Heroes Serving and Surviving!

This week has been pretty stressful for me personally and I went to work feeling sorry for myself and stressing over my problems. Then I get to work and get a few wake up calls that help put things into a different perspective. 

First I was at Cars shooting photos of families and having a decent time. I tend to look at shirts and read buttons and stuff to keep occupied there. The "characters" aren't very interactive with the Guests. I noticed one lady having her husband take a photo of her hand with the car so I got a little closer. She showed me her nails and they were decorated as different characters so she was having a photo taken with each one! I thought this was so cool. Then I noticed their buttons that they were celebrating. Hers said "He's home!" And his said "I'm home". So I took a moment to ask where he was back from. He had been in Afghanistan and had just gotten home. She was so relieved he was back, you could tell. I thanked them both for his service and realized that as rough as my life is, I don't have to worry about my husband being in such a dangerous situation all the time. He has a nice cozy job in an air conditioned office. 

Later in the day I got pulled from Handy Manny to take photos of a Make A Wish family at Jake. It was a large group with a young man in a wheel chair and on oxygen. He wasn't totally aware of what was going on, you could tell but we took our time with him and the family. Jake gave the little girls in the group extra big hugs. Then gave the young man some extra attention. There was a young man in his 20s that wasn't coming in for the photo so Jake went out to help coax him in for the family photo. He finally came in and we got the entire group in for a couple of photos. Yet another group that helped put in perspective that my life really isn't so bad when you come right down to it. 

So at the end of the day I'm thankful for all I have. I love my family and any problems we have we will get through. And I have great friends that help pull me through each day as well and lift my spirits when I need that too. 

It's Been A While

I've been off work for a little bit so no fun stories from there. But I sure miss Disney and the family there. Back to work soon though. Funny, while I've been on vacation and tell people where I'm from and where I work they ask what the heck am I doing in Michigan? Visiting family of course. We've decided March is not a good time to go. Too cold, dreary and wet.

I've realized that we in Photopass see life differently, through the lens, through angles, and crop lines, and lighting. Smiles and expressions and poses. Every time I was with my grandbabies I wanted to grab my camera and take photos, and just keep shooting, to remember those precious expressions as they went through their days. And it reminded me anew of why our job is important. The families and friends that visit our parks want to experience all of that and they rely on us to capture it all. And that's why it's a good thing we do see life "through the lens" so to speak. So that we capture those moments for them.

So I want to start a new thing at work and I need help. I know we can enter our photos for photo of the week and that's great. I would also like to get input for the slideshow in the training area each week. I want great photos to put up there from everyone in our park so if you have a photo you took that you really like let me know!!! I'll pull it and try to get it up there. I want the new cast to see what we do and I want everyone to get a chance to see what each and every one of us gets to do. So please spread the word and give me those photos!!!