Interupt

So allow me to interrupt my Christmas documentation with a little end of the year review.  It is only natural for everyone to want to reflect this time of year.  How did the last year, 2011, work out for you?  What can you improve on?  What did you do right?  So many things to think about.  My heart is racing a bit at the moment because I am putting myself out there, putting my business out there.  I am terrified it is going to be a dud, that I will be rejected.  I don't really like to rely on my friends and family to promote me.  I feel like it puts them in an awkward situation but that is the very thing I am asking them to do right now on facebook.  I have appreciated my photography business so much!  My dreams are being realized with this business.  I have always wanted to be a photographer.  It wasn't something I did lightly.  I put myself out there and was well received.  Business continues to double every year.  I was able to take it slow to really learn the business of photography.  I feel most comfortable with the camera in my hand but a lot of this job is with the camera tucked neatly in its case and me staring at a computer.  As I have mentioned before I have not done any traditional paid advertising.  Mostly all of my business has been word of mouth (thank you) and that great thing called Facebook!  I really do love facebook.  So right now I am doing a "like" fan drive.  I would love for you to recommend my page to your friends and they can recommend to their friends and the lovely circle goes on and on.  Request that your friends write who sent them on my photography page, whoever sends the most people wins a complimentary mini session!  You can use it personally or give as gift.  It makes me so nervous to even write all of this.  Who knows how this will be received, hopefully, if not then you live and learn.  Thanks for loving us and supporting us.  You all have meant the world to us! 

Since I did interrupt the documentation of my family life I will leave you with the sweetest photo of BellaRose  setting out cookies for Santa and a carrot for the reindeer.  And one of my little Hollings who can't say Hollings and calls herself Honey.  Precious!

Christmas 2011 Part 2

So what would Christmas be like if we did not make sugar cookies with icing. My Mimi, my mom's mom, used to make a table full of cookies every year for each family. How I loved getting that tin of cookies in the mail. Some were crushed, not having fared well with the long journey from Pittsburgh, but they still tasted amazing. My favorites were the sugar cookies. I finally found a recipe that reminded me of Mimi's and my mom and sisters agree. BellaRose has also really enjoyed this tradition of helping me bake them as well as serve them to Santa. 

Santa loves them too!

Of course you need to see some photos of the dogs. Rainy is 12 and looking so old but still the same old Rain dog. Atticus is eternal.

Christmas Part 1

I finally started taking photos of my family again! Well more then I usually do as of late. I decided that I am going to have to post in segments since I did take so many. BellaRose and Hollings have taken to playing in Little's crib, A LOT. I don't really mind it until everything that was outside of the crib goes in it, then I mind. I am trying to let go of my neat freak ways but it is difficult. Hollings got a wooden mailbox for Christmas with cute little wooden postcards and that quickly became one of BellaRose's favorite toys. Rosey is a bit of a pack rat and likes to stuff things in things. It drives me mad. I kept asking her to only put the postcards in it. Worth thought that was a battle I should not choose. I mean what is the use of a fun wooden mailbox with three slots if you can't see what fits in it. I get it! I release it. Anyway that got a little off the subject. The subject is these girls in all their CRAZY cuteness. Enjoy!

Featured

I am so excited to announce that the wedding I photographed a few weekends ago is featured in DOCICA magazine this week!!! What a huge huge honor! Be sure to check it out and if you want, share the love!!! Thanks friends!

Featured

I know a lot of you know about this huge honor that was bestowed upon me recently but I just have to share on here for those of you who don't know, I was featured in Docica Magazine. I will also be the feature every Friday for the month of June. I am just blown away by the article and the photographs, both by the amazing co-editors of Docica Melissa Wilson and Jennifer Haynes. I feel like I could go on and on about this article and everything it has meant to me and my family but I think that you can just see for yourself. Click the picture and it will take you to the article. Be sure to like them on facebook or follow them on twitter to see what exciting things they will be up to the rest of the year. Don't forget to check back every Friday too, that is when they always post!