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Just say either Flower or Splatter! Thanks for your vote and help.

Christ's Authority is Over..

This weekend I travelled back home to see my daddy and Stephanie. It was a really fun weekend and I had an awesome time, I felt very good about myself and I wasn't really sure why. I drove to Frisco on Saturday and now I'm back in Abilene (yes, already!). This morning I was listening to the preacher and he was talking about Christ's Authority and it really spoke to me. I'm not sure how to explain it but I will give you the edited outline of the second part of the lesson.

2. Christ's Authority is Over...

A. All Spiritual Forces

- Jesus' power is beyond us.

B. All Ruling Power

- Jesus' power is in us.

C. The Church

- Jesus' power is through us.

Your Guardian Angel

Your Guardian Angel by The Red Jumpsuit:

I will never let you fall (let you fall)

I'll stand up with you forever
I'll be there for you through it all (through it all)
Even if saving you sends me to heaven

Today on my way to work I was listening to this song and all of a sudden my Great Uncle Buddy popped in my head. I wasn't really sure why because it seemed to be a song about a loved one or a partner, but the song is called Your Guardian Angel and I feel that Buddy is watching over me like a guardian angel. There were just certain parts of the song like the one above. It just seemed to make me feel like someone was actually watching over me, like my Uncle Buddy, he was the most faithful person I knew.

Blog Dedication:

- This blog is dedicated to my Great Uncle Buddy and all of my family that dealt with the loss.

- I also dedicate this blog to one of my co-workers, Chance Benson, who is dealing with a grandmother in the hospital. Prayers are welcome for him.

To the Most Important People In My Life

Something in my life occurred that all of you know about.

I don't attend college anymore and I started working at a news station called KTXS in Abilene.

A little over 2 months ago I moved to Abilene (July 23rd) to start my different, new way of living.

I didn't know what to expect but I was definitely excited.

The day before my dad and brother left I started having doubts and mixed feelings about the whole move and change, yet they still left because it was happening.

My mom stayed a few days after they left to help me get settled in and not feel as overwhelmed.

Monday, July 26th I started my first day at work.

I started on Camera's even though my boss told me I would start on Teleprompter.

I thought it was awesome to start on camera's.

My first 2 days I trained with a guy named Chance (who made my feel completely comfortable).

After the first 2 weeks I already knew cameras and prompter and I felt like I was getting the hang of it, work that was.

Now the living on my own part, not so much.

I would come home and weep of loneliness or just the fact that I was scared.

I decided that work was my "family", my comfort zone.

The guys of course make fun of me, call me weird, awkward, needy, and much more.

I've invited the guys to come over and have pizza.

Brandon, Chance, Tyler, and I go play football after work.

Hang out on break and watch the TV channels that the guys like to watch since I'm out-numbered haha.

Life wasn't easy still.

Breaking up with the boyfriend, saving up money, doing what I wanted, not many friends anymore, having the freedom, boredom, but yet nothing was easy.

Of course I didn't give up.

I feel as if I'm finally in the strongest stage yet.

I'm doing alright for being a "noobie" at this whole living on your own thing (definitely not like college).

(Just a little note for everyone to know how I'm doing).

new experience, new job, new life...

Leaving everything behind, going the opposite direction than what I planned, living a new experience earlier than I thought I would have to...

I got the good news that I have a job at a news station down in Abilene being on the Production Crew. Never thought I would actually be saying that I got the job, but I did. I'm moving Friday, so please pray for my safe journey of the new start of my life. Excited but very nervous!!!

life IS like a box of chocolates

...you never know what you're goin' get!

-Forrest Gump

This is the truth! I never really put it into perspective until today. I have been searching for a job at a news station for a few days now. I have emailed many companies hoping they will email me back in return. Believe it or not yesterday KTXS (an Abilene news station) emailed me back saying they have openings on the production crew and that I need to send my resume to her and she will call me to set up an interview. Ever since I started emailing companies I have wanted a job just like this from the beginning and haven't wanted anything so badly in my entire life. I can just see myself being on the production crew. It feels like this is what I need to start doing and work my way up to be a producer or anything like this. It just feels right.

I say go for something you want because you never know if it's actually going to work out... it might just go the way I want it. I wouldn't know until I try, and I'm trying! :)

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Let the excitement out!

Today is the day that I leave for my birthday trip. My feelings are running with excitement and they won't calm down. I'm sitting in class with the anticipation of when I will be out. Counting down the hours raising my anxiousness. Ready to spend time with my best friend, Stephanie Kelley, for the ride to Abilene. I get to see Tommy Gripton, Nastasha O'Neill, Katherine Yarbrough, Julia Black, Arlette Mugiraneza, and Christopher Fernandez. Going to Roadhouse for dinner and Guitars for dancing, I'm just ready to be there already.

I'm only telling you this because if your excited about something, don't hold it in, let it out and tell people about your excitement.

Getting bummed but it'll be alright

Be excited but never to eager. Sometimes plans don't go as planned. Just know that God has a plan even when yours fail.

Stand by Rascal Flatts:

You feel like a candle in a hurricane

Just like a picture with a broken frame

Alone and helpless, like you've lost your fight

But you'll be alright, you'll be alright

Moving Around

Oh the joys of moving back from college to your hometown. Yeah negative! School's out for college students and their moving back home for the summer but high-schoolers still have about a month left and summer's just right around the corner.

My first year of college is over with and I'm back home in Frisco for 3 months. It feels really weird because I am so use to being away from home and living on my own. Not being with the friends that I have made in college is difficult being away from them. Coming home for the summer you have to kind of find people to hang out with since most college students don't keep up with their high school friends. Lucky for me I have my best friend back home, Stephanie Kelley, but yes that's the only one that I really still keep up with weekly.

This summer is going to be interesting because I have to find a new college to go to, summer courses, new work, and not be around all my friends from ACU.

Best Friends

Best friends are hard to find and hard to keep around. When you have a friend that stays around forever, you can trust, and you can tell anything to: now that's a best friend! My best friend is Stephanie Michelle Kelley. She has been there for me since Sophomore year and I have been able to tell her every part of my life and even though she gets mad at me she tells me what she thinks and were over it. We don't stay mad at each other because we work it out.

To me, you can't ever have too many best friends. I have been through so much in college already with myself, life, school, and finding friends. I've had some who have gotten mad at me but we would fix it, one's who would leave, new friends that i've been able to open up so easily, and one's that just didn't work out. In college, I feel as if it is important to have multiple "best" friends, you don't even have to be best friends with them. It's just always good to surround yourself with many different groups so therefore you don't spend too much time with someone and lose the friendship and plus you have different people to have different moments with.

The one's I consider as my best friends or very good friends in college are:

Michael Clemons

Emmanuelle Rajaonah

Arlette Mugiraneza

Ashley Beddingfield

Macy Wideman

Lauren Neugebauer

Bethany Morgan

Chelsea Jackson

Shane Farley

Cody Singleton

Katherine Yarbrough

Julia Black

Yeah I understand that there are 12 but it gives me a variety of people to be with :)

I saw the side

I saw the side you couldn't even see

I saw the side that your friends can't see

People say that your that

But I say your not

You may say you can't do this

But I know that were okay

Whether I feel hurt

It's all going to be okay in the end

I miss you and you know that

There's nothing I can do

But to tell you that I'm not leaving

You thought I left

But my heart never did

Your still holding on to it

Don't let it go

Or it'll break even more

I saw the side you couldn't see

I saw the side that loved me

-Ashley Butler

Sent to Jail and Deported at age 18 - Saad Nabeel

Hey everyone! This is a video of my good friend from high school. We had broadcast classes together for 3 years at Liberty. I am blogging about this because I want you to pray for him and if there is any words of encouragement then that would be wonderful. Even if there isn't anything you can do about it, all I ask is for prayers for him and his journey he had to take.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2-7-OxLwNQ

Saad, we love you and are praying daily for you! Keep your head up! You will only be stronger in the end.

With Blessings!!

loss of words

Do you ever get that feeling where you just want to feel loved in your heart but you only know it through your mind? It doesn't feel right. It doesn't go away. It doesn't make you want to try.

There is one quote that everyone says and I know it's true: "Action speaks louder than words"!

I have no words as to how confused I am about this. I think that if God helps me through this then there's nothing to worry about!

(sorry for my scrambling of words and thoughts on this blog. my mind just isn't thinking straight right now.)

A BEAUTIFUL WEDDING IN GULFPORT, MS!

No longer a single man!

James Findley and Melissa Lawson! Oh excuse me, Melissa Findley :) The twelfth through the thirteenth of March, Two thousand and ten, my cousin James got married to a beautiful lady named, Melissa Lawson. Their wedding was absolutely beautiful! I was able to have a backhand experience with shooting at a wedding, since I've never been able to. Of course I'm not the photographer of the wedding but I though I was able to get some of the photos that the real photographer wasn't able to get.

Congratulations cousin James!

Abilene Snow

Boy oh boy, Abilene has the craziness weather I think I have ever seen in Texas. Two days ago it was pretty warm, yesterday was nippy, and today IT'S SNOWING!!! WHAT??? Yeah, school is cancelled and I'm just chillin' in my dorm room. No homework! Hungry! Nothing to do! :) Today is going to be a wonderful day!

It's just one of those days that you can just lay back and do nothing to have a good relaxing day. Hot cocoa, fire place, and roasting some marshmallows... man do I miss home on these kinds of days. You know what I also miss about my home? My mom's home made soup or chili and snow made ice cream with Oreo's.

Enjoy your day of ACU! I know I will :)

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Interested in a photo shoot?

I am going to start my own photography business!! I am so excited. Just because of how well the photo shoot went, that's why I am going to start it. Plus I need some money :).

If your interested contact me at aephotography101@gmail.com

I would be happy to do a photo shoot for you!

Prices will be up later when I get everything together...

Photo Shoot Trial Run= Success!!!

That photo shoot made my week so much better!! I had my four good friends join me to be models. Emmanuelle Rajaonah, Russell Garrett, Ashley Beddingfield, and Christopher Fernandez. Later my best friend Michael Clemons joined us to watch... of course I had to get some snap shots of him!! :)

I had an absolute blast with these four to five girls and guys. We went to the Abilene Zoo, the Hill, and ACU's Jacob's Dream! Russell was the goofball of the bunch... Christopher was the ruiner of all good pictures (haha, kidding--but seriously)... Emmanuelle was the cute tiny french girl... and Ashley was the one who you just couldn't help but look at.

Please go look at the pictures I have up on my website! There are also more on my facebook for you to go look at.

If you go to my website:

http://buttermoments101.yolasite.com/>AE Photography (and) Photoshoots

If you go to my facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=752110315>View Photo's of Me>scroll down to my album called "AE Photography"

Enjoy! Also, please leave comments :).

Photography Name

Salut sa va? That's "Hey, how are you" in french! :)

I was hoping that you all could help me with a photography name. Tomorrow I am taking some friends to do a photo shoot and I really want to have a name and logo design for my photography... BUT I need your help to come up with the name of my photography. I really want to use initials that look good together (but of course the letters mean something).

Right now I have a few that I wouldn't mind at all changing!! It is actually more than wanted haha.

Choices:

Live Free Photography (LFP)

Free Living Photography (FLP)

Golden Love Photography (GLP)

Butler Love Photography (BLP)- sounds like BLT.. not sure I like this one...

Ashley Elizabeth Photography (AEP)

...any others?

What a guy!

What a guy! I mean, where did he come from?

I started talking to this one guy (we're going to call him Sam). He had this charm to him that I've never seen before. I've never been so comfortable with someone so different than who I've dated. All of a sudden this other guy started to talk to me, getting to know me (we'll call him Kyle). Kyle and I kept talking and getting to know each other, sooner or later he swept me off my feet. My heart grew fonder and I stopped talking to Sam. Sam tried to start talking to my best friend. My best friend was trying to get him to stop but couldn't.

Kyle and I have been talking ever since and I can't stop thinking about how fast and unexpected it was.

Sometimes when your least expecting something, it's already there!

Websites are AWESOME!

I absolutely LOVE my new website! I feel as if I can express myself so much better! :)

Please go check it out because I would love some feedback on it and improvements.. I can take the criticism so please give me some.

Go to http://buttermoments101.yolasite.com/

Let it inspire you!

Today I was just sitting around wondering what to do. That's when it hit me! I'm going to take pictures! I let my love for photography/footage take control and took pictures of something that I love in my life. From Ed Hardy to Vera Bradley.

Detail! Detail! Detail! I absolutely love detail in pictures. The sharpness, vintage, bright to makes the photo so unique to look at. I've always been told that I have an eye for detail. (Ex. My mom would repaint our ceiling fan, and I would be the first one to notice it!)

I say if you have a love for photography, painting, drawing, dressing up... DO IT! It makes you happy and who you are! :)

Left & Top Right: Ed Hardy perfume, Vera Bradley key chain, Vogue glasses, and a Charlotte Rouse necklace

Middle Left: Love Pink perfume

Middle Right: my Vera Bradley collection (pink: key chain, black: glasses case, blue: accessory pouch and bag)

Bottom Right: Vera Bradley collection with my leopard stool

Let go of someone you love...

I'll say that if you love someone enough to let them go, your doing the right thing!

For me, I love this guy because he is my best friend. I did fall for him as well, but he fell for another girl. I always feel as if my luck could be changing but I never seem to find the "luck" i've been feeling. I truly believe that if you love someone, no matter what way it is, you have to let them go if it makes them happy. Because if it's meant to be then you will end up together or the other one will realize that they want you because of what you did for them.

I feel like either way I won because I still have him as a friend and I know I did the right thing.

Starting of a new me.

So first off my name is Ashley Butler and I am a college student who is trying to figure out the concept of living on her own. My first semester I tried to work on finding friends more than my education. That was my first mistake! Then I got into the wrong group of friends, I went to parties (didn't drink-- well at first), hung out all the time with them and soon enough I became a drinker. Did I care? Of course not! I fit in, felt confident, and just simply important. I mean who doesn't want to feel like that? Soon after I started drinking I got caught in my dorm by my RA. Yes, stupid of me to come back here but I didn't know what I was thinking at the time. It doesn't matter about the popularity, the as called "fun" they were having, or how important I was-- really all the matters is that you find the place that makes you happy but in a setting that you KNOW 100% that you are safe. Don't make the mistake that I made, not about coming back to your dorm, house, apartment, etc.--Don't make the mistake of falling into peer pressure of something you stand strong for. I sure didn't think I would start drinking but look what happened.

I stopped, yes, because I got caught but I think it was God's blessing that I did. It was the Lord telling me this is a warning. Looking back I'm not sure why I didn't and I don't think I regret it either, mainly because it made me stronger in the long run.

Christmas Break...

I guess I was to say first off that my Christmas Break was more than exciting, it was exhilarating! I got to go home for a month to see my family, friends, and hometown. I had great things and disappointing things that happened to me while I was at home. From best friends "ditching" me to best friends making my day! My family to me is the best well put together family I could have ever asked for... Being a daddy's girl, mom taking me shopping, and having my brother as a role model for me. I'm not sure what I would do without my brother to be honest. I'm saying this because I want God to know that I am thanking him and to reinforce myself that I don't have it that bad. Even though I think my life is nothing most the time I know that deep down it is a great thing to have.

Now you're probably wondering what happened to me over break about my best friend who ditched me. Well she technically didn't ditch me, she just didn't tell me she couldn't come over. My best friend, Stephanie, and her boyfriend, Reid, came over to my house to wait on my other best friend from ACU to arrive at my house. About 30 minutes goes by and still no sign of her. Finally I call her about 15 times that day, and still no answer. My mind just went to the automatic worse thing that could ever happen, she got into a car wreck. Well she finally texted me on Sunday to let me know that she was incredibly sorry and told me that her sister went to the hospital that night and she didn't want to talk to anyone else.

That being the long story short, I have realized that your true friend wouldn't just blow you off even for that reason. For me, I felt like she should have at least told me the next day...

Just know, life goes on but most importantly find the right friends that you are the happiest with.