Category Archives: Holidays and Birthdays

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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Alana is 4 today!

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Today is Alana’s fourth birthday! This year has, without question, felt like it has passed more quickly than any other year of my life. I turned 30, had Sierra, and here we are ten months later and I’m wondering what just happened to 2011. It’s been a year full of blessings, laughter, love, growth, and...

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halloween 2011

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Today was so much fun. I’m not going to do justice to it with my words, because it’s late and I’m tired. I just wanted to post a few photos of the girls because tomorrow will be nuts and I know I won’t get around to it. After a few crazy weeks with Rich in...

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party fun

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On Saturday I took the girls to sweet little Maddy’s 3rd birthday party at St. Elmo park. We had a great time and I wanted to share a few funny photos of my girls. But first, here is a shot of the beautiful birthday girl! Alana started off on the swings where I snapped photos...

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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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briana’s 30th birthday strut!

The photos from Briana’s 30th Birthday Strut are on The Strut Blog, but I wanted to post a few here on my personal blog since Bri is such a good friend and we had such a blast at her party Amber and I started off by testing our camera settings…and of course we had to...

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spring break in florida: part two!

As has become tradition since Alana was 1, we had breakfast one morning at the Jet Runway Cafe at the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport. We LOVE this place…great food, great service, and best of all, the private jets take off and land RIGHT outside the windows! Alana loved it just as much as always, and...

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spring break in florida: part one!

So for me, no family vacation ever really feels complete until I blog about it. It’s always therapeutic for me since I hate leaving my family and I always miss them so much. It’s closure for me to write about our times together, and this time is no exception. In some ways, it becomes harder...

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