Blessings

My life is full of blessings. I have moments when I get stressed and I worry (by the way did you know worry is a sin? If you ever struggle with worry you really should listen to this, click on the "life's too short" message. I promise it will make you change your thoughts about worrying.)
Anyway, as I was saying I have times where I feel like things aren't going as planned, or how I want them to and I get frustrated and throw a little pity party for myself but then I step back and look at how BLESSED I am. God has blessed me beyond anything I ever imagined and definitely beyond anything I ever deserved. One of my many blessings is my family. I have a wonderful, supportive, loving, fun, Godly family. I spent several days in Texarkana this past week helping get ready for my sister in loves baby shower (that sounds so much better than sister in law doesn't it? and besides, I just love this girl). Another huge blessing is that sweet Ariana will be here before you know it! I'm just so excited to meet her and kiss her and cuddle her and drive her crazy with my camera. I love her already.



Me, my beautiful mom and my beautiful sister in love.

The cake was from The Bakerman in Texarkana, they do amazing work.

Tuesday Tunes

I've slacked off but here is Tuesday Tunes. I just got back from Texarkana and had a wonderful time. My beautiful sister in law had her baby shower on Saturday and I'll share lots of pics from it tomorrow.

cleaning house

So I didn't actually make any resolutions this year but I'm realizing I've felt a strong urge to get organized, so even though it's not a resolution, I have resolve to do it. I'm realizing that while I'm doing some "digital housekeeping" that there are SO many sessions I haven't blogged over the past year so I'm going to try to share some of them. I really love this picture, these three girls were so sweet and we were having lots of fun, they were chasing me all over the place, so cute.

Texarkana Special!

I'll be offering the Print Credit Special in Texarkana once a year and it's that time of year! If you book a session in February you will receive a $150 print credit with your session, which can be used on prints, specialty products, digital files, whatever your little heart desires! As always I only accept a limited number of sessions in Texarkana so book early for preferred time slots.

that.just.happened.

My niece Brooklyn's birthday extravaganza rocked my face off. My mom and dad and brother and sister in love(law) and nieces and Brooklyn's adorable friend all came to Dallas for the day for some awesome hibachi at Benihana's, some too cool ice skating at the Galleria, and some major game time at shennenagins. This girl knows how to choose a proper birthday party :) Good times were had by all. You might want to be jealous.... I'm just sayin...


I actually handed the camera over and got a picture with the birthday girl. The latter of the two is definitely my favorite :)

Tuesday Tunes

I hope everyone had a wonderfully Merry Christmas and a joyfully Happy New Year! I am planning a contest soon and will announce it on the blog so check back for that. I haven't made any new years resolutions yet but I'm thinking one of them should be to be a better blogger in 2010. :)
Here's the Tuesday Tune!

Merry Christmas from Photography by Avery

He must love me...

I've decided that perfect handsome sweet Parkes just loves me... he may not know it yet but he does because he was so good to me. He slept like an angel, let me put him in every prop I brought with me, and he peed on pretty much everyone but me. I'm pretty sure he and I are going to be great friends :) I photographed his beautiful mom here while he was still in her belly and I could just tell by that beautiful belly that he would be adorable and I was oh so right.

Tuesday Tunes

I missed Tuesday Tunes last week, things have been crazy so I'm going to post two this week :) The top one is my FAVORITE Christmas song, I just love love it.



and this one is not a Christmas song but it's oh so good

Hope

This is a photo that I took while in the redwood forest in northern California a few months ago. The photo really speaks to me in some way, when I look at it I feel my spirit lift a little, I feel like this photo represents hope for me.

Baby it's cold outside...

I know I have been a really pitiful blogger but life has been busy, I have lots and lots of pictures to share and I'll do my best to play catchup. This session was so fun, this beautiful girl is an interior designer running her own business and being fabulous doing it. I can definitely speak for her design prowess because her house is too cute for words, she has awesome taste. It was FREEZING the day we took these shots but she was such a champ and you would never know it by looking at the pictures, she was a natural at looking relaxed and beautiful even though her teeth were chattering. I'll share more photo's from other sessions asap!

Tuesday Tunes

Tuesday Tunes

Happy Thanksgiving!

I just wanted to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving. I have so much to be thankful for and I feel truly blessed. We are all heading to watch the Cowboys play in the new stadium today so my Thanksgiving dinner will probably consist of a coke and a hot dog but that works for me! Have a blessed day everyone!

Tuesday Tunes

I would say this one is for the kiddo's, but if I'm being real I probably love it more than they do. Anyone who knows all the words to this song is an instant friend in my book. This video has the words at the bottom so everyone can learn it :) wow... I'm kind of lame...