~Who Are You Again?~

This is Christal from the blog A Moose, A Bear and A Ladybug.  Isn’t she a cutie?



(Photo taken by my sister, Andrea.)


Christal was the cause of one of the biggest fits of laughter I’ve ever been a part of in my life.

On our last night of the I Heart Faces workshop, a bunch of us went on a Photowalk through downtown Dallas together and ended up eating at an authentic BBQ restaurant (yum!)

By this time, we had spent a lot of hours together and everyone knew everyone else very well.  We were comfortable, relaxed, starving and ready to sit down and socialize a bit.

Time passed, conversation continued to flow, laughter was abounding and I was turned to my right talking to Amanda when all of the sudden I heard a roar of laughter from the other end of the table.

Enquiring minds wanted to know…what the heck was going on down there?

It ends up that while she had her phone out, Rebeckah from Life with Kaishon (whom we had all called “Becky” the entire weekend) had sent Christal a Facebook friend request.  A little while later Christal took her phone out and was checking her emails and noticed she had a friend request from a "Rebeckah Leatherman Adams".

After a few seconds of looking at her phone, Christal turned to the girl sitting next to her on her left (Melissa) and whispered “Is there a Rebeckah in our group?  I don’t think I know this person.”

Melissa looked at her in disbelief and said “Um, yeah…she’s the person sitting right over there.  You know, in that seat RIGHT NEXT TO YOU.”

At which time Christal slowly turned to her right to look at Becky and decided that she’d like to dig a hole to bury her head in.

If we thought we were relaxed before, it was nothing after that little event.  Becky (with her awesome New Jersey/Philadelphia accent) was on a roll and we got to sit back and enjoy the view.  LOL!!

Here's a teeny-tiny peek at how our evening went (which basically means that you are just going to see a bunch of ladies laughing like goofballs...)




Untitled from I Heart Faces on Vimeo.

By the end of the night we were all referring to Becky as “Who are you again??  I think I might know you, but I don’t really think I do!” and as “Oh yeah, you’re the girl with the well-known blog called Life With Kevin!”

Christal was actually lucky though.  She had almost turned to BECKY to ask her if she knew who this "Rebeckah Leatherman Adams" person was.  Now that one...she would have never lived it down.  LOL!

~The Bravery Of Rebeckah~

When you are surrounded by a bunch of excited photographer ladies for a long weekend, there are surely going to be a ton of funny stories to share.  I’m going to try to write about them on my blog so that I won’t forget them with this “mommy brain” that I’ve been blessed with.

Rebeckah from Life With Kaishon is one of the sweetest internet people that I have ever met.  I love her writings, the way her photography has improved so much over the past year, her amazing support of I Heart Faces and the super sweet comments she leaves not only my blog, but on the blogs of hundreds of other people as well.

During the workshop, I learned that while Rebeckah doesn’t particularly care to have her own self show up in photos…she is definitely not afraid to ask anyone else to do anything.  Not even strangers!

Oh how I wish I had a little bit of her bravery inside of me.  :)

All weekend long, Rebeckah approached strangers to have their photo taken.  Each and every one of them said “yes!” and each and every one of them seemed honored to have been asked.  She did this so much during the weekend that we began teasing her that she should start a new business.  Amy even made her this special business card to use:



During our Photowalk through downtown Dallas on Saturday evening, she saw a cutie-pie couple walking towards our group and she immediately approached them to ask if they would mind if she took their photo for them.  They said that would be fine and then proceeded to spend the next half hour of their lives listening to a bunch of crazy photographers ask them to do different poses for them.

(All of the following photos were taken and edited by my sister, Drew.)



After they had done some “couple poses” for us awhile, Rebeckah asked them if they would please kiss each other so that we could capture that moment for them…and they needed to kiss for a looooooooong time to give us enough time to get our shot in. 

The guy looked at her for a second and then very seriously said… “But, she’s my sister!”



Oh yeah, he knew how to work his audience! He had us all busting a gut for the next 10 minutes..chortling about how he had gotten us with the “sister” comment.

He cracked us up again when he asked us to get a shot of all of the photographers photographing them…



It seems he wanted absolute proof to show off to his family and friends that he and his girlfriend had indeed been stalked by the paparazzi in downtown Dallas.

Oh Rebeckah…you are my photographer hero!

Stay tuned for another fun “Rebeckah Story” tomorrow.  :)