J. Master Photography

Hey everyone! We now have the new blog ad website all set up!!

Its still a work in progress but it is SWEET!!

Check it out....

website - www.jmasterphoto.com

blog - www.jmasterphoto.com/blog

Hey Everyone! Just a quick note to let everyone know that as of Monday, December 22 we will be closed. We will be back to business on January 5th. We hope all of you have a VERY Merry Christmas and a wonderful and SAFE New Year! As always, thank YOU for an absolutley incredible 2008 season. 2009 is going to be soooo great and it's kicking off with a studio make over so stay tuned for that!!

Jasen & Jennifer Master

So I have QUITE A FEW new albums going into Graphi pretty soon and I had to call my rep to get some details this morning and while I was on the phone with her she told me about Graphi's new design software and that it was FREE!! Well, I started using it and it is AMAZING!! A HUGE HUGE HUGE thanks to Graphi for such a great product and hookup!

This week we are leaving on a family vacation to Disneyland. If you are wanting Christmas Cards it's very important to be ready to go by next week. That way I have time for design and the ordering process. This years family season has been SO GREAT. It's our busiest family season to date and that means a lot more cards are being ordered which is GREAT but it also means a higher demand for product. Usually this would'nt be such a big deal but this is our "Christmas" gift to each other and this week was the only week it would work for alllll of Jennifer's Family. It will be a blast and I look forward to cranking out cards when I get back. We also have about three albums we are going to finish design on as well next week and have those uploaded for those clients so it will be a very busy week!

Talk to ya'll soon!

Jasen

It's official folks!!! Derek popped the question tonight and she said YES!!!!! Way to go buddy! We're soooo proud of you and absolutley honored to have you as part of our team! Check out Derek's blog for all the gooshy details... http://lapsleyphoto.blogspot.com/

A lot, and I mean a LOT of people have been calling our house, sending emails and asking questions about Shawna and her family. Its truly amazing the support we have recieved in trying to help this dear family. I decided to post her story, in her words, for all of you to read. If you plan on coming to our open house tomorrow night to help support her then thats AWESOME and we look forward to seeing you!

This is my story as sad as it might be it’s my life, my reality I live and breath it everyday with no escape. A friend of mine that recently passed away from Cancer said living with Cancer is like being a ping pong ball in the middle of a hurricane and you can’t get out. Let me take you back to the perfect summer. The summer of 2006 Dan, Preston, Logan and I traveled to Hawaii and Europe. We spent countless days traveling and laughing. Life was great we were living the American Dream. We had two beautiful boys and were expecting our third child on March 7^th 2007. We arrived home late on August 13^th reported to work on the 14^th (Dan and I were both teachers for Fresno Unified) and I miscarried our third child on August 15th, 11 weeks along my world was rocked. That was on a Tuesday and by Friday I went back to work. On my way back home I picked up the mail to find a letter that stated that I needed to report to the Oncology office that following Tuesday. Knowing what the word Oncology meant I felt the world spin around me. Meanwhile I was having friends and family arrive at my house to help celebrate my sons first Birthday the following day. So I found out that I had Cancer over the phone. I went from having a wonderful vacation, going back to work, miscarrying, having cancer and that I would have to have a hysterectomy and that I would never be able to have children in a one week period. Talk about a week from Hell. I could not believe that I had Cervical Cancer. I did everything right. I have never missed an annual Doctor’s appointment, never had an abnormal pap smear, or HPV and I had just had a baby 10 months prior. I had been to my OBGYN’s a lot. So what went wrong. My Doctor’s still can’t explain it to this day. I fell in the 30 percent of woman that this would happen to. I was staged at a 1B1 the cancer was in my cervix’s only and had not entered into any of my lymph nodes. What would take place the following few months was an up and down roller coaster ride. On September 7^th,2006 I had a hysterectomy, in October I did a round of IVF. We have our eggs stored at Stanford. In November they moved my Ovaries out of the radiation zone and from Thanksgiving to December 29^th I lived in Palo Alto and did my Radiation treatments at Stanford Hospital. Let me remind you with every surgery came complications. If the Doctor said you had a 3% chance of something happening to me it happened. I was in and out of the hospital. In April I finally made it back to work for 7 days when my right ovary twisted, cut the blood flow and made the ovary turn 10 cm in size. It was removed and I was back out of work again, with every major surgery I was not able to pick my children up. We thought the worse was behind us. Dan and I had found a surrogate, we were getting ready to expand our family and get on with our lives. My Doctor gave me a clean bill of health to have it crash down on me once again. On July 16^th 2007 I found out the Cancer had spread to my lungs. I only had a 5 % chance of this happening. So now I’m staged at a level 4. Metastasis cervical cancer that is currently in my lungs, pelvic area and liver. How was this possible. The Cancer had spread through my blood vessels and is in my blood stream. I was basically told by my doctor at Stanford that I had 6 months to 5 years tops to live and that I would never see my 40^th birthday, the research is depressing! So now I am doing Chemotherapy. When I stop responding to one drug they start another. It is what it is. I have had my dreams crushed. I only have one dream left and that is to raise my boys who are 5 years old and 3. I live for them. My life is in God’s hands. I pray for a miracle daily and hope that I will be able to raise my children.