Behind Kerri's Lens...RIP Midnight

A year ago, my youngest daughter and I rescued this poor little kitten whose mother was ran over off our main road.  

Our intention was to raise him til he was big enough and then send him with my in-laws to help out around the barn with those nasty critters they have out there.

That did not happen, Midnight and Rylee made this special bond that I have not seen in a VERY long time between a human and an animal, they loved each other VERY much!!! 

Sadly, Midnight had a habit of going out the doggie door (thanks Chris) and had a tendency to wander off, well one day he did just that, and he got hit by a car, he found his way back home, but the damage was too great for him to be fixed and to live a normal life without complications.  We kept him safe, and warm, and with the help of pain medication we kept him comfortable.  I had a couple sleepless nights to be on night duty with him,  man he was special, you could tell he just didn't want to go to Pet Heaven because he did not want to leave Rylee, for he was afraid to leave her alone.

On October 7th, 2014 at 9:07PM Midnight took his last breath....It was heart wrenching, sad, emotional, it was NOT a good time.

Here are some beautiful pictures of him before and during his time of passing.  We will ALWAYS love you Midnight Moon Anderson!!!!!!!!

Midnight Moon Anderson November 2013-October 2014

Not wanting to let go!

Snickers not leaving his best friends' side.

Snickers showing Midnight his love!

Rylee letting him know she will always love him!

Midnight hanging on!

Behind Kerri's Lens...Racing

Here are a few photos I started to take of our dear friends son, Chance!  I only got to take a few because well...IT POURED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I look forward to seeing you race next season and capturing those special moments with my lens!!!!

We are SO proud of you Chance!!! Great job this season!!!!!!!

If you would like to sponsor this cute guy, let me know I will pass on your information!!!!!!!!!

Behind Kerri's Lens....Graduation

Here is a Sneak Peak of photos I took for an AMAZING young woman who is about to graduate!!!!!
Thanks Kat and Alicia for choosing me to capture this AWESOME milestone!!!!!!

Behind Kerri's...Medication

I don't care who you are, or how "well" you are raising your kids, it is THE most difficult, nonpaying, most of the time non appreciative  job on the planet!

I know that every child is different, I get that, but OH HOLY HELL there was no preparation for my youngest!

She has had her struggles with liking school, to the point that I attempted to home school her at the beginning of the year...it was going VERY well in the beginning, until I noticed she was having trouble focusing, was arguing a lot with me, and then felt VERY stupid when she started struggling with Math, (it didn't help that it was the Core Math crap!)  well to make sure she got the help that she needed, I enrolled her in a Charter school that I originally wanted to put her into but gave in and did the home school thing...on top of that, that is also when we found out she has severe A.D.D., I was hesitant on putting her on a medication but trusted my doctor and went ahead and did so.

Well, here it has been almost a month later, and I see NO change, she literally has ONLY been to school two full days, and two hours and she already has put judgement on this school, saying it is NOT a good fit for her.

You are probably wondering WHY she has missed so much school...well that medication has made her extremely sick!  She has lost a total of 8 lbs, which if you know her, she is tiny already, I don't see my bubbly freckled faced Ginger girl anymore.  So back to the doctor we went yesterday, and he thinks this medication was too much too soon so he cut her off cold turkey and said let her rest for a week to get it all out of her system and then we shall slowly introduce it back into her system by giving her only half a pill, I reluctantly agreed.  In true R fashion...she waits until we are out of the room, out of the office completely and almost to the car and says:  "how are we supposed to cut my pill mom, the little beads will fall out!" CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She takes a capsule!  So of course now I will need to call the doctor and leave a message to find out what we are to do now! LOL

But...in the meantime here is my thought...do I do what they are suggesting or is there something else I can do to help her?

Would love to hear your input on the matter!!!!!!!  I will blog more about the school issues later because THAT is a WHOLE other story and problem....

Behind Kerri's...Camera

I have a Nikon D60 camera, yes, it might be a little older then the other Nikon Cameras but it has ALWAYS been good to me until last week.

I noticed it was acting funny while taking pictures, and just thought:  "Oh it is the lighting, let's change the settings a bit" well then last week, while trying to take pictures of my middle child's advanced dance program during a school pep rally, it froze!!!!!!!

Talk about a panicked person, but I managed to slowly put my camera away, act like nothing was wrong, slowly pulled out my iphone 6 and started taking pictures from there.

I get home turn on my computer to finish editing photos from a previous photo shoot and what happens...my computer froze up!!!!

By then I was just freaking out!!!!! Had a photo shoot planned the next morning, had to cancel that, had to freak out on a client (luckily, I consider her a friend and she was OK with my little freak out) which then delayed the editing process of her daughters photos. 

I took a deep breath and tried the computer once again, whew! I was able to get on it, and within 5 minutes of me trying to do research about my camera, BAM error message on computer and down it went.

I lost valuable time because I was not able to get on it ALL weekend!!!!! Luckily, my husband worked on it Sunday night but still wasn't able to fix my D drive (the drive that holds all my photography stuff, but LUCKILY, I still had the originals on my memory cards) so when I got on Monday morning, it started right up, BUT because the D drive wasn't recognized I had to start over in the editing department, plus have to deal with mom duties, so once again, editing pushed out one more day!

While on the computer, I did some research on my camera and the error, saw a lot of YouTube videos and what it was and how to fix it, so here it was Monday night, Chris is home from work, and we pull apart my camera to do the "fix" they said to do and I am super stressed, super excited for it to work and well....NOTHING!!!!!  It still jams up so now I get to take my camera into a camera shop and see what is wrong with it AND how much it will cost to fix, THAT to me is THE most stressful thing EVER because this is the time I get a lot of clients to take family pictures for their Christmas card, what if I can't get it fixed on time?!!!!!

This has stressed me out so bad that my eye is twitching, I need that eye to edit photos dang it!!!!!!

Stay tuned on the details of my sad, overworked, but loving Nikon D60!!! Wish I had the money to be able to plop down on another camera to have as a spare!!!!!!! 

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Behind {Kerri's}...: Welcome to Behind {Kerri's}...: You are probably wondering why I would name my blog as such well let me explain a little bit! I am a working photographer who is trying to...

Welcome to Behind {Kerri's}...

You are probably wondering why I would name my blog as such well let me explain a little bit!

I am a working photographer who is trying to make a hobby a business and the name of my business is:  Behind {Kerri's} Lens.

With that, people always say they never know what is going to come out of my mouth, my brain, my thoughts, etc...so I felt since I am Kerri you never know what is Behind {Kerri's}... because it could be coming from my lens, my thoughts, my experiences, my friendships, my recipes, my marriage etc.

I hope you enjoy this blog and I also hope that I will keep with it and that it helps me in my times of frustration and struggles.

I have always loved writing and usually when I express my feelings best is when I write it out ( or type it out or text it out LOL)  so what better way then in a blog?  If I get many followers, GREAT if not, that is OK.

I will also post recipes of mine and of others that I have tried and tweaked and will do my best to make sure and give credit where credit is do.

I will also show some of my photography sessions that I have had, and also show off the photos I take of my family including my furry ones!!! All my photos will be watermarked for I don't want to take the chance AGAIN of people stealing my photos and taking credit for them!  If you are interested in what I do as a photographer and would like to see more, feel free to visit my Facebook page or send me a personal email or reply here for that information!

I also created this blog to help out local and out of state small business owners by posting about their businesses.  I will do my best to only post businesses that I have had personal business with, but sometimes I will post about a small business owner to help boost their customers!  I am all about helping out the small business, because well...I am one!

Some of the things I will post about you might not always agree and THAT IS OK!  We weren't meant to agree on EVERYTHING!  How boring of a world would that be.  I just ask you to respect my thoughts and opinions and not BASH my thoughts and opinions, as I would not bash yours.  I do my best to not judge people so I hope you will do your best to not judge me!

If you know me, you know that I speak my mind, sometimes that is a good thing and sometimes that is a bad thing, I have learned to filter it, and not just blurt it out anymore LOL but if you ask for my opinion you WILL get it good or bad, but the beauty of it...you don't HAVE to take my advice or adhere to my opinion isn't THAT cool?!!!!

So I would like to say...Buckle your seat belts because at times this could be a bumpy ride, but I wouldn't trade it for the world!!!!

Thanks for reading,

Kerri-