Friday, April 20, 2012

{All You Need is Love}:: Contest

Finally getting to the contest. My world has been so busy with visits lately I am finally getting things back on track. I had so much fun with my Best Friend visiting from England with her husband and kids. I heard more english accent that ever before and loved it! 

On with the contest!
I am a sucker for love stories! Read the three love stories that were submitted and go to Facebook and vote for them. 

To Vote:
First Like My Kaptured by Kristi Fan Page
Then like the photo. If you share KBK fan page, the vote will count twice. 
Voting ends April 27th at midnight EST

Our First Love Story
{Liz and Rafael}
My Name is Liz and my husbands name is Rafael. We met while he was on leave in Aug of 2008. We started dating by the end of his leave because we decided to give it a try. And although it was tough... we had a long distance relationship. He was in the Air Force and stationed in Valdosta, GA, and I was in out home town which is in Lancaster, CA. Talk about living across the country from the person who changed your life over a few days of knowing them! I would regularly visit him every 2-3 months for about 2-3 weeks. This  went on for 2 years. When I came down to celebrate our 2 year anniversary I got pregnant with twins! We knew we loved each other and we got married to keep our family together. In total we have been together for 3 and a half years and married for a year and a half and we are a very happy family! Our twin boys are now 11 months old and the love of our lives!

Liz and Rafael and twins. Photo NOT taken by Kaptured by Kristi

Our Second Nomination and story
{Lindsay and Dayton}

He went to high school with my brother and one day in Target my family was just shopping around when all of a sudden here comes this guy and he jumps on my brothers back. My first thought, 'wow hes crazy but funny'. Years go by and we are pretty good friends as him and my brother became best friends. I had family and friends go to a beach house with us in Destin for my graduation and he came along as well, this is where he decided to put the moves on me. We were "together" starting at that moment. I at first thought it was strange seeing as how we were best friends but it grew on me. We did actually break up because I wasn't ready to "grow up" and be with the nice guy. Three years later he came back around before leaving for the Air Force and we grew really close. First he helped me get over a break up but we only had a month before he had to leave. I loved the way he made me feel, always having fun, always smiling, always being in love. I knew as we started dating again that we were meant to be and would get married one day. He was the most wonderful person I had ever dated. He always knew how to make me feel special and loved me with every beat of his heart, and I felt the same way. When he was in basic we wrote to each other as much as we could and we grew stronger in our relationship by our love letters. We got engaged 4 months later and got married a month after that because he was getting stationed in England. We both knew we couldn't be away from each other any longer since we had to go through basic and tech school already. It turned out that he wasn't cleared to go to England so instead we went to Idaho and we had our big beautiful wedding 4 months later. We started our lives together there where I had to learn to be a house wife and be away from my family for the first time in my life. Now here we are almost 4 years later. He is still my love and my best friend forever and always. 
Lindsay and Dayton, Photo NOT taken by Kaptured by Kristi
 Our third Nomination
{The Partain's}

So, the way my hubby and I met was sort of an accident. I had just come home from a four month long deployment and my best friend was supposed to pick me up from the airport after coming back from visiting my parents. When I called and woke her up she told me she was still tired (and probably drunk) from the night before so she was sending her across-the-hall-dorm-neighbor to pick me up and bring me back to my dorm. Well up walks this guy in a brown, grubby t-shirt, glasses and a backwards hat...I thought "Oh, boy..." He came up to me, introduced himself and then carried my bags to his car! When we got in the car, we started talking and just never stopped. He took me to breakfast that morning (my flight came in at 8am). I could not stop looking at his eyes! They were the greenest of green. :) He paid for breakfast and that night he took me to a movie (Raising Helen), and dinner at Olive Garden. We have been attatched at the hip, ever since! We met in March of '04, got engaged in August of '04 and married in September of '04. He's my prince, who I'd pretty much given up on meeting...and he just strolled into my life like he'd always been there!
The Partains - Photo taken by Kaptured by Kristi




AND if you are curious about the husband wife duo of Kaptured by Kristi.... Kristi & Monty, go look at this link. This is all about us!
The Story of Kristi & Monty

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Why Contest....

I am a SUCKER for a good love story! Favorite movie EVER is The Notebook. I could watch it time and time again (and do anytime I can). I was watching it the other day and thinking what my love story would be?

 Boy meets girl in high school... they become friends. He joins the Air Force, he gets orders to Japan and he won't go without her. They move up the wedding to start a marriage in a foreign country. They are best friends and loves! They have three kids and live happily ever after. In a nut shell, that's it and I love our love story the most!
Our first picture together, before we were dating. Wow, we were just babies!

Twas the night before we moved to Japan (the first time). Total newlyweds.


Photo Courtesy of Haloes Nicely Photography of Okinawa Japan. Right before we moved back to the states in 2011.


Cant wait to hear yours ;)
Why did you choose him as your mate? Why was he the best fish in the sea? 
Why her?  How did she sweep you off your feet? Was it her smile or the way she giggles when you are around? 
Share your story with me!

 Contest info:
Whats up for grabs: Free Boudior Session or Couple's Session with Kaptured by Kristi
Who can win/enter the contest: Anyone in or willing to travel to the Valdosta, Ga area
How can you enter:  Send an email, photo and tell me why him? why her?  to kapturedbykristi@yahoo.com. 
CONTEST STARTS MARCH 27 AND APRIL 5. NOMINATIONS WILL NEED TO BE IN BY APRIL 5TH. Then I will post the nominees on Facebook for voting. Voting will then last 5 days before I announce a winner.
One entry per family. I will post the facebook rules once the nominees are chosen.
Flood my inbox people, Invite friends to share!

Monday, March 12, 2012

250 contest: Family Session

You voted, I listened. You want a family session as the winnings of this contest! 


Contest info:
Whats up for grabs: Free Family Session with Kaptured by Kristi
Who can win enter the contest: Anyone in or willing to travel to Valdosta, Ga area
How can you enter: Nominate yourself or your friends. Send an email, photo and what inspires you about this family to kapturedbykristi@yahoo.com. 
CONTEST STARTS MARCH 12 AND MARCH 19. NOMINATIONS WILL NEED TO BE IN BY MARCH 15TH. Then I will post the nominees on Facebook for voting. 
One entry per family. I will post the facebook rules once the nominees are chosen.

Ready, set, Nominate!

Friday, January 27, 2012

Down Right Perfect Session

I have seen a lot of light being brought to Down Syndrome online in the past few weeks. Its inspired me to bring some of that to Kaptured. So I am offering a session a month for families with a down right perfect family member.

Each month I will offer the rules on this blog for the contest.

February (ages 1-10): Send an email to kapturedbykristi@yahoo.com. Tell me about what inspires you the most about your family member. What lessons have you learned through their eyes?

What you get as the winner of the contest....

The winner will be chosen on Feb 14th! You will get a free one hour session for your super star! (This is a $100 value). The session will come with a web based CD with images from the session. 
The session will take place near Valdosta Georgia in February. There might be months that I travel and change the location of the contact. 

What if you don't win the session? All nominees will get an email and special offer on a session from Kaptured by Kristi.

So email me at kapturedbykristi@yahoo.com. Please go to Facebook and Like Kaptured by Kristi Photography to see my work.

Each month the ages will change, the location might change and the contest rules will change. Please realize that this is just something I am wanting to do to share my talent and heart. I appreciate everyone supporting this cause and no negative comments after the winner is chose. The winner will be selected by Kaptured by Kristi Photography, photographer and silent partner ;) All images will be used on my website, blog and facebook for promotional purposes.