Leticia Wilson
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Sneak Peek at a recent Family Portrait Session

Saturday, 1 May 2010 11:40 by leticia

The Chernoff Family were such a joy to work with...They were a fun group! Thank you for allowing me to photograph your Beautiful Family, you all looked so nice for your portraits ; )

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Fun In The Sun!

Saturday, 17 April 2010 19:20 by leticia
Girls Having Fun In The Sun...We had a long, busy, fun day. We Dropped Finesse off at school, then came home and hung out for awhile, then when it was time we went and picked up Finesse. We came home and packed a lunch and headed to Lake Meridian for a picnic. Then we came home and it was time for the Girls to take a nap...so we put in an Audio Book to listen to as we layed there. After they fell asleep, I snuck out and I got some things done that I needed to do. Then when they woke up I gave them Milk and Cookies to have outside on the porch as I washed my car. To reward them for being so patient on the porch the whole time that I washed my car...I turned on the Sprinkler for them to run around in. They had a BLAST!

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My Glama Girls are Home!

Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:42 by leticia
Having Fun with them already...We went to shopping for shoes and toys and stuff, I got them each a pair of Tennis shoes, and dress shoes and toys and a Disney Princess tent that they absolutely love to crawl in and out of. The slideshow is of last night when we had just gotten home from the airport. They got to open their lil gifts and see their new pets.

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Yay...My Glama Girls Get Here Tomorrow!

Monday, 5 April 2010 05:35 by leticia

 

I can not wait to put my arms around my Girls...I have missed them terribly! I can't wait to give them their little gifts too. Ughh I want them here already, but they dont land at the airport until around 9:30 or so. They will be Happy to know that we will be Featuring "Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" just for them.

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Full House at Red Velvet Theatre...last night

Sunday, 4 April 2010 13:17 by leticia

So we showed 2012 last night...it was awesome, with surround sound we could feel our feet vibrate beneath us. We had a full house again, except for 1 seat...Jerome forgot to show up : (.

My two sisters were here Pauline and her husband Rick and they brought Pauline's study, Sandy. My sister Damiana and two of her girls Danara and Darah and Darah brought her boyfriend Devon.

Gail and Rick Bailey were here also as well as Roselie...and of course Adam, Daniel, Finesse and myself. I think everyone enjoyed themselves. We had pizza first then a movie with lots of goodies to snack on. Next week we are showing Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, because my glama girls get here on Tuesday.

Okay...I'll talk to y'all later

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What Leticia's been up to.

Thursday, 1 April 2010 07:33 by leticia

Yesterday, I took Finesse to school...I went shopping after I dropped her off. After picking her up, we went and had lunch. Later that evening we went to walmart to buy "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" Because the Glama Girls get here on Tuesday, and we will be featuring that movie for Theatre night that Saturday...I know they will love it! We also ate at Subway in Walmart, and then headed for the Auburn Regal Cinemas, Finesse was dying to see the new Miley Cyrus movie " The Last Song " Lyndsy met us there. It was a real tear jerker. Today just laying low.

This coming Saturday our Red Velvet Theatre is featuring "2012" a very, very good movie. We have 11 people signed up for the movie so far. I've already seen the movie twice...I'll enjoy watching it again tho.

In about a week or so, I will be doing Family Portraits in my Home Studio for a friend...that should be a lot of fun! 

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My Sister Damiana and my Nieces visit

Tuesday, 30 March 2010 08:20 by leticia

We showed "The Blind Side" for Theatre night on Saturday, we had a wonderful turn out all 15 seats were taken. My sister Damiana and my nieces Danara and Darah, spent the night...we had a blast that night. After the Movie, we played Catch Phrase, then the grown ups went to bed, the girls stayed up late watching teenage chick flicks, from the sounds of it they were having a good 'ol time...laughing and being silly. The next day I made everyone breakfast, Potatoes, chorizo and eggs and tortillas. Then we sat around and talked a bit...then we got ready and took some snapshots here at home, then we headed to Gig Harbor to visit my nephew Brandon, his girlfriend Jessica and their new baby girl "Alexa Jean Morgan" they call her Lexi. Then we came back to Covington and went to a mexican restaurant, then we came home Damiana's girls left...But Damiana spent the night and left the next day, I waved Goodbye to my sister and to my Gorgeous 1998 Red Mustang Cry.

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Image of the Week!

Tuesday, 23 March 2010 12:03 by leticia

When Adam and I went on our cruise...we loved coming to our cabin at the end of the night to our beds turned down with a piece of mint on our pillows and a different "Towel Animal" on our beds, couldn't wait to see what animal would await us that evening. So I learned how to make some...I now know how to make Monkeys, Elephants, and a dog. Look at Jewels she is such a little model. She was made to be a TV Dog or model or something, she is so cooperative.

Here is my "Towel Dog" 

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Sister's Reunited

Tuesday, 23 March 2010 10:28 by leticia

So yesterday...I texted my sister Damiana, whom I had not spoken to in over 4 years, and she texted back and said that my timing could not have been better...So we proceeded to bond and talk about what was going on in our lives, and I invited her to come to my home and spend the night so we could catch up.

She had never been to my home so we met at the mall, we made it home had some pizza and wine and just caught up...it was so nice! To talk to someone who was cut from the same cloth...someone who grew up in the same dysfunctional home and who can empathize with all of my thoughts, struggles and fears. We have so much in common...I always felt like I didn't belong in my family, like I had been adopted into this family, which is weird...cuz my family always joked with me and told me that I was adopted or that I was found on the doorstep...they knew I was very sensitive, and they always tried to hurt me, and it worked they did. I was always made to feel like the black sheep of the family.

Well, my sister Damiana and I are so similiar...nonjudgemental and sensitive to others feelings as well as to our own. We talked and laughed and cried and told old stories...some funny, some sad. I am so glad to get to know my sister and friend.

There are 10 of us kids in my family, however, I felt as tho I grew up in a 2 kid family, because only my sister Sylvia who is 2 years older than me was in the house when I was growing up, cuz the other 8 children were grown and married. So I never got a chance to really know them. And Damiana is one of those siblings that I never got a chance to get to know...I always admired her beauty, and wanted to look just like her when I grew up...I would stand there at her dressing table as she fixed her hair and put her make up on and would just stare at her with Awww...wishing that I would grow up to be that beautiful someday.

So I am so glad to have her back in my life, she only lives an hour and a half away, in Stanwood, Wa. So we have plans to keep this friendship going, and to help each other out through our difficult times that we are both struggling with, as well as our difficult past that we have still got to learn to let go of.

So we stayed up talking late into the night, and then woke up and had coffee together, and shared more of our similiar interests. We then got dressed and went to the bank...She bought my mustang and I bought my dream car, a Gold 1997 Jaguar last night, so we went and took care of the monies and titles and everything. It was as tho I traded my poor mans dream car (the mustang) for my Real Dream Car ( the Gold Jag). So we went and took care of all of that, and then we went to lunch, and she came home and test drove her new Red 1998 Ford Mustang. She loves it! Then we said goodbye and made plans to see each other very soon.

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Not going to let Satan beat us down!

Tuesday, 16 March 2010 10:20 by leticia

Satan is so sneaky...if he can't get US to faulter, he will see to it that we get attacked from the outside in.  So although, the Fit hit the Shan on Thursday...we were determined to not let Satan beat us down, we made it to the meeting on Sunday, and then afterwards we went to Red Lobster and brought Roselie with us and we celebrated the closing of our house as well as celebrating the priveledge of being a united family of sheep in Jehovah's Loving Organization. Although at first we dont always understand why things happen the way that they do...we do later, it all comes to light. Well, already after prayerful meditation...I can see WHY my family is going through this, Jehovah sees to it that things get taken care of...and this is one way that he saw to it that a wrong be righted, even if it hurt our family in the process...Jehovah knew he would give US the strength to power through this, too. And we are, it is not easy, but we are. We are a united family, we will stick together! I did not struggle in raising my kids all alone for so many years to let anyone divide us...I cannot and will not allow that to happen, and with Jehovah's help we will make it.

So we went out and celebrated anyway...everything will work itself out. Here is what I ate on Sunday at Red Lobster...it was delicious!

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Image of the Week!

Monday, 15 March 2010 06:27 by leticia

 This is one of my favorite photos...my Chihuahua, Jewels, always lays between the stuffed lions paws...if my lap is not available. So one day I ran up and got my camera and captured this warm fuzzy image. What I really love about this is how the tilt of the Lion's head onto Jewels' head, actually makes it look like he is cuddling a baby cub. After all the excitement, she went back to sleep : )

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Why?

Thursday, 11 March 2010 15:38 by leticia

Why can't things just go right for one day? Just one day of happiness even just semi-happiness? I know we wont have true happiness until we are in the New World, but just one semi-easy/happy day is all that I ask : (

I was in the middle of planning a celebration for Adam...to thank him for buying me such a beautiful home, we had officially closed on the purchase of our home today, so I was gonna make him a cake with the words Thank you on top and then a picture of our home and on the bottom his name, Adam...so the cake would've read "Thank You Adam" I wanted him to see it when he got home from work. And I had planned for us to go to Red Lobster and then come home and eat our cake and finish celebrating...but then "Whoosh!" right smack in the middle of my planning Satan hits us with a ton of bricks...Grrr!

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Image of the Week..."Burning Chair"

Monday, 8 March 2010 17:51 by leticia
 

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Purse Party!

Sunday, 7 March 2010 16:34 by leticia

Well, the Purse Party was a total success! Everyone had a great time, there were about 24 of us...It was alot of fun. Lots of us got gorgeous handbags. I had my eye on two handbags...but didn't want to pay for two, and surprisingly because enough people bought handbags I got a big enough discount that one of my handbags was FREE, WooHoo! Plus, just for hosting I had a choice of a pair of sunglasses or  a Coach wristlet purse, so I chose the wristlet.

My sister Pauline and her husband and a couple of her friends were able to make it from Gig Harbor. Also my niece Teri and her husband and son made it from Gig harbor, Teri and her family spent the night. So this morning we had our coffee and visited and then got dressed and we took them to The Bakery in Black Diamond for breakfast, and then walked the food off by taking a tour of the Black Diamond Museaum and jail and caboose, it was alot of fun.

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Image of the Week

Thursday, 25 February 2010 14:15 by leticia

I was looking out of the window at the sunset last evening and saw how pretty the raindrops looked on the Cherry Blossom trees ( atleast I think these are cherry blossoms) I dont have Washington flowers and trees and plants down yet.

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Sadie has been found!

Wednesday, 24 February 2010 12:41 by leticia

Yesterday evening when Adam got home from work, he and Daniel were gonna go post all the flyers that I made, but Adam decided to call the Vet Clinic first...to see if anyone had brought Sadie there. Turns out she was there since about 10 am, which about the time I had noticed she was missing and started driving around looking for her...I drove around for about 2 hours looking for her.

So glad we found her.

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My Son Lost His Dog This Morning!

Tuesday, 23 February 2010 18:50 by leticia

"I  AM  LOST...

 

I'm 14 and miss my owner!"

  

(206) 795-6867

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Purchasing Our Home...Yay!

Friday, 19 February 2010 16:16 by leticia

                                                    FEBRUARY 15, 2009

So we have been Leasing with Option to buy for about a year...and now we are finally there! We should close the first week of March...WooHoo!

Life has been pretty crazy...so much has happened to our family in the past 2 years, I am surprised that I have survived (and without medication: ) Believe me there were plenty of times that I needed it! With Jehovah's help we made it...not quite done going through things, but Jehovah has given us the strength to continue so that is what we will do.

I have the girls this month...and this month has been a struggle, they came back from Texas very angry (atleast Danyel has) she just has an angry undertone to all that she says...especially when she speaks to her little sister. I dont know if that is because that is how she is spoken to in Texas...or if she is just ticked off inside for all the garbage that is going on in her little life. But with all the stuff going on right now literally in my home, she is a bit hard to deal with...I am trying extremely hard and doing alot of praying to be extra patient with her. What I meant by all the stuff going on literally in my home is that...My son Daniel moved back home, so we cleared out our rec. room which has it's own bathroom and closet (actually it's the coat closet) and that is where he is staying, it is kinda like a studio apt. And so now all the stuff that was in there is in my family room...the pool table, hockey table, furniture that was in there is in with the family room furniture. The place looks crazy like a swap meat or something...stuff everywhere. So that is kinda how I am feeling inside as well, a bit chaotic...so Danyel has tried my patience a bit on this visit, but I am trying extremely hard to be patient with her, because I know she is going through so much inside, as we all are.

On top of all of that I am in the middle of painting the interior of my home so I have furniture pulled out from the walls and in the middle of the rooms. I have this thing about Pink...I just LOVE IT! So I had to get it out of my system...my formal living and dining rooms are both "Powder Pink" just 2/3 of the wall and the bottom third of the wall will have wainscoting. My kitchen is Powder Pink as well...it should look nice once we have our Stainless Steel appliances and Black granite countertops, and I am doing some creative stuff with Corrugated metal in my breakfast nook...that gives it kinda an industrial look, looks awesome with the pink, and de-feminizes it for Adam's sake. The adjoining Family room is "Cinnamon Spice" looks like chocolate brown....looks good with the pink in the kitchen and breakfast nook...except that it makes me and Finesse both hungry for chocolate, probably wasn't a smart choice for paint color in a room that is so close to the kitchen. I can just see it now the walls making us crave chocolate, and us just going to the fridge for something, anything to satisfy our craving...Hello pounds and fat!  I guess, next I should pray for will power : )

So the girls are napping right now, we just got back from the playground...I am gonna go give the kitchen a second coat and then be done with that. When Adam gets home he can help me take the pool table and hockey table apart and store it until Daniel moves out. We have got to get them out of the middle of the family room, we have Theatre night tomorrow evening...gotta reduce some of the chaos before then.

Well, that is about all for now...TTYS (talk to yall soon)

The Chaos in my Family Room  (The Red curtain, is actually a tablecloth to give Daniel privacy in his room) That is a cutout into the Rec. room, but it looks kinda Yucky with the table cloth hanging there, not sure how else to give him privacy tho. 

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Wow...It's Already February

Thursday, 11 February 2010 19:14 by leticia

                                                                Russ and Roselie taken in August '09

I just cant believe that it is already February...So much has happened! I haven't posted anything on here since December. Haven't done a whole lot with my photography lately...lost some of my desire. I need to get it back, it is my passion, so I need to rekindle that.

My Spiritual Dad, of 18 years...Russell Taze Poggensee, passed away recently. I have never experienced anything like that in my life. Sure people I have known have passed away before, but I have never seen the progression of death right before my eyes. When we brought Russ home from the hospital he was still talking alot, and joking and quoting scriptures, My family and I lived with Russ and Roselie for 2-3 weeks to help Roselie with all of Russ's physical needs. Like I said he was very talkative and stuff in the beginning but each day thereafter, you could see him going downhill...less talkative, weightloss, changed breathing, more phyical help needed each day, what was so sad to me is that his mind was still as Sharp as ever and for him to know that we were having to assist him with all of his physical needs (Russ was a very modest man) so it was very hard on me as I know it must have been to him. It didn't bother me to assist him at all, but it hurt me to know that he was aware of all of the assistance that he needed, I didn't want him to lose his dignity like that!  But...then the day came when it was all over, he took his last breath and fell asleep, with all of us there...everyone he loved and that loved him, for the first time since he had been home right there in the same room with him at the same time...I think he chose that moment to say goodbye, we all got to say goodbye and then we had a prayer and then he took his last breath and fell asleep.

It has hit me really hard...not doing to good!

I have got to snap out of it...we had a Circuit assembly recently and that was truly wonderful, and uplifting. But I still can't seem to shake it.

Before Russ passed, a couple of weeks before...there was a bit of joy, my nephew (Timothy) was baptized at the Special Day Assembly. I will attach a few photos of that at the end of this. It was a very happy day, but in the back of my mind was everything else Daniel's problems, my grand-children, Russ and so many other things.

Well, I am determined to shake myself out of this somehow...talk to yall soon!

Finesse, LuLu ( my sister), Timothy (LuLu's son), Me, and Danyel, Pauline ( my other sister) holding Kasidy

LuLu and Timothy

Russ and Roselie's 65th Wedding Anniversary June 14, 2009 (Their last one) taken at my house.

For the past 4 years that we have been back to Wa. everytime we got together with Russ and Roselie, Russ would mention a movie "Spawn of the North" that he and his sister saw when he was a teenager, and we got together with them OFTEN! So we decided to go online and surprise him on their anniversary, with a copy of his favorite movie "Spawn of the North" and I just LOVED, LOVED, LOVED, his reaction when he saw it.

After he opened it...we went upstairs to our Theatre Room and had Popcorn, candy, soda and wine and watched it, He loved it!

How cute are they?

Also as part of their Anniversary gift from us...we got them those bears in their yard...Because everytime we were with the Poggensee's, if we passed a Brown Bear Car wash, Roselie would say I need those bears for my yard. Or if we were out in service and saw some bears in peoples yards...she said she needed some too. So we got these bears for Roselie and the Movie for Russ for their 65th Anniversary! The morning this photo was taken, we were all on our way to a weekend trip to Leavenworth. **This Sweater that Russ is wearing (he wore often)... Well, Roselie gave it to me after he passed away, and I wear it every evening that I watch TV, like a warm hug from Russ!

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The Bradford Family

Wednesday, 16 December 2009 21:01 by leticia

Tuesday the 14th...I had the pleasure of meeting Paul and Lisa Bradford and their handsome little son Miles, during a Family Portrait Session in their Lovely home. I am still in the middle of editing the images, however, I wanted to show a sneak peek. Paul and Lisa...Thank you so much for inviting me into your home to capture these precious moments.

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Images of the Week!

Sunday, 6 December 2009 23:04 by leticia

These Images were taken in Leavenworth, Wa. I couldn't decide on just one for Image of the week...so I chose my 4 favorite! 

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Image of the Week!

Monday, 23 November 2009 17:27 by leticia
Taken at Reflection Lake, I thought it was awesome how the seaweed was floating on top of the rippling water, as tho it was dancing, I also Love the colors!

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Temporary Child Custody Hearing Results

Monday, 23 November 2009 16:55 by leticia

Well, Daniel, Adam, Finesse and I all went to court this morning at 9:30 am. Kasandra and her mother were there with their attorney. When the court room opened up we all went in, but then Our attny asked to speak to Kasandra's attny. and they hashed out a deal and then each attny, brought it to their clients, it went back and forth  a few times. And this is what we ended up with.

Each parent will get the girls for a whole month every other month, when that parent has the kids they will be named "Primary Cutodial Parent", Daniel will pay for all the airfare (which Adam and I will be paying...cuz he can't afford it), and Daniel will continue to make Kasandra's $400 car payment, that and the airfare will be in lieu of Child Support, and each parent should allow the other parent to speak to the girls freely while with the other parent (something Kasandra had not been doing...Daniel has only been allowed to speak to the girls 5 times in the 2 mos. she has been gone, in spite of his daily attempts), we will have a retired judge as a mediator starting in Feb of 2010 to begin mediation to get permanent orders in place....if we can't come to some sort of agreement, then it will go to court in September of 2010. 

This will all start in Dec. I will fly down there on the 2nd of Dec. and get the girls ( she tried to fight us on returning them back to her by Christmas, cuz she wants to spend Christmas with them) but I told the Attny. that we would not budge on that. We have only seen the girls for 1 week in the 2 months that they have been gone. And like I said, Kasandra has only allowed Daniel to speak to the girls 5 times in that 2 mo. period, so we were not about to budge on that....So we ended up with the girls the full month in Dec.

Our attny. said that when she went up to have the judge sign the order, that the judge said that that is pretty close to how he would have resolved it as well.

So all in all...I guess it was a Good Day! 

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Excellent turn out For Theatre Night last night

Sunday, 22 November 2009 13:46 by leticia

Monday I sent out Red Velvet Theatre Newsletters to all the Friends...letting them know that we were resuming with our usual Saturday Theatre Movie Night. We were going to be Featuring Star Trek...and within acouple of days, people had reserved all 15 seats. We had a wonderful time last night! Very nice to be able to put all the other stresses of life aside for a few hours and socialize with our Friends. We had Pizza, Popcorn, Soft Drinks, and Candy to munch on during the movie. However, At the last minute we had 4 cancelations but we still had 11 people over...it was Awesome! Look forward to having the friends over again next Saturday! To see our website go to http://www.RedVelvetTheatre.com it will give you a little history of how we started movie night.

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Apology...No Image of the Week, Last Week!

Sunday, 22 November 2009 12:45 by leticia

I was so busy with legal issues having to do with with my glama girls and with Russ's healh issues, he now has a permanent picc line for IV's...that he will be getting every Friday at the Hospital, so I will drive them both to Enumclaw for this weekly. I will post an image of the week Tomorrow.

So the Court hearing for Temporary Custody of the girls will be on Monday...tomorrow the 23rd. It has been a very intense time for our family. Last week Kasandra's attorney called our attorney and asked Suellen if there was any way possible to settle this out of court. So the two attorneys put their heads together and came up with this deal: Kasandra would be named "Primary Custodial Parent"(her attorney wanted that), That each parent would have the girls every other month-for a whole month, and that Daniel would pay all airfare ( her attorney wanted that), and that Daniel would continue to pay for Kasandra's car in lieu of child support.

We countered with: Daniel named "Primary Custodial Parent" (since this is the Girls Residential State, that they still have jurisdiction in), and we don't mind Daniel having the girls every other month for a whole month, however, since Kasandra is the one that caused all this mess and uprooted the girls out of state...we dont feel Daniel should be responsible for all the airfare, so we are asking for "Shared Airfare", and Daniel is fine with paying for her car payments in lieu of Child support.

All of this would be in affect until the Final Hearing In September of 2010. The attorneys wanted our thoughts on all of this, before presenting it to Kasandra. We still haven't heard back from anyone since Thursday. And the hearing is to take place tomorrow already. We'll see what happens!

We need those girls here...Kasandra has taken those girls to a place that she herself has so vividly and grossly described as unhealthy physically and emotionally for the girls. She has shared things about her family members that make me fearful for my girls to be around them, for fear of what could be done to them. When Daniel and I flew to Texas to see the girls they kept telling me "Ama don't leave me here in Texas...I want to live in my yellow house in Covington" How sad is that, she kept telling me how her mom is always screaming at her and hitting and pinching her? The girls want to come home so Badly!

Kasandra and her family and friends all claimed that Daniel lied in his declaration of how filthy Kasandra and her family are...they submitted pics. of their home. I say... "It is very easy to tidy up and then take pics. to prove to the Judge/Court how tidy they are" but I found pics in Kasandra's MySpace account in her "We're in TX now" album, that show just how filthy of a home they are presently living in, when they aren't trying to prove to the judge/court that Daniel is lying, this is what her mothers house looks like and this is what Kasandra's home always looked like when she lived up here. In spite of Daniel repeatedly asking her to do better at keeping house for their girls, she never did, so Daniel would go to work all day and then come home and clean house too.  Attached below is a picture of the Filth she has my grandchildren living in, they don't even have a proper, clean place to sleep at night. We need to get these girls out of this filth, they always have runny noses, coughs, and red watery eyes, I am convinced because of the Unsanitary Conditions that they live in. We submitted these images to the court.

"The images below is their environment in Tx...How could a mother allow their child to crawl around in this? Kasidy is crawling around on a Plywood floor, with the possibility of slivers, ugh! And the vacuums back there are obviously not being used...just being stored in that filthy hallway. And look at where they are sleeping, doesn't look to safe to me, things could fall on them and it is just plain filthy." MY POOR GLAMA GIRLS!

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Image of the Week!

Monday, 9 November 2009 15:14 by leticia

Cool Tree in Muckleshoot, Wa.

 

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Image of the Week!

Monday, 2 November 2009 22:09 by leticia

The Horn Blower at the Enzian Hotel in Leavenworth...he blows his horn every morning at the exact same time!

 

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Daniel and The Girls ~ October 2009

Thursday, 29 October 2009 04:03 by leticia

Daniel and I went to visit The Girls in Texas last month...The girls want to come home so Badly! Danyel said "Ama don't leave without me, don't leave me here...I want to live in my yellow house in Covington" How sad is that? To see the Full gallery of these images...visit my website at http://www.LeticiaWilsonPhotography.com go to my "Portfolio" and click on "Family Portraits" and "Children" galleries.

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Image of the Week

Monday, 26 October 2009 10:52 by leticia

This is a Bed and Breakfast we had lunch at...after our day at Mt. Rainier

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"Keep Your Eyes On The Prize" Image of the Week

Monday, 19 October 2009 07:27 by leticia
This photo was taken on our way to Mt. Rainier

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Image of the Week

Monday, 12 October 2009 08:58 by leticia

I thought it would be a nice idea...to start an "Image of the Week" here on my blog. I will begin with the image below...Let me know what you think...I would love to hear your thoughts.

Mt. Rainier ~ taken in August of 2009

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Finally...Whew!

Saturday, 26 September 2009 04:16 by leticia

Geez...I've had so many family emergencies come up that I was a week or so behind on getting Ciara and Randal's wedding package together to send to them. I worked on their Coffee Table Book for 3-4 days at the hospital as I sat and waited with Roselie and Finesse...and then when I go to Upload the book to the Book Company...I couldn't, Aaargh! Finally got it to work after a few days or so, meanwhile I was making her DVD Slideshow set to music and putting all 1,000+ edited images on a CD for her. And waited to get her choices for her 8x10's and 5x7's and threw in an additional 8x10, since I was a bit behind getting her her package. But This morning I finally got a response from Ciara of the images that she would like enlarged and so I placed those orders, and then 10 minutes later...The UPS Guy delivered our Coffee Table Books, Yay! (I ordered one for myself) So I will go pick up the enlargements in a sec. and get that package out to them A.S.A.P (By the way the Book is Gorgeous...I think she will be thrilled) Go check out Ciara and Randal's full wedding story images on my website... 

Ciara and Randal thank you so much for your patience and understanding!

Warmest Wishes,

Leticia

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Michael's Senior Portraits

Saturday, 5 September 2009 08:02 by leticia

Here is a Sneak Peek at Michael's Senior Portrait Session that I shot yesterday in my studio and then we went to his H.S. And Inspite of the rain...that came down in bucket fulls as we were shooting at his High School and at the park...we still had a nice time! Congratulations on your Graduation... Michael!

        

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Sneak Peek at Ciara & Randal's Port Gamble Wedding

Monday, 17 August 2009 20:55 by leticia
This wedding was Amazing to Shoot! Started off at "The Salon and Spa on Gamble Bay" and the Ceremony was at "Hood Canal Vista Pavilion" was Such a Gorgeous location with a lovely backdrop, and the town was SO, SO, SO Cute! All the businesses were inside Quaint Little Old Houses. And the "Buena Vista Cemetery" Shots that the Bride and Groom requested...turned out pretty cool, I was going for Classy, Elegant yet Creative. We loved The town of Port Gamble so much that we went back the next day ( as tired as I was) to experience the town again this time we just had to let  our 18 year old daughter experience it as well, we knew she would get a kick out of The Tea Room, where Adam and I had eaten lunch the day before, we literally ate the last of their Clam Chowder...we tried to order it again the next day, and they told us that we had eaten the last of it the day before...we thought that was funny!  While we were eating lunch before the wedding, the previous day... 2 Tea Room guests were telling us about the Charm bracelets that you can collect from all of the businesses in town...so we definately knew we had to bring Finesse (our daughter) a chain from the Antique store and get her started with a charm from the tea room, so we did we knew she would love the idea of coming back the next day with us, to collect all of the Town charms...So now we both have Beautiful matching  Mother/Daughter charm bracelets, that we wear all of the time. It was so much fun...we spent like 5-6 hours eating, shopping, walking around, taking pics. and eating again before we left. I was right... Finesse loved the town as much as we did. Can't wait to go back and bring our Parents this time.

To See video footage of this ceremony visit my YouTube chanel at: http://www.youtube.com/Leticiawilson

I thought this video would be helpful for any Beginning Wedding Photographers...When I first started shooting weddings, I remember looking for videos online so that I could see a photographer in action...to see where it was okay to stand, how close to get to the couple, what type of cameras/equipment to carry, flash no flash, But I was unable to find very many videos, that focused on the Photographer. So I hope this video will be helpful to anyone who is getting ready to shoot their first wedding...Feel free to contact me with any questions you may have ; )

Ciara and Randal,
I just wanted to take this time to Thank you for allowing me to capture your Beautiful, Magical Day...I loved the venue you chose "Hood Canal Vista Pavilion" is one of my favorite venues now. And the town is just SO SO SO Cute. Ciara you looked Amazing in your Dress, I really enjoyed your MOH Tara...she was a joy to be around, and had lots of cool ideas...and I must say your guests were the most respectful guests I have ever worked around...they kept asking if it was okay to stand behind me and take photos? or Is it okay to take this shot after you? They made sure they were not getting in my way...Just very, very respectful guests! I hope you all are having a great honeymoon....Okay back to working on your images now ;)

 

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Dora The Explorer Kids Party!

Monday, 10 August 2009 16:51 by leticia
Kasandra, my daughter-in-law threw a kids party for her 2 girls (My Glama Girls) this past Saturday the 8th. It was alot of fun, the kids played games: Pop the balloon, Musical Chairs, and Pin the Bracelet on Dora. Kasandra had finger foods for the kids to munch on, and punch and she also made a ton of Brownies, Yum! She had a nice turn out for the party...the kids all had a blast!

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Bible Themed Costume Party

Friday, 24 July 2009 11:00 by leticia
We had a blast at this costume party...we had know about it for about 2 weeks, but I procrastinated in making costumes, until 2 days before, then I went to Wal*Mart and Goodwill to purchase things for the costumes. Adam was Moses, I made one of those "Man Dress" thingy they wore back then with fringe on the bottom and at Wal*Mart I bought a striped curtain set to use as his "Moses Robe" So I got home cut up the curtain and whoala a robe. I already had some 10 commandments on a plaque. that he used as a prop. Finesse went as Pharoah's Daughter who found baby Moses in the river and raised him...She looked stunning. I made myself an Israelite outfit out of Drapery. I was all finished the afternoon of the party it was about 2pm the party was going to start at 5pm. Then I figured if Kasandra and the girls want to go I may have enough time to whip together a few more outfits, I called them and Yes, they wanted to go. So I made them 3 costumes...Daniel had to work and couldn't come. So since Kasandra was coming I decided she and I were Naomi and Ruth ( very appropriate...if you read the bible account, that is exactly our situation, she was not in the truth, Daniel married her, and we taught her the truth and she came to Love Jehovah) So they come over to try on their costumes. Now it is about 4pm and Daniel calls and says he is getting off at 5pm and he'll meet us there, I didn't want him to not have a costume so I whipped another one together...he was Daniel in the Lions Den. We all took off about 5:30 and hoped to get there in time for the Costume guessing at 6pm, but when we got there at 6 they hadn't even had dinner yet, they were all running late as well, so we didn't miss anything...Yay! So we get there and we all take pictures of each other. Everyone looked amazing, very creative costumes. I will post pics later.

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Wedding Leads

Thursday, 23 July 2009 06:45 by leticia

I belong to a few wedding vendor sites, and yesterday,  one inparticular site sent me 10 wedding leads in my area for the year 2010, so I bid on them and sent a personal e-mail to each of them, I got a response from one of the couples late last night saying that they are interested, they asked a few questions, so I e-mailed them back...we'll see what happens. It would be nice to finish booking 2010 so early.

I also received a wedding request, from my own website last night...this couple is interested in my "Lace" package.

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Wow...My Baby Girl is 18 Today!

Monday, 13 July 2009 01:25 by leticia
I can't believe how fast children grow...Finesse is 18 today! She has grown to be a Beautiful young lady. I took some photos that I will post later. Right now we are gonna go have a mother/daughter day and have lunch together and I am going to take her to the movies to see a movie she has been wanting to see " Sister's Keeper "....I'll write more later.

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The Jonas Brothers World Tour 2009 Concert

Tuesday, 30 June 2009 11:56 by leticia

Adam and I surprised Finesse with tickets to see the Jonas Brothers in Concert this past Sunday. Finesse will be 18 on July 13th, and I wanted her to experience a concert, since she is now an adult. Of course Adam and I were there with her to make sure she was safe, and we approved of who she wanted to see. She was so surprised...at first she just said "Oh, Cool...Thanks!" then 20 min. later she came into my room with red, swollen eyes and sobbing and Thanked me profusely...she said "Thank you so much...it just really hit me, I'm gonna see The Jonas Brothers tomorrow!" we hugged and I told " Your welcome...I am just want to make you happy!"

The concert was to start at 7pm at the Tacoma Dome we showed up at 2:30 for the Pre-show party...she got to take pictures in front of the Jonas Brothers tour bus, and we took pictures with posters that were provided by KISS106.1 FM and they put them up on their website. We bought her 2 T-shirts. 1 of Jordin Sparks ( who performed about 5-6 songs that night) and 1 T-shirt of the Jonas Brothers. They had "Honor Society" open the show, then a different group, then Jordin Sparks she also sang PYT by Michael Jackson as a tribute to him. and then The Jonas Brother's Dad came out and thanked all the fans and then WooHoo "The Jonas Brothers" rose up from under the stage and started performing...it was AWESOME...Finesse started screaming and dancing and singing...she loved it. They had a water show, actual water coming down and as it came down there were designs in the water hearts, X's and O's, and in the end the "JB" logo. and then they sang more....and then Kevin (Finesse's favorite one) and Joe were lifted up in the air and started shooting the fans with this foamy water...it was Cool (literally) it was fantastic, the fans went crazy.

Afterwards...Finesse thanked us again and again, we went to Denny's and ate after that and then came home around midnight. Fun, Fun, Fun!    ( I will post pics. later)

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Beautiful Summer Weddings

Wednesday, 24 June 2009 08:30 by leticia

There are 3 upcoming weddings kinda back to back in the next 2 months that I am busy preparing for. They should be gorgeous weddings. Getting alot of last minute requests, I really am trying to fit them all in! One of the weddings was a referral from a wedding that I did last summer...that is always a good feeling, to know that your work was liked enough to get a referral from it.

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Summer Wedding Special

Monday, 22 June 2009 11:21 by leticia
Congratulations...to all you New Brides To Be! Take advantage of our Summer Wedding Special...we are offering a 20% discount on all of our Wedding packages if booked by the end of July. To receive the discount, don't forget to mention it to us when you contact us. To see my pricing page please click on http://www.leticiawilsonphotography.com/pricing1.aspx 

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Junior Portraits Session @ Lake Meridian

Tuesday, 9 June 2009 03:37 by leticia

"Finesse, You look Beautiful...

I had a blast photographing you!"

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Special Day Assembly 2009

Sunday, 7 June 2009 05:10 by leticia

We had a very nice time, seeing all of our old friends from the Auburn Cong. and enjoyed alot of Encouraging information.

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My Dream Coach Handbag!

Tuesday, 2 June 2009 12:37 by leticia

I am so excited...Adam just bought me my very own Coach Handbag at Macy's tonight! I have always wanted one...these pictures do not do it justice...She is absolutely Gorgeous! 

 

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Daniel and Kasandra's 2nd Baptism Anniversary!

Tuesday, 2 June 2009 11:53 by leticia

Yesterday was Daniel and Kasandra's 2nd Baptism Anniversary (June 3rd 2007). Finesse and I went and ran some errands during the day...we went to Walmart and got some pots and flowers for the front porch and we made identical mirrored flower pots for each side of the pillars on the porch. They came out beautiful. and then we went to Fred Meyer and invited Daniel to dinner...and we bought stuff to make a Tostada dinner and I also made a cake for them. We came home and did the flowers and then then Adam and Kasandra showed up at the same time, so we all went inside I made the girls some Snow Cones...yummy! Then I started the cake...then I started dinner and then Daniel got home from work. We gave them their gifts...they loved them. We got Kasandra a Sterling Silver heart locket with diamonds around it...in the front we had them engrave "Kasandra" and on the back we had them engrave "Dedication 6-3-2007". We got Daniel a really nice Artists Easel...I love it! I want one : ) Daniel is an amazing Artist and I want to do what I can to support and promote his talent. I recently bought 3 of his Spray Painted Artworks. They are pretty awesome. Very Abstract!

After gifts we had dinner and had really nice spiritual and encouraging conversations. Then we had Cake...Yummy!

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Our Mother / Daughter Flower Project

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Bomb Threat in our neighborhood

Saturday, 30 May 2009 00:53 by leticia

The craziest thing happened in our neighborhood today...we had to evacuate our homes, we were just allowed to return home, and it is kinda late, so I will tell you all, all about it tomorrow...G'night

So yesterday, there was a 53 y.o. Merchant Marine that barracated himself in his home and threatened to blow the neighborhood up, his x-wife was escorted by police to gather some personal belongings, when the man made the bomb threat. That was about 11am, so the police called the SWAT team and Bomb Squad, and a Negotiator. He claimed to have a 250lb. fertilizer bomb inside. We had an appt. at the Vets at 2pm they made us evacuate around 1:30pm ( police came to our front door and rang our doorbell repeatedly and extremely fast and around 10 or 15 times, my husband I were upstairs gathering the animals and didn't hear the doorbell but my daughter Finesse did so she answered the door and said that they said "There is a bomb threat, you have to evacuate", I made sure to get the pets, my laptop, my photo albums and that all of us were out of the house) In my mind if the neighborhood blew up I didn't want to have regrets of lost photos, I have a ton of photos in albums of my kids and tons of photos of my grand-babies on my laptop. I didn't care about any material possesions, I did however, grab my guitar...just in case we went and waited at a park I would something to do Smile. Adam took his van, I took my mustang...and as we were driving away, we passed the corner store... Foss's Market, it looked like a Hollywood movie set...they had set up there base camp right there...there were tents set up with military trucks and military hummers all over and SWAT trucks, bomb squad people, military people everywhere and policemen and cars...people all gathered and watching, it was crazy looking!

So after the vet appt., we went to the Poggensee's then we went to my son's house, Daniel. Meanwhile, we are listening to the news and found  out some information...Finally around 2 pm he went out to his back deck and pointed his scoped rifle at the helicopter and a Sharp shooter that was on ground fatally shot him. They then sent in a Robot to search the home for explosives, and when it found none they entered the home and finally reached the man on the back deck at 5:30pm, he was dead. We weren't allowed to return home until around 8pm. What a Day! It is a very sad situation...

I woke up this morning thinking about the man, I wondered if maybe he had been to the war in Iraq or something and came home and just wasn't the same and that he and his wife just couldn't get along or something, and that maybe she had decided to divorce him and he just couldn't handle it...and that that is why he did what he did. And that really saddened me. A life...wasted! and on such a beautiful, sunny day...to think that people are dying all the time, just like this on a daily basis...is just sad, and a sign of the things that Jesus prophesied the signs of the Last Days...Things like this will probably start happening more and more frequently  as we get closer to the end. Things like this have been happening all the time for awhile now, but not so close to our very own neighborhoods. When it happens so close to home, it shakes you up. We talked about it as a family, and how we have got to be better prepared for situations like this. We decided that we have all got to have a backpack with a change of clothes and stuff in case of evacuations and emergencies like this.

It turns out...we read in the paper this morning, that the 53 y.o man and his ex-wife have a 9 y.o son and got along great, up until yesterday morning...weird, that he snapped.

I think about if something like this had happened to my son, I would be devastated...I would have tried to be there and talk him out of whatever he was trying to do...and let him know that nothing or anyone is worth taking his or anyone elses life and that with time...Life would go on!

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Bought myself a new guitar!

Wednesday, 27 May 2009 07:43 by leticia
Hey got myself a new guitar...a real one! What a difference from the inexpensive pink one that I bought off of Ebay for $40. Not that I play any better with this new one, but I think I will learn faster with it...the strings are alot lower on this new one and it sounds so much better...on the pink one the Low E string could not stay in tune. So go check out my new guitar at:

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BBQ at Russ and Roselie's

Tuesday, 26 May 2009 12:38 by leticia
Sunday, after our meeting...we all went to my spiritual parents home for a BBQ there were about 14 of us...we had a very nice time. My son Daniel and his family were there, his friend Dane and a new young family that just moved into our Congregation: The Bonine's, and of course Adam and I and Finesse and Russ and Roselie Poggensee (mom and dad:) We had perfect Washington weather

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Great Theatre Turn Out!

Monday, 25 May 2009 22:36 by leticia

Http://www.RedVelvetTheatre.com

Oh on Saturday night we had a really good turn out for our Theatre night, we had 14 out of 15 seats filled...we watched Paul Blart: Mall Cop and had Popcorn and Soda and candy. We had a lot of fun, we really enjoy having friends over for our Red Velvet Theatre Shows. Lots of family fun...we only show PG-13, PG, NR ( those are usually made for TV, so nothing bad in them) or G rated shows...gotta keep it wholesome ;)

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Brandon Morgan ~ "Shallow In The Grave" CD

Monday, 25 May 2009 14:45 by leticia
Oh! I also forgot to mention...that yesterday I checked the mail before going to get Daniel and I was so excited to receive my Nephews new CD's that I had just purchased I bought 1 for me and 1 for Daniel, so when he got in the van, I told Daniel that I had a gift for him and handed it to him...he was so excited to get it, he had no idea that Brandon had made a CD. We listened to it on the way to IHOP and we were truly Blown away! I am so Proud of him and his passion for music...and I am and always have been very impressed with his drive and determination to accomplish his goals as a musician, he has been going strong without letup, and it is paying off. Brandon is an amazing musician/vocalist...he is self-taught, he taught himself to play guitar, and piano, and I am sure there are other insturments that he has dabbled into.  I absolutely love his music, lyrics, and accoustical guitar playing. I especially love the sound and texture of his voice, to me he has the same type of voice as Bruce Springstein, and the lead singer from Nickelback, and the previous American Idol contestant Chris Daughtry...I love his song entitled "With You" because from what I know of his life, this sounds like his experience and journey to California and how he must feel for his girl Jessica, whom is amazing by the way, she has been there through thick and thin...It is so obvious that he wrote from the heart on that song as well as on all of his songs...To hear an Amazing Musician and listen to a sample of his CD go to http://www.myspace.com/brandonmorgan 

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Clise Mansion Event Coordinator's Blog

Tuesday, 19 May 2009 10:28 by leticia

I just received an e-mail from Jillian Derpack, the Events Coordinator at The Clise Mansion. Jillian has been working on her very own blog for The Clise Mansion, she wanted to send me a link to her blog post of the Paplow/McMeins wedding  that I had the privilege of shooting last October 25, 2008 To see the Blog Posting of MY PHOTOS... click on: http://seattlebride.com/the-paplowmcmeins-wedding/#more-1576 . I appreciate the Credit to Leticia Wilson Photography and the link back to my website on her blog posting.

The whole blog looks wonderful...she was able to get alot of wonderful photographers to share their wedding photos here is the link to her blog: http://www.seattlebride.com/our-blog/ to see all of the photographers including myself...to see all of the photos by each photographer just click on the words "Read More" that is located beneath each photographers photo. I think Jillian did a wonderful job on her Blog...it really highlights the beauty of The Clise Mansion and all the many different rooms and the outdoors that are available to the Bride and Groom on their Special Day! 

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Kasidy 2 years old

Monday, 4 May 2009 07:59 by leticia

It was Kasidy's turn to spend the night with Glama...so I treated her to curls and portraits too. My Glama Girls are leaving for Texas tomorrow...they will be gone for 10 days. My glama baby is so cute in these pics. It is hard to pose a child this age cause they don't really know how to take direction, so you just have to be ready to shoot anything and everything and somewhere in all of that you will end up with adorable shots.

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Danyel's 3 Year Old Portraits

Tuesday, 28 April 2009 23:56 by leticia

Danyel Spent the night with me and we spent the morning together and then I decided to curl her hair, she loved it and  said she looked like a princess and that her hair was bouncy, she was so happy, and couldn't wait to show her parents...so I was worried that the curls would go away before they came to pick her up so I decided to surprise Daniel and Kasandra and take her 3 year old portraits. When they came to get her they loved how she looked and thought she looked Beautiful. My Glama Girl Truly is Breathtaking...she is my best model to date!

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Krains Corner Restaurant

Saturday, 25 April 2009 18:32 by leticia

A wonderful place to eat that you just must simply try is Krains Corner in Enumclaw, Wa. They have the most fantastic food ever. It is like Good 'Ol Fashioned Home cooking! My family used to live in Enumclaw and we discovered this place...and although we have now moved to Covington, we still travel over to Krains Corner for Breakfast...we could go to a Denny's or a Shari's, in Kent which is closer, but Nope...we travel back to Enumclaw to eat at our Favorite Breakfast Restaurant. They serve lunch and dinner as well, and have a full bar.

Krains Corner also has an antique shop inside that you can shop at while you are waiting for your food, or you can eat and then walk off your food in the Antique shop.

The owner is a very lovely, sweet lady. You must go by there and try it and say Hi to her!

I will post the address and some pictures soon.

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I did a set of Acrylics on Finesse

Monday, 20 April 2009 11:03 by leticia

Besides the fact that I am a Wedding/Portrait Photographer in Washington State, I am also a licensed Nail Technician in the state of Texas...I just did a full set of Acrylic nails on Finesse a couple of weeks ago, it was my first time in like 4 years...and I just finished doing her fills a couple of days ago, here is a pic. I embedded a lil daisy in the acrylic on one of her pinkys...simple but cute.

 

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Finesse's Room Makeover...Yay,I'm Finished!

Wednesday, 8 April 2009 06:33 by leticia
Yay...I am finally finished painting Finesse's room and her furniture. I had to paint 4 big pieces of furniture to make all the mismatched pieces match, first I had to use 2 coats of Kilz and then 2 coats of Brilliant white semi-gloss paint. I am completely finished... The room came out pretty nice...at first I questioned the colors she chose green, white and red...thought it was gonna look like a mexican flag, but the room came out really nice and happy looking. I surprised Finesse while she was at work...I put the whole room together before she got home and hid in her room in the dark behind her entertainment center with the camcorder on so I could film her while she saw her room for the first time, when she gets home from work she usually goes into her first thing to take Jackson out to potty, but when she got home she didn't come into her room, I waited a few minutes and nothing, so I yelled from inside her room "Hey Finesse...come in your room, look what Jackson did!" and then she came in and saw her Cool Room...it was fun!~Leticia

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My Neice, Hope and her Family

Monday, 2 March 2009 16:48 by leticia

Here are some recent pictures of my neice and her husband Dwight and their Three son's: Titus, Tyson and Quintin. They are very handsome young men!

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We're Moving In! Photography by Daniel Rey Garcia and Finesse Strasburg and myself

Sunday, 15 February 2009 15:24 by leticia
Here are some photos of us moving into our new home on the 15th of this month. Daniel took all of the pictures of us moving in. The Day we got the keys to the house, Russ and Roselie Poggensee came over to help us clean. Russ vacuumed all the rooms in the house, and Roselie did all the windows. They are wonderful Parents! Finesse took the photos of me getting my housewarming gift from Adam (30 Tulips and a box of chocolates) I was on the phone talking to him...thanking him for my surprise!). Finesse got a mini-sewing machine...she has been wanting to learn to sew, so he got her that, and now I can teach her as soon as we settle in a bit more. We hired "The Starving Students" moving Co. to move our furniture on the 18th. There are photos of Robbie Bergum cleaning our sofa and chairs on the 19th, the day after we got our furniture moved in. There are also some images that I took of the interior of our house with our furniture in place...I dont have the house decorated with accessories yet, but I am making progress little by little...we have been extremely busy going back and forth to the Enumclaw house getting all the small stuff that we didn't have the movers get, we are pretty much done. I just have to clean out the fridge, the windows, and vacuum and mop and Adam has to finish the Garage and Shed. I can't wait to have you...Our friends, over!

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Kasandra turns 21

Saturday, 14 February 2009 01:54 by leticia

Kasandra turned 21 on February 23rd...So of course when they came over on the 24th, we had to make her some drinks, Adam made us all Frozen Strawberry Margarita's. We had a nice time, Kasandra and I get very talkative and happy when we drink. We were both talking up a storm (mostly about episodes of "The Gilmore Girls" and our other favorite subject "The Glama Girls") and laughing alot, It was fun! Daniel had one too, but he did not even finish his, he's never really liked the taste of alcohol. I am not much of a drinker either...I usually only have a drink when we are out at a restaurant celebrating something.  Kasandra and I both had 2 margarita's. Oh! Daniel got a new car today it is really cool looking it is a Gray 1987 Mazda Rx7, with a sunroof...the body is in excellent condition the interior is in mint condition as well. He loves it! 

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February 19, 2009 Daniel and Kasandra's 4th Anniversary

Friday, 13 February 2009 01:16 by leticia
Daniel and Kasandra have been married for 4 years now...and they are doing really really good, I am proud of them! And they have given me 2 beautiful Glama Girls, whom I adore! For their Anniversary I did not get them one of the gifts that I had planned on getting them...But I don't want to tell them what it is because I want to get it next year. So what I did get Kasandra is what she has been dying to have...The complete 7 seasons of The Gilmore Girls. It took me 2 weeks to burn all 42 discs. I Love the picture of her holding up the DVD's...you can really see the happiness in her eyes. We got Daniel a gift from "Things Remembered" a really cool sterling silver pen and clock for his night stand or desk, it lights up when you touch it and shows the time, temperature, stop watch, date and other stuff that I can't remember and each time you touch it is lights up in different colors, red, green, blue, purple. We had his name engraved "Daniel Rey Garcia" and the date " February 19, 2009" The pen stands in its spot magnetically. It was really really cool...He liked it. Adam wanted one for himself. We got the girls scratch and sniff books. Danyels was about camping, because she says she wants to go camping with me and Kasidy's is about a Candy Factory. They loved their gifts too. I babysat the girls while they went out to dinner and a movie! Sounds like they had a very nice time.

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Finesse's 2nd Year Baptism Anniversary

Tuesday, 3 February 2009 12:14 by leticia
Today is February 3, 2009 and it is the 2nd year anniversary of Finesse's Baptism. We are going to take her out to dinner to celebrate and give her a couple of gifts as well...It should be fun! I will post pictures tomorrow. So Today is February 4...and we had alot of fun last night. We took Finesse to the restaurant of her choice "The Rock" Daniel and Kasandra and the girls met us there. Adam and I got Finesse some fuzzy pajamas that she has been wanting, a nice casual waist length coat, a CD, a Jonas Brothers singing card, we got her a sterling silver compact mirror: in the front it has her name and on the back it says: "Lots of Love, Mom and Dad 2-3-09", and we got her a sterling silver necklace with a heart and key...in the front it says Finesse, in the back it says "My heart belongs to Jehovah" 2-3-09. *Finesse I am very proud of the Loyalty and Love that you have for Jehovah...you have made some really good choices, when it comes to friends and associations, and your choices of entertainment. We are very proud of you Wink, Love Mom and Dad

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Leticia Wilson Photography Relocating to Covington, Wa

Friday, 23 January 2009 14:11 by leticia

As posted earlier...we will be moving on February 15, 2009. So I have started packing today. In the past most of my photography clients have been from the Enumclaw area...So now I am going to be concentrating on widening out to the Covington / Maple Valley / Kent areas. As well as still taking care of my Enumclaw clients. I will keep you posted on any new happenings in my business and personal life.

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January 17, 2009 Our 4th Year Wedding Anniversary!

Monday, 19 January 2009 00:46 by leticia
I took the portraits of Adam and I before dinner, using a tripod and a camera remote:)

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Our Anniversary Gift to each other...Our New House!

Thursday, 15 January 2009 17:37 by leticia

This is our New House...we are so excited to move in and know that we will never have to move again. The house has 3,370 sq. ft. has 4 bdrm., 3 ba., a Den (which will be our Theatre Room), huge bonus/loft (which will be our Recreation Room with a Pool table, Ping Pong table, Arcade game...etc., One of the bedrooms will be converted to my Portrait Studio, and one of the bedrooms will be Adam's Office, the house also has a formal living room and dining room, a butlers pantry, a breakfast nook, a family room with a gas fireplace, and our Master Suite...truly is a suite, huge with a sitting area that has a gas fireplace and nice bathroom with double sinks and a 6' long tub, a shower, a skylight and much more... We are so excited to move in on February 15, 2009

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Wedding Photo to be Published in SnoValley Star Newspaper

Wednesday, 14 January 2009 18:59 by leticia

Today I received a couple of phone calls from a SnoValley Star Reporter , Mike Rowe. He wanted to ask permission to use one of my wedding photos in his newspaper article, he said he found me by Googling Preston Community Center...and Leticia Wilson Photography came up as having done a wedding there on July 12, 2008 so that led him to my blog and there he saw Melisa and Chris Oldenkamp's wedding pictures.

The Preston Community Center has become a historical landmark, so he is writing a story on it and wants to use my photo to show the different types of events that go on there at the community center, he says that he will credit my name to the photo. So I went ahead and gave him permission, I believe that he said that the article will be published in March. You can never advertise too much!

Here is the photo that his editor wants to use:

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My McMeins Wedding Photos will be used in The Clise Mansion's Wedding Coordinator's Blog

Monday, 5 January 2009 19:21 by leticia

I received an e-mail from the Wedding Coordinator at The Clise Mansion, she saw my portraits of The McMeins Wedding that I shot at the Clise Mansion and wants permission to use some of them for her blog that she will be launching soon, and she says she will credit the photos to Leticia Wilson Photography with a link to my website. So I went ahead and e-mailed her and gave her permission to do so. 

Here is the e-mail from her:

Hi Leticia! I am the Social Event Coordinator at Clise Mansion and just saw the photos you took of Will and Kathy McMeins wedding on 10-25-08. We have a brand new website launching on January 1st and I will have my very own blog section on it. I was wondering if you would be willing to share some of these photos with me so I could put them on my blog and I would make sure to credit the photos to you. Please let me know if this is ok. Thanks, Jillian

Event Coordinator Seattle Bride / Premier Properties www.seattlebride.com www.eastsidemeetings.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hello Jillian,

Thank you for your interest in my photography work...I am flattered that you liked the photos that I took of Will and Kathy McMeins, I had a lot of fun capturing their wedding. Congratulations on your new website and Blog page! Which photos are you interested in? I wouldn't have a problem with you posting some of them on your blog page. However, Besides just a credit to the photos...It would be awesome if you could put my URL http://www.LeticiaWilsonPhotography.com or my small banner somewhere on that page as well. I look forward to hearing from you.

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Thanks so much for getting back to me so quickly.  I LOVE the photo of them kissing in front of the Veranda (the long hallway with the windows).  I went ahead and pulled my favorites from your photobucket.  I will email you when the blog goes up (sometime in January) and I will make sure to provide a link to your website after the photos. 

Thank you!

Jillian Derpack


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My Baby Boy is 24 years old today!

Tuesday, 23 December 2008 14:54 by leticia

I am filled with emotion as I write this...My son Daniel is 24 today! Time just fly's by so quickly. My advise to all young parents is this: Treasure and Cherish every single phase that your child goes through, whether good or bad, handle the situation with all the patience you can muster ( and I know there are days that you have to dig deep for that patience ) but Please do so. Because one day you too will be reminising on the days of your youth and your young children...you don't want to have regrets:  those Woulda, Coulda and Shoulda's! They are little people that we brought into this Insane world...So lets do all that we can to help and prepare them to be able to withstand the pressures that lie ahead for them in the future, because times are only getting worse as foretold in the Bible at 2 Timothy 3: 1-7 where it reads:

"1)But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. 2) For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3) having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, 4) betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, 5) having a form of godly dovotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away. 6) For from these arise those men who slyly work their way into households and lead as their captives weak women loaded down with the sins, led by various desires, 7) always learning and yet never able to come to an accurate knowledge of truth."

Dont we see all that was just described going on today? So let us as parents do our best to prepare our young children for all of this, as well as train them so as to not become one of these unthankful people just mentioned in the bible scriptures.

Daniel has grown up to be a Fine Young Man...I am so Proud of who he is! He is very Kind and Loving with a HUGE heart as well as extremely talented...God gave my son the talent of being a very Creative Artist in which he can express himself. Being a single mother, I did not always have alot of material things to offer my son growing up, But I gave him all the Love I had, I do know that at times he must have felt left out at school, because he did not have the Nikes that everyone else had or the coolest latest styles of clothing...so I was glad that he had an outlet for his feelings and emotions. I know that he loves me...he has always let me know that...Even as a teenager he would ask me to go to his school at his Junior High to have lunch with him and his friends, and I remember on one particular occasion that I did that...As I was finished with my lunch and visiting with him, I stood up to leave and said " Okay Babe, I will see you at home later...Bye" I had opted not to give him our usual departure hug and kiss, so that I wouldn't embarrass him in front of his friends...But Daniel yelled over to me as I was turning to leave: " Mom, where's my hug and kiss?" and I turned immediately  and gave him a nice tight hug and kiss on the cheek (and then whispered to him why I hadn't). I couldn't believe it... here he is a 15 year old with all of his friends and he still didn't care if his mom hugged and kissed him goodbye...I always knew that I had a special Son, but he was even more special to me at that very moment...he totally made my day, I was smiling inside for the rest of the day!

Now he has a Beautiful wife and two Gorgeous little girls that I have the pleasure of being able to Love...Loving my grandbabies is like a Second Chance...for Anything and Everything that I feel that I may not have Done Often Enough... or Long Enough... or Good Enough, with him. I get to love my son all over again through his Precious daughters at the same time as Loving them to the Fullest. I treasure them and they treasure me...It is such an Awesome feeling to go to their home or the Kingdom Hall and hear "GLAMA!"  from across the room...as they are running to me with opened arms and a huge smile and Love in their eyes... because they are so excited to see me. So he has done it yet again... ' Made my Day ' through his daughters.

Thank you Son...For being the ' Very Best Son ' that any mother could ever dream of having!

Te Amo,

Mom

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Snow Storm

Monday, 22 December 2008 15:10 by leticia

Hello Everyone,

I hope everyone has been staying Warm and Safe! We have had quite a bit of snow here in Enumclaw, Wa. here are a few pics. of our yard we got about 12" or so. Poor Adam...Shoveling in the freezing cold.

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Portrait Sessions

Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:23 by leticia

Well, I have a few Family portrait sessions lined up for the next couple of weeks...And Matt From Doggy Snooze, contacted me again and would like to use me again, this time for his other line "Doggy Ride" so we will have that Product photo shoot next week. He is putting together a 360 degree shot of this product for his website, so I am going to shoot the same product at 72 different angles to get the effect that he is looking for. Should be interesting. Well I will keep everyone informed on any new upcoming events.~Leticia 

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Red Velvet Theatre Newsletter

Tuesday, 2 December 2008 21:17 by leticia

Red Velvet Theatre Newsletter

Newsletter Volume No.1
December 1, 2008

 

 

 

Hello Friends,

We would like to welcome you and thank you for your interest in Red Velvet Theatre. Our Grand Opening was November 28, 2008 and we had a nice little turn out...There were 13 of our Family and friends that enjoyed our Feature Presentation of Speed Racer.

It has always been a little dream of Adam's and mine, to have a theatre room in our home, we love to watch movies on Friday nights. So, I came across some old vintage theatre seats that the Port Orchard Theatre was giving away, we were able to get 22 seats and have 18 of them in our Little Theatre Room, so of course I couldn't just stop at theatre seats...I went out and got some movie posters and created a film-like decoration out of poster board to go around the walls behind the Posters, we also got a bunch of Rope lighting for the entire room as well as purchased 8 yds. of Red Velvet material  and gold trim, and made a vintage looking curtain to go behind our 67" TV. Adam bought me a little popcorn maker and a snowcone machine and as you can see in the pictures we also have a Margarator...Yum!

We didn't just want to keep all of this to ourselves, we wanted to share this with our friends and invite you over for a nice wholesome movie and a little socializing . So, we thought it would be a great idea to build a website that we could share with you, our friends...A website that would show you which movie we will be featuring that week and the time that it will begin. We hope to see you here soon and hope that your visit is as enjoyable, as it has been for us to create this little dream of ours.

Be sure to visit our website at http://www.redvelvettheatre.com/ for our next showing on Saturday December 06, 2008 around 7pm. We should have a different showing every Saturday around the same time, unless otherwise posted. We will be showing Old and newly released movies...If you have any movie suggestions, please feel free to email me with your suggestions at Leticia@LeticiaWilsonPhotography.com

Some friends have asked if there is a charge for the movie...The answer is Absolutely No! However, If you would like to make a contribution for popcorn, soda and candy you may do so, but it is not necessary... our goal is simply to enjoy your company.

The Wilson Family

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Red Velvet Theatre Grand Opening

Friday, 28 November 2008 03:31 by leticia

It has always been a little dream of mine to have a Theatre room in my home...Well I was able to get a hold of some old vintage theatre seats and turned an extra room in our house into a Theatre Room. So we are having our Grand Opening Tomorrow November 28, 2008 we will be featuring the movie "Speed Racer". We have a few friends and family members coming over to share it with us. We purchased an old fashioned Popcorn machine so we will have popcorn and soda and for the adults we will have Margaritas if they like. I will take photos of our Theatre and post them very soon. Go check out our website at http://www.redvelvettheatre.com/

 

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Gasoline $1.81 Incredible

Friday, 21 November 2008 02:48 by leticia

Gas prices down to $1.81 a gallon, I just think that is crazy... how the prices have just suddenly dropped, I guess that just goes to show how much they had unnecessarily raised the prices to begin with.

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Theatre Room

Wednesday, 19 November 2008 01:52 by leticia
I've been busy putting together my theatre room....I was able to get a hold of some vintage theatre seats (22 of them, 18 fit in our Theatre room), and I got some movie posters: Star Wars (for Adam), Gone With The Wind (me), The Notebook (me), Rocky (me), The Wizard of Oz (me), Spiderman (for Daniel), High School Musical 3 (for Finesse), Pixar~Good Guys Rule (for Danyel and Kasidy), and Tinkerbell (Danyel and Kadidy), I still need to get Holes for Finesse and Indiana Jones for Adam. I bought 8 yards of Red crushed velvet material  and gold trim and made a vintage looking movie theatre curtain to go behind our 67" TV. I got some Rope lights and everything is turning out pretty cool, I Love it! Because of the Red Crushed Velvet Curtain that I made, I am calling our Theatre Room "Red Velvet Theatre" I designed a homepage for a website in Photoshop and Adam made it happen at:  http://www.redvelvettheatre.com Now our friends can see what we are going to be watching on Saturday nights and they can join us if they want to...I will take a few pics and post them soon!

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Gasoline @ $1.99 a gallon today

Thursday, 13 November 2008 09:02 by leticia

Wow, I couldnt believe my eyes last night as I drove to a meeting and saw that the price of Gasoline was down to $1.99 a gallon...amazing!

*What is the lowest gas price in your area? I would love to hear what the prices are around the world where my friends and family live.

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McMeins Wedding at The Clise Mansion

Sunday, 26 October 2008 11:03 by leticia
Congratulations...Will and Kathy!

So I went and shot the McMeins/Paplow wedding at the Clise Mansion in Redmond, Wa. this past Saturday October 25th...My husband, Adam went as my assistant, we got there about 7pm and and stayed until around 11pm. Everything was beautiful and went smoothly, The bride and groom did something different that I had never seen before, when the Groom sat his mother she carried a bottle of green sand and placed it on a pedestal, and then he went and seated his soon to be mother in law and she carried a bottole of Tan colored sand and placed it on the pedestal and then a little into the ceremony the Reverend lady announced that the Bride and Groom would begin the Sand Ceremony, so the bride poured a little bit of the tan sand into a glass container then the Groom poured a little bit of the green sand into the same glass container, then the reverend asked them both to pour their sand into the container simultaneously as they were pouring she said that they were now one, she then took the lid and covered the glass container and said that know one could now separate them. I thought that was kinda cool. I have 4 folders of pictures to edit, I have already edited two of them. All together I took about 450 pics. I will attach a picture slide show of their wedding as soon as I am finished editing them~Later Leticia

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Getting ready for my next wedding

Thursday, 23 October 2008 01:55 by leticia
Hey everyone...just been doing more of the same and getting ready for the wedding coming up in Redmond on Saturday the 25th of this month. Going through my normal checklist making sure all my batteries are charged and getting all of my gear together, and going through the clients folder to make sure I have all of the pertinent information that I need and reviewing the checklist of all of the special shots that the couple want for me to get. I will post some shots just as soon as I shoot the wedding. I am thinking of asking my son to tag along on this wedding...he is very creative and has expressed an interest in photography, thinking I can let him tag along and see what he thinks of it, if it is something he could really be interested in...I was thinking that maybe he could start doing some videography as well and we could offer that to our clients as well. We'll see!

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Nothing new to report

Wednesday, 8 October 2008 23:21 by leticia

Well, there isn't a whole lot to report...just reading my Anatomy Book and filling Orders of large prints for a couple of my clients. I have a wedding coming up on the 25th of this month...It should be really beautiful. Adam has taken a secular job away from home, he has been doing that for about a month or so...I am not used to that yet, he was always here working from home. So he goes to his daytime job, then comes home and works on his own business at nighttime.

My Daughter-in-law and my Glama Girls are out of state visiting their great grandma...I already miss them. I do hope they are having fun though. They will be gone for 10 days, they left yesterday on Tuesday. I promised Danyel she could stay with me for a couple of days when she gets back...she has really wanted to be around me alot lately. Well, I can't wait for them to get back.

I will write more, when there is something for me to write about. Til then...take care~Leticia

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My Glama Girl Spent the Night!

Friday, 3 October 2008 16:42 by leticia

Last Saturday my Glama Girl spent the night...We had a blast!

We spent the whole day together...played outside, washed my Mustang, saw an amazing teeny tiny ant pulling this huge dead spider, so I ran in the house and grabbed my camcorder and recorded that, Danyel was amazed by it, we took a little walk to the lower half of the yard and played on the trampoline and then in the evening we BBQ'd and then when it got dark we made a little fire on the patio in the fire pit...she loved it, we sat there watching the fire and eating Peanut M&M's. then we came in to watch a movie and she fell asleep on my lap. In the middle of the night she would put her arm around me and say in her very sleepy voice "Glama I Love You"! of course I would say " I Love You Too, Glama Girl"! Needless to say...I didn't get much sleep that night, while she slept she would throw her leg on me or her arm on my face and get so close to me that was practically pushing me off of the bed ( and I have a King sized bed ), but everytime I heard the "Glama I Love You"! it made it all worthwhile.

The Love of a Grandchild is so Special. And the Love that one feels for their Grand-children is even more special...hard to explain, but it is almost like being able to show your affection to your own child all over again (through their children) as well as showing affection to your grand-child all in one so you feel Double Love for your Grandchild in a way. In a way it is kinda like having a second chance to Love your Son or daughter as a kid again. Don't know if I am explaining it so that everyone understands, but if you have Grandchildren I know you know what I am saying.

So now sometime this week I am gonna go get Kasidy the younger one she is 1 year old now, and I am gonna spend some one on one time with her now, and have her spend the night as well. Having them around always makes me feel better .

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Stock Photography

Thursday, 2 October 2008 12:37 by leticia
So I have been doing some studying (medical transcribing) and working on my stock photography as well...coming up with new ideas that will sell for the marketing industry, and getting uniforms and props together to stage stock images. I love doing Stock. And I love how I make a steady income at it even when I am not working on it...because the pictures I have submitted keep making money for me. Usually overnight is when the majority of my images sell, because they are bought by other countries, so while I sleep people are buying my images...I always wake up to a nice surprise...Sold Images!

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Photobucket

Tuesday, 30 September 2008 09:13 by leticia
I found Photobucket, by visiting my friends Blog page...Gina Newberry, and I Love it, I love their little slideshows and now they have Scrapbooking...here is a sample of one that I just made.

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Online Gallery

Tuesday, 30 September 2008 08:00 by leticia

Hi everyone...Today I am in the process of uploading all of the Family Portraits that I took for the King Family into the Client Login, I received an e-mail from Diane last night saying that she is ready to order prints now...So I am uploading 160 images, 80 in Black and white and 80 color images...she expressed an interest in B&W when I dropped off her DVD so I thought I would make all the color images in B&W as well for her to be able to decide which ones she would like in color and which ones she prefers in B&W. Then I will email her with her username and password to be able to view and add to her cart from my client login menu on my website. I will talk to yall later~Leticia

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1 Year Older Today!

Friday, 26 September 2008 09:10 by leticia
Hey everyone I am a year older today...(44)  I guess that would explain the way I have been feeling the past couple of weeks, a little down Cry.  I remember when I was a young girl and thinking that 30 sounded ancient...and now I am 44. What is weird is that the years that have hit me the most in a negative way are 31 and 44....30 didn't bug me, but when I turned 31 I felt like I had just slipped off the hill and was now heading "Downhill" and I haven't quite figured out why 44 is bugging me so much, but it is....there has been alot of things going on lately that I think has contributed to it, but hey life is what it is...it has it's Ups and Downs, and I have had my share of Downs since the age of 3, a pretty hard and tough life...however, that has made me a survivor, so these other things that have been going on are tiny in comparison. This too shall pass! Turning 44 has caused me to look at my life and reflect on everything... the good and the bad and like I said I am a survivor, I have come to the conclusion in all of this that, my blessings far outway the negative, because I survived my past...I am fully aware that this could not have been possible without Our Heavenly Father, He Loves and Cares for all of us as it says in  1 Corinthians 8: 13 "God is faithful, and he will not let YOU be tempted beyond what YOU can bear, but along with the temptation he will also make the way out in order for YOU to be able to endure it". I also realize that good in my life far outway the bad because I have great children that Love me and a husband that Cares and Loves me deeply and 2 Beautiful Glama Girls that I adore and adore me back... So I am truly blessed... I have family and friends that support me in all that I do, and THAT is PRICELESS! And I still absolutely LOVE and am passionate about my work.  Business is doing really good, when I was a little girl and through to my teen years and clear into early adulthood, I never dreamed that I would actually be making a living at what I truly love to do...with all the negativity in my young life I never thought Good things would happen to me, But I have a Career that does not feel like work, because I truly Love what I do.  I have bookings for 2009 and inquiries for 2010 already. So I am really pleased with that!  I will shake the negative thoughts...why? Because I am a Survivor...I guess 44 is not so bad. Now,  if I could only get rid of these pesty 10 lbs. I have accumulated in the past year...I'd be REAL happy Wink~Leticia 

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Yay...I finished Quiz 21!

Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:29 by leticia
Compared to doing photography...doing these 3 medical reports for quiz 21 really hurt my brain. I am totally out of Medical lingo practice...but it is starting to come back to me. So that was the Genitourinary System, now onto The Reproductive System...yay fun Undecided! I have tons of reading in my Anatomy book about the Reproductive System before I can take the practice quizes and then the practice reports and then the actual reports for Quiz 22 and then just 3 more to go Quiz 23,24,25...WooHoo!

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Now onto Medical Transcribing

Friday, 19 September 2008 11:44 by leticia

I just got back from the post office...Lisa is going to be so excited to get her package tomorrow, she has a 160 pg. Coffee Table Book coming along with (7) 8x10's and around (300) 4x6 prints and a DVD Slideshow set to music and (2) DVD's of Digital images. She has been so excited to receive them, everything just got in today, so I immediately put her whole package together and rushed it to her. I also sent Carol Brown her DVD of Digital Images.

So now I can concentrate on my Medical Transcribing...Photography is more fun, no thinking involved! But I have got to finish this schooling it is weighing on my shoulders, I have been so extremely busy with 4-5 different things going on at once. I finally was able to get to some other things, that I had been meaning to get to as well, like updating my online portfolio, uploading Carols images on her gallery and I have a ton of e-mail waiting for me to open. Now I can finally breathe a little, maybe take some much needed ME time.

Alright well, I guess that is it for now...Leticia  

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King Family Portraits

Saturday, 13 September 2008 07:52 by leticia
A few entries back I mentioned that I was going to be photographing A family portrait session with 11 family members...Well, I did that portrait session on the 30th of August, They were a wonderful family...They all looked beautiful. I just delivered their CD today and they really liked their photos and I made them a bonus DVD slideshow set to music. They said it was perfect timing for us to deliver the photos they were having another family gathering for her Mother's Birthday today, they were all due there any minute...so they would all enjoy viewing the DVD Slideshow together as a family.

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My Grand-Daughter had her tonsils removed

Thursday, 11 September 2008 04:25 by leticia

Yesterday...I was at the hospital all day...My Glama Girl had surgery to have her tonsils removed (poor baby) they were so huge they were the size of olives, you could not even see down her throat they were so large, now you can look down her throat...The actual surgery only lasted about 15 minutes, but she couldn't leave until she was coherent enough. When she first came out of the surgery she was crying hysterically, but they said it was because of the medication...It scares most kids to feel drugged up, so they wanted to see if she would calm down on her own, but she wasn't so she was given medication to calm her down, and that knocked her out, so when she woke up the first scary medication had worn off...thank goodness!  But then she was having trouble swallowing her own saliva, however later in the car on the way home she got her cereal container and got out a dry cereal and chewed it and swallowed it with no problem at all, then she fell asleep, then on the home we stopped at McDonalds, and she ate a chicken nugget and french fries, and a popsicle, she is doing fantastic. Poor thing. I gave her the rest of the gifts that I had bought her, before the surgery I gave her a Jumbo princess coloring book and crayons, the coloring book also had a few page of princess stickers...she is a total sticker queen, if you want to be her best friend get her stickers. It is a phase she is going through, just loves them!  So after her surgery I gave her the rest of her gifts: A book of over 1,200 stickers, a "Don't Tickle Elmo Game" ( it is a kids version of "Operation") helps with coordination, and I got her a cute singing card that says something like "I dont want to hear your feeling 'So So' or 'Not Bad' or 'Just Okay'...then you open the card and it sings the James Brown Song... " I feeeeeeel Good" and the card reads on and says "Thats what I want to hear" She loved the card. I am so glad she is doing okay.

This morning she called me and said "Thank you for my card Ama" How sweet is that? I told her I was gonna go visit her later in the day she said "Otay" she sounds like one of the Little Rascals, so when she says "Otay", I usually say "Otay Buckwheat", she then says "I not Buttwheat" then I say "Otay"

***I just got back from visiting my Glama Girl...and she was sleeping and it was time for her medication, so I got to wake her up I layed next to her in her bed, and she opened her eyes and jumped to my arms and layed on me, what a sweetheart! She said " I Love You"   Gosh, I LOVE that lil girl! Kasidy my Glama Baby was sleeping so I let her sleep. So I could spend one on one time with Danyel. Okay later~Leticia

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Finesse is a Sweetheart

Tuesday, 9 September 2008 22:52 by leticia
Finesse got her 2nd paycheck last week, and she insisted on buying everyone something with it...she says she has always wanted to buy us things with her own money, and never could, so now she was so excited to give people gifts...She got Adam some Dockers and 2 nice (Polo type) shirts for his new job that he just started last week, and she got daniel a Jet Li playstation game (that he loves by the way and stayed up til 1 in the morning playing the day he got it) and she got Kasandra the new Carrie Underwood "Carnival Ride" CD she had been wanting, and she got Danyel the Disney Movie "Aristocats". And my gift hasn't arrived yet, she is so excited for me to get it. I will post pics later~Leticia

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Update

Tuesday, 9 September 2008 16:49 by leticia

Well, I don't have any weddings in September...so this month I am working on post production of the weddings I had in August, just 1 more wedding to finish up. My next wedding is in October. Meanwhile, I am going to concentrate on my Medical Transcribing...I was almost finished...when Wedding Season hit, so I did not have time to study for a few months...I only have 5 more quizes to go, and then I will earn my degree...I am in the process of typing my 2nd of the 3 Medical Quiz Reports for this Unit, then I will only need 4 more quizes to graduate...Yay! ( each quiz contains approximately 3-4 reports to transcribe) My plans have always been to do Medical Transcribing and Portrait work on the "Off  Wedding Seasons" as a means of supplementary income. But when Wedding season hits, around March or April through to August, it is all about Weddings... no time for anything else. I am already getting booked for  2009 Weddings. I can't wait for my next Group of Bride and Grooms, I always walk away feeling like they have made me a part of their extended family...they make me feel right at home and like I am a family member not just their photographer. It's an awesome feeling...to gain so many new friends.

   

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Daniel and Kasandra's Housewarming Party!

Saturday, 6 September 2008 22:07 by leticia

Daniel and Kasandra had a Housewarming party on the 31st of August! It was fun they got alot of much needed things for the kitchen...I got them a nice Big decorative wall mirror that Daniel really wanted. I took it to their house the night before the party and gave it to them so that they could hang it and make their house look even nicer for the party. I will attach a few photos on this blog... Oh! I got them a cake too, didn't come out exactly as it was supposed to, but it was still pretty cute.

 I want to also take this time to Thank everyone for the gifts you got my kids...it is a really big help to them in their new home! Once again Thank you from Daniel's Mom~Leticia

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Camping with my sister Pauline

Sunday, 17 August 2008 20:37 by leticia

Hey its been a while since I've written anything...been busy editing 3 weddings, Just one more to go. And then tomorrow I have another wedding and the weekend after that as well, and then on the 30th I have a Family Portrait Session for a family of 11.  So I finished editing one of the weddings and then took a much needed break and went camping with my sister Pauline and her husband Rick and their grandson Luke. It was so much fun...Finesse had been begging me to go camping for 3 years, since we moved to WA. state. So finally we were able to go. We left on a Thursday...went and picked up Pauline and Luke and drove about an hour and a half to Big Creek National Forest, near Lake Cushman. It was a nice drive and I really enjoyed visiting with Pauline. Then we got to the campsite...and it was pretty empty so we had our pick of campsites...we couldn't decide, there were 2 that we loved so I finally just said to Pauline " you and Adam decide" so they did. I loved it. so Adam and Pauline set up Lukes little tent and then took out our food from the van, then we all took a little stroll to the creek and spent some time there talking and watching Luke play and throw rocks into the water. then we started to head back to the campsite and when we got there Rick was there taking his canoe off of his pop-up camper trailer, so Adam helped him.  And Pauline and I got started on putting up the big tent that Adam and I and Finesse would be sleeping in...we did a good job all by ourselves, it was fun! Then we built a campfire and started dinner, and sat by the fire, then we went to Lake Cushman to visit Rick's brother at his campsite...we sat around their fire for awhile and then came back to ours and sat around talking for awhile and then we all went to bed. Rick stayed in Luke's little tent and Pauline had the pop-up camper all to herself.

The next morning we got up had coffee, sat around the campfire...read the daily text, had our breakfast, did dishes, then we went over to John and Jody's campsite again...John ( rick's brother) has a Speedboat, so Adam and I rode in it and watched John's daughter and friend being pulled on the innertube. I couldn't resist I wanted to get on so bad, Adam got on first ( which really surprised us all because is afraid of water) so he was on the inner tube as we pulled out and then by the time we were returning it was me being pulled on it...I just had to get on. It was so much fun! I really got thrashed around on it...I rode the waves from side to side and got bounced around so much, a few times the innertube was atleast 2ft. off of the water and I was about a foot off the innertub, down I came onto the tube, and then down we both came onto the water...very hard, but very fun! When I first got on the tube...John took off too slow so I went down like a submarine...deep into the water, kinda scared me at first, so I finally realized "Okay let go of the  handles so that you'll float up" so I did. I got back on it and had lots of fun. then on the ride back in to the launching site...Jonh slowed down so fast that I went down again...in front of everyone Pauline, Rick, Jody, Finesse they all laughed and so did I. that is what I get for getting up on my knees and extending my arms like I was flying...the next thing I knew I was in the water again.  We got out of the boat and sat by the water visiting and drying up.

Then we went back to the campsite started a fire, started dinner and sat by the fire, started to rain, so we moved the chairs and stuff underneath the pop up trailer, then went to bed. Next morning we did the same thing as the previous morning...Coffee, campfire, daily text, breakfast, Oh! we all had the Wathtower Study, Rich conducted it...I really enjoyed the study then we did dishes, then we went for a ride while it was raining...Pauline and Rick showed us other campsites that they have stayed at before and we took a little hike. Then we got back started a campfire, started dinner, ate and sat around campfire...it started to rain again we started to put the chairs away again...Pauline hurt her finger pretty bad, she smashed it between a log and the pic nic table as she was throwing the log under the table. It bleed pretty bad and wouldn't stop, we finally got it to stop, it got swollen really fast and turned black and blue I cleaned it out with peroxide and put neosporine on it and bandaged it up. and then we all went to bed. The next morning we did our same morning routine...Started to break camp to get ready to leave by 2pm. A friend of Rick's came by to visit his name is Rick too, he and his daughter came. So he helped us too, as his 4 year old daughter played with Luke (luke is 6). Then we headed home Luke rode with us and we watched "The Incredibles" on my portable DVD player then we stopped at an Ice Cream place and had some pretty awesome icecream. Then we got to Paulines and said our goodbyes. Then we went to Daniel and Kasandra's to see the kids ( I missed them so much) and Kasandra made us dinner. We found out that Roselie Poggensee had hurt herself the day we left for camping and that she had broke 3 little bones in the tip of her index finger on her left hand, so we called her and made arrangement to stop by and see them the next day. After dinner I got on the floor and rolled around with the kids and let them crawl all over me and played and hugged and loved on them before we left. It was a Fantastic Weekend and and gettaway. I will post pics. soon. Okay well back to editing pics. 1 more wedding to go before my next wedding tomorrow.

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Lisa and Daniel's Slideshow and other Wedding Updates

Thursday, 7 August 2008 06:47 by leticia

Just a little update on what has been happening...I just finished Julie and Karl's Wedding photos, the couple that just got married on August 1, 2008 in Ocean Shores, I have posted all of my favorite photos on my website...go check them out http://www.leticiawilsonphotography.com/  I did a wedding on Saturday the 16h of this month...at Monte Villa Farmhouse in Bothell, Wa. It was Gorgeous! and I received a very warm, and encouraging e-mail from the bride last night. I will share it with you...here it is:

Hey there,
 
I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU for the wonderful job you did.  I know things at the wedding were totally not what was supposed to be..  My poor brother was running around with his head cut off.  Thank goodness it was mostly all familia..  You fit right in... lol  I was just so tired and couldn't wait till the thing was over. 
 
I wanted to let you know that we had some compliments on the photographer...  haha  They said it was really cool of you to get on the ground and that you are not afraid to get dirty.  Also, my 2 cousins are getting married, one this November apparently and one next year.  I have already given them your information and hope that they will contact you.  I am so excited to see the photos!!  My family took 500 pictures combined and my brother made me a DVD with music of all the pictures.  The colors were absolutely amazing!!! I can't wait to see yours.  Thanks again Leticia for the hard work you did, especially on the hottest day of the year.. Can you belive that??  Now look at the weather.. we really lucked out I guess..  We really enjoyed you and your husband and are very glad that we chose you.  We will definitely recommend you to anyone and everyone.  I hope to hear back from you soon. 

Always,
           Lisa

 

 

So I think that catches us up on what is happening.  Oh! wait just found out yesterday that my Grand baby, Danyel (2yrs old) is going to have her tonsils removed they are Super enlarged and have been for some time, but she feels no pain so her pediatrician said to just let it go they would eventually go down, however, Kasandra just took her to an E.N.T. specialist and he said they are as large as tonsils can get, they are touching her Uvula (the little thing in the back of your throat that hangs down) and should come out immediately, she could stop breathing during sleep, So she will be getting that surgery done soon, and will have to stay in the hospital for a couple of days so that they can moniter her breathing and fluid intake, they say that it hurts to drink/swallow afterward, and that adults will do it if told to by the doctor to help them get better...even though it is painful, But that children often wont drink because of the pain, so if that happens and Danyel doesn't want to swallow, they will have to submit an IV with fluids for her.

So Okay, Now I think that catches us up! Whew Undecided ~Leticia

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Carol and Steve's Wedding Day August 23, 2008

Tuesday, 5 August 2008 20:39 by leticia
Well, I just got back from shooting Carol and Steve's Wedding...they are the couple whose Engagement Portraits I took a couple of months back. It was a Beautiful day, in the low 80's. I went to Carol's house to take portraits of them and of her and his family, then we headed to the Place of the Ceremony. Then we went into the Reception area...and got lots of great shots. Here are two of the Portraits that I took at her house. I will post the other shots in their Gallery on my website, when I am finished editing them.

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Ocean Shores Wedding (August 1, 2008)

Sunday, 3 August 2008 23:34 by leticia
Wow...Julie was a very beautiful bride! Karl and Julie are a very nice couple, they had a beach front wedding ceremony at Ocean Shores and it was gorgeous. I really had alot of fun photographing their wedding...I was able to get some creative fun shots. here are a few for now, and I will post more on my website when I am finished with post-production...could be a few weeks, because I am still editing 2 other weddings besides this one.

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June and Les ~ Mt. Rainier Wedding

Wednesday, 30 July 2008 17:54 by leticia

I had so much fun photographing June and Les's Wedding yesterday (July 28, 2008). They are from Hawaii and wanted to get married at Mt. Rainier. They were such a loving couple...The Love just eminated from them, it is couples like them that make me Enjoy and Love my job. They were so very sweet. We all met at Sunrise Visitor Center up at Mt. Rainier, I arrived at 4:30pm everyone else got there about 5pm,  Gina Newberry and her husband Jack, and June and Les and her sister and brother-in-law and her two nephews.  They are such a cute couple, Les shared with me ..."I am so nervous" So I hung around them while Gina did the paperwork...cause I could see that the longer they waited the more nervous they were getting, so I just made conversation with them to help ease their nerves, and I took some shots of them waiting around and Gina had some Bouquets and Boutiniers for them so I took shots of them getting the boutiniers on the men. As I was conversing with them I asked them why they chose to get married at Mt. Rainier, and they shared their beautiful story with me.  Before Les met June, June and her sister and her sisters family had come to Mt. Rainier on vacation ( in 1986), and June fell in love with it. She had a picture of herself taken at Sunrise Point with the mountain behind her, and then when she met Les she gave him that picture of her, and he loved it and treasured it and kept it with him always. And then in 2006 when he proposed he brought her to Mt. Rainier and prior to his proposal he scouted the area to find the exact angle of where that picture of June was taken...and he got down on one knee and proposed to her. How sweet is that? So that is why Mt. Rainier is the obvious choice for their wedding. It all came full circle. He also shared with me that he wanted to re-inact the proposal and have a picture taken of them in their wedding attire. So anyway by the time he finished sharing their story...I was misty eyed and my voice was shakey, I am way to emotional of a person! 

So by that time the paperwork was finished...and they decided that they wanted the ceremony to take place in the meadow by the hills because there were some very beautiful wild flowers on the hill, So we all walked over there, and got into place and the ceremony began...Les was all smiles all through the ceremony, they were both so very happy. About 5 minutes into the ceremony we had some Park Rangers pull up to the side of the road where we were, they just stood there staring at us for about 5 minutes, then we heard them telling one of June's nephews that we were not allowed on the meadow...so Adam ran down there to talk to them, and they told him " We won't stop the ceremony, but there are signs posted all throughout indicating that no one is allowed on the meadow because they are trying to preserve the wild flowers, so they said we had to hurry and wrap it up" so anyway we didn't skip a beat, Gina kept on with the ceremony ( she didn't know what was happening at all, because her back was to the road...she just noticed that the bride and groom were a little distracted) I kept on shooting and getting the shots, Jack kept on video taping and the ceremony was over about 10 minutes later. So then we all headed down the hill and to the Park Rangers as they "Clapped and Congratulated the couple, and then proceeded to tell us the same thing that they told Adam. They told us that it was also stated on the wedding permit. After the Park rangers left we had a big laugh about it and Les and June thought it was great that we got pictures of the Park Rangers, so then we took some portrait shots, and at first they had two spots in mind for the ceremony and couldn't decide on one, so I told them which ever place they decided on we would have the ceremony there, and then afterwards go to the second choice and take portraits there, so that is what we did...we walked a different trail ( not on the meadow; ) up to a different part of the hill where the Mt. would be right behind them and got some awesome shots. There were a swarm of Mosquitos just eating us alive, but we didn't let that deter us. we kept on going and got some great pics. Then we headed down the hill, because Gina and Jack had already left to hold the table at the Alpine Inn Restaurant, where they had a reservation. However, before we headed to the restaurant we found the exact location of where that picture of June was taken and where Les proposed to her and we got beautiful pictures there, once again.

As we were driving to the Restaurant....we noticed a Park Rangers vehicle following us so Les ( who was driving in front of us) slowed down, so we slowed down, and the Rangers followed us for about 2 miles then as we were leaving Mt. Rainier Park, they turned their lights on...so Adam thought we were getting pulled over for speeding, but they did not pull up behind us, they kept following Les, so he then pulled over and of course I got pictures of that...I felt so bad, first the park rangers at the ceremony now they get pulled over, I thought "Oh, I hope they don't get a ticket on their wedding day" and then I said to Adam "maybe they will just give them a warning, when they see them in their tux and wedding dress" Well we all got out and they didn't get a ticket they just wanted to see their wedding permit, which they didn't have...Gina had it with her at the restaurant. But since we were all there... Les wanted me to take a picture of the Ranger with him and June, I told him I had already gotten some, but that I would take more, I asked the Park Ranger if he would point at the couple as if to scold them, he said " Oh! I can't do that to them now" I said "Oh come on just in fun" so he did. and then I took a nice picture of them just standing next to each other. Les thought it was fantastic. He just took it all in stride and didn't let anything bother him. He had shared with me earlier during the portraits " This is a first wedding for both of us...we both waited our whole lives for the Right Person" so hey he is married to the love of his life, he was so Happy and wasn't letting anything get him down! They are so IN LOVE!

So finally we get to the restaurant, and share the story with everyone else, and everyone had a nice time eating, visiting and sharing stories and having conversation. As if not enough had gone wrong, Gina had shared with me earlier in the day at  Mt. Rainier that on the way over to the ceremony the cake had started to melt and the top part of it had slid off, and didn't look as it was supposed to...so she was horrified and took it to the restaurant earlier as soon as she could, and they assured her that they could work with it and make it look better. So when the cake came out... they had worked their magic and made it look beautiful they put freshly sliced strawberries to cover up any mishaps. After dinner June and Les cut the cake and signed their certificate...They gave Gina and I a gift to thank us for making their day so special...that was such a sweet gesture. And that pretty much ended the evening we left them to enjoy the beginning of the rest of their lives together...they were going to go on a 30 day Alaskan cruise for their honeymoon. How awesome does that sound?

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Dana and Rick's Wedding

Monday, 28 July 2008 23:58 by leticia

Well, it was another Beautiful wedding...We started off at "Impressions" Full Service Salon in Renton, WA. and I got some really awesome shots of the Bridal party getting their hair and Makeup done, they had fun! Then Adam and I grabbed a quick bite to eat...and then headed to "Maplewood Golf Course" I got more "Getting Ready Shots" of the girls getting their dresses on, their dresses were beautiful, they were a pretty green. While Adam Got shots of the Groom and Groomsmen getting ready. Then the Ceremony began, which was very lovely, The Grooms Brother (Mitchell)  married them then we took Portraits and ate, followed by dancing and fun. I am posting a portrait...there will be more to follow, but probably not til next week because I have another wedding tomorrow ( Monday the 28th at Mt. Rainier)

 

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Daniel and Kasandra are moving into their own place

Saturday, 26 July 2008 19:46 by leticia

Yesterday July 23rd, Dane showed up at Daniel's work and told him that a couple from our hall, were desperately looking for someone to live in their home cause they are moving out of state (Oklahoma) and leaving Today. So they had offered Dane the house but Dane, said " Thanks, but I know someone that needs the house more than I do" and he went to Daniels work to let him know, They were offering Dane the house for only $400/mo. because he is only 18 and doesn't make alot of money...So Daniel came home and checked the address on mapquest and headed over there to meet with Brother and Sister Evans, and they said that it was an answer to their prayers and Daniel of course says that it is an answer to his prayers as well, to finally be out on his own and provide  a home for his little family. So they are going to rent it to him for only $700 and if that gets to be too much they are willing to consider lowering the rent for them, that is a very generous offer...it isn't even half of their mortgage, and they are also willing to throw in a "Rent to Own"option in the future. So it is a wonderful little starter home and really cute, 3 bdrm., 1 ba., about 1,200-1,500 sq. ft. and it has a large fully fenced in yard with a hot tub.  I will post a picture of it later. So they are over there right now cleaning the place, they are getting the first month free...so that they can clean and put alot of the stuff left behind in the shed for them and also steam clean the carpet for them.  So I am very happy for Daniel, I know that that is what he has always wanted... His own house. I am proud of him!

One Happy For My Son... MOM!

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Recuperating from another wedding

Friday, 18 July 2008 03:26 by leticia

I just shot another wedding on Saturday, July 12th. in Preston, WA. It was a very beautiful wedding...her colors were Red and White,  Melisa and Chris got married outdoors in a lovely gazebo, they had around 50 or so guests, they were a fun crowd and very helpful and friendly. Believe it or not it takes me a couple of days to recuperate physically from a wedding, all the stooping, and holding the same position for a long time, squating and rising, really takes a toll on your back, shoulders, thighs and Of course I wear heels when I go anywhere, so the soles of my feet are killing me. But I also bring my little step ladder and get up on that so that I can be at eye level and at times above eye level when I want them looking up at me. You wouldn't think that being a photographer and releasing a shutter button would take such a toll on you, I am not complaining by any means,just aching Wink.

Well, I am in the process of editing the shots I took...I shot over 1,000 frames. and have only edited a couple hundred so far. Here is a sample of some of the shots. I will post more on my website under "Melisa and Chris" when I am finished with them and after I have given the CD to my clients.

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Finesse Started her New Job Today!

Wednesday, 16 July 2008 01:43 by leticia

A couple of weeks ago we discovered the Enumclaw Library...The city of Enumclaw built a Monument of Oxen pulling a big huge log, as a tribute to the loggers of Enumclaw, I guess this is a logging community. Well, Adam and I stopped to check out the monument, it is really cool, and we saw the Enumclaw Library directly behind it. And we love Libraries...especially Finesse. So we went home and told Finesse that we had found a Library in town...So we went and got library cards, while signing up for them I asked the lady at the counter " Hey, are you hiring by chance?" and she said: " Yes, we just put an ad in the Paper today" I said " Oh my daughter Finesse here, has always wanted to work at a library" she said "How old are you?" Finesse said "17 in a couple of weeks" she said " let me get you an application" so we got our cards, then we walked around a bit and I got some Photography books, and then we went home.  That next morning we took Finesse back to the library so she could drop off her application ( we told her to take it promptly the next morning...it would look good for her, that she was very prompt and serious about working there). I also told her to ask for Leigh the lady that handed her the app. because she said she was the one in charge of doing the hiring, so I told her to ask for her, so that she would know that Finesse brought it in, just as she said she would, bright and early the next morning. They called her a few days later for an interview, and she went later that day. But before she did, I typed out a few popular interview questions that are usually asked , so that she would have an idea what to expect. I also typed out some good questions to ask, in case they asked her if she had any questions. She went to her interview, she said she wasn't even nervous, said it went well. However, then she was a wreck waiting to see if she got the job or not, they said they would be letting her know at the end of the week. They called her a few days later and said that the Job was hers if she wanted it. We had tip-toed downstairs when we saw on the caller ID that it was the Library calling her, so that we could eavesdrop on the conversation, I couldn't hear what she was saying... she didn't say much, but I ran to my studio to get my camera, because my gut told me she would get the job, and I wanted to capture the exact moment that she told us that she got it. I pressed the shutter button just as she was saying "I Got"...and then, Click! Isn't that an Awesome Picture? Talk about a "Captured Moment!"So today was her first day of training...I am so proud of her. I am posting the picture I took at the exact moment that she told us "I Got The Job"

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THANK YOU!

Friday, 11 July 2008 10:28 by leticia

Hey everyone...I want to take this time to Thank all the couples that I have met recently, It has truly been a pleasure to meet each and every one of you and to be given the honor of Capturing your Very Special Wedding Stories. I can promise you that I do not take this responsibility lightly, as I was telling my new friend Gina, my clients don't just get me as a photographer you are getting my heart as well, I am very passionate about my work...and you will continue to get 100% from me.

I want to Thank My Most Recent Family for thier Family Portrait Session:

* Becci and Christian Keays and their children Killian and Oliver 

I also want toThank my most recent Engagement Portrait Couple:

* Carol and Steve ( June 24, 2008 )

 As well as my most recent photographed Wedding Couple:

* Kim and Mike ( June 28, 2008 Enumclaw, WA. Wedding)

And my Upcoming Wedding Couples:

* Melisa and Chris ( July 12, 2008 Preston, WA. Wedding)

* Dana and Rick ( July 26, 2008 MapleWood Greens Golf Course~Renton WA.Wedding)

* June and Les ( July 28, 2008 Mt. Rainier Wedding)

* Julie and Karl ( August 1, 2008 Ocean Shores, WA.Wedding)

* Lisa and Daniel ( August 16, 2008 Bothell, WA. Wedding)

* Carol and Steve ( August 23, 2008 Enumclaw, WA. Wedding)

* Will and Kathy ( October 25, 2008 The Clise Mansion~Redmond, WA. Wedding)

Once again it has been a pleasure to meet you all,  Thank you for believing in my Art/Photography and I look forward to being a part of your Magical Day!

~Leticia Wilson

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Carol and Steve's Wedding Invitation

Sunday, 6 July 2008 00:16 by leticia
Carol just e-mailed me her wedding invitation she wrote:

Hi Leticia,

Thought you'd like to see the first sample my daughter-in-law came up with using your expert ideas of pictures for an invitation. We are also very excited that you will be doing our wedding! Hopefully I can send this correctly.  Let me know if you don't receive it from this try.

Carol

 I thought you would be interested in seeing it as well, I think it came out really nice. ~Leticia

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