Jaime. Travels. Photography. Fundraiser.

Jaime is an amazing wedding photographer. She is originally from BC, Canada. She now lives in California with her husband Will. Jaime is as beautiful and inspiring as her pictures are!
Please visit her web site to take a look!

A few years ago Jaime was on a Trans-Siberian Road adventure with her friend Allison. A common friend of ours connected us so that the girls could stay with me in Mongolia where I was living at the time. I fell in love with Jaime's beautiful, inspired and inspiring pictures. I made a promise to myself that if at all possible, if I ever were to get married, this would be the person I'd love to be there to take pictures for us...

Jaime wasn't able to be there for our wedding because she was a Middle-Eastern adventure with her husband... While in Jordan, Jaime got thrown off a camel and broke her pelvis. It was painful time and there was a lot of virtual hugs and real time prayers going for Jaime... Praise the Lord she is on the mend! God's hand has been upon this beautiful couple and now their family is growing as Jaime and Will are going to become parents in September!

My dream of Jaime's photography being involved in our wedding is coming true in quite an unexpected way.  Jaime's donating her skills and time to raise funds for our medical bill... All I can say, girl you are amazing. We're humbled and touched. Hope we can exchange some BIG Russian-Canadian hugs some time soon!

We've survived the Winter

We've survived the winter. Winter of incredible blessings and deep losses. 

We got married. It was a day when our dreams came true.

We got broken.  I sustained 12 breaks in both legs.

We got broke. Our insurance dropped us with a year income medical bill. 

We got heart broken. Tim's Dad and my Grandpa who raised me lost their battle to cancer.

 

It has been hard and definitely not the way we would have chosen to start our married life.  The Lord has showered us with the blessings of His love and peace. We have held on to Him and each other, surrounded by loving family, friends and church family. We've felt His love shielding us from the heavy weight of the medical debt and physical pain, giving us strength for each day. 

 

There have been ups and downs. We had to keep going. Giving up emotionally would've cost us too much time and energy.  But also how could we?! Having Jesus on our side and having the hope in Him, knowing that my body will be healed, we've been thankful... 

If God is for us, who can be against us?  He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?  Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.  Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?  ^{(Romans 8)}