March was a crazy month in our house and April never slowed down much either. There was so much going on-places to be, people to see, just go go go. I took a whole week and did some major spring cleaning (not something I normally do) . I got rid of 12 bags of “stuff” from the house. Things that hadn’t been used more than once in the almost seven years I’ve been married. Clothes that didn’t fit or I just plain hated. Clutter. I seriously cleaned out/organized every closet and cabinet in my house. My desk was clean for a whole week. Even the refrigerator got cleaned out but that wasn’t planned, it stopped working and when you have to live out of coolers for 2 days you pare down. Sadly the house is a disaster at the moment but hey birthdays and holidays have a tendency to do that right?

Speaking of birthdays, I just had one 27. A year closer to 30. Honestly, I’m probably in the minority here, I just don’t see the big deal about 30. But I did sit back and think about where I thought I would be compared to where I am now. I changed my mind a lot about what I wanted to be when I grew up. A photographer really wasn’t one of them because I didn’t realize that could actually be a career. But I always wanted to be a mom. And it’s one of the things that I am most happy about in my life. I constantly question whether I’m doing a good job at it, if I’m good enough, but when my boys tell me how much they love me or climb up in my lap just to cuddle it washes those doubts away. I knew I’d be married, and at some points I hoped I’d be married to my dear husband (remember we’ve known each other 22 years) but I don’t think I planned to be married at 20. Our plan was to start kids around 25, I have a 5 year old LOL. Of course I dreamed of being much wealthier, I mean who doesn’t? But as I look back on what I wanted then versus what I have now, I really can’t think of hardly anything I wish was different. I’ve got a wonderful family, a roof over my head and food in my belly and that’s more than a lot of people can say.

Anywho, over the course of our crazy month we celebrated a wedding of a family member, a few birthdays (including my momma’s the day after mine, a surprise party for an uncle and a dinner out for my father in law), and even attended a Suns basketball game as a family with tickets gifted to us from my in-laws that we rode the light-rail train to (I think the kids enjoyed that even more than the game ).  And then came tax time which was apparently the perfect time for my computer to die. Sadly, it is still dead so while I work off the dinosaur laptop I have no pictures to post I also have been informed by a few people that not all of my emails are reaching me or going back out. If you need to reach me please contact me through my personal email for the time being until I can straighten that out kayla.renckly {at} gmail dot com (replacing at and dot for spam reasons). Scheduling will be light at the moment for personal reasons but I will do my best to accommodate.

With all that, I’m trying to jump back in here and attempt to shake off this blogging slump! I hit a wall and couldn’t think of anything to write about so why not talk about me right? LOL I’d rather talk about pretty much anything else. While my computer is ill, I’ll be sharing with you some of my fabulously talented photographer friends that inspire me daily. I hope you enjoy hearing from them and love their work as much as I do!

P.S. I have lots to share as soon as the computer doctor, aka my husband, has a chance to perform surgery-lots of pictures and look for an upcoming special in May (hint-think lace).