Miss Addie (a.k.a 'KAT')...

some of my favorites...

Over Meritt's Birthday weekend, we had very special company! Matt's family came to stay, including our 15 month old miracle nephews. The girls had so much fun playing with the cousins. So to mark the ocassion, I called my favorite friend photographer Meghann of Your Street Photography... and we did a little family photo shoot! Here are some of my favorites. It's very hard to choose, since Meghann doesn't take a bad photo in the whole bunch!

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
~Erma Bombeck



We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box. ~Robert Fulghum



You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu



Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb



The family is a haven in a heartless world. ~Attributed to Christopher Lasch







There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again. ~Elizabeth Lawrence













There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me. ~Mary Montagu





The greatest poem ever known
Is one all poets have outgrown:
The poetry, innate, untold,
Of being only four years old.
~Christopher Morley, To a Child





love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. ~Terri Guillemets

family photos...

We had the pleasure of getting our photos taken by the amazingly talented Meghann Street of Your Street Photography for the second time... here is a sneak peak at our 2010 family photo shoot!

it's the little things...

...about summer that I look forward to the most!




What are you looking forward to the most about summer???

sunshine, sea, sand, & shells...

what's on your wish list for santa?

The very talented Meghann Street of Your Street Photography

recently opened her very own online boutique...

Oh how I dream of this for Christmas!!!

Do you think Santa reads blogs?

Maybe I should send official letter to the North Pole just in case!

Go check it out...

www.yourstreetphotography.com

our family photo shoot...

a week and a half ago we had the

pleasure of having our photos taken

by the very talented Meghann Street

of... Your Street Photography
excited doesn't even sum this whole

experience up for me.......

for a long time I have wanted really artistic

photos taken of our family, but haven't known

where to go, or who to call,

recently some friends of ours had some photos taken

of their little girls and I fell in love with them....

then, when I found out she travels to you

is amazingly reasonable, and releases

the edited photos to you...

I thought I'd died and gone to heaven!!!

I hope you enjoy - this is just a snippet

of the AMAZING photos Meghann took for us!

Please check out her blog or look at her work

if you are at all interested in having photos taken!

just click on any of the photos to see a larger version

Thank you Meghann for putting up with us!

Can't wait to do this again!!!

I heart faces...

Over at i heart faces it's hat challenge week.

This is my first time entering, it looked like

so much fun, I couldn't pass it up this time!

This is one of my most favorite pictures I've taken of Meritt!

Head on over to i heart faces & join the fun!