One of our favorite Christmas traditions with the kids is an Advent calendar. Blaire always loved the advent calendars with little chocolates, but last year we did one with Blaire that had Disney princess socks (from Target on Black Friday). I have no idea what we're going to do this year, today Blaire is leaning towards the Grinch Villag[...]
Anyone living in the modern age has struggled with the best way to backup your photos and videos. Before I had all of my files set up to backup automatically, I used to lose sleep over what would happen if I lost Blaire's baby photos or the videos of her first day of life. Knowing all of those memories are living safely on a cloud give[...]
Fall family photos are always my favorite. The colors on the trees make for the prettiest backdrop. Whenever possible, we like to do our photos back at the country club where we met. We did our engagement photos there in the fall, so it's just fun for me to see things come full circle. Knowing we were there at this time in 2012 taking pho[...]
Last weekend we surprised Blaire by taking her to a pick your own flower farm. It was the most adorable place! Miss Effie said she started her farm 17 years ago. Blaire absolutely loved the cats. One had just had kittens so she is counting down the weeks until we can go back and see them out, running around. While we were there, there[...]
We had family photos done back in May and they turned out amazingly! We just got them all back a few weeks ago and I'm still deciding which ones to print because I love so many of them. I won a mini session with By Mari Photography over a year ago and we were finally able to get something scheduled! We did the session at Franklin[...]
It has been just over one year that we've had our home security system. I am so happy we finally got one! It was something I had always wanted because I am the person who analyzes every little noise I hear. And I typically wake Jason up to ask if he heard it, too, which is annoying when it happens every night for three years. And that[...]