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“I have to seek God beauty.  Because isn’t my internal circuitry wired to seek out something worthy of worship?  Every moment I live, I live bowed to something.  And if I don’t see God, I’ll bow down before something else.” (Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts, Zondervan, Grand Rapids Michigan, 2010, 110.)   27.  old friends […]

“Every time you feel in God’s creatures something pleasing and attractive, do not let your attention be arrested by them alone, but, passing them by, transfer your thought to God and say: ‘O my God, if Thy creations are so full of beauty, delight and joy, how infinitely more full of beauty, delight and joy […]

Because of a fellow photographer friend, Amanda, I snuck into my children’s rooms and took pictures of the sweet little cherubs.  I am, of course, thankful for the times they’re asleep 🙂  But also… 14. the way she snuggles the blanket given by mom on the day of her birth 15. reading with her in […]

Last week I told you about a goal of mine to post a photograph a week of what I’m grateful for.  There is a greater goal in this that just being grateful… to obtain the fullest joy possible through realizing how good God is and therefore be able to live fully in the moment.  Today, […]

I am always planning the next step.  If I have 10 weddings booked, I’m thinking about where #11 will come from.  If I’m happily watching tv with my daughters, I’m figuring out what time I need to start cooking dinner.  If I’m eating dinner, I’m planning what I’ll have for dessert.  It’s not good.  I […]

About 6 months ago I got an email from my sister proposing an ice cream parlor for my little girl’s 4th birthday party.  This same sister also happens to be my own personal graphic designer.  So I knew she would be on board for helping me make it amazing. I made cupcakes in ice cream […]

This Christmas was wonderful for my little family.  I hope yours was, too and that you have a very Happy New Year! 

For Thanksgiving my whole family went to Sky Valley, GA; a place where we spent many weeks of vacation as children, but hadn’t returned to as a family in more than a decade.  I hadn’t been in 12 years.  The last time I was there it was with my cousin Emalee and our grandparents.  Grandandy […]

In our house, Halloween is much longer than just a day.  Pierce and I had the most fun decorating for “happy harvest” as she called it, early in the month.  Then the Pumpkin Patch.  This year my mom “Ooba” took her to a pumpkin carving party, which is the only time I could convince her […]

As a kick-off into all the fall sessions you’ll see here over the coming weeks, I’m featuring my own little family’s annual pumpkin patch visit…This little girl was scared of pumpkins.  Shortly after the pic, she started pushing them away.  They rolled down the hill in a sort of pumpkin stampede.  She only wanted her […]

I am having trouble processing the fact that we’re already well into October.  I completely missed blogging several September events, so I’m doing a super quick summary of just 2 personal things.  I haven’t even put Labor Day in this post!  Gah-lee.  Maybe that will be in a “remember when we were warmer?” post later […]

If you know us, you know that my husband is soccer obsessed.  I always have a chuckle when people ask me where Peter is.  There’s only one answer… soccer.  So today was a momentous occasion when our firstborn went to her first soccer practice.  It’s very laid back.  Dads “coach” for 30 minutes and then […]

My brother and his beautiful wife Brittany became beekeepers earlier this year. It was a pretty big deal.  They each had a colony to parent, each with a beautiful white bee box for the bees to inhabit and fill and create honey.  Of course, the honey is the main goal.  And last weekend was extraction […]

I realize that first birthday parties are mainly for the parents (and siblings.)  I kept this one a little smaller than my first first birthday party.  Little Adelaide had a pinwheel party the Saturday after her birthday.  It’s much harder to be the host, mom and photographer than it is to be JUST the photographer, […]

One year ago today, my sweet baby Adelaide was born.  I looked back at the photos from the day she was born and couldn’t resist sharing some.  Even in the hospital, the nurses would bring her to me and say, “She’s so sweet.”  And she really is.  While she’s getting louder and forming definite opinions, […]