The Life of a Photographer: A Behind-the-Scenes Look

As I sit here with my camera by my side, I am reminded of why I love being a photographer. It's not just about taking pictures, it's about capturing life's precious moments and freezing them in time for my clients to treasure forever. Today was one of those days where I got to do what I love, photographing the engagement photos and wedding day of an adorable couple, and later on, their first twin girls. It's a privilege to be a part of such significant milestones in people's lives, and I take it very seriously.

I have been fortunate enough to work with some amazing clients over the years, who not only appreciate my work but also consider me as friends. We stay in touch throughout the year, sharing updates about our personal lives, and it's truly special to see how my photographs become a part of their family memories. Whether it's a birthday party, an anniversary, or just a regular day, I feel honored to be able to capture the beauty and joy of these moments.

As a photographer, I have come to realize that my role goes beyond just taking pictures. It's about being present in the moment, understanding what makes each person unique, and translating that into frames that tell a story. My clients trust me with their most intimate moments, and it's a responsibility I take very seriously. I remember one particularly emotional session where the couple was so nervous but happy to be getting married, and I knew just the right pose and expression to capture the love in their eyes.

The Life of a Photographer: Behind-the-Scenes

Today has been quite eventful, even if it's just a quick update from my end. We picked up my mom from the airport after her trip to Chicago, and now we're on our way home. As I'm typing this out, I have a Twitter spread open in front of me – 15 minutes into it, I'll be switching over to my phone to continue reading. Despite the chaos, I did manage to squeeze in some reading time today. Surprisingly, I've read about 70 pages of Nimona, the graphic novel, and I'm really enjoying it. It's a great escape from reality, and I can already see why it's getting such rave reviews.

Running a Twitter Sprint is not for the faint of heart. The constant stream of notifications, likes, comments, and tweets can be overwhelming at times. As someone who's struggled with anxiety, even something as seemingly fun as a Twitter sprint can feel like an exercise in chaos. But there's a strange sort of thrill that comes with it – the feeling of being part of a community that's working together to achieve a common goal.

Today was my final day for the Twitter Sprint challenge, and I'm both relieved and exhilarated by its conclusion. While it was exhilarating to be a part of something new and exciting, there were also moments of terror when I thought I wouldn't be able to keep up. But as I reflected on the experience, I realized that it wasn't just about achieving a goal; it was about connecting with others who share similar passions.

Booktubeathon Update

My update for today is brief but necessary – after completing Nimona, my final book for the Booktubeathon challenge, I'll be wrapping up the marathon in the next video. For those who are new to the blog, the Booktubeathon is a challenge where I aim to read and review seven books in seven days.

As for stats, I won't be sharing them just yet since I'm writing this post from my phone. But rest assured that it'll all be revealed in the upcoming wrap-up video. For now, let's just say that completing one book today was a significant accomplishment, especially considering the pressure to meet the challenge. The feeling of accomplishment is still buzzing within me as I type these words.

Finishing Nimona has left me with mixed emotions – sadness that it's over and excitement for what's next. It's been an incredible journey reading through this graphic novel, learning about its creator, and connecting with fellow fans on social media. For those who have read the series or are considering it, I highly recommend it – trust me when I say that you'll be hooked from page one.

Booktubeathon: Seven Books in Seven Days

And so, it's time to wrap up this Booktubeathon challenge. After reading Nimona for 266 pages, I've managed to complete my first book and move on to the next. As I finish writing this post, I feel a sense of satisfaction knowing that I've overcome another hurdle.

As I prepare for the wrap-up video, I want to take a moment to reflect on how this challenge has changed me as a reader. Reading seven books in such a short span of time has forced me to be more selective with what I choose to read. It's also made me realize the importance of taking breaks and not getting too caught up in the thrill of finishing a book.

As I approach the final countdown, I can feel my excitement building. What will the next few books bring? Will I discover new favorite authors or series? The anticipation is almost as thrilling as the experience itself.

That's all for today – for now. As I take a moment to pause and reflect on this whirlwind journey, I'm left with one thing to say: it's been an honor sharing my thoughts and experiences with you all throughout this challenge.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello there first time I picked up the camera today today it's put it who today's Thursday yes today it's Thursday three o'clock and I have not done a lot of reading today at all sadly also I look decent today hello I filmed today I had this almight July book called because I like filming that like a few days in advance because I have to time to edit it and things of that nature so sadly I haven't read it out of day because I just put all this on and also film a video but like kind of only read 50 pages of a country stuff to hate me I've read one short story basically and like two pages of a new one so my plan is to finish this today I don't know if I can because that's over 200 pages and I do have plans tonight so I don't know this might be my one fail day we'll have to see either way that's okay I've already finished three books I am feeling confident that I can finish my last two I'm gonna try my best but yeah that's my plan for today finish this new angle hopefully that's okay I'm liking this I'm not loving it though I've read the first three stories I like the first two the third one I wrote earlier Santa and the way the four phone is going I really do like so we'll have to see but that's why playing today hopefully I can accomplish it we'll see like I said I fell my july will call so I thought well I'm here I thought I would show you guys how I set up my videos so this is my setup so this is my camera that I use I use the canon 5d mark ii i have this rode mic i have a hdmi port cord hooked up all the way to a monitor right here and this is where i sit in this monitor is to insure my focus and my lighting is and things of that nature so now you can see hello oh that's my setup and yeah it's kind of intricate a lot of freaking cords it's a lot to do just for the set up but I really love the quality of my videos and like I said I feel my July book also get ready for that actually a pretty decent book haul not too - that's what I've done today this morning I honestly ran some errands I took my son to the park again because when you're on a budget like myself because a lot of budget right now go straight to budget on the park is your friend and I think it's going to rain tomorrow so I had to get in that Park time that outside time but yeah the summer really done today like they said my life is pretty boring not much happened so I'm thinking about doing a super cool montage because the light montage is honestly about putting my book haul books on my shelves because I save them in a stack until I fill my book haul then I put them like efficiently on my shelf I don't know it's a weird system it works for me so I don't know let's put it back together hopefully you can see me might be out of shot a lot I don't know listen I can't play well and this your dog the yacht you gotta pay and only the good book can bring the comfort well lay on the floor praying friend but in my dreams update tie pushing away to proud person for number who understand the lonely lover brokenhearted and sad hello there um I just got back from the library or just went into the library because I had a couple items on hold so I thought I would share with you what they are sorry this might be a really weird angle I got the first thing I got is the fill in boyfriend by Kasey West I have already read this book I have just I want to do a key cos author's related video and this is one of the few that I don't own so I'd like to have this Bobby's obviously want to show you in my video so I just got that you know for the video purpose it does like graphic novels because I decided you know if I get to my five books that's a great but I kind of like maybe a graphic novel to read you know because I don't read too many graphic novels honestly I don't read barely any of them but I put on I put four on hold and when I went to go to the library to pick them up they were not was I what I was expecting they are massive coffee on reserve because I have read a few Buffy graphic miles before and if you can see this thing is freaking massive that's my face this is this this is the bucket Vampire Slayer season 8 Volume one I guess this is the library edition this thing is huge I think it's got like over 300 pages in it so there's and I got four of them so there's no way I'm going to read all of these and you know a span of two days that I have but I got volume one so there's that this is Season eight volume two they are ridiculously heavy like I felt like really crazy person realizes I have season I have what is this volume three or Xander a little right there no no dawn that's weird oh and then I have volume four so I think they're Season nine out now but either way I do I mean if you guys don't know I love Buffy Buffy was one of my first loves right if they were Terry Potter I fell into Buffy and Harry Potter kind of at the same time like around twelve thirteen and I have loved them both forever so I'm hoping honestly just to get to the first one I think that's doable to getting to the first one so we'll see I mean I love Buffy I did read a long way home like a few years ago and I did the booktubeathon um and I liked it and I loved it hoping to enjoy this this is so bad like this is like this is a wet biscuit I live right now I'm in the car because I'm actually heading to church I'm running the slides tonight which means that I just run the slides while the band is playing and then our pastor has a sermon that he has slides to use for his sermon and I'm in charge of like going along like hitting his points like when he hits a particular point or a verse I hit the you know next slide for that it's fun to do but it's also very tedious because if you work with computers a lot of things could go wrong you know things like that but I really enjoyed doing it so I'll hopefully read a little bit tonight I still have like 200 pages to read us because you would love to hate me I'm hoping to get to it hopefully I'll get to it before sleep claims me we'll have to say I'm warning everybody welcome to booktubeathon day 5 I totally forgot to update you guys night about what I read because sleep claimed me like I thought it was it haha I just finished because she loved to hate me I read to her in danger and that is all I read yesterday which is pretty good I honestly did not think I was going to finish this it have a ton of time and I stayed up pretty late to finishes though either way I finished it I'm still on my streets of reading a book a day pretty much which Estelle's me this is the fourth book I have read with booktubeathon and I'm saddened to attend ology there are some amazing stories there's some decent stories and there's some not-so-great stories and that's exactly how I felt about this one I will do a full video review on this book like talking about each one of the stories and rating them as I go because I did raise them as I read them all you my two favorite stories of the whole book definitely the sea witch by Marissa Meyer and death knell by Victoria Schwab I'm not surprised that those are my favorite at all I really enjoyed this is denars ones too but there was something in there that I didn't love but overall I thought it was a decent like anthology I wanted more kind of Villa d'Este I kind of wanted more like really creepy bad to the bone like evil sharing of villains this book discovers like the notion of villain like the good versus evil and the line that is straddle which I do appreciate wanted just some you know oh wait so we're a story honestly for like Bellatrix strange I wanted one story that was just gonna creep me out one like made me want to hate this villain so much unfortunately there was not one in here that I just really liked who had that effect at my boil and they feel that way reason right was a soul anthology would recommend it especially because it has a lot of amazing authors in it so that is my total page count for Thursday four to four so my stats are right here so I read 290 pages I completed one book and I completed one challenge I take this book for two challenges I picked it for read a heist book and I've read that I picked it for read a book without doors that didn't happen I didn't think the outdoors what was going to happen I will think it will I plant today are to start and finish hopefully close enough to touch by Colleen Oakley this is 306 pages which is very man flossing it's a chiclet book and it just seems to be like going to be a cute fun read so I hope I have time to read it depends of my son's number enough in today full of errands and grocery drawing and budgeting and building and all the really crappy stuff we have to do as adults at home loaders moms and whatever it's just like I some days I'm like all for like budgeting yeah we're shopping yet and some days I'm like why today with a it's a curing this and the whole thing to read a good chunk of it while he nap if we mess up and the rest of it for the night I feel like I am pushing myself a lot with a sweet athough which is a good thing and a bad thing I'm staying up a little bit more late every single night instead of usually while my son naps I work that's my time I just make myself to work every single day but lately I've been reading which Australian that but they're smooth at all but I'm kind of falling behind on my editing and like my video planning and all the other house I have to do so like you know it's a give-and-take relationship with this read-a-thon you know I'm reading a lot great but I'm suffering a lot in other places but either way I see it it's only week and in my last book I put on my TBR the back pain I should book today I want read all five my book for my QPR in five days so I obviously have two days full whenever I want to read and Sunday I don't think a lot of readings going to happen because I have a lot of plans and then want to connect them and then I'm running a Twitter sprint nitration think you just really can't really read when you were on the tradition update you web program on pulls up touch hopefully I accomplished today I don't see it in too late singer problem here it is 3:00 p.m. and I have yet to read past page 15 oh I knew there's going to be a day where it's kind of a on I think today will be that day plus and a headache that I cannot shake I'm working on my July book haul you want to see a sneak peek at that there you go there's a little snippet of the book haul you can see what's a half so ya know what has happened today like I said put it honest I'm thinking now since we're like kind of halfway through the day my goal is to not finish the book at all honestly it's to get at least half way through and then save the last half for tomorrow morning and the afternoon and then read a graphic novel so either way I'm okay with that as well I also did the booktubeathon Instagram challenge I haven't been doing them as much as I should because oh crap you can't even see there's my photo there you go just imagine the Secretary on Instagram so I went out I particularly bought this piece of like slice of cake for my local grocery store just for this photo I knew as soon as I saw the challenge I'll pair with food I immediately knew I had to buy the slice of cake because of the rainbow and it goes so perfectly well with the cover so oh I really like how it came out and if you click on the hashtag and right there like I'm up I'm left with the kind of top good morning I am now officially the cleanup are getting to update you guys basically I just doesn't I forget to do it he's obviously a date sync that booktubeathon so it is especially Saturday so I'm here to tell you what I read on Friday so my whole goal Friday was to read as much as I can up close enough to touch by Colleen Oakley we saw I wasn't doing so well yesterday quite honestly didn't think I was going to read that much but I'm happy to say that I read over half the book i read 200 pages and i'm pretty happy with that means I only have like a hundred and like three pages to go within this book which is very very much easy to do today because you know going on our pages I'm really enjoying how this book is going I really like it so my plan today is to finish this book and start another one now I said this is the last book that was officially on my book to the pond TBR so I can read whatever I want I know I talked to you guys about being a Buffy graphic novel and I did read a little bit this is one subo in Ohio on fuzzy use is like a makeshift tripod I talked to you guys about reading Buffy but I read first go pages I like it not America see it's not a really big graphic novel person honestly happening I'm going to just pick a really short book and go with that so these are all my short books and I'm thinking a short book because I have time today to read but tomorrow I honestly dolts tomorrow's a busy day I've got a lot of stuff going on which she will see tomorrow so I honest I don't know if I'm going to have any time to read tomorrow at all and if I do have time it's going to be very limited so I figured safe way to do thank you that's a resist I picked all like this short books on my shelf and to go with that I try to take folks that are like less than 200 pages this one's like 195 this one is this one oh this one's like two so today I don't know about that one um this one is 190 and this one is 184 so I I think it's going to be I don't know about this one give it to me sorry and honestly I'm kind of leaning towards this one this one has been on my shelves for a hot minute and there's no good reason why I already yet because I love Sara Bareilles and they won't be on the Instagram challenge probable to decide today is kind of like moods like you say you take a picture of like I think items or just like the mood of the book and mrs. music and I was gonna do a whole things like vinyls and kind of guitar mics and just musical equipment with your sofa goggles that'd be nice photo to take so I'm eating some of explosive duck and I just really want to rate it basically like she just tells you a lot about with why the song she's written like what they're about so it's a very very easy accomplishment up a plan today so I think officially let's say officially is to finish this book and to hopefully start and maybe finish if not okay this book and if I do that six books opens booktubeathon so I'm feeling pretty good that just acted certification test yes how you feel y'all feel like a huge weight off your back now what do you get it now I don't know there and it's been a few hours since we last talked I haven't read a single page but that's about the change actually you saw it mat path to certification test which is amazing because if you've taken any sort of any test really you know how much you know Sunday and time and effort you put into it and you know that I'm so happy for him that he's done that and it just puts a strain because you know I have to watch know a little bit extra where usually he would help me out and you know he has to put all these hours studying and studying and so many hours guys this was the last test that he had to take this year so he can have the rest of the year off that just relax watch his shows because he likes watching shows he likes to just hang out do whatever he wants to do so I'm so happy I'm so proud of him he worked so so hard for us but he decided he wanted to take know what his parents house for a few hours because you know he knew how much I've been wanting to read and just how much I needed a break and everybody so Donna surprised dinner with maybe trying to shoot a blog here or vlog or whatever you call it on me and know are just going over to my parents house so his grandparents house there's a little know that there oh that was another successful trip to my parents house no we had a great time I just sitting in the back there drinking his water but it's always good to go to my parents house and just visit with them and now I can visit with his grandparents to feel very blessed to have such great parents that not only spend time with me but also with no one and being really good grandparents the reason we go over my parents house so from time to time is to give Heather a break from taken care of Noah just the everyday routine this really helps urges to have some time to do what she wants to do to read and everything so you know I don't have to say it enough but I really really appreciate everything that my wife does she's such a good person she's a hard worker and she does just about everything at the house and holds up to jobs and everything so this is just been a time for her to kind of regroup and I know it's not nearly long enough but hopefully it helps but yeah so I love I love my wife so much and I just appreciate everything she does I think I'm just gonna brew some coffee I don't drink a lot of coffee but today just seems like a day to drink coffee because it's raining and kind of dreary and I'm gonna knock out these last hundred pages of close enough to touch and then hopefully I can get through a quarter maybe half of sounds like to me by Sara Bareilles excited for either just reading for a while and I will update you guys in a few hours let you know how I did all is taking its place and run stream and on the ground beneath me spring is an empty home all must come to you can have to stop the water by eye but in my dreams I stay Brian all broken it just finished close enough to touch by Colleen Oakley give it a four and a half out of five I really enjoyed it I can understand why this book has so many good reviews it's such a beautiful book you know you have books that you just read it to make you feel happy they're just all so beautiful we don't know about this book this book follows a 28 year old name and Jubilee and Julie is allergic to it essentially to everybody if she has skin on skin contact she will break out into a huge illiterate reaction she could go into in a plastic shock and died ages of 18 to like 28 she lived inside her house and never left because she was just so afraid to her mom even kind of left and then she gets news that her mom died and her mom had been sending her money that I kind of keep her on the upkeep of the house and stuff like that and she can't have that money anymore physically Jubilee has to like finally leave the house and go get a job and she does she works in a library and then she meets a guy named Eric and Eric is has just adopted a ten year old boy that his was his best friend's son and they sort of start talking and just a beautiful book I'd say like it is a chiclet book but I don't know Foucault like that like it's not all about romance it's more about you know human contact and human connection and just a beautiful book honestly so I would highly recommend this book it was really good so I'm glad I read it I get on - sounds like me by Sara Bareilles I kind of need a little bit of break because I'm reading for a little bit so I'm going to do some work general stuff and then I'm going to come back and maybe read like 50 60 pages of this like I said I've taken these last two days of book to become very very chill I felt like I really push myself of a first half to the last half I'm just kind of kind of relaxed finish sounds like me by Sara Bareilles which I wasn't even planning to finish today but it was an easy book to read so yeah that is my sixth book for booktubeathon down was 184 pages and I finished close enough to touch earlier which was like I had 106 pages left so my grand total today for stats are two and 90 pages I completed one challenge which was the read a book you bought because of the cover and yeah six books pretty good so I'll see you all tomorrow to the last day the booktubeathon um there and welcome to booktubeathon day seven or the last day of booktubeathon I cannot believe it's here so it's around ten o'clock in the morning I actually just got done with a photo shoot this morning I did a photo shoot of like a second year olds birthday a two year olds birthday and it was really good I'm trying to find like a shoot photo to show you guys I can't even see it so I'm gonna focus but that's just a little snippet on it he's adorable um I'm so lucky to do what I do I love being a photographer and I love my clients so much like the little boy I just did photos for today I photographed his parents engagement their wedding the returned photos with their first twin girls I've done several they're like birthdays and things like that and it's just so amazing that I have such amazing clients that I really consider my friends not just my clients like I'll text em see how they're doing throughout you know the year and they'll text me and you know I can have the privilege and honor of like photographing their life you know that's a big deal I don't take it lightly at all that you know I get to take photos of some of their most important life memories of getting married of having children of watching their children grow up so I truly just love what I do honestly so yeah that's what I've done this morning I haven't done any reading today I don't know if I'll even do any reading today at all because I actually have some plans today so you'll see that as we go along but I thought I'll catch you up today so yeah on the way home it was a good photo shoot and I'm happy I've done it so yeah there's updates for you on the Sunday hello everybody it has been a long time since I've updated you but we went to pick up my mom from the airport because she got back from Chicago and now we're on our way home actually running a Twitter spread like 15 minutes I'll probably have to do a lot of it from my phone I have read some today surprisingly which I want the planning to read off I have read about 70 pages of nimona the graphic novel and I really enjoy it so I'm hoping to finish it and if I do that'll be seven books in seven days which sounds like but like I said I'm running to a difference for a couple hours and I know that's going to take up all of my time so we'll have to see how it goes so that's my update for now not much has happened today just been running around doing all the things since now it's almost 6 o'clock I am in the middle of running my Twitter sprints which is very hard I I don't know how anybody keep self with doing Twitter Sprint's it's I think a constant case of anxiety like the notifications just keep going I keep thinking oh I favored it enough I've replied a lot no like 50 more Solanum like how is this real life this is just put my challenge up and it oh how to pick some money out of all these things keynote to say like this is insanity is what it is honestly in sanity but amazing insanity all I finally stopped Twitter Sprint is officially done so that was awesome it was exhilarating scary terrifying anxious and fun all wrapped up to no unbundle I'm so lucky and so gracious that arrow asked me and I was a sort of spread I am I can't believe just the amount of work that goes with the Twitter sprint I cannot imagine being a house much less running this whole shindig so ha exciting time so now my plan hopefully is success right now is to finish editing this vlog right here sans one clip and hopefully after that finish nimona and that'll be it for the booktubeathon the next clip officially of me talking with the last clip of this vlog and the last clip of the booktubeathon for me so what a week what a week so I just finished nimona and I'll see this in I really enjoyed it I loved it honestly I wasn't expecting to love it at all because I don't read a ton of graphic novels but honestly give this a five out of five like I loved every single page of this and it makes me want to read all of the graphic novels so if you any suggestions let me know because I'll probably head in my library soon but yeah this is my last book for booktubeathon it was 266 pages I completed one book today I have completed one challenge so 7 books in 7 days that's insane so I'm not any of you all of my stats right now because I'm tired when I honestly and I'm filming a booktubeathon wrap-up so that should be hopefully up tomorrow as you're seeing this it should hopefully be up tomorrow everything goes as planned so that's condition I'm going to share with you in that video all the books I read what challenges I accomplished how many pages I read and all that so look forward to that but that wasn't for booktubeathon I hope you guys enjoyed my vlog let me know if you did or if you didn't you know and thank you guys so much for watching youhello there first time I picked up the camera today today it's put it who today's Thursday yes today it's Thursday three o'clock and I have not done a lot of reading today at all sadly also I look decent today hello I filmed today I had this almight July book called because I like filming that like a few days in advance because I have to time to edit it and things of that nature so sadly I haven't read it out of day because I just put all this on and also film a video but like kind of only read 50 pages of a country stuff to hate me I've read one short story basically and like two pages of a new one so my plan is to finish this today I don't know if I can because that's over 200 pages and I do have plans tonight so I don't know this might be my one fail day we'll have to see either way that's okay I've already finished three books I am feeling confident that I can finish my last two I'm gonna try my best but yeah that's my plan for today finish this new angle hopefully that's okay I'm liking this I'm not loving it though I've read the first three stories I like the first two the third one I wrote earlier Santa and the way the four phone is going I really do like so we'll have to see but that's why playing today hopefully I can accomplish it we'll see like I said I fell my july will call so I thought well I'm here I thought I would show you guys how I set up my videos so this is my setup so this is my camera that I use I use the canon 5d mark ii i have this rode mic i have a hdmi port cord hooked up all the way to a monitor right here and this is where i sit in this monitor is to insure my focus and my lighting is and things of that nature so now you can see hello oh that's my setup and yeah it's kind of intricate a lot of freaking cords it's a lot to do just for the set up but I really love the quality of my videos and like I said I feel my July book also get ready for that actually a pretty decent book haul not too - that's what I've done today this morning I honestly ran some errands I took my son to the park again because when you're on a budget like myself because a lot of budget right now go straight to budget on the park is your friend and I think it's going to rain tomorrow so I had to get in that Park time that outside time but yeah the summer really done today like they said my life is pretty boring not much happened so I'm thinking about doing a super cool montage because the light montage is honestly about putting my book haul books on my shelves because I save them in a stack until I fill my book haul then I put them like efficiently on my shelf I don't know it's a weird system it works for me so I don't know let's put it back together hopefully you can see me might be out of shot a lot I don't know listen I can't play well and this your dog the yacht you gotta pay and only the good book can bring the comfort well lay on the floor praying friend but in my dreams update tie pushing away to proud person for number who understand the lonely lover brokenhearted and sad hello there um I just got back from the library or just went into the library because I had a couple items on hold so I thought I would share with you what they are sorry this might be a really weird angle I got the first thing I got is the fill in boyfriend by Kasey West I have already read this book I have just I want to do a key cos author's related video and this is one of the few that I don't own so I'd like to have this Bobby's obviously want to show you in my video so I just got that you know for the video purpose it does like graphic novels because I decided you know if I get to my five books that's a great but I kind of like maybe a graphic novel to read you know because I don't read too many graphic novels honestly I don't read barely any of them but I put on I put four on hold and when I went to go to the library to pick them up they were not was I what I was expecting they are massive coffee on reserve because I have read a few Buffy graphic miles before and if you can see this thing is freaking massive that's my face this is this this is the bucket Vampire Slayer season 8 Volume one I guess this is the library edition this thing is huge I think it's got like over 300 pages in it so there's and I got four of them so there's no way I'm going to read all of these and you know a span of two days that I have but I got volume one so there's that this is Season eight volume two they are ridiculously heavy like I felt like really crazy person realizes I have season I have what is this volume three or Xander a little right there no no dawn that's weird oh and then I have volume four so I think they're Season nine out now but either way I do I mean if you guys don't know I love Buffy Buffy was one of my first loves right if they were Terry Potter I fell into Buffy and Harry Potter kind of at the same time like around twelve thirteen and I have loved them both forever so I'm hoping honestly just to get to the first one I think that's doable to getting to the first one so we'll see I mean I love Buffy I did read a long way home like a few years ago and I did the booktubeathon um and I liked it and I loved it hoping to enjoy this this is so bad like this is like this is a wet biscuit I live right now I'm in the car because I'm actually heading to church I'm running the slides tonight which means that I just run the slides while the band is playing and then our pastor has a sermon that he has slides to use for his sermon and I'm in charge of like going along like hitting his points like when he hits a particular point or a verse I hit the you know next slide for that it's fun to do but it's also very tedious because if you work with computers a lot of things could go wrong you know things like that but I really enjoyed doing it so I'll hopefully read a little bit tonight I still have like 200 pages to read us because you would love to hate me I'm hoping to get to it hopefully I'll get to it before sleep claims me we'll have to say I'm warning everybody welcome to booktubeathon day 5 I totally forgot to update you guys night about what I read because sleep claimed me like I thought it was it haha I just finished because she loved to hate me I read to her in danger and that is all I read yesterday which is pretty good I honestly did not think I was going to finish this it have a ton of time and I stayed up pretty late to finishes though either way I finished it I'm still on my streets of reading a book a day pretty much which Estelle's me this is the fourth book I have read with booktubeathon and I'm saddened to attend ology there are some amazing stories there's some decent stories and there's some not-so-great stories and that's exactly how I felt about this one I will do a full video review on this book like talking about each one of the stories and rating them as I go because I did raise them as I read them all you my two favorite stories of the whole book definitely the sea witch by Marissa Meyer and death knell by Victoria Schwab I'm not surprised that those are my favorite at all I really enjoyed this is denars ones too but there was something in there that I didn't love but overall I thought it was a decent like anthology I wanted more kind of Villa d'Este I kind of wanted more like really creepy bad to the bone like evil sharing of villains this book discovers like the notion of villain like the good versus evil and the line that is straddle which I do appreciate wanted just some you know oh wait so we're a story honestly for like Bellatrix strange I wanted one story that was just gonna creep me out one like made me want to hate this villain so much unfortunately there was not one in here that I just really liked who had that effect at my boil and they feel that way reason right was a soul anthology would recommend it especially because it has a lot of amazing authors in it so that is my total page count for Thursday four to four so my stats are right here so I read 290 pages I completed one book and I completed one challenge I take this book for two challenges I picked it for read a heist book and I've read that I picked it for read a book without doors that didn't happen I didn't think the outdoors what was going to happen I will think it will I plant today are to start and finish hopefully close enough to touch by Colleen Oakley this is 306 pages which is very man flossing it's a chiclet book and it just seems to be like going to be a cute fun read so I hope I have time to read it depends of my son's number enough in today full of errands and grocery drawing and budgeting and building and all the really crappy stuff we have to do as adults at home loaders moms and whatever it's just like I some days I'm like all for like budgeting yeah we're shopping yet and some days I'm like why today with a it's a curing this and the whole thing to read a good chunk of it while he nap if we mess up and the rest of it for the night I feel like I am pushing myself a lot with a sweet athough which is a good thing and a bad thing I'm staying up a little bit more late every single night instead of usually while my son naps I work that's my time I just make myself to work every single day but lately I've been reading which Australian that but they're smooth at all but I'm kind of falling behind on my editing and like my video planning and all the other house I have to do so like you know it's a give-and-take relationship with this read-a-thon you know I'm reading a lot great but I'm suffering a lot in other places but either way I see it it's only week and in my last book I put on my TBR the back pain I should book today I want read all five my book for my QPR in five days so I obviously have two days full whenever I want to read and Sunday I don't think a lot of readings going to happen because I have a lot of plans and then want to connect them and then I'm running a Twitter sprint nitration think you just really can't really read when you were on the tradition update you web program on pulls up touch hopefully I accomplished today I don't see it in too late singer problem here it is 3:00 p.m. and I have yet to read past page 15 oh I knew there's going to be a day where it's kind of a on I think today will be that day plus and a headache that I cannot shake I'm working on my July book haul you want to see a sneak peek at that there you go there's a little snippet of the book haul you can see what's a half so ya know what has happened today like I said put it honest I'm thinking now since we're like kind of halfway through the day my goal is to not finish the book at all honestly it's to get at least half way through and then save the last half for tomorrow morning and the afternoon and then read a graphic novel so either way I'm okay with that as well I also did the booktubeathon Instagram challenge I haven't been doing them as much as I should because oh crap you can't even see there's my photo there you go just imagine the Secretary on Instagram so I went out I particularly bought this piece of like slice of cake for my local grocery store just for this photo I knew as soon as I saw the challenge I'll pair with food I immediately knew I had to buy the slice of cake because of the rainbow and it goes so perfectly well with the cover so oh I really like how it came out and if you click on the hashtag and right there like I'm up I'm left with the kind of top good morning I am now officially the cleanup are getting to update you guys basically I just doesn't I forget to do it he's obviously a date sync that booktubeathon so it is especially Saturday so I'm here to tell you what I read on Friday so my whole goal Friday was to read as much as I can up close enough to touch by Colleen Oakley we saw I wasn't doing so well yesterday quite honestly didn't think I was going to read that much but I'm happy to say that I read over half the book i read 200 pages and i'm pretty happy with that means I only have like a hundred and like three pages to go within this book which is very very much easy to do today because you know going on our pages I'm really enjoying how this book is going I really like it so my plan today is to finish this book and start another one now I said this is the last book that was officially on my book to the pond TBR so I can read whatever I want I know I talked to you guys about being a Buffy graphic novel and I did read a little bit this is one subo in Ohio on fuzzy use is like a makeshift tripod I talked to you guys about reading Buffy but I read first go pages I like it not America see it's not a really big graphic novel person honestly happening I'm going to just pick a really short book and go with that so these are all my short books and I'm thinking a short book because I have time today to read but tomorrow I honestly dolts tomorrow's a busy day I've got a lot of stuff going on which she will see tomorrow so I honest I don't know if I'm going to have any time to read tomorrow at all and if I do have time it's going to be very limited so I figured safe way to do thank you that's a resist I picked all like this short books on my shelf and to go with that I try to take folks that are like less than 200 pages this one's like 195 this one is this one oh this one's like two so today I don't know about that one um this one is 190 and this one is 184 so I I think it's going to be I don't know about this one give it to me sorry and honestly I'm kind of leaning towards this one this one has been on my shelves for a hot minute and there's no good reason why I already yet because I love Sara Bareilles and they won't be on the Instagram challenge probable to decide today is kind of like moods like you say you take a picture of like I think items or just like the mood of the book and mrs. music and I was gonna do a whole things like vinyls and kind of guitar mics and just musical equipment with your sofa goggles that'd be nice photo to take so I'm eating some of explosive duck and I just really want to rate it basically like she just tells you a lot about with why the song she's written like what they're about so it's a very very easy accomplishment up a plan today so I think officially let's say officially is to finish this book and to hopefully start and maybe finish if not okay this book and if I do that six books opens booktubeathon so I'm feeling pretty good that just acted certification test yes how you feel y'all feel like a huge weight off your back now what do you get it now I don't know there and it's been a few hours since we last talked I haven't read a single page but that's about the change actually you saw it mat path to certification test which is amazing because if you've taken any sort of any test really you know how much you know Sunday and time and effort you put into it and you know that I'm so happy for him that he's done that and it just puts a strain because you know I have to watch know a little bit extra where usually he would help me out and you know he has to put all these hours studying and studying and so many hours guys this was the last test that he had to take this year so he can have the rest of the year off that just relax watch his shows because he likes watching shows he likes to just hang out do whatever he wants to do so I'm so happy I'm so proud of him he worked so so hard for us but he decided he wanted to take know what his parents house for a few hours because you know he knew how much I've been wanting to read and just how much I needed a break and everybody so Donna surprised dinner with maybe trying to shoot a blog here or vlog or whatever you call it on me and know are just going over to my parents house so his grandparents house there's a little know that there oh that was another successful trip to my parents house no we had a great time I just sitting in the back there drinking his water but it's always good to go to my parents house and just visit with them and now I can visit with his grandparents to feel very blessed to have such great parents that not only spend time with me but also with no one and being really good grandparents the reason we go over my parents house so from time to time is to give Heather a break from taken care of Noah just the everyday routine this really helps urges to have some time to do what she wants to do to read and everything so you know I don't have to say it enough but I really really appreciate everything that my wife does she's such a good person she's a hard worker and she does just about everything at the house and holds up to jobs and everything so this is just been a time for her to kind of regroup and I know it's not nearly long enough but hopefully it helps but yeah so I love I love my wife so much and I just appreciate everything she does I think I'm just gonna brew some coffee I don't drink a lot of coffee but today just seems like a day to drink coffee because it's raining and kind of dreary and I'm gonna knock out these last hundred pages of close enough to touch and then hopefully I can get through a quarter maybe half of sounds like to me by Sara Bareilles excited for either just reading for a while and I will update you guys in a few hours let you know how I did all is taking its place and run stream and on the ground beneath me spring is an empty home all must come to you can have to stop the water by eye but in my dreams I stay Brian all broken it just finished close enough to touch by Colleen Oakley give it a four and a half out of five I really enjoyed it I can understand why this book has so many good reviews it's such a beautiful book you know you have books that you just read it to make you feel happy they're just all so beautiful we don't know about this book this book follows a 28 year old name and Jubilee and Julie is allergic to it essentially to everybody if she has skin on skin contact she will break out into a huge illiterate reaction she could go into in a plastic shock and died ages of 18 to like 28 she lived inside her house and never left because she was just so afraid to her mom even kind of left and then she gets news that her mom died and her mom had been sending her money that I kind of keep her on the upkeep of the house and stuff like that and she can't have that money anymore physically Jubilee has to like finally leave the house and go get a job and she does she works in a library and then she meets a guy named Eric and Eric is has just adopted a ten year old boy that his was his best friend's son and they sort of start talking and just a beautiful book I'd say like it is a chiclet book but I don't know Foucault like that like it's not all about romance it's more about you know human contact and human connection and just a beautiful book honestly so I would highly recommend this book it was really good so I'm glad I read it I get on - sounds like me by Sara Bareilles I kind of need a little bit of break because I'm reading for a little bit so I'm going to do some work general stuff and then I'm going to come back and maybe read like 50 60 pages of this like I said I've taken these last two days of book to become very very chill I felt like I really push myself of a first half to the last half I'm just kind of kind of relaxed finish sounds like me by Sara Bareilles which I wasn't even planning to finish today but it was an easy book to read so yeah that is my sixth book for booktubeathon down was 184 pages and I finished close enough to touch earlier which was like I had 106 pages left so my grand total today for stats are two and 90 pages I completed one challenge which was the read a book you bought because of the cover and yeah six books pretty good so I'll see you all tomorrow to the last day the booktubeathon um there and welcome to booktubeathon day seven or the last day of booktubeathon I cannot believe it's here so it's around ten o'clock in the morning I actually just got done with a photo shoot this morning I did a photo shoot of like a second year olds birthday a two year olds birthday and it was really good I'm trying to find like a shoot photo to show you guys I can't even see it so I'm gonna focus but that's just a little snippet on it he's adorable um I'm so lucky to do what I do I love being a photographer and I love my clients so much like the little boy I just did photos for today I photographed his parents engagement their wedding the returned photos with their first twin girls I've done several they're like birthdays and things like that and it's just so amazing that I have such amazing clients that I really consider my friends not just my clients like I'll text em see how they're doing throughout you know the year and they'll text me and you know I can have the privilege and honor of like photographing their life you know that's a big deal I don't take it lightly at all that you know I get to take photos of some of their most important life memories of getting married of having children of watching their children grow up so I truly just love what I do honestly so yeah that's what I've done this morning I haven't done any reading today I don't know if I'll even do any reading today at all because I actually have some plans today so you'll see that as we go along but I thought I'll catch you up today so yeah on the way home it was a good photo shoot and I'm happy I've done it so yeah there's updates for you on the Sunday hello everybody it has been a long time since I've updated you but we went to pick up my mom from the airport because she got back from Chicago and now we're on our way home actually running a Twitter spread like 15 minutes I'll probably have to do a lot of it from my phone I have read some today surprisingly which I want the planning to read off I have read about 70 pages of nimona the graphic novel and I really enjoy it so I'm hoping to finish it and if I do that'll be seven books in seven days which sounds like but like I said I'm running to a difference for a couple hours and I know that's going to take up all of my time so we'll have to see how it goes so that's my update for now not much has happened today just been running around doing all the things since now it's almost 6 o'clock I am in the middle of running my Twitter sprints which is very hard I I don't know how anybody keep self with doing Twitter Sprint's it's I think a constant case of anxiety like the notifications just keep going I keep thinking oh I favored it enough I've replied a lot no like 50 more Solanum like how is this real life this is just put my challenge up and it oh how to pick some money out of all these things keynote to say like this is insanity is what it is honestly in sanity but amazing insanity all I finally stopped Twitter Sprint is officially done so that was awesome it was exhilarating scary terrifying anxious and fun all wrapped up to no unbundle I'm so lucky and so gracious that arrow asked me and I was a sort of spread I am I can't believe just the amount of work that goes with the Twitter sprint I cannot imagine being a house much less running this whole shindig so ha exciting time so now my plan hopefully is success right now is to finish editing this vlog right here sans one clip and hopefully after that finish nimona and that'll be it for the booktubeathon the next clip officially of me talking with the last clip of this vlog and the last clip of the booktubeathon for me so what a week what a week so I just finished nimona and I'll see this in I really enjoyed it I loved it honestly I wasn't expecting to love it at all because I don't read a ton of graphic novels but honestly give this a five out of five like I loved every single page of this and it makes me want to read all of the graphic novels so if you any suggestions let me know because I'll probably head in my library soon but yeah this is my last book for booktubeathon it was 266 pages I completed one book today I have completed one challenge so 7 books in 7 days that's insane so I'm not any of you all of my stats right now because I'm tired when I honestly and I'm filming a booktubeathon wrap-up so that should be hopefully up tomorrow as you're seeing this it should hopefully be up tomorrow everything goes as planned so that's condition I'm going to share with you in that video all the books I read what challenges I accomplished how many pages I read and all that so look forward to that but that wasn't for booktubeathon I hope you guys enjoyed my vlog let me know if you did or if you didn't you know and thank you guys so much for watching you\n"