People I love {family shoot}

A month or so ago my sister surprised me with a text telling me “we’re coming to see you”.  My jaw dropped and I asked Billy what she was talking about!  Apparently, he already knew and they were going to surprise me… but she just couldn’t wait to tell me!  I was thrilled, to say the least!  I really, really love my sister and her family. 🙂 She and her …

Just a day in April

The weather has been up and down again (what is with this cold year??)… but thankfully a little more ‘up’ in the afternoons this past week [we won’t count today’s 40 and raining in that statement] so we have been able to spend some time outside!  Kinley has been very interested in photographs/photoshop lately.. so we busted out the really old Sony digital camera and let the girls have a …

Snow!

NC is certainly unpredictable when it comes to the weather!  It’s winter, of course, but not like the Wisconsin winters I grew up with.. nor the FL winters I enjoyed for 15 years… instead it can swing from 70 degrees to 20 degrees in the matter of a day.  This past week, we got to experience something that makes most NC’ers happy… we got snow!  The first round early in …

Merry Christmas! {photos}

We decided to do Christmas cards again this year!…(we took last year “off” :)).  So to help make that happen I decided to do a photo shoot with the kiddos one afternoon.  I’m so proud of them for being so cooperative (esp. since I was managing them solo).  I’m sure that promising them lollipops helped a bit too!  Most of the shots are actually the result of their own poses!  …