Living a humble life

This week, we are having a Super Conference in our church! And it is being such a blessing! There was a sermon that really got my attention yesterday. The preacher talked about proudness. Sometimes, we forget how great and good our God is! And this helped me remember that we are so little compared to Him! So many verses in the Bible talk about how God will bless those that are humble! And something very important to me is to remember that all the things I can do, it's because God has given me that ability, or we could say, that gift. I am so thankful for the things God has allowed me to do! Without Him, we would not be able to accomplish all the things we have accomplished. Photography is one of them! It is something we love and after much prayer, God has allowed us to grow and learn so much in the past months! But like I always say: there is a lot more we need to learn!

We never share a lot about ourselves when we blog, so we figured we would share a little about what God has been speaking to us lately. We trust that He will do the best with whatever we give to Him, and He has proved it to us in many ways!

We are so excited about the little projects we have for the next months!

Have a wonderful day!

Arancha

New Special Edition

I have been so excited about this! I have already said on other posts that Christmas is my favorite time of the year, but I loooooove Valentine's! (Or like we would say in Spain, they day of love)  It's probably because I love Nate so much :) And this year is our first being married!!!!! I really can't wait till February to celebrate it together! (and maybe get a little gift, hehe) And I have heard that there is a tapas restaurant here in Huntsville! So we're gonna have to check that out!

For all of you that have been interested in our mini-sessions, we have prepared a Love! Special Edition. They will be 25-minute sessions where we really want to emphasize LOVE! We just love seeing couples show their love for each other during our photo shoots! But also, families! It is so wonderful to see them having fun, just being who they are and enjoying! So whether you are a married couple, a family, or even if you just want pictures of your kids, you can sign up now!

We are also offering gift cards, so if you love photography or your love loves photography, this can be a great gift!

This is all the information:

- 25 minutes of unlimited photography (and believe me, we can accomplish a lot in 25 minutes!) 

- Full editing of your images

- Online slideshow with all the images

- 30% on all our Valentine's cards

- All your images on a cd!

                $100.00

E-mail us at info@nateandaranchaphotography.com or call us at (256) 684-1076 for further information!

Have a wonderful day! And thank you for reading our blog :D

Arancha

Stephen and Jacqueline

Jacqueline and Stephen were so cute during this session! We met them at college, and we've always thought that they were such a cute couple! We were so glad to hear that they wanted to book us! The photo shoot was great! A lot of fun! At the end of the photo shoot, we went in the library to take some pictures. They library staff were very nice to allow us to do this :) This was actually the first time we took pictures at a library! So when Mandie and Garan told us about her loving to read, we knew we had to take some of their pictures at a library too! And we had the opportunity to try different shots and poses!  We really enjoy trying different places and scenarios when we do photo shoots, and now that we live in Alabama, we can't wait to find all these new beautiful places to take pictures at!

Stephen and Jacqueline, thank you so much! :D

Don't pay attention to this book because we have no idea what it was, lol We just like the title :)

I loved how natural they were, and when they put their foreheads together like this! So cute!

A car!!!

We're gonna be searching for a car today! We have seen one that we want really bad but we are  hoping that God will show us the right one! :)

It is one of the few things we have left to do to settle down here! Just a little bit more of paper work! And every day, we love being here more! God keeps blessing us so much!

And since posts are not the same without an image, here is one more of Garan and Mandie!

A couple of hours to rest!-updated :)

Finally a weekend to slow down after a veeeery busy week!!!! wohoooo! just an update! we are eating a stuffed crust supreme pizza with caffeine free dr pepper while we watch a movie! Not having to get up early in the morning, and just enjoying our cozy new home! :D Nate had class today and I did all our grocery shopping. And I couldn't resist to buy all these little things that we both enjoy eating when we are together! Cinnamon rolls, bagels, pizza, cookies, and of course, some healthy food too :) I just can't believe I like eating so bad though! I have always been such a healthy eater! But I guess I needed a little break from all those salads, sushi, and fruit that I strictly ate every day (for real, that was all I eat), which I still love, but I have found that there are other things I can eat and actually enjoy! :D And yeah, with that comes the problem: now I can't stop eating chocolate! :S

Anyways, about business: we have been working all week in designing our new packaging labels, return address labels, business cards, and we will probably be designing a few more marketing goodies! I really enjoy doing that and can't wait to see how they turn out! As I had mentioned on previous posts, we really want to personalize our business. You probably have already seen a few changes: our website and blog, and for those that have booked us, our contract formats and price lists. It took us a long time to find what we wanted, liked, and would represent who we are! But we got it and love it! An we will keep you updated!

Have a wonderful night!

Garan & Mandie

He loves photography. She loves books. Both share a passion for Mac! (who doesn't?). And we tied it all in this photo shoot! It was so fun! Of course we needed variety, so we took other pictures as well. But it was so fun to incorporate the things they love and the things they have in common in this photo session! He proposed to her with a book!!! So romantic! So we asked permission to the library staff and after their approval, we went in a took a lot of pictures of Garan and Mandie around thousands of books!

A detail that I loved is that she had an ipod that said on the back: I love you, Garan. They asked us if we could take a picture of the ipod with them. I love that picture!

And since he loves photography, we got to take a few pictures of him with his camera (while he took a couple of us... would like to see them by the way :) )

We hope you like these pictures as much as we do!!!!

And Garan and Mandie, thank you so much! It was so fun to take your pictures!!!

This is the cute ipod with Garan´s noe behind!

One of our favorite things!

Hello!!!!

We are still in our little trying-to-get-it-all-done world after moving to Alabama! We still love it here, but there has been much to do! Thank God we got it all pretty much done!

We haven't been able to do any photo shoot (it has only been one week any ways, hehe) but we have some coming up and more pictures to post!

Nate started college on monday! He really likes it and is very excited about what he will be learning this semester! I'm trying to prepare more products for our branding and future special edition photo sessions! Wanna know about it???? I can't tell you yet! But I'm very excited about it and can't wait to get it all figured out! :D Do you want to know a little hint? It has to do with love :)

BUT! I don't really like posting with no pictures! So I wanted to share a few pictures we took of Madrid. They were taken from the car, so they are not completely professional! We love architecture, old buildings, cities, and Europe! So whenever we go to Madrid, we just love walking around Madrid city, and shopping, having some chocolate con churros and just enjoying the beauty of all those buildings! We can't wait to go back to Europe and be able to visit France, Italy, etc. We just love traveling! So this is just a little bit of the things we love! We hope you like them too!

Have a wonderful day!!!

Arancha