Our charity made it into the top 100 and received a $25,000 gift from Chase. I know the direct recipients, the children at The House of Love in Thailand, will benefit greatly from this gift. So to all my Facebook friends who voted, thank you!! We are personally invested in this charity as my husband has visited every year for the past three years and created a mini-documentary about the House of Love. We are strong financial supporters to their education and well-being. Our home contains images of the children with my husband, as we consider them part of our family. You can view the mini-doc on the Hope For Hill Tribes link above where you will meet some of these children and hear their story. Thank you so much for your support!

I’ve got a slew of images I just haven’t posted yet. Of course, as usual I am behind. I’ve been running still. I will be doing the Uptown Pumpkin Dash 5k in the morning, Thanksgiving morning, my first Thanksgiving Day race. The temps have been mild for this time of year so I expect a great race. On December 2, I head back to Las Vegas to race the Rock n Roll Las Vegas Marathon and Half Marathon. This is the end of the year big bang for me, I did it last year and will be meeting up with my old buddies once again to race the strip. This year they are doing it at night so it should be loads of fun with costumes, extravagance, flair, and spectacular crowd support. Last year, the race had 34,000 runners. This year it’s 47,000 and sold out. Now that’s going to be a whole lot of maneuvering through the streets. I can’t wait!! Afterwards, I’m going to settle in for the winter. I’m looking forward to taking a break from the long distance running I’ve done this year..but I’ll be back at it come January. I’ve got goals for next year.

While in Tulsa last month, I had the joy of photographing some dear friends of mine with their adopted son, Ilya. He was adopted from Russia a year ago, and they wanted to get some casual photos taken with him. He’s a heart-breaker of a boy and I couldn’t be more thrilled for my friends, who waited a long long long time for him to come.