a birthday, a holiday and everything in between

This past month has been a doozy. I am very thankful for the friends and family I have.

Here are some fun pictures from the past week

                                                   We cut our christmas tree down

Then decorated it

(most of the ornaments are my husbands, his parents had an ornament for him every year 

and they are labeled...how cool is that!)

Ice skating for Rick's birthday!

Hot dogs and Angel food cake

my mom in law carefully lit the cake

it snowed

Blazers vs. Hornets game

Books

I spend most nights curled up in our cozy bed reading until I fall asleep. It is my way of giving my brain a little break.

I recently joined goodreads and really love it. I love being able to see what my friends and family (who have joined) are reading and have also been able to do a bit of book sharing through the site as well.

                                         Here are some of my favorites from the past year.

Harry Potter series (my husbands gift from last christmas) (J.K. Rowling)

True Blood series (Charlaine Harris)

Nursery Crimes (Jasper Fforde)

Shit my dad says (Justin Halpern)

Salt A World History (Mark Kurlansky)

                                                            I'm open to recommendations!

5 things that make me happy

this photographer

color me katie

scaring myself so silly that high pitch yeeks come out

funny photography moments

My family 

yep....all of you!

this silly man

baby M

babies! 

I had a fun, fun shoot with this little bundle of joy. Not only was he the most chill baby I've photographed so far.....we even had about 4 wardrobe changes and he didn't blink an eye! 

What a trooper.

Heather and Jeremy

My sister wanted me to take some fun new photographs when I was in New Orleans. ...these are a few from the shoot.

I miss my sister =( 

Should see them in the next 6 months though..so yay!

maternity photography

I had the pleasure of working with Krystal documenting her time before babies arrival. 

She's due in less than a month!

What a beautiful gal!