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Just wanted to take a moment to wish all you a wonderful and blessed Christmas this year.  Our tree is up, the stockings hung, and tonight we are venturing out for our annual drive to see the lights complete with hot chocolate and Christmas music.  I can’t wait to see my son’s face Christmas morning…I think he is finally going to get it this year.  

This the front of our family Christmas card this year.  Merry Christmas!

 

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Meet Jack.

Five days old.  Ten pounds.  A total dream to photograph.

He also happens to be my newest nephew!

And an update on the {comments for cans} - I am up to nearly 30 cans in just a week!  Keep those comments coming in, the local food bank needs you!

I’m jumping on the bandwagon - or the “canwagon” - photographers across the world are taking some time to do something great for our local communities this holiday season. So here’s the lowdown…leave a comment on my blog, this post or ANY other post and I’ll donate a can of food to the local food bank.

The comment-a-thon will go on all month, and I’ll make drop off to the Roanoke Food Pantry weekly - they are desperate need of food this winter! You can comment as often as you like - pass it on to your email list, there is no limit to my donations! I have had a very blessed year in my business, and I can’t think of a better way to give back to the community!

So comment away…I’ll update each week with the number of cans I donated! My goal is 300 cans by the end of the month!

Special thanks to Chris + Lynn for the inspiration - and to Scott of Think Photographics for letting us all know about it! Other photogs - if you are running this on your blog, let me know and I’ll get you added here!

Other photographers participating:

Christine Tremoulet

Sorry for the quiet blog over the last few days, my family traveled to San Antonio to meet up with my dear friend and awesome Houston photographer, Shalonda.  We both have December babies who are about to turn two, and are literally the same child (aside from the obvious gender difference!).  We took the kids to Sea World, and spent some of the previous day doing a photo swap.

The family images are under wraps until the Christmas cards go out, but I *had* the share this image of my E and her jingle bell!  They loved on each other quite a bit, and this picture is about 3 seconds before they toppled over…hilarious!

I try not to make it habit of mixing my personal and business lives…but after several people mentioned just this week that they haven’t seen my son on the blog since I first started the old blog almost two years ago, I figured it was time to give in!

So here’s a couple quick pictures of my little guy, E…he’ll be two in December, I can’t believe it!  He’s my heart, my soul, my whole life…and I thank God every day for him.  He’s a total boy, into EVERYTHING…and is the sweetest little man I know…