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Georgia Trip

I took a little weekend trip to see my dad in Georgia a few days ago.  We celebrated a little bit of Christmas with the family and had a great time.  Kenzie got to meet all of her 2nd cousins and great grandparents and see her grammy and pop pop too.  I didn't take too many pictures but here are a few...

Kenz and PopPop looking at Wild America!

Freshly painted toes!

 

At her great grandma's!

 EXHAUSTED!

PopPop was worn out too!

Watchin some TV

 Sippin some juice at Longhorn

Playing with cousin Chloe

Now the next ones are more of the artsy photos i enjoy...

its the little things....

...like perfect little eyelashes on a sleepy baby girl that i love about photography.

little treasures...

Ornaments #2 and #3

I could say that this ornament symbolizes the first time that I went hunting or the first time that I saw a real live moose...but it doesn't...this ornament has no special meaning to me whatsoever...but it's so darn cute!

This next ornament does have a little story though.  When Joel and I first got married we spent a day at Disney World.  We spent the whole day giddy as two young children on Christmas morning riding rides and drinking booze and so totally in love.  As the day came to an end we were hitting up some gift shops and we came to the Christmas Shoppe.  It is Christmas year around in there and it is AWESOME!  We looked around inside and decided that we wanted to start a tradition of getting an ornament every year, or at every cool place that we visit together, be it Disney, or a different state, or a different country!  So we started things off by getting this little guy...Jack from The Nightmare Before Christmas.  We LOVE that movie and thought it was a great ornament.  It is HUGE however so it always has to find a special home on the tree.  Now i can't say that we've kept up with that tradition to a 'T' but we did try and have gotten a few 'souvenir' ornaments to speak of.   :)

Christmas Ornaments...

I've decided to start a little series of posts about my Christmas ornaments...may not be very exciting...but we shall see how it goes.  I need to work on my macro photography skills so ornaments are something small that i can work on.  I'm showcasing the Christmas Ornaments that are special to me for one reason or another....we start with Mackenzie's first ornament...from 2008.  Now granted...she wasn't even BORN until 2009...but when you're 9 months pregnant at Christmas your baby might as well have their own ornament right!?

i got this ornament for our tree in November of 2008.  I was huge pregnant with our first child...a daughter...Laurel Mackenzie.  I was dying to get her out of me and hoping beyond hope that I would randomly go into labor at 36 weeks. :)  I wanted to have our first Christmas as a 3 unit family already!  It didn't happen but instead Joel and I enjoyed one last Christmas as just a couple.  We were the only 'kids' in the family still back then.  Christmas presents were all about us back then.  Well now things have changed.  Things have changed DRASTICALLY!  Christmas presents now rain down upon our children like cats and dogs!  I wouldn't trade one bit of it for anything either...Christmas last year when Kenzie was nearly 1 year old was more fun than any holiday i've had before.  Seeing her eyes light up and her little hands rip into wrapping paper was so much fun.  This year promises to be even more exciting yet as she fully understands what is going on now.  But this Christmas ornament will forever be one of my favorites because it's kenzie's first.  It symbolizes my switch into motherhood and my focus to my kids.

revamping old photos

I worked on revamping some old photos for family today and i don't want to give them away yet but i thought it was amazing what some photo editing software can do for an old black and white!

just messin...

Both of my kids were in bed early tonight thanks to no naps and fussy days so i just started playing around with some older pics i had taken when i first got my new camera.

Ok i need to get myself to bed now.  Thanks for letting me share...if anyone is following.  Otherwise, thanks to myself for thinking anyone reads, LOL.

My girl

i'm experimenting with texture on photos now...i just used a slight one here but i think i like it...

Nana doggy

My sweet girl dog looks so gorgeous in the snow :)

Madison, Indiana

There is a small main street community that Joel and I frequently visit.  It's a great place to walk around with the family and a hot cup of coffee...or iced cup.  There are a lot of great little shops with one-of-a-kind items and the architecture is amazing!

finally!

So i've always loved this one picture of Joel and I from our wedding...it was our kiss after we had walked back down the aisle as husband and wife and it was just such a wonderful moment...however...it was always obnoxious that Joel's uncle was directly in the background of the picture...kinda ruining the intimacy of the moment....

Well...problem solved!!!!

And another one just for fun...

Photo editing is just plain fun to see what you can do!

My baby boy...

I sent out birth announcements after Mackenzie was born but with Alexander's severe colic i never had time to even have pics made before he was 6 weeks old...so i guess i'll just post his at-home snapshot announcement...

before and after...learning new skills

A little before and after editing.