couple pics

this was a picture i took for my father-in-law…he had a big hand in the development of this ball field in little rock so my wife thought it would be a great idea to take a picture and give it to him for christmas…

this was the final shot we gave him…

Lamar Porter

and this shot is just a quick picture i took right before christmas…(yeah i know…im a little late in posting it)

Bokeh

This Weekend…

i sang at a wedding

tim and katy wedding

and had a birthday party…(for me)…of course i saw this as an opportunity to use my ring flash on another test run…

daniel

rick

natalie

nate and nat

the next post will be on update on the church!
(so stay tuned!)

kimmie

(my wife’s pretty…)

Honeymoon

Thanks for the congrats everyone!

well i said i would post some pictures from our honeymoon in cancun…
so here they are…

(i don’t really have a lot of really good shots…it was so humid there…and so cold in our room…that it would take almost 30 minutes for my camera to defog every time i wanted to take it out to take some shots…so i’m only posting few of my favorites)

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job

us

…

(she’s hot!)

beach

room

and here’s a quick pic tyler sent me the other day…

guys

what jump is the funniest to you?
(ha)

Hitched!

here it is…my first post as a married man!
(and being married sure is great…i’m loving it!)

i have a few shots from the wedding (i didn’t take them, obviously) that my good friend andy took. you can click the image and it will take you to his photo page…then just click on “grant & kim’s wedding” to get some bigger images…

andy

(pretty good huh?)

my other good friend from california, tyler, was our main photographer…he’s still working on our images so it may be a little while before I get to post his up…(but stay tuned!)

there were two songs in the service…”how deep the father’s love” and “there is a fountain”…that sean michel and justin sanders did perfectly…they were great…thanks guys!

sean/justin

(photo by chris hinson)

and since i am bragging on peoples artsy skills…my wife (weird to write) is pretty talented herself. she made the wedding programs for our wedding and i wanted to show them off a little. i think the term she had for them was “dainty” (since they’re little).

here’s each page…

programs

and here’s a better picture of what they looked like on the entry table…
(thanks julie stone)

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(kimmie’s good)

did i mention she was gorgeous too? here are a few of her bridal shots she had done by jamie fender. there are some others kim likes a little more but we haven’t purchased them just yet…so we don’t have them…so here are a few jamie put up on her website…

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ok i’m done bragging…

and as far as the wedding…it was amazing!…it was humbling to us both to see so many come to celebrate what the lord has done in, not just our lives, but their own lives as well…

god is good
all the time
(and so we’re thankful)

i’ll post some honeymoon pictures in a couple of days…

Jacksonville

nate and i are at a conference in jacksonville, fl…(which means besides the conference…there’s really not a whole lot to do)

this is just a quick post…i wanted to post two pictures i took tonight from the hotel…i got lucky and had a storm come up off the coast…i didn’t have a tripod (dang it!) but I think the pictures still came out ok…just ignore the blurry buildings in the lightning pic…

(click the pic to make them larger)

bridge

lightning

i’ll be home on saturday!

Baseball Pics

Kim and I got to go to a Travelers game tonight with some friends…
here are some pics…

tickets

our way cool printed your own baseball tickets!
(chris and jess are in the background…they came too)

kim

kim was really excited! (if you can’t tell)

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behind home plate…

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our seats…(i blended two photos here to get the sky to pop a little more)…you can sort of see justin and hallie on the end…they came with us as well…

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apparently “the yard” is where the party’s at (if you’re a kid) when you go to a travs game…

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we had a blast tonight…

Beautiful Day

Usually in July…Arkansas is nothing more than a hot bowl of heat and humidity…however lately…it has rained so much that it has kept the temperature down in the 80’s and helped make the normally hot July days bearable…

it was a pretty day…so I took some shots…

(looking north)

North

(looking south)

South

He Is Good

Cows

Cows

There is no need to inform me that there is really nothing inherently spectacular about these pictures…but sometimes…

through the busyness of work…
the stresses in life…
the worries of tomorrow…

we need to be reminded that if the Lord takes care of the sparrow (or cow) and clothes the flowers (or grass)…how much more will He take care of you…

the Lord likes to remind me of these things at very random times…and sometimes…he uses the most unlikely to open my eyes…

(He is good…all the time)