Typhoon

So... we had a typhoon last week. What is a typhoon you might be wondering?? Well, basically it is a storm. Wind, rain, maybe comparable to a baby hurricane. And by baby I mean probably like a 1 day old baby who is sleeping after a meal... not bad. Everyone made a HUGE deal about this storm. We had one about two weeks ago and it was literally NOTHING. So this one, people were making an even bigger deal about and I thought I was going to see something exciting. I felt like I was wating for the world to end... There was a lot of wind and rain Wednesday night. There was, I will admit that. BUT Thursday, the base closed down as it was in TCCOR 1. TCCOR is a rating system that only the military uses (and it may only be the military here in Japan... I'm not sure) but they use it and #1 is the "worst". Apparently, our base (of all the ones in Japan) won't close for anything, but even our base was closed on Thursday so that is really saying something about the seriousness of this Typhoon. Which was cool for me, I got a paid day off. It was lame for Brian though cause he was supposed to be in port for three weeks, but because of the storm they had to pull out for a week so the ship wouldn't be damaged by the storm.... LAME.

Below is my neighbor Shin. He is super nice and apparently crazy because he had this tree propped up much too quickly... Another neighbor told me that this storm was the worst one in about 5-10 years... yikes, no wonder why they were all freaking out. Don't get me wrong it was a storm, but it really wasn't THAT bad. I think it hit other parts of Japan much worse...

Tokyo Weirdos...

I feel like I should say something here, but there are no words...

Website Update!

I have updated my website! This is joyjill.com version 3.0 Every time I update my site there is immediately something I want to change. However, as of this moment I am quite happy with it. There are some things that I would do differently if I was absolutely amazing in Flash, but I just don't care to take the time to do anymore to it. It would take FOREVER and be extremely painful to do the things that I would like to. Someday when I am making millions I will pay Randy to build me an awesome site with a custom blog, but for now I think this will do.... crap, just typing that I realize that I forgot to put a link to my blog.... suck!

Well, check it out and I will work on that one extra button I need :)

It's COMPLETE!!! Just so you know adding that button turned out to be quite the hassle (only cause I found other problems with it), and you are pretty much looking at version 3.7...

Keep Praying for Daisy

Daisy is doing great! She came out of surgery and is doing well. They said...

"Praise the Lord!! We are walking in miracles!! Daisy is already awake!! They are planning to remove her breathing tube momentarily! The doctors are flabbergasted with the how well this is going!! Even the unsaved doctors are attributing it to the many prayers!"

They were able to remove the tumor all in one piece, and so far so good :) This little girl has SO many people praying for her, it is really incredible! Please go to the site they created for her! and read for yourself the healing that is going on. It is so awesome to see God's hand through this and to read the updates as they post them. Keep praying for them!

GOD IS GOOD :)

Can't Sleep...

So, it happens from time to time while Brian is away that I cannot sleep. This is a very normal thing too as I know MANY military wives who have been in the same position. Somehow, I have been VERY lucky that this is only my 2nd time having trouble sleeping since Brian has been gone... which has been about a month now. Seriously, that's amazing. And actually no offense to Brian, but both this time and the last time, I don't even really feel like I miss him exceedingly, I just can't sleep. I do miss him, but there is definitely a difference between missing him and desperately missing him and somehow I have not reached the desperately missing him during this deployment. However, I am ready for him to come home and word is that may be happening soon :) Yay for me!

So for now I will post some pics that I just ran into. I don't have too many of Brian with his sis and in fact, these actually may be the ONLY ones I have, but I really like them :) I took them right before we moved to Japan. Tamara was pregnant so they were pretending to be pregnant together... like sisters *cough* I mean siblings do :)

Pray For Daisy

My Santa Barbara Pastor Brit Merrick's daughter needs prayer. The doctor's say she has the Wilms' Tumor. She goes into surgery on Thursday at 7:15am, SO if you pray... PRAY, and if you don't pray... PRAY. You can get more info here

Joy Jill Photography Blog

Alright everyone. I have created a new blog for my photography. It might be overkill and hopefully I will do ok with posting to two blogs regularly. I figure I will just make it part of my workflow so that a few of the top images from each shoot goes on the blog.

So go check it out! I have several shoots I need to post from this weekend, and MAYBE I will post shoots from before. I am mostly doing family portraiture here in Japan. It's more just a side thing, but I do consistently get several shoots a month, it's just not anything to live on. So, whether I am shooting for work or for fun (stock) I will post all photography related things to The Joy Jill Photography blog!