Keri Schmidt Photography

Updates

For those of you who still ask me about Karleigh, she and mom are now home!  64 days after she went into the hospital for her transplant, they are finally home!  Karleigh still has a big fight ahead of her, but we are so excited to hear that they can be with the rest of the family again!  For those of you who would like to follow her story, her mom updates us regularly on the care pages site, so remember to check it out!

High School Seniors - - Remember to get your information to me ASAP for grad announcements!  We also have guest signature books for your parties or buzz cards for your friends, but you are running out of time, so give us a call soon!

I've been busy with designing portrait collages and grad announcements, so I haven't been doing much shooting lately.  Here's a collage I recently put together of my nieces.  I'll also post some of the flower shots Jeremy got when we did take the time to do a little playing around with the lights.

Blood Drive: Marshalltown, Iowa

Wanted to pass this along to anyone who may be in the area and wanting to help out.  This is from the mom of Karleigh, my little friend who recently went through a bone marrow transplant:

"For those of you in the Marshalltown/Zearing area....if you have been wanting to join the bone marrow registry, but don't want to pay for it....On April 4th from 4:30-11:00pm, there will be a bone marrow drive and benefit for R.C. Daters (one of our special hospital friends) at the Moose Lodge in Marshalltown.  There will be a free will donation spaghetti dinner, auction/raffle, chair massages and many other fun things.  Please take this opportunity to support this family and get signed up for the bone marrow registry.

In conjuction with this, there will also be a blood drive from 2-8 on this same date/location in honor of many area kids, including Karleigh.  If you would like to donate blood, please go to www.bloodcenterofiowa.org or call 1-800-287-4903 to schedule an appointment."

Sheep Farm

It's been a while since I've posted something from the farm, and last week was warm enough to go out there and get some pics of the lambs.  They are so darn cute as babies, but then they grow up. . .

Fixes

Our website is getting an overhaul this weekend, so there might be some glitches on there!  It should be back up with no problems on Monday!

Good News!

I wanted to share with those of you still asking about Karleigh - she is doing so very well right now!  There have been lots of improvements all around, all great signs that everything is going well in her little body!  Of course, she still has a long road of recovering, but she is getting stronger all the time!  If you didn't catch the post about Karleigh before, click here.

I'm also happy to hear that spring is almost upon us!  I finally got through most of the winter months' images, here is another one I found from one of those frosty mornings.  As pretty as it might be, my fingers and toes begin to hurt when I think of that morning!  I'm finally posting another one of Jeremy's on his blog, so check that out as well.  He was playing with long shutter speeds and his macro lens.  Check out the second hand, although it's really hard to see on some screens. . .