Category Archives: Fun Family Time

Christmas 2011!

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Last year for Christmas we celebrated in Chattanooga since I was 9 months pregnant with Sierra. My family came up from Fort Lauderdale and we had some special time with both sides of our family! It was a particularly exciting Christmas Day, because we had a White Christmas! It hadn’t snowed on Christmas Day in...

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Christmas Tree Farm Tradition: Year Two!

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Merry Christmas, everyone!!! I hope each of you are enjoying time with your loved ones and thanking God for all the blessings in your life! Last year, we went to a really adorable and quirky local Christmas Tree farm to take some photos, have some family time, and cut down our own tree. This year,...

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fall family session!

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We recently blogged about the wonderful Campbell family on our professional blog…and if you haven’t already “met” them through Rich’s photos, you need to! You’ll love them without even knowing them! The really fun part is that Meghan then photographed us as well! Here are a few of my favorites, but head on over to...

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Apple Valley Orchard!

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Yesterday we had some much needed family time! Whew! Life has been a bit hard to keep up with lately, and with all of the working we’ve been doing, it was nice to get out for a few hours and enjoy each other…and some fall fun! Rich was in Highlands, North Carolina last weekend and he’s...

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Sierra’s Six Month Session!

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WOW. I mean, seriously, wow. I cannot believe it’s been nearly two months since I last blogged. That MUST be a new record! I don’t think I’ve gone two months without blogging since the inception of my blog in October of 2005. It’s been busy, to say the least. After my last blog post (from...

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dauphin island: part two!

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While in Dauphin Island last week, one of the places that I wanted to go explore was a nearby public beach. Ron and Kathleen had told us that it was not crowded and had huge sandbars stretching far into the sea. So, after a bit of morning relaxation… We headed off to see what we...

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dauphin island: part one!

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Last week we found ourselves on a new adventure! Rich’s Uncle Ron had the great idea to get away together…Rich’s brothers, their wives, and the kids. And that is exactly what we did! Ron and Kathleen had been to Dauphin Island, Alabama, before and it was their idea to introduce all of us to the...

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rice cereal

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First things first. I realize that my baby eating rice cereal for the first time is not of interest to anyone but my family, so just consider this a for-the-grandmothers blog post Sierra will be five months old on Saturday, so I think I’ve waited a bit longer on the rice cereal than I did...

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mothers day 2011

For Mothers Day this year, all I wanted was to spend the day with my family. I LOVE being together – all four of us – and doing whatever. Hanging out at the house, running errands, eating out…I just love being together. Quality time is IT for me. Rich and Alana decided to take me...

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easter 2011

Easter this year was super low key. Alana has had her first ever ear infection for the past three weeks and has been on her first ever round of antibiotics In order to help her get better, we have been keeping her home a ton and away from groups of kids…so that includes her Mother’s...

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