Twins?

 I love taking photos. I think there's something really beautiful in capturing a moment in time.

"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything."

                                                                                                                                -Aaron Siskind 



Sunday we went to the Duke Energy train display downtown. I forgot my camera, but used my husband's phone to take a few snapshots.

When I took this photo:

I instantly thought of this photo:

 

That photo was taken in 2007. 

They resemble each other so much and the position of the photo is nearly the same. 

 

I hope to take this same photograph over and over for years and years to come. 

I'm truly bless with this beautiful family of mine.

Happy Holidays!

We put our tree up a few days ago. I love this time of the year, and it's crazy to say, but I enjoy it even more now that I have children. It's beautiful to see the excitement and to relive things through their eyes. We each have a collection of ornaments for our tree. Here is Riley's:

And Raiggie. I think this is Raigan's "I don't want my picture to be taken face." That's what she would tell me if she could speak in 9 word sentences. She can say thank you, but we're not quite to 9 words yet. God love her, she always has a camera in her face. She'll thank me later in life. I hope.

It's so hard to believe that I was pregnant (and miserable having preterm labor contractions) at this time last year. It's so crazy to think about how fast this year has gone by. I just can't come to grips with it: my sweet baby is going to be a year old. I almost forget how hard my pregnancy last year was with her and have begun to think about having another baby. Brandon is done though, and I'm not sure if I would want Raigan to be a middle child. I just want her to by my little snugly baby for forever.

The thought of having more children than hands intimidates me as well. We'll see what happens in the future. It's hard to think too that this time next year I will graduating and alllll of that hard work that I have put into school with finally be done. It seem so far away, but if it went as fast as this year did, it will be here before we know it.

Do you have your tree up yet?

Monica's Christmas Pictures

I took pictures of my friend Jamie's daughter Monica. She is almost 2 and the cutest little almost 2 year old I know! She speaks like a kinder gardener even better than some kinder gardeners!

Here are some of my favorites! Some of the one's I like most she isn't smiling or looking at the camera in. 

I also love when a photograph shows emotion. I especially like the 6th and last photo, because of the emotion in them.

Christmas Traditions

Christmas is swiftly approaching, which I can hardly tolerate because that means my baby will be a year old.

A YEAR OLD!!!! 

Uggghh how did that happen?

When did that happen?

Okay, I'll collect myself here...

I have a few things that I'm addicted to as I have mentioned before... like mail, little girl hair bows, magazines, party supplies. At least they are all legal things. Right? That's what I tell myself anyway.

Another of those things happens to be Christmas ornaments.

When Riley was a baby I bought her about 10 my first Christmas ornaments, because how often is your baby going to have a first Christmas? Only once.

With all that being said, each year as a family tradition, we go pick out a Christmas ornament for our tree.

I think I love ornaments so much because they can tell the story of your life. There's just something so darn poetic about it. Like this one:

 This is the year we bought our first home and here's an ornament of it!

These are the ornaments from this year. We got them from Hobby Lobby.

Riley's:

Mine! I love nutcrackers. My mom always had a ton of them when I was a kid. 

This is Hub's. 

I have a ton of nicknames for Brandon, one of them is bears.

 Since Raggie is a baby, I thought she would too young to pick out her own, but she wasn't. I wanted her to get this cute cupcake one, but she choose this one instead and WOULD NOT let go of it for anything! haha

Here's our little ornament family for Christmas 2010!

What are your family traditions?