Fall portraits

I hope everyone had a great Turkey Day! I know we sure did! It's hard to believe that Thanksgiving has come and gone and fall has almost left us! Although, for those of us here in SC, I think it's safe to say that we haven't had much of a fall this year. We've gone back and forth between hot and cold weather for all of October/November, so much so that the leaves barely even changed color this year! They just died and fell off the trees. I think they just got so fed up with the weather they didn't know what else to do. Ahhh, how I miss fall. Anywho..

This past weekend we had the pleasure of having a photo shoot with the very talented Kellen, of Third Eye Wide Photography. We wanted some fall shots of the 3 of us and some good pics of Bryson for our Christmas card. We got some great shots and I was so excited to see how well they turned out! Here are a few of our favorites:





Thanks Kellen! :)

FREE Christmas Cards!

Yes, I said FREE! Shutterfly is doing a special promotion for bloggers where you have the opportunity to get 50 FREE Christmas cards! Interested? Keep on reading.

For those of you who are not familiar with Shutterfly, it's a wonderful website where you can upload and print all your pictures, create holiday greeting cards, calendars, mugs, etc. You name it, Shutterfly does it. I personally do all of my uploading, printing through them and have always been thoroughly pleased with the speed of processing, as well as the quality of the pictures/products I receive.

One of my favorite things about Shutterfly is their huge selection of Holiday Greeting Cards. You can choose from folded greeting cards, flat stationary cards or flat photo cards.

I personally love the flat photo cards the best, because not only do they look great and have a huge selection to choose from, they are EXTREMELY affordable, much more so than most store bought cards that I've seen (and much cuter!). I know that last year I was able to buy all of my Christmas cards from Shutterfly for less than $20. That's INSANE! For less money, you can get CUTER cards that are of HIGHER quality. Once I received my order, I knew I would never buy store bought Christmas cards again.

I also love that, depending on the layout you choose, you can put several pictures or just one picture on your card, whatever you choose. Shutterfly makes it easy for you to design your card the way YOU want it to look. You're not limited to just one style/template. Some of my favorites this year are:

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There are SO many cute ones to choose from!! It will take me hours to decide which one I want to use for our Christmas card this year!

Another great product that Shutterfly offers are Personalized Wall Calendars.

These make a wonderful Christmas gift! I made one last year for all the grandparents, and everyone absolutely loved it. It's a great way to show off how your kids have grown throughout the year, or just a cute way to display family photos. Here's what mine looked like last year:


Another gift idea are the photo books Shutterfly offers. This is a great way to document the first year of your child's life, a wedding, a special vacation.....really anything! I made one shortly after Jeffrey and I were married for our parents/grandparents. It was a great way to compile all of our photographs from the wedding into a nice little keepsake book that they can keep forever. They look so professional once they are all finished. I HIGHLY recommend making one!

So take some time to check out Shutterfly this holiday season! I promise you wont be disappointed!

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And a big thank you to Melissa for posting about this on her blog!!

Trick or Treat!

Howdy Partners! This year for Halloween we had a little cowboy in our midst. We celebrated by briefly visiting a church carnival and then some good old fashioned trick or treating with his very best friends Haileigh and Grayson.
Bryson had a great time and got so much candy he could barely lift his little pumpkin by the end of the night. Candy is a rare treat for him so he has really enjoyed being able to have 1 piece of candy at the end of the day. He usually chooses a Dumdum and says "YUMMY!!!" over and over while eating it!


Reading his Bible he received at the church carnival

Checkin out the goats

Still hangin on to the Bible

Best friends