One week and counting {personal}

It has been one week since my older brother left. :) One week! It feels like two.

I am not focusing on the negative or melancholy side of life (at least I am trying not to...), and I have found two advantages of having Nic gone.

1. The Bathroom stays cleaner

2. The sweets stay on the counter longer

Don't you agree? Big big reasons to smile. ;)

Before he left, I had a "picture-a-day" challenge with him....I sure love looking at them!

My Foursome: the Wondo Siblings {personal}

As you all know from my previous post, my older brother Nicolas is leaving. Yes, he is leaving in seven days. It is so hard to believe that in one week our foursome will be broken!

Because I knew that these Four Musketeers would be separated for a while...I asked my amazing photographer friend - Sarah - to take our pictures together. She kindly allowed me to post some pictures here on my blog, but you all should go check her blog out! {also....if you like her on Facebook you miiight just win a gift card!} The biggest reason you should go see her blog post, is because she posted more pictures that you might want to see. :) Be sure to leave a comment and tell her hello from me!!

Anyway. What more can I say? The people below aren't just some of the best people I know. They are the best people I know. I am beyond grateful that I was able to live with my best friends for almost twenty years. The memories I have, the inside jokes we've made, and the name we share are some of the dearest things to me.

I hope you enjoy seeing our lovely smiles! ;)




































AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnDDDDDDDDDDDD: I just had to post some "personality" (aka blooper) pictures. :) Enjoy, folks!


























Didn't Sarah do an amaaazing job!?!?! I can't say thank you enough! :)

Mary and Patricia: portraits {denver, co portrait photographer}

Oh, These girls!

Maree and Icia are my favorite twins ever. When I am around them I feel as if God blessed me with younger sisters....and I.Love.It!

Both of them are bubbling with laughter. I have never felt funnier. :) Not only did they make me feel important and talented, but hand down - these two ladies are the most photogenic people I have ever shot. I practically didn't have to tell them what to do. They just smiled, and WOW! They both knew how to be beautiful for me and my camera. :)

Girls - I love you both so much! I pray that God blesses your sixteenth year with many sweet memories! :)

Stay Focused {personal}

Every once in a while, I  have to sit down and talk to myself. My father has always stressed the importance of goals - daily goals, monthly goals, yearly goals, and life goals. Almost every day - one or both of my parents will come and ask me, "So Felicia, what's your goal for today?" {Except my mom would say "Eece" :) instead of Felicia} It is always so fulfilling to put a check mark beside an accomplished task. There are many days, however, that those check marks don't get placed in the right spot.

The biggest priorities in my life right now are as follows: God, Family, School, Saving. And there are days that I skip my Prayer time, or I don't save as much as I planned, or I procrastinate my schoolwork...all those things are little failures. I hate failure. Those little failures are all things I do - but I don't want to do them! It reminds me of Romans 7:

"For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.  (Romans 7:15 ESV)

When my to-do list isn't completed, and I stare at a long list of things I haven't accomplished, I remind myself: "Felicia, You don't want to waste your life."  Yes. The number one life lesson last year {and continuing into this year} is time management. I have to identify my top time wasters: Facebook, my phone, pictures, and so on....all these things distract me from my priorities, and I repeat those words: 'I do not understand my own actions.'  And then comes the hard part. Making the fences around the time wasters so I actually do what I want. :) I need to stay focused!

I also need to remind myself that I am a Christian first. Because of my perfectionism, I can easily wake up in the morning with my mental list of school tasks, meetings, appointments, etc. at the forefront of my mind. The job I work, the clothes I wear, my life isn't wrapped up in those things. If I don't have the right mindset....I can start living for the camera I want to buy, or the education I am looking to get.  

Galatians 2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me."

And that is my verse for the Month.

I refuse to waste my life. Alright, Felicia. Don't waste your life. :)