my wish list.

I was forced to make a wish list for the holiday season this past weekend, and I thought I would share a few. It's nice to get all the craziness of wants and must-haves out of my head and into my blog. Do we share any must-haves?

{1.blackbird shoot from the hip camera 2.the carrie diaries 3.sylvia plath poetry 4. lomography sprocket rocket 5.cute bookends 6.coraline dvd 7.nine dvd 8.book of unnecessary quotation marks 9.florence + the machine vinyl 10.she + him volume 2 vinyl 11.adele 19 vinyl 12.coralie bickford-smith penguin classics collection}

cloudy with a chance of stuffing.

Happy day after Thanksgiving! I hope everyone stuffed their bellies like I did. I had a different holiday this year. With my parents out of town, I spent most of the day with Chad's family and then attempted to make my traditional family dinner. To go along with the Honeybaked ham my parents sent us, I attempted to make cute little portions of my mom's sweet potato casserole, stuffing and homemade cranberry sauce. I'm actually quite surprised at how close I got to the yummy original taste. Although the stuffing was a little dry, I put way too many marshmallows on the sweet potato casserole (I thought it was going to explode in the oven) and we had no turkey, it all turned out OK for our first Thanksgiving dinner just the two of us. Plus we topped it all off with a bottle of wine which fixes anything, right?

I was excited for the leftovers today, but it just didn't taste the same. Maybe there's just something about mom and dad sending you home with five huge containers full of holiday carbs. Or maybe I can't cook as well as I thought I could.

We ended the day snuggling up on the couch, watching "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs." Love that movie! If you've never seen it and still appreciate awesome animated movies like you did as a kid, then go buy it right now. Don't bother renting it. "Flint you have a call. Flint you have a call." xo.

 

the american ninja.

This past Sunday, Chad and my parents and I drove to Chattanooga to visit with my grandmother and her new boyfriend. And if you remember my previous post about them - yes, he totally has a shirt pocket full of pens. My mom can find a Japanese steakhouse within any 50 mile radius, so I got to stuff my face full of hibachi. Yum.

Anyway, we had the most hilarious cook-in-front-of-you hibachi chef. His name was JR (Japanese Redneck). He had a southern accent and told INS jokes the whole time he was cooking. He let Chad try the spin-the-egg-on-the-spatula trick and Chad totally rocked it. That's when he called Chad an American ninja. I loved his new nickname so much that I made him get behind the grill and do a karate pose.

I love catching the elders off guard. So cute.

What's with back lit photos in Asian restaurants? They're the perfect opportunity to pretend a giant bird is flying toward you.

Gamama's name is Jane. This is her boyfriend, Richard. We like to call them Dick and Jane. How cute is that!  And he's goofy to top it off. Love it.

Happy 24-hours-before-my-four-day-weekend Day!!

xo.

like fall but not really.

I'm so ready to bust out the outerwear, tights and scarves. As of now, I only get to do this about once a week. We're averaging around the mid 70s during the day here in peachy Georgia. Tank tops on Thanksgiving? No thanks. I don't enjoy watching the leaves fall to the ground while wearing flip flops. Come on, weather. You have three days to get it together. Sigh.

 

sugar and spice and everything nice.

Last weekend I had the opportunity to do a mother-daughter shoot with my old friend, Marybeth. Little Natalie was so full of energy and smiles, I absolutely loved photographing her! Unfortunately, the rain cut our little picnic short, but I got some super cute shots. And since I've been MIA with blogging this past week, I'm going to share a bunch! Natalie brought along her tea set and a blanket - cutest mother and daughter ever! Thank you MBS and Natalie for letting me capture your little moments. xo

xo.