Friendship!

Everyone has those friends who at one time you spent all your time with. So many memories but somehow you lost touch. No real reason, just a busy life I guess. Well that's what happened with one of my best friends from college London. Today we saw each other again for the first time in several years! We had a great lunch at Bread Winners and then went to Nordstrom's and looked around. Presley was with us and LOVED meeting London! Here's my picture(s) of the day...





We are leaving Dallas tomorrow and then I have so many fun things to post about Presley's first Christmas!

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Happy New Year!!

Today is the first day of 2012! Happy New Year!!!!! I have set a goal to blog every.single.day. of 2012! We are in Dallas celebrating the new year and I will update more when we get home later this week! Here's a picture of the day to hold you over :) My first of 2012!



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Happy New Year!!!!!!

Today is the beginning of what I know will be an amazing year! 2011 was by far the best year ever with the birth of our sweet baby boy! We've been in Dallas ringing in the new year but my goal is to post everyday even if it's short and sweet! I will do a few posts this week of highlights from 2011 but until then, here's my picture of the day! https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/396812_10100510722010887_9607441_50788047_1627712894_n.jpg

Santa!

Presley is the baby who smiles ALL the time but I didn't know how he would react to Santa. Well, he LOVED Santa!!!! It's his first Christmas so of course I had to go to more than one place, haha. My favorite is the little house at Utica Square. So cute! Santa and Mrs. Claus gave Presley a cookie when he left that I ended up eating, haha. We also went to Promenade but goodness the picture packages are OUTRAGEOUS. Here's some pics!

It's only $8 at Utica Square and I heard lots of people say you only get one picture and how unhappy they were. If you ask them to use your own camera they let you! Presley's first trip(s) to Santa were a success. I wonder how he will do next year?!

Presley is on the "Good List" and yes, we will be leaving cookies out for Santa and his elves :)

On another note, have I said how excited I am about doing photography?!?! Oh my gosh, it's all been unexpected but I am loving it so much! I definitely don't have a desire to do weddings or anything like that but I love doing babies, kids and families. I think sometimes I'm probably too excited when I'm at a shoot but it's just so exciting! My next shoot is Thursday and once again...I can't wait!

Cleveland Family Pictures

A friend from high school asked me to do her family holiday pictures. I was SO excited but also slightly nervous because she wanted to do them in her house. This was a first for me but they are SO cute! I have been busy lately taking lots of pictures and I am LOVING every minute of it! I have a blog for just my photos HERE but I haven't done much with it yet. Can't decide if I really want two blogs or just one. Anyway, back to this ADORABLE family. Take a look!

CUTEST brothers

These faces are just preshy!

I will be posting other sessions tonight! Stay tuned :)

Snugs n Love

Just Another Idea

Yesterday I took some family pictures for a friend Katy from highschool. I am the first to admit, I'm not a "professional" photographer but what really makes you one? Sure the website and obviously the clients you get but I just love taking pictures. It all started when I had Presley and I know several other friends that really got into it after they had a baby. I know that professional photogs charge a lot and also don't usually give you the CD of all of your images after the session. This is the main reason I started taking pictures when P was born. I didn't want to pay an extra $300 for all my images! Don't get me wrong, they are amazing at what they do and that's how they get their business but maybe I will do it for fun if people ask and charge like $50 and give the cd with all the images. It's not like I'm trying to do weddings or be a full-time photographer. I do know that I have SO many ideas for pictures of P and I know other moms out there would love them just as much! I have ideas brewing as we speak :) Here's a few of my favorite images I captured yesterday!

So there ya have it. My first official "photo shoot" other than Presley of course :) 

Snugs n Love

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!

Wow, it's been FOREVER since I did a post. I always say I will get better at updating on a regular basis, so this time if I don't say that, maybe it will happen. I'm VERY excited because it's officially my favorite time of year (even though I started decorating several weeks ago)!!!!!! I love everything about Christmas. The reason for the season, the glitter, the lights, the garland, the smell of all my candles burning, I just love it all! This year we moved and thankfully have a lot more space and room for our big Christmas Tree! We decorated it in red, purple and a hint of pink. At first, Shane was skeptical, BUT I proved him wrong which in his book never happens, lol. Here's a few pics :)

I also saw these painting of Santa about a month ago and the problem was the painter wanted $100 for a painting. I thought hmmmmmmm, I can do that and voila! I took a picture of it and spent $7 total. I'm not a freelance painter but if I have a picture, I think I can paint okay :) You can't really tell in the picture but its silver with a light purple glitter layer on top. It's really pretty in person! I can do red, green and any other color really but I wanted it to go with my purple and silver Christmas decor.

I also made a Cream Cheese Pound Cake on Thanksgiving that was yummy! It's super easy here's the recipe:

• 1 1/2 cups butter, softened at room temp
• 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened at room temp
• 3 cups sugar
• 6 large eggs
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

PreparationBeat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy (do not over beat);

gradually add sugar, beating well. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until combined. Crack eggs into a bowl first before adding to the mixture to make sure you avoid shells in the cake mix. Sift 3 cups of flour. Combine flour and salt; gradually add to butter mixture, beating at low speed just until blended after each addition and stir in Vanilla.

Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch Bundt pan. Bake at 300° for 1 hour and 40 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 to 15 minutes; remove from pan, and let cool completely on wire rack. My pound cake had a crazy crusty layer on the bottom that I just peeled off. It was like candy, it was so sweet and crunchy but it wasn't pretty so I just threw it away.

Voila!

Snugs n Love