Anita got a little emotional during her time with Jason.

Thank you for invting me into this moment of your life. I can’t wait to get the call to do your return photos.  Which, if all goes well, I get to photograph another family later this week who is returning home.  Watch the blog for news.

I haven’t been posting over the holidays but I’ve been busy.  My first project for 2009 is a new website for my family portraits.  My wedding and family portraits are two seperate businesses and I felt my families needed their own portfolio.  So take a look at the new portrait portfolio for maternity, newborn, families, seniors and pets.  JSPfamily.com

JSPfamily.com

I’m totally in love with the song I found for the new portfolio - it’s “Good Life” by Lily Wilson.  It just says what I want to say if I could write like that and I adore artists that make their music available for small businesses like me so go and check her out - maybe we can get her to visit one of the awesome music venues in Lyons.

Watch the blog for some oplove photo shoots I have coming up and if you know anyone that got engaged over the holidays I do have some 2009 dates open and I would love to meet them.

Wishing you a Happy and Healthy 2009!

Santa from one of many winery visits, sax gator from a New Year’s Eve in New Orleans.

Our First Christmas ornament next to a photo from our wedding.

Another tradition, the annual cookie exchange. Last weekend many of our neighbors and friends came over to celebrate at our cookie exchange. Everyone brings 2-3 dozen cookies to share. Everyone leaves with a mixed bag of cookies. I just love the variety of cookies - and the hot spiced wine.

What are your holiday traditions?  If you don’t have any then as a newly wed, about to be wed or a new mom, now is the perfect opportunity to start your own traditions and stories.

Look at this classroom - doesn’t it make you want to study and learn?

I loved the rule boards posted throughout the center.  This is a photo of only one corner in the computer lab.

Aspiring artist displays and my favorite rule board.

A plaque being presented to commemorate years of hard work and a wonderful result.

Brave souls endure the Colorado snow for the official ribbon cutting.

If you are interested any of the three organizations that were instrumental in the building of the Broadway East Community Center contact them now and see how you can help.  Here are the links again Boulder Housing Partners, St. John’s Foundation, and the “I Have a Dream” Foundation.  I encourage you to find the charitable organization that is near and dear to your heart and help in any way that you can.

The guests of honor at the Lyons parade - Mr. and Mrs. Claus.

I don’t know if having a birthday the week after Thanksgiving is a blessing or curse. Another year has passed for me and it is always at the beginning of the holiday season and the end of the year, because of this my birthday always set off a season of reflection for me.  I’ll be thinking a lot about these photo memories and my life in the coming weeks - reviewing the past and planning for the future.  Does this time of year cause you to reflect too?

I’ve been working on this project for a few months and am thrilled to unveil the new design. A logo is the main item that defines a company and becomes a recognizable symbol of that entity. I wanted something that represented who we are at JSP. My old logo was OK but something I threw together myself. The new logo was designed with the help of Anne at AG Creative Design and she did a fantastic job. The new logo is elegant, classic, and calming. It also contains the blue flower in the design which is an important symbol for me.

Blue Flowers are very rare and were a popular motif of Romantic poetry. The hero of Novalis’ novel “Heinrich von Ofterdingen” (1802) dreams of a blue flower instilling momentous yearning in his soul. Novalis’ poetic symbolism of the color blue is perceived by the reader intuitively: thinking of the color blue brings about a dreamlike yearning and produces both a feeling of calmness and of security.   Blue Flowers are also a symbol of valued friendship.

So without further ado, I present our new logo - drum roll please…..