The Swans came to Chattanooga and we got to have some fun together on Tuesday!
We started off at Mikado Chinese/Japanese Restaurant for lunch and enjoyed catching up! Rich and I hadn’t seen Kevin and Shel since briefly meeting them at OSP South (I can’t believe it’s already been over a year since then!) and we thoroughly enjoyed seeing them again! And this time around we actually had some time to spend together!
Thanks so much to Nathan and Amber for all of the awesome photos in this post (with the fabulous Holritz logo on them), and all of the really bad ones are mine. They are interspersed, but I am fully assured that you will all be able to tell the difference!
The group at Mikado!
Kevin and Shel had beautiful Eden just a day after I had little Alana! These girls are both so adorable, but very different in personality! Eden is totally laid back and rarely cries. Alana, well, let’s just say that the paci is in there for a reason!
They were both due for a feeding during lunchtime, and Alana let me know the second she got hungry, while little Eden just hung out, fell asleep, woke up, and simply started sucking on her fist to let Shel know she was ready to eat. Ha! I couldn’t believe the difference!
Rich with Eden! He couldn’t get over her lovely head of hair since he perpetually sees Alana’s bald little head!
Okay, here I have to stop and thank my dear, dear friend Cami, who bought this amazingly cute little sweater dress for Alana! It is a newborn size, but it just now fits her at almost three months!
Thank you, Cami! We love it!
And the stylin’ little boots are from recent clients-turned-friends Jerad and Calen, whose wedding Rich shot! Thank you guys so much, we love them!
Nathan and Amber’s adorable daughter, Addison, was playing in the restaurant and asked me to take a couple pictures of her. She is one my favorite little girls EVER, and check out how amazing she is…
She’s not lacking in the personality department!
She’s growing up SO much, and I can’t believe how much she’s changed in the couple of years that we’ve known her!
Then she proceeded to go on a shooting spree with my camera and came back with this incredibly artistic shot of Rich. I call it “strategic empty space.”
It’s valuable postmodern art. Bids begin at 1 million.
Amber and I. It’s blurry but I like it anyway. And hey, not everyone can take pictures like her. Certainly not me
Then we went to the Holritz’s that night and the fun continued. There we ate Amber’s fabulous lasagna and shortly thereafter Kevin verbalized his need for cheesecake. I seconded his brilliant plan and he and Amber ran off to our brand new, fabulously large, well-managed, customer-service utopia grocery store, Publix!
They came back with Snickers, Plain, and Key Lime Cheesecake. Yum. I ate my piece in about a minute. Hey, I’m burning calories by the truckload since I’m nursing!
Then we sat around and I asked Kevin (who’s not a dumb guy) about a million questions about taxes, the IRS, and CPA’s. Rich and I are learning the joys of running our own business, and with tax time rapidly approaching, we welcomed the advice from someone who is a true entrepreneurial success!
Alana didn’t like the conversation…
Rich says she’s such a female because she’s fickle. The moment before Nathan took this photo, Alana was smiling and cooing at Amber. Ha. I don’t argue with Rich on that one.
Then we stuck the little gals in Eden’s bouncy seat together and had some fun taking pictures! I LOVE the ones Amber captured!
They started holding hands! Oh, man, could it get any cuter?
And a couple that I grabbed:
Kevin and Rich…
The guys making the girls talk face to face…
Then the group exposed Rich and I to Guitar Hero…wow. If I hadn’t been SO tired by this point in the evening, I would have stayed for another hour playing this! So much fun!
Thanks so much to Shel for these photos of Rich and I…
Such focus!
Wow. Thanks for all of the laughs, and the great company, everyone! We loved it!
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