Holiday Hangover!

Christmas is over... Boo! But I'm still recovering...

We made it safely to Indiana on Tuesday morning through the blizzard and ice storm we came across. We couldn't believe how terrible the weather was, but it was good we left earlier than expect or we would've hit the worst of it. But we made it and had a great time. We spent lots of time together with the family and got our filling of Lil' B, although I wish it was longer. But thank goodness for the invention of Skype. If you are not familiar with it... check it out! (Just google it) Then we turned around Thursday afternoon to come back up north to get both families in. We fit all families in and even had our own time together for our Christmas. It was a good year and I know we are looking forward to next year already! I LOVE Christmas music!

Here are some photos from our point and shoot camera, but they aren't very good. The last three photos are from my nice camera. I think Santa forgot to bring a new point and shoot camera for us... but that's ok! He did leave money so we'll have to use that towards one.

I hope everyone else had a great family time and Santa brought things you wanted as well!

Enjoying our own lil' family Christmas...



This is me, looking a little retarded, yet excited, opening my favorite present... the P90X workout videos- AWESOME!



Todd with our boy Maddox...



Making TONS of cookies for the holidays...



The one photo I took while at my sister's... Berra and Maddox napping together



Our Little Isabella with her Christmas outfit... A-dorable!

Lots Coming Soon...

This holiday season is sneaking up on me... and although I have so much to show you, it's just not enough time. But I wanted to give you a sneak peak of what's to come. We will be out of town until Friday, but I will have some great photos for you once we return, and of course we will be seeing my lil' B... so lots of fun photos ahead.

Here's a preview of what's coming...

Ariana



Lil' William



Josh & Talitha: Married (you can check out their engagements to remind you of them)



Have a Happy Holidays! Lots of Love and Prayers to You All! God Bless!

Whoa... Snow!

Let it SNOW... and SNOW... and SNOW 9" or so inches! That's exactly what it did here. I couldn't believe how much it came down! But it is SOOO pretty! Todd even had the day off and all we did was watch Christmas movies and lounge around. It was awesome! What a great day!

I hope everyone else had one!

Enjoy the snow or the weekend, if it didn't snow where you are!

Maddox loved the snow...

Josh & Christy :: Married!

Josh & Christy were so fun during their engagements, and I knew their wedding would be super fun as well. Their wedding was FULL of love and smiles. Even though Josh hated the fact that he had to get his photos taken, I think he did a great job and I really think he enjoyed it! Ha!

Here is a slideshow of their beautiful wedding and a couple of my favorites...Congratulations you two!

Abby & Josie (5 & 2 years)

Abby & Josie are friends of Rachel & Nora from yesterday's post. They all came out to the park with their winter coats on and we all had a great time. I knew Abby & Josie from a recent wedding we did of Jeff & Stephanie... they were the lovely flower girls there. So it was great to see them again for more photos. Both girls are so full of smiles and such sweet girls.

Here's some from our session...



Josie is 2... she's letting me know...



Abby has such a fun smile (& a cool name-ha!)...



And Josie does as well...







They are having so much fun!

Rachel & Nora (4 yrs. & a little over a year)

Sweet kids I must say! Both were so stinkin' cute too. They were such troopers in-spite of the freezing cold weather. They did well and we made the best out of the weather and did what we could. I know my fingers felt as though they were frost bit- Ha! But my hands are always cold! I even did two of their friends the same time... those will be tomorrow.

Here are a couple fun ones from our session... Enjoy!





Look at Nora's cute little smile...



And Rachel's...





I think this is a cute big sister coaching little sister here... little sister is distracted though... so funny!



I'm not sure she can make it up the pole...





By this time I think they were pretty cold and just wanted to be done... haha!

My Best-est in Detroit

I have been waiting and waiting for this weekend to come for quite sometime now. I didn't know what weekend it would be, but it came and it was so fun. My dearest and closest friend came the long haul up to Detroit from Indianapolis to visit. I have not seen her since I was home last, back in August, and we were both due for some girl time. Ha! PLUS... she is preggers and I wanted to see her and her lil' belly so bad. She's still as gorgeous as ever, and I'm so happy for her and Ethan! They are going to be great parents. I know they will be! They even brought along a playmate for Maddox, their little snoodle Bella, which I think he's mourning her leaving. He's been so sad since then. He had so much fun... they both were so wore out! All he did Monday was sleep... haha! I can't wait to see them again come Christmas. I'm so ready to see family and hang out with them... especially my lil' B (Isabella). I miss them so much! But it was a great weekend, one that will carry me to the holidays!

Best Buds now...



They were so well behaved together, besides Maddox wanting to bite her... he was just playing though



Such a cute family...



Being Silly..



Another cute family... Hehe!

Another Year Older...

Well today is a day I would look forward to each year... another year older was awesome! After last year, I was dreading the day I would turn another year older. The day is here today and I think I would like to stay the same age as I was YESTERDAY. Is that possible?

Well... I have to face the music and just take it all in. Celebrate the years, and add one more to it!

Maddox got dressed up for my birthday... what a good boy!

Anniversary Weekend

After a great holiday and Friday night wedding we had to shoot, we finally were able to get away and celebrate our anniversary. We originally were planning a trip to Chicago, but rethought that one considering the whole trying to stay downtown on a budget... ha! We thought up north would be great to relax and hang out. We drove up to "Pe-COW-sky" as I called it. Todd laughed and I just told him it was my "southern" tone that gave it that name. We stayed one night there, which was nice and quiet. Sunday we got up and drove towards Traverse City. We hit two lighthouses up, which I have to say it was SOOO cold. My fingers were so numb they were burning when we got back in the car. The sky was bland, so they weren't that great. They didn't get that little something extra... like snow or cool clouds. Boo... We stayed in a cool hotel which had a fireplace and hot tub all in the room. We even got some snow... actually a snow storm. We were right on the water, so the wind blew all night which sounded 1/2 cool, 1/2 creepy.

But anyways... we had a great time! It was a great way to spend the weekend and celebrating being together.

This is one of the lighthouses in Traverse City. We actually have done engagement photos here... it a little warmer last time we were there though! Love you honey! :)