Thankgiving day photos

We hosted Thanksgiving this year at our home, for all 19 of us! :) It was a Thanksgiving to remember, as we had most of our extended family to share it with. Brian had his parents and his brother, my parents and my sister (and my sister's boyfriend, Nick), and we had the Webers too! It was just fantastic! And I didn't even mind a bit being the hostess! I would definitely do it again next year!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all our dear friends and family...for the next couple weeks the blog postings will be hit and miss as we dive through the massive amount of holiday orders...but I promise to try and do a couple postings!

Another chance to wear Eden's Bouquet clothing!

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My firstborn turns 13!

Well, we survived the chaos! Actually, I have to be honest...Alex has a GREAT group of friends. They were all respectful and mannerly, I would have any one of them back at our house again. There were about 70 people here all together (about 60 13 year olds). We had an awesome DJ. We turned the garage into a big karaoke DJ dance floor and the kids sang and danced the night away. We had a large 20x30 tent attached to our heated garage. It looked just like a dance club with the DJ lights and fog machine! Sorry for the picture overload! But I know Alex wants to show some of his friends at school.

Panoramic Birthday gift

We don't give our kiddos birthday presents...but we give them a party, take them out for a birthday dinner, and then this year I started a new tradition...a panoramic birthday frame! I soooooo wish I would have thought of this earlier, but alas, my older kiddos got the short end of the stick! :( Anyway, I make a huge 36x14 print of 4 photos and then a "saying" and frame it. Then, every year on their birthday I plan on updating it with the new one. These will hang in the kids rooms. So far, I have only done TJ's, Kennedy's and now Alex's. It is great, because we spend a couple hours in a photo shoot and then I get to capture those looks, expressions and silly behavior that only they can create at that age in their lives. I just LOVE the way Alex's turned out. I am sure that I will have a photo of it once it is framed, but until then you can see the image above. It really shows his personality and how unique he is. He is a trendy dresser that likes to wear hats...that's my boy!

Fall photo shoot of kids

Every fall I try and update the big 11x14 portraits of each of the kids we have hanging in our living room. Usually I take them in the studio, but this year I decided to do them outside. Here are a few from the session - though I have kept the "best" to be displayed in our living room! So, if you want to see those, you will just have to visit! :) Oh- and if you are wondering about the pink streak in Mackenzie's hair - she put in a pink hair extension for breast cancer awareness...she is such a cool kid!