T Cupp Photography: February 2010

This day sure was interesting! haha Woke up with pouring rain outside! Which Ill be honest made me panic a bit since we were supposed to have all the portraits done outside! While Veronica was getting ready I wanted to make sure she was calm and not worried about a thing! The sun started to come out which made me super happy and I new it was going to be ok. By the time we got to the church it was raining again! So basically the rain was OFF and ON the entire day! So frustrating! lol.
The wedding was beautiful! Veronica and Arthur had a HUGE bridal party! It was awesome to see so many people there to support and to celebrate their marriage with them! Very cool! After all the Family Portraits were done we came out of the church to find that the rain had stopped! I was thrilled! We drove out to Picacho Peak which felt like forever cause I was so scared we were going to run out of sun! It ended up working out just lovely!! We got all the picture we needed and headed to the reception for them to celebrate with their friends and family!!

This is a different post then usual. This post is personal and close to home for me! I want to talk about a personal story and why I feel compelled to pray for this little girl and her family. Very long post! If you dont have time to read it all skip down to the bottom. thats most important part! lol..

First of all I was raised by my Grandparents. I was so very blessed to have them take me and my brother into there home when my mom couldnt give us a home! I didnt always feel blessed because being a little girl I wanted a "normal" family, whatever that is? lol. Being raised by older people your limited, they cant do as much as younger parents could. Ever since I could remember my grandpa was in and out of the hospital. It first started with back surgery's. My grandpa was a carpenter and messed up his back pretty bad. Then he started having heart-attacks which was the worst for me to see! When I was little I thought that ment you were going to die and in some cases it does but my Grandpa probably had about 5 heart-attacks, maybe more, and survived them all. It was a constant emotional roller coaster, wondering if this was it and if I needed to say my good bye's! I remember waking up in the middle of the night seeing ambulance lights all throughout my room coming from outside. When i went into the living room there were a ton of people in the house and my grandpa was laying down on something to carry him out. He kept telling my grandma on his way out to the ambulance, "You make sure she gets to school and she makes it to her basketball practice"! I couldnt believe thats what he was worrying about right after he just had a heart-attack! He was the most un-selfish caring and supportive man I have ever known!
We moved to Arizona my Junior year of highschool because they wanted to settle down more and get my grandma better situated in case something were to happen to my grandpa. It was extremely hard for me leaving behind the town I grew up in, I loved my friends and my basketball team and my life in general! My senior year of highschool we found out that my Grandpa had lung cancer! When I first found out I chose not to deal with it and really believe it! It was WAY to much for me to handle and I was such a selfish little 17 year old! It started to really sink in after I started driving him to his cancer treatment appointments! I would sit in the waiting room and see all these people coming in and out of the office sick and coming to get there treatment! Thats when I realized that it was real and that I could really lose him to Cancer! I ended up quitting basketball which was extremely hard for me because I knew I was giving up my dream of playing in college.
A couple of months before I graduated highschool my Grandpa had another heart-attack and was in the hospital for about a week. The weekend he got out my Grandma had a series of strokes. I have never seen my Grandma weak and not in control of everything! She has always been the strong one out of everyone! I witnessed the entire thing and it was incredibly difficult to see her go through this! She lost part of her hearing temporarly and speaking! I am not a fan of hospitals! They terrify me, still to this day I can barely go in one unless I absolutley have too!
If you have read this far thanks for sticking it out!
To make this story shorter. My Aunts and Uncles came to the house for a month and helped out with my Grandparents. They decided they need to move them closer to them and that they would be moving them to Oklahoma after I graduated highschool! My grandpa was very sick because of all the medication and didnt make it to my graduation! We moved to Oklahoma and I stayed for 2 weeks and I moved back to Arizona because I was engaged and wanted to marry my husband as soon as possible! After I had moved back to AZ I got a phone call from my grandma excited telling me that the doctors couldnt find anymore cancer that it was gone! It was such a huge relief to me! My Grandpa didnt end up making it to my wedding but afterwards Jeramy and I made a visit to OK and spent a couple of days with them and I really enjoyed my time! My Grandpa was so joyful and fun to be around! Im really thankful some of the last memorys with him are those! A year later he passed peacefully!
This photo was taken a week before he passed away..

I believe a HUGE part of why my grandpa survived his heart-attacks and cancer was because of prayer! Anytime something happened we would tell our church and I would email everyone of my friends and there parents telling them to pray for him! I believe the power of prayer is STRONG and the reason I am writing this is for this little girl and her family.

Im not sure if you have heard Kate's story but you can go to her website www.prayforkate.com and get a little background on what is going on with her there! Kate is a 6 year old little girl who is battling against an aggressive brain tumor! Kate has just checked back in to the hospital for her 6th and most intense round of chemotherapy treatment. I cant imagine how her parents feel and even how she feels at this point! Im sure its a roller coaster of emotions that they are going through and they NEED prayer! There sweet girl NEEDS prayer!
Kate desperately needs a miraculous healing that Jesus can bring to her body!
Go to her website and check out more of her story and there is even a page you can get updates of how little Kate is doing! Please Pray and if you have any type of social networking going on spread the work and post her website and her story and get your network of people to pray as well! Here is a photo that was taken recently of Kate... Take this photo and spread it and her story!