New Personal Adage

via Chris “Big Black” Boykin.

Andrew & Stefan

Two of the best people I know.

Shot this on my T1i with an old speed-light from the 80s.

Saturday Walk

Merry Christmas, all!

Hello everyone,

I am sorry that it has been so long since I have posted a blog entry, life seems to be moving along at lightning speed.  For example, tomorrow is Christmas, I can’t believe the holiday came so quickly this year.  Kendra and I are enjoying the brisk, yet dry weather in Portland this year.  The lack of snow is a welcomed change from the previous Christmas season that I spent in Portland.

As we are looking back at 2009 and looking forward to 2010, we are grateful for so many things.  This past year has seen our engagement, marriage, move to Portland and so much more!  I’m writing this while sitting in our lovely little apartment in the southwest part of Portland.  Kendra is snuggled up on the couch enjoying the warmth of the heater and listening to the click-clack of my keyboard.

It is Christmas eve, and for the first time, we are not with our families in Eagle Point.  We decided to spend the holiday in our new home, with our new family, each other.  We are excited about forming new traditions that we can pass on to our children, traditions of love, warmth, hospitality, and thankfulness for the birth of Christ and what that means for us.  We chose not to have a Christmas tree this year, instead, we have an antique bird cage that we have decorated with lights and ornaments.  We have a few small presents around out “tree” that we got for one another, but it’s nothing fancy.  This is the way we like it.  

Tonight we will be joining some friends for dinner and celebration, their names are Jason and Amber Clark.  They have a beautiful little girl named Coraline.  Jason and Amber are members of our home community through Imago Dei.  We had an almost immediate connection with Jason and Amber, their openness, honesty and hospitality have been the conduits for the building of a great friendship.

We can’t wait to wake up tomorrow morning, eat some tasty breakfast, and open presents!  It should be a lot of fun.  We love you all very much and our hope for you this Christmas is that the recessed economy would not bring you down, but that love, community, Christ and family would build you up.

With our love,

Will & Kendra Nelson

Stoked.

Kendra and I just picked up the Canon Rebel T1i (500D).  We are super happy with it so far and can’t wait to share the images that we capture with it.