Today we sit with snow up to our eyeballs.  It is just gorgeous.  Especially peeking out at it while curled up in blanket and sitting next to a fire.  I’m a bit under the weather with a junked up throat (to be perfectly technical), and neck glands so swollen they feel bruised.  FYI, did you know if your tonsils are taken out, it causes your neck glands to overcompensate? Fun for my neck.

Here are a few shots that made me happy today.  My 5 year old sweetheart Riah is obsessed with making book towers.  He sits for literally HOURS building and rebuilding different shapes and sizes of book “towers.”  I must admit, it makes my heart giddy to see him so in love with this and not TV, computer, or video games.  He was so involved that if someone came in and disturbed “his groove” he was very distraught.  So, we made a special corner all his own to build to his hearts content.  :)

If you know me from when I was a kid, you know where he gets the tongue thing from.  I can’t help but do this when I am in full concentration mode.

He finally let his brother help out.  I don’t think he was very excited with the idea.

More blogging to come when I feel a bit better, with a gorgeous wedding coming first.  I am also busy prepping for my sister’s wedding shower at my house this weekend…..Thanks to my mother I have the “my house must be perfect” illness.  On the up side of that, Brett and I are doing lots of projects that were put on hold for like, years.

THANKS SO MUCH to everyone who took the time to look over 2009 with us.  I found myself more than once getting teary-eyed looking over all of these sessions. To say that we love what we do can not even begin to explain….we find it such an honor to be brought into your intimate space and lives, to capture a piece of who you are.  Thank you to each and every one of you for making 2009 such a fantastic year for us!!

Now, the contest.  We had over 300 votes.  Thousands of viewers…..

Here are the winners of each category, who will be getting a FREE 8×10 of their photograph.  :) :)  CONGRATS!!!!

And as we said, the photo that received the MOST votes overall get a FREE 11x 14 canvas (a $250 value)!!!

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KELLY AND MARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   :)

I can’t wait to see this photo on canvas!!!!  Congrats to Kelly and Mark!  :)

Here’s to 2010 everyone!

Thanks again.