Sunny weather for a moment...and I forgot a major thing on the way home.

Jon and the Big Sky Conference had their Women's Golf Championship for 2009 this past week in Chandler, AZ. We came from 6 months of cold weather to 100 degree weather. I was fortunate enough to be the Championship photographer and got to be on a beautiful golf course and doing what I love, and to top it off, I got to spend it with my hubby. Here are a few pictures from the trip. We also got to go to a Diamondbacks game this past week. We love baseball and it was fun other than we were so tired.

Here are a few of my favorite pictures I took from the tournament. All of them can be seen at bigskyconf.com in the image galleries.


To top the trip off, being in the sun and having to get up at 5am and suffer through the weather, we were getting ready to go through security and Jon asked me where my camera was, and we had been there for about 45 minutes already, and I was blank. I had lost my camera and equipment bag. My heart sank and I was just sick. We had about 40 minutes until we had to board the plane. I retraced back to the last time I had it and I had left it on the airport shuttle bus. We ran to the information booth and they sent out a PA message to all of the buses about a missing black camera bag, and no repsonse. They said the bast thing to do is go home and call in the morning, because they get a lot of lost and found items overnight. So we got home, I was so disappointed in myself, and mad, but my husband couldn't have been more sweet. He didn't get mad at me he said that we are going to find it and everything will be ok. I realized that even though all of my equipment was lost and/or stolen, I realized my health was good and my husband was so understanding, and I had life. We could get a new camera but we couldn't replace a life. Even though how hard it was, you put the real things that matter into perspective.

After constant prayer from my family and me and my husband and I, I woke up to a phonecall from the Sky Harbor airport asking me to describe what was inside so I did and then he said, well we found it. A huge sigh of relief and happiness. I thought I was never going to see my stuff ever again, I was prepared for the worst, but someone was watching out for me up above and make it all work for the best. They sent it overnight and I received everything and all of it's contents this afternoon.

Anyways, hope you enjoyed my learning lesson to make sure you always have your stuff with you, but if it happens, pray and have faith and God will bless you.