My friend Kendall Ivan Mathews went to be with the Lord on May 11th, 2008. As I change my blog layout, I thought I would pay tribute to my friend, confidant and brother!

Kendall and I became friends about 10 years ago. From the very first minute to his passing, I cannot recall a friend that was as devoted, loyal and caring as my friend Kendall. He was content, never angry, always with a smile and hardworking. Kendall never forgets any special events in my life, from the text messages on Father’s Day to the surprise birthday parties; he was always thoughtful always giving of himself even if it meant the shirt off his back!

Like his usual self, he sent my wife a text message at about 3 PM on May 11th to wish her a happy Mother’s Day and not knowing it would be the last time we hear from my friend, by 10:45 PM he had gone to be with the Lord.

I miss you my friend! It’s been very rough coping wth your departure but I believe that I will see you again. I pray that I can be a better person because of all that I learned from you. I pray that I can give more of myself like you did. I pray that I can touch and impact lives in a positive way like you did. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to know you and to be a part of your life for the amazing 10 years we spent together as friends and brothers!

I will never forget you!

I had the pleasure of shooting Lindsay & Mark’s wedding on April 26th at Kansas City Public Library. Lindsay & Mark booked me to shoot their wedding almost a year ago and we had a lot of fun working together in preparation for their wedding day.

They could not have asked for a better day to get married - the weather was perfect and both locations were unique in their own rights. Not knowing that Mark was into classic cars, I flagged down a driver that was cruising along in a Classic Mustang and asked if we could use his car and the gentleman was gracious in allowing us the use of his car.

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Below’s an email I received from Angela after her wedding:

Jeff and I got back from our Honeymoon Monday.  It was a wonderful and relaxing trip.   Our lives finally feel normal after all the hustle and bustle. 

We both wanted to thank you so much for ALL that you have done.  We not only appreciate all your wonderful work but also all the wonderful mentoring you have given us over the last year!  Jeff has made huge headway on his website business.We are hoping with the wedding and honeymoon behind us, we finally get to focus on his business more.  If we had not met you, the business would still be just an “idea”!  You gave Jeff the inspiration and knowledge to finally move forward with this.  So I wanted to personally tell you Thank you for ALL you have done for us. 

We are both extremely excited to see all the fabulous pictures from the wedding.  You truly did a great job capturing the moments and documentating our day / night.  Jeff and I both realized we made the perfect choice in choosing you to do our photography!  We do not like the traditional stand here and there pictures - your work is definitely unique and fabulous!  Jeff keeps talking about the picture with Torrey sleeping!!  We can’t wait to show Torrey how he was captured dozing off.  How funny!

Will you send us an email when we can view the pictures?  This is not an email to rush you, we are just overly excited to see your great work.  We also do not remember how long you said it would take.  So let us know what we can expect on time. 

Thanks so much

Angela

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