This post is specifically for my mom and dad! Being that they are in South Florida, they don’t get to see Alana nearly often enough! The last time Alana and I visited, she was four months old and since she’s changed SO much since then, I wanted to post a bunch of recent “look-what-she’s-doing-now-mom!” photos....
At our monthly OSP lunch last week, the sweet and talented Michelle Wilson offered to us the photos she’d taken the evening Rich and I modeled for the Chattanooga Photographer’s Guild. I thankfully accepted the disc and enjoyed looking through her images when I got home. I thought I’d share a few of them here!...
Yesterday morning we had the extreme honor of another session with the excessively talented Amber Holritz. Alana is six months old now, and we were due for our next shoot! Alana has undergone significant changes since our last session (at six weeks old), so it took on such a fresh, fun, and unexpected feel! Here...
As my longtime blog readers are aware, I worked at the Chattanooga Youth Network from the time I got married until 3 years later when I was 37 weeks pregnant and ready to quit my job to be home with Alana and work for Rich Smith Photography. In my years at CYN, I had the...
I just wanted to take a moment to congratulate my Pixie upon her graduation from Black Hills State University!!! I am so proud of her for her perseverance in spite of big transitions in the process. But five years, three colleges, and three states later, she has apprehended her diploma and is officially DONE! Amber,...
Rich surprised me last week by telling me that he wanted to take me to Atlanta for the weekend, for my first ever mother’s day! It is something that we loved to do together before we had the baby – just plan a weekend getaway somewhere and enjoy each other. Since things are a bit...
I am so excited to announce that my dear friend, Briana, has made the brilliant decision to launch her own Etsy site! She is too talented NOT to do well! Her designated profile name? Fat Birds! Her product? Incredible acrylic gallery wrap canvas paintings! Check out Fat Birds here and be sure to give her...
Alana was busy today, helping Rich and I with all of our accounting catch-up: She was such a help. Wow. It is amazing to me that she is already watching everything we do and beginning to mimic. That is a huge responsibility as a parent! Will she have the same flaws and quirks that I...
I’ve been tagged. Bethany and Heidi tagged me, so here it goes: Seven random (hopefully interesting) things about me: 1.) I grew up in South Florida, East Texas, and Southern California. 2.) In my six years growing up in Orange Country, California, I was in numerous severe earthquakes and my family evacuated two different homes...
We had the incredibly fun privilege of hanging out with some good friends on Friday night, and I always leave wondering why we allow life to get too busy to do it more often! The wonderful Scott and Kristy invited us, along with our dear friends Tim and Steph, to bring the kids and enjoy...