2011 In Review – the start

Woah, 2011 was insanely awesome at times and then at other times it was just insane.

In the business section of my life, it has been incredible to say the least. I made the commitment to SVP at the start of the year and to see how much I have grown and fallen back into the groove of shooting as a career again amazes me endlessly. I missed having my camera be my sidekick and let me tell you, there’s no splitting us up again mmmmkay?!

Even my own health won’t get in the way – it sorta tried, but I won thankyouverymuch. I plan to post more on this at another time since I want to give encouragement to anyone else who fights this same fight but for now I will keep this brief. Truly I have very few (if any?) regrets in my life and although health concerns aren’t fun, they really taught me a lot about life in general. So in a way, I am thankful for being given the reason to stop and look at what I have. Ok, this is all sounding overly dramatic so I will leave it with the fact that yes, I am doing fine so fret not!

So kitties got real sick early in the year and needed lots of doctor visits, long ER stays, and surgery – then I followed suit (minus the ER and surgery) but then something amazing happened – clarity.

Life just started to fall into place and things happened that one after the other, turned my path around and gave me great insight as to what I want to do with my life and what direction I want to head in.

I learned from the mistake of saying YES! to anything and everything photo related and although I was sorta/kinda taken advantage of in a couple of ways, it just taught me what not to do early on. And I am so glad that it happened at a point where it was easy to make business shifts which force me to protect myself and SVP as a whole.

And with my clarity, I have focused heavily on figuring out what I want out of my business and the people I want to attract (and detract) and it has been working fabulously. My brides for 2012 are amazing and just what I would hope for (not that this year’s weren’t, I’m just saying that I am excited for 2012’s as well!).

And then to top it all off, Oscar asked me to marry him! YAAAAY! He has been a lighthouse in the storm for me and a support like you wouldn’t believe and I am SO excited to get married in 2012 to him! And it’s an even number year – yessss! But more on that later because he is certainly one of the main items on my next post coming up….

2011 in Review – my favorite things! ….. (coming up next week!)

And since we left it talking about Oscar – let’s all marvel and him and his brother Omar this fall in their Lucha masks. See? I told you I was lucky to have him!