Summerville, SC and Surrounding Area Friends...

Let's have a talk, shall we?!


There's a secret i've been hiding from you. a pretty amazing one...my mother-in-law is building up her own photography company.. and it's about to get BIG.

She's been a teacher for a very long time, which is amazing in itself, and is wanting her forever-after job/passion/career of photography to start with no interruption.



my family :)



anyone that lives in the charleston, tricounty area needs to contact this gem asap. we are working on her portfolio and her website is under-construction. i will update when that has changed. until then. take a look at her facebook page and here are a few more pictures of my insanely handsome nephews.





we plan on hosting a giveaway in the near future. let's get more "likes" on that facebook page!

weekend!!

whaaaat, a long weekend! we are EXHAUSTED!! (could just be the turkey, right?). thanksgiving was amazing, bought ourselves our christmas present (surround sound), and the gamecocks beat clemson for the third straight year! whooohoooo!!


the only picture from thanksgiving. ava was MIA the whole time.



ava was geared up for the the carolina/clemson game :)


so yesterday was relaxing.. we went to the hatchery at the lake. the water is so low right now we were able to walk a ways out before hitting water. (excuse the pictures, used the hubs crackberry).

our country bumpkin

stump city! good thing andrew knows they're there now!



took our middle furr-baby with us and she wouldnt stay out of the water!



so weird to see it like this, this is usually underwater!

tomorrow ava and i are going up to cola to see aunt candace and cousin corgan. candace will be finding out the sex of corgans new sibling! soooo excited! hope you all had a great long weekend as well!

Back To Blogging

unintentionally, i've taken a (very long) break from blogging. between having a newborn, moving across country, and finding a house to buy, i somehow got a little side-tracked. thanks to my AMAZING sister-in-law, she gave me back my motivation.

my daughter, ava, is almost a year and a half already. time flew by faster than ever imaginable. they tell you it does, but you never really understand it until it just smacks you in the face. everyday she wakes up and has learned something new about the world. i feel like i do, too, but it's a little more noticeable with a barely speaking one year old. she's actually MY teacher. i'm learning sign language because of her. i'm learning patience, responsibility, and pretty much everything else that's not covered in those two categories.

this is our first holiday season in our brand new house, in our brand new neighborhood. i've always absolutely loved EVERYTHING about fall. the holidays, the weather, the hot drinks and food to fill your insides with warmth, the layering of the clothes. i've never really gotten into the decorating part, though. probably because i was always aware that if i put up christmas lights they were likely to stay up year round, despite knowing it's a little white trash. i'm really wanting to go all out for ava for the holidays. giving our tight budget, it wont be the "all out" that i have pictured in my head, but i know our day will come when i pull down "the box" from the attic and it'll already have a seasons worth of stuff in it. one by one, i'll get what i want/need for the holidays. and even better, ava and i can make our own decorations... something i've always loved to do.

this year we'll be going to columbia for the holidays, so i'm not too worried about the decorating. my sister-in-law, her husband, and baby corgan will be living in columbia for their first christmas back to SC. super excited to spend the holidays with them!! i married into the best family, hands down. and ava would be lost without my nephew, her cousin, corgan. he's 7 months younger than ava, but she's sure that she's a grown up and he's just a baby.

well... not sure what else to write today, but i'm going to make this a regular thing. sooooo, blog ya tomorrow!