March is Kidney Cancer Awareness month. I have shared in a previous post about my cancer story and how cancer touches close to home with me of all kinds. When I hear someone who is going through dialysis, waiting on a list for a kidney, or is fighting the fight of kidney cancer, I instantly […]

Meet Melia!  She is a ball of energy and loves life!  Melia was so excited and ready to take pictures in spite of it being 36 degrees outside.  We have had 3 different days of taking pictures and each session I feel like I’ve had a different season.  The first session had alot of greenery, […]

Angelica is such a sweetheart and a Survivor!  Her daughter Daisy saw the Stay Strong ad and entered her mom! I am going to put exactly what Daisy said when she wrote me I saw that you are giving away sessions to cancer patients. My mom is current on her last week of radiation. She […]

I got to meet Rebecca before we had our session because she agreed to go on a news documentary about the Stay Strong Movement.  I adored her!!!  Rebecca is such a genuine loving person and she is currently fighting the fight of her life.  Rebecca has stage 4 colon cancer. Rebecca was born on 05/07/1970 […]

Aaron and his wife Cynthia both wanted to share their story of losing a loved one, their fathers. Aaron ‘s dad Micheal Robinson was born on June 20, 1951 in  Quanah Texas .  He  was married almost 37 years and had a degree in electronics and welding and worked for Cryovac where he was head […]

Cynthia has been impacted by cancer because she has lost a loved one.  Cynthia lost her dad to Thyroid cancer on February 22, 2016.  Her husband and herself both have lost their dads and so they both were apart of our Stay Strong movement and wanted to share their stories of their fathers. Ronald Duarte  […]

Since I have been doing the annual Stay Strong cancer portrait session, I thought it would be a good time to share my story.  I always joke and said cancer runs in my family like water, because it seems to be true and the sad part is, its all different kinds of cancer, not just […]

Have you ever faced cancer, whether it was you or a loved one?  I have to say, most people know or have known someone who has had that dreadful C word told to them.  I happen to be one of those people.  My mom died when I was 16 of ovarian cancer and a few […]