Quella Persona http://quellapersona.com Boise LifeStyle Photography Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:08:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 boise photographer: my first exhibit! http://quellapersona.com/gina-marie-photography/boise-photographer-my-first-exhibit/ http://quellapersona.com/gina-marie-photography/boise-photographer-my-first-exhibit/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:08:36 +0000 Gina http://quellapersona.com/?p=4307 Well, if you want to call it that. For the first time, ever I am displaying my artwork at Thomas Hammer coffee shop during the whole month of February!

 

]]> http://quellapersona.com/gina-marie-photography/boise-photographer-my-first-exhibit/feed/ 0 boise lifestyle photographer: cloe & george http://quellapersona.com/gina-marie-photography/boise-lifestyle-photographer-cloe-george/ http://quellapersona.com/gina-marie-photography/boise-lifestyle-photographer-cloe-george/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:14:26 +0000 Gina http://quellapersona.com/?p=4289 I love a good love story…

He’s American from Caldwell, she’s French from Normandy. They met in France. He now lives in Minnesota and she lives in New York. He asked…

]]> http://quellapersona.com/gina-marie-photography/boise-lifestyle-photographer-cloe-george/feed/ 1 boise lifestyle photographer: growing up http://quellapersona.com/my-family/boise-lifestyle-photographer-quiet/ http://quellapersona.com/my-family/boise-lifestyle-photographer-quiet/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:15:24 +0000 Gina http://quellapersona.com/?p=4281 I took this last night on a whim…I looked over and there he was reading next to the fire. It was a Norman Rockwell moment so I had to grab my camera. I love the light of the ipad (his new reading device) on his face. He is eleven now…and such a great kid! He likes structure, he needs it, and with a mom who is less than, he has come to place where he creates it himself. His alarm is set for 6:30 a.m., not that he needs it, one trait of mine is he is an early riser. He wakes up, gets dressed, makes himself breakfast and packs his own lunch. He has another alarm set to go off 15 minutes before he needs to leave to prompt him to get his back-pack packed and his coat on (the second I still have to enforce). Then another alarm sounds and out the door he goes…but even in his most rushed days, he still gives me a hug before leaving.

]]> http://quellapersona.com/my-family/boise-lifestyle-photographer-quiet/feed/ 1 boise lifestyle photographer: joy http://quellapersona.com/my-family/boise-lifestyle-photographer-joy/ http://quellapersona.com/my-family/boise-lifestyle-photographer-joy/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:30:15 +0000 Gina http://quellapersona.com/?p=4277 I don’t think there is anything that gives me greater joy than when my boy play nicely with each other.

]]> http://quellapersona.com/my-family/boise-lifestyle-photographer-joy/feed/ 2 boise lifestyle photographer: dog days of winter http://quellapersona.com/my-family/boise-lifestyle-photographer-dog-days-of-winter/ http://quellapersona.com/my-family/boise-lifestyle-photographer-dog-days-of-winter/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:26:14 +0000 Gina http://quellapersona.com/?p=4273 Charlotte…8 weeks old and her first week with our family settles in next to my boots.

]]> http://quellapersona.com/my-family/boise-lifestyle-photographer-dog-days-of-winter/feed/ 0 boise lifestyle photographer: winter wonderland http://quellapersona.com/my-family/boise-lifestyle-photographer-winter-wonderland/ http://quellapersona.com/my-family/boise-lifestyle-photographer-winter-wonderland/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:24:27 +0000 Gina http://quellapersona.com/?p=4269 It hasn’t snowed all season. Bogus Basin, our local ski hill has been closed…everyone has been complaining and today we got dumped on. Unfortunately it started too late to cancel school which means Jay is at school while Luke gets to play. Nobody show him this post…okay?

]]> http://quellapersona.com/my-family/boise-lifestyle-photographer-winter-wonderland/feed/ 1 charlotte http://quellapersona.com/my-family/charlotte/ http://quellapersona.com/my-family/charlotte/#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:56:43 +0000 Gina http://quellapersona.com/?p=4266 This is Charlotte…our newest family member. We just brought her home and although she is pretty unsure about us, I can tell she likes us. She especially loves Nick…follows him everywhere. I am looking forward to our adventures with our new dog.

]]> http://quellapersona.com/my-family/charlotte/feed/ 0 ninjago http://quellapersona.com/my-family/ninjago/ http://quellapersona.com/my-family/ninjago/#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:52:31 +0000 Gina http://quellapersona.com/?p=4263 Luke loves playing with his Ninjago legoes…I love watching him play…

]]> http://quellapersona.com/my-family/ninjago/feed/ 0 conversations with jay http://quellapersona.com/my-family/conversations-with-jay/ http://quellapersona.com/my-family/conversations-with-jay/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:42:37 +0000 Gina http://quellapersona.com/?p=4258 Tonight, proof that this 11-year-old is constantly analysing the finer points of life.

Jay: “Mom, I’ve been thinking…”

Me thinking: “What could he possibly want?!?! Brace yourself….”

Me: “Oh really? What about?”

Jay: “Well I think I figured out the reason why kids like to wear stylish undies.”

Me thinking: “Hmmm….he has a good point…why do kids like wearing stylish undies?”

Me: “Why?”

Jay: “So just in case a hobo tears off their pants they can still walk around looking kind of cool.”

Me: “Yeah, you’re probably right…I can’t think of any other reason….”

]]> http://quellapersona.com/my-family/conversations-with-jay/feed/ 2 boise lifestyle photographer: i’m glad i have a small house http://quellapersona.com/personal/boise-lifestyle-photographer-im-glad-i-have-a-small-house/ http://quellapersona.com/personal/boise-lifestyle-photographer-im-glad-i-have-a-small-house/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:00:10 +0000 Gina http://quellapersona.com/?p=4248 It’s that time of year again…New Year’s Resolutions! Ugh…the pressure!!! Every year I beat myself up and resolve that this year I will become perfect…lose 10-15 pounds, get wash-board abs, have a clean and de-cluttered house, make home-made meals, learn to sew, save money, teach the boys a new language…on and on and on the list goes and by February I am the same old imperfect me.

Here is my list from 2008 (it has 30 items!!!): I am the very same person I was then…loving fresh starts and still believing I don’t appreciate the ones I love enough.

I was beating myself up again this year and realized I have a lot to be proud of and think maybe in 2012 instead of a complete and unrealistic over-haul, I will just strive to do the things that I do a little bit better.

Okay, who are we kidding…here’s my list…

Do my daily chores: (pictured above…I cleaned my bathrooms today and decided I am glad we didn’t save enough to buy that 5 bedroom, 4 bathroom house…that would have been twice as many bathrooms I’d have to clean this year).

Keep up with my blog: (hence today’s random and disjointed post…so much for doing things better)

Take more photos of the boys!!!! I was looking through last year and hardly took any photos of them and not very many blogs about them either…I feel so bad! So more pictures of the boys…but when I went to take one before bed they were acting like monkeys and I couldn’t get a good shot, so hopefully tomorrow….

Improve my photography and provide a better service my families.

Be good to Nick…he deserves it…he is so good to me.

Pray.

Okay that’s it.

Lose ten pounds…really and truly this year…this is my washboard ab year!

 

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