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I don’t have the brain power to write out what all happened in Vegas so I thought I would make a list for now.

-While standing in the booth (that amazing Joy made) a man drove straight into my leg on a motorized wheelchair thingy at full speed, he then crashed into the side of our booth, looked at me with a scowl and drove off.

- I met SUPER famous Jasmine Star and Bobbi Sheridan and they didn’t know who I was when I said hi (embarrassing for me! haha! They did know who I was once I introduced myself though). I guess my black hair threw them off (that’s what I like to think anyway:)

-A guy in an elevator asked me if I had made a couple hundred already that night. So I proceeded to run to my friends room and put my pants on under that ridiculous dress.

-Lots of wardrobe malfunctions. My cool belt that I mentioned, fell off who knows when during the first hour of wearing it, BOTH of my main staples for my outfits had giant RIPs in them all of the sudden, and my shoes gave me bunions (not really, but they were still hurting until yesterday).

-I dropped chocolate all down my shirt right when I went to Photog Unite, a Photographers Bible study. Embarrassing… again.

-Our booth looked awesome.

-People thought that Millie’s Get It Together Kits and my UNO DVDs were free with the Kelly Moore Bag, so I ended up loosing more to thievery than I sold there. I did sell a lot online though, so it made up for it, even though I was at -11 at the trade show.

-Josh Smith, Brent and Amanda Holloman and I all stayed up and watched LOST on the laptop while sitting in Millie’s king sized bed.

- I found my new FAVORITE fragrance : Marc Jacobs Daisy

-Went to one party for only 45 minutes, and once my entire insides started lifting against gravity because of the bass, I quickly left with another bad case of reception ear.

-Gambled $65 thinking I would win the $99,000 jackpot and didn’t win. Sad. Sad.

-Met a TON of cool Oklahoma people!

-Brittany, Ginny, Cristy, Lain and Courtney were some of the special few to see me bust a dance move in their room.

-Ate Peanut Butter Chocolate ice cream from Hagan Daaz daily.

-Blushed daily.

-Met Tamara Lackey. I like her.

-Met my Local Boost guys, JD and Barney for the first time. These two put me on the map as far as searching for local vendors on google.com !! Check them out at greentent.com

-Ate dinner at Diego with my Thirst Relief auction winner, Carli, and the next night with the Marfa Trip girls.

-Made fun of a few funny old men photographers, Lord forgive me. Amen.

I will think of more later, now onto ALBUMS and moving my house!

My first newborn in over 4 years! I just ordered a ton of stuff from Etsy for my new niece and best friend’s babies coming up in the next 2 months! Here is Riley, a sweet little newborn.

Well I was supposed to wait until tomorrow morning to post the UNO DVD SALE at $99, but I am just too impatient.

Buy your UNO DVD online here or at the tradeshow at WPPI in Las Vegas until Wednesday in the Kelly Moore Bag booth! I will be waiting with open arms to anyone who wants to come by and see me.

Still not sure what on earth UNO DVD is? It is a 1 hour video of me teaching all of the photoshop techniques that I know! It is great for the professional, hobbiest or mom wanting to have beautiful color and exposure outside of the camera! Check out the website: unobylaurenclark.com and check out the blog’s latest contest for a FREE one on one seminar with me! unobylaurenclark.com/blog

This $50 off sale will be valid until next Saturday and will probably never be this low again………. E V E R.

If we sell out then we will make another batch and mail it out within 1 month.

My friend Ginny came Thursday to second shoot a wedding with Shari and they stayed with me and we stayed up WAY too late. We had to make a trip to Sugar Brown’s, my bro-in-law’s coffee shop, at least once, but more realistically, 3 times …before Sunday. She loves Sugar Brown’s so much that she bought a t-shirt last time and wore it there the first morning. I bought one with a boot on it and plan on wearing it in Las Vegas, we will be representing!

So tomorrow I leave for Vegas! I am about 210% more excited that last time I mentioned it. I was dreading it because I was feeling chubby and out of style, but now I’m feeling a bit more confident and way more excited! I realized that it didn’t matter if I was a tad bit chubby, it’s just a shell and no one really cares anyway.

I also found a cute belt and grey cardigan at Forever 21 for $20 and it just magically worked with all of my current clothes. So I might be stlyin’ a bit more than I thought, but be checking out my manure smellin’ cowboy boots each day, because I will be wearing them! I went out and brushed the horses for 45 minutes this afternoon and it worked it’s magic back into the boots.

By the way, would you like to know what my funny idea for WPPI is? I want to secretly photograph the ultra “famouses” like In Touch mag would and have a blog about how they “shop just like us” and “Eat hamburgers just like us”. I just blew my cover. Sheesh. So if you see me lurking behind a ficus tree, you know what I’m doing, shhhh.

This is my best friend from 9th grade, Hillary (Lavo) Simpson. She and I were thick as thieves in high school. I can’t believe how many people I know are having babies, it’s crazy. Here is Hill and baby Zoe.

Sunday I leave for the biggest get together of photographers that I know of… W P P I. I felt like spacing the letters out for dramatic effect. Wedding Portrait Photographers International. 10,000 photographers on the Las Vegas Strip for 1 whole week. S  C  A  R  Y (I double spaced those letters for double the drama).

The last time I went I was another budding photographer trying to get famous and sight see the real “Famouses” walking around the dining areas (oh LOOK! There is JASMINE STAR and DAVID JAY! Over there is JOHN COOPER! WOW! I wish I could be as cool as them!).

Fame seeking, sheesh, that was real awesome (sarcasm) and extra shallow of me. This time I’m going half way emberassed and nervous. What to wear, what to say? How not to blush and get sweaty pits in front of everyone. I don’t know how I’m going to do it. First day of junior high ALL over again. Good thing I was homeschooled in junior high and all I had to see was Magen and Chris.

I think I’m rambling from all of these kids sessions lately. I haven’t had a whole lot of communication besides with my dogs and my sad, sad, keyboard in the last 4 days.

Ok, back to Vegas. Last time I went to Vegas was 3 years ago. I hired a trainer and lost 10 pounds, tanned my face off and tried to be cooler than will I ever be. It was lame and I felt empty. This year, you will get chubby, frumpy me. I’m not going to try to put on a show, some awesome clothes that I will never wear again, and a false sense of security. My friend Ginny has been calling me frantic about the same issues, “What are you going to wear to WPPI and all the parties?!?”, as lame as it seems to you normal people out there, photographers turn into different animals at WPPI. They play the part, attend the parties and try to rub elbows with the best or at least get noticed somehow.  I told Ginny that I thought we should dress up real country. Overalls and cowboy boots., but then we would still be trying to get attention. Oh well, it’s a lose/lose unless you are just yourself. I hope to be just myself. Approachable and quirky, with a little bit of tongue tied mixed in.

Alright. So if you are coming and you bring it and dress up all awesome and make me feel like a loser, I will try not to be jealous of your cool clothes and nice hair:)

Come and meet me. Just as I am.

I will be in the Kelly Moore Bag/UNO/Get it Together Kit Booth at the tradeshow almost all day every day. I will need a card game or something to do.

Quick commercial: Don’t forget that my Photoshop tutorial DVD will be the cheapest EVER! $99 all week long starting Sunday on the website and at the tradeshow!

Carter LOVES football and cars/machines!

Pure Country. These 4 live on a farm in Hermleigh, Texas, my old home town for 6 years. I’ve known their parents for 15 years now. Wow, I feel old saying that. More to come, off to another shoot!

My first senior of the BUSY season!!

We have signed the contract on our house. It is done. No more showings, cleaning, vacuuming, stealing the dogs away, and praying for an offer.

We move into my mom’s rent house on March 20th, and close on our house on March 25th. One of the scariest things about the move was the time frame, I knew that if we didn’t sell the house in the winter then we would be moving during the BUSIEST time of the year for me, Senior season. And guess what? We are moving smack dab in the middle of senior season.

Ugh, My heart is slightly overwhelmed and slightly apathetic. I wanted to get packing, but my list of to dos is just too long to get my butt moving. Josh is making 2 week trips to Stillwater to clear the land, and I am left taking weeklong trips to sell UNO, plan workshops and teach workshops. My life is chaos. If I can just make it to June then I will almost be in the clear.

So at lunch today I decided to get the ball rolling, and pack the movie room. This is my most favorite room in the house, but also the smallest and easiest to pack. I have packed almost everything into boxes in the movie room and it hit me, we are moving out of this beautiful, big, NEW house. I was a little sad, but trying to focus on my new life in Oklahoma. This year will definitely be one of the toughest I will ever have, not only are we moving into 3 different houses this year (current house, rental in Lubbock, then rental in Stillwater), but I’m moving away from my family for the first time, and changing my business from weddings to kids. A WHOLE lot of scary is coming my way this year.

It’s going to be good though, I just know it, because this is what the Lord is leading us to do, and we must walk by faith and not by sight. I haven’t ever really had to do this before, but I know that  for those who LOVE the Lord, all things will work together for GOOD, and I’m looking for that good!!

So during this huge transition I’m asking for just a spoonful of grace from everyone. I will probably be even harder to reach by phone, I might look a little more frazzled, frumpy, chubby, and I might be so overwhelmed that I might cry, maybe not, but I will do my absolute best to keep up with all of my deadlines and duties.

Anyways, I felt like posting… again. My blog is just lighting up with posts lately, maybe it’s because I’m making up for the winter silence.  I have friends spending the night all week long and hopefully can keep the packing going while they talk to me.

Sheesh, look at all of these magazines.

Action movies. Boxes and Boxes of movies.

Heidi