly what I’ve signed up for!  There are about a billion questions I want to ask, but I’ve just decided that I am going to be along for the ride.  No plans. No details.  No preconceived ideas of how I think things are going to go.  All I know is that we are going to help build something, and play with kids while teaching them about God! Got it. I’m in. Cant WAIT!!

I’ll be back on January 9th.  Prayers for safe travels, and that God would use me in a big way would be much appreciated!

Happy New Year!