Homeshade Photography is currently looking for High School seniors c/o 2010 to represent us!

What is a senior rep?

A senior rep is a photogenic student with an outgoing personality; and one who displays a positive attitude.
You MUST be comfortable in front of the camera. 

Senior reps will head out with me {Tasha} on a fun photoshoot at one of these locations: downtown, through Discovery Green Park, in a great woodsy area, the beach; or whatever cool location we can come up with.  Up to 3 outfit changes will be allowed. 

You will receive senior rep cards with your images and my information on them prior to the school year starting.  In the first weeks of school, you will wear a Homeshade Photography tee-shirt that i promise will be cool, and you will pass out your senior rep cards.

Whats in it for you???

-You will receive a complementary session with me {Tasha Pool}, and i will design some sweet Rep cards with your images. 
-Your mom will receive 15% off of all images purchased
-You will receive watermarked images from your session to share on myspace and facebook
and the best incentive of all…..
-YOU will receive a $25.00 visa gift card OR 50.00 credit towards your own pictures for all referred sessions that book their senior portraits with me.

doesn’t this all sound SO exciting????

How to enter!

I am looking for at least {2} senior reps per high school in the Deer Park, Pasadena, LaPorte, Clear Lake, Clear Creek, Friendswood, League City and the Pearland areas.

email me the following at tasha@homeshadephotography.com and title the email senior rep 2010 please.
Name:
Age:
Address:
Phone Number:
Graduation Year:
High School:
High School activities:
Other Activities:
Recent Photo of yourself:
and most importantly….
Why you think you would make a good senior rep!  here is your chance to sell yourself.

if you know anyone who may be interested in this.. please send them to my blog at www.homeshade.com

i have been wanting to update for awhile.. but my husband was redesigning my blog.. so i thought i should wait.  however.. he hasnt been able to finish it yet.. so here i am.

this is just a quick update to let you all know that i have updated my availability to the blog calendar until June.  so, if you are looking for a date.. i will do my best to keep the calendar updated as clients book.

have a great night.

Tasha

many of my local blog readers know who this family is. 
she is a sweet friend of mine.. and local photographer; glenna harding.  you should check out her site… www.glennahardingphotography.com  she does weddings.  i do not!  LOL 
if you request a wedding from me.. you get referred to her.  simple as that. 

she and her husband are our worship leaders.  they are great at what they do.  today.. as baby Sam was being remembered, they did a beautiful job regaining their composure and singing songs of worship and praise to our God.  i dont know how they had the strength today.. but they did.  they are very close friends to Eric and Taunie; my friend who lost her baby.  Glenna photographed his birth. 

it pains me to think of how many people were affected so deeply by Sam’s passing.  Eric and Taunie; naturally.  their other 2 children.  my friends Marisa and Wade.  Marisa is Taunie’s cousin.  but, they are more like sisters.  Glenna, having been there to witness Sam being born.  Joy, the OB who delivered Sam.  she is a personal friend to many of us in the church.. and cheerfully delivers soo many of Sagemont’s babies.  i stood by her at the graveside today.. wondering how she is doing?  to see a baby she delivered being buried so soon. 

anyway.  so.. today was obviously a sad day.  many tears were shed.  we all weeped with the family and will continue to do so for awhile i am sure.  as well as pray.  lots of prayers are needed for them in the coming weeks. 

please commit to pray for them…

with a heavy heart.. i will continue to talk about this great family.  if you have read my blog for awhile.. you may remember me lamenting over the fact that i had 2 friends due on Dec. 20 last year.. but both delivered before my due date.. Dec. 15.  well, glenna was one of those friends.  she had her sweet boy on the 2nd or 3rd of Dec.  i dont remember exactly which date.. but i do remember being tired of all of the “can you believe Glenna went before you?”‘s.  then, my friend Crystin who i will blog about soon went before me.. and i waited until AFTER their due dates to have Jax… 7 days overdue.  *sigh*

it was funny.  i was out shopping for our clothing for the family pictures that did not happen for us.. and i ran into glenna shopping.  we both ended up buying our babies the same vest to wear.  it is pretty cute.. dont ya agree?

this is my favorite image simply because the baby has his head thrown back in laughter and i just love it.

the boys are obviously jokesters.

they obviously love each other.  deeply.  i was walking behind glenna today and aric was standing with his back to us as we walked towards him.. and as if he just sensed her.. he reached his hand out to her.  i thought it was so sweet.. how he just knew when she needed him.

they liked my suckers.  once we brought them out.. all of the pictures had them in it.  LOL
it was freeeeeezing the day we shot.. so i lucked out with them bringing her rad red peacoat.  wouldnt ya say? 

i know Glenna loves her pictures.  she tells me every chance she gets.  that is a good feeling for me.  so.. i hope you enjoyed their little family as well. 

thanks glenna for letting me photograph your clan.  you are all so precious!
it is sweet, tender spirits like yours that remind me that there are truly authentic people left in today’s world.  she is one of the most real, sugary sweet people i know.

i didnt plan to post a NEW YEAR post.. mostly because i am not one to believe in starting resolutions. i dont give in to the ‘new year’ phenomenon.. it isnt a fresh start for me.  it is just another year bringing us closer to being with God.

we usually dont even stay up for new year.. but this year we did because the bestie and her clan came and spent the night.  we had a blast.. until the stomach bug hit.  then we had puking over here, bathroom hogging over there.. and we thought.. ‘geez.. what a great way to start out the new year’  LOL

in reality.. this has been one of the best times of my entire year.  the kids were home.. we have done soooo many fun things.  a good friend was in town from California.. her daughter and my daughter are very close.. and we were able to enjoy her for a full week straight.  we heated the pool.. had a ton of girls over here swimming.. lots of friends in and out all week.  a great girl’s night that totally lifted my spirits with old friends.. some in from out of town that we havent seen since last year.  all in all, it was such a good week. 

until last night.  a friend that we just had dinner with on MOnday for girl’s night had her world turned upside down.  so, i come to my faithful blog readers and ask for prayer.  her sweet, precious 5 month old son died last night.  they are hurting.  i ask that each of you pray for God to show them His love, His grace, His mercy and His healing touch.  i ask you to pray for their extended family who are mourning with them.  i ask that you pray for finances for the funeral to be met, that all needs leading up to the funeral be met and for clarity in thinking while making all of these decisions.  i ask that you pray for godly people to be in control of all interactions leading up to the funeral and that everyone has the right words to comfort them. 

i think back to almost 11 years ago when Michael and I had to bury our first born son.. and all of the confusion and shock that led up to it.  i barely remember much of it.. but what i do remember was confusion.  no clarity in what we were actually doing.  of course, we were much younger than Eric and Taunie.. but it is all so fuzzy.  i am just so thankful that they have something we did not.  a huge church family that loves them like crazy.  a church family who is with them every step of the way.  I am thankful to be a part of the family. 

today in worship, russell commented that new year’s resolutions rarely measured up.  and he summarized my thoughts into words; as he often does.  we cant say ‘I’ am going to do this or ‘I’ am going to do that this year.  because we are not capable of doing ANYTHING without God.  we think we can.  some dont believe in God and say they can.  but, in reality.. they are jaded.  even if you dont realize God has a hand in it, He does.  before Michael and I were Christians.. we put no thought of God into anything we did or said.  now, as i look back on our life… it is sooooo evident that He was in it.  He is the reason i am successful in life; given the circumstances i grew up in.  He is the reason Michael and i ended up together.. because i tried to painfully self sabotage everything.. but God knew we were meant to be together.. and as hard as i made it.. He kept us together.  He was there when our baby died.  He was there.. planting seeds at his funeral.  He was there with open arms when i FINALLY was able to see it all. 

i pray that Eric and Taunie feel His love and peace through out this entire ordeal.  while we do not understand WHY things happen.. we have to trust that He is in control.  He does know why things happen and we just have to praise Him through our storms.  it is so easy to say I am blessed when things are going well.  it is so easy to praise Him when things are how we want them to be.  but it is times like these that with hurting hearts… we still have to say “i trust You!”  and “i praise You”  because ultimately.. we cannot make it without Him. 

Please join me in praying for the Paquin family.  they have 2 other daughters they need to be strong for.  the baby they lost is named Sam. 

Thank you all!

Tasha