One Year Pictures

A few months before we moved I joined one of those buy/sell/trade sites for North Raleigh and after a few days of stalking the wares I noticed a post from a woman offering mini-sessions for $50! I knew we wanted to take pictures for her first birthday so I quickly messaged her and set up a time. Despite it being super close to her bedtime, Amelia Grace was the ideal model and allowed our photographer (the wonderful Amanda Conrad!) to take some fantastic pictures. They all turned out FANTASTIC so picking just a few to share with y'all was hard!

These are just a sampling of the almost 50 images she captured!

Happy first birthday, little love!

Christmas Pictures 2014

I have always loved sending out Christmas cards and knew that this year would be no different! As soon as the fabulous Jennifer Bartlett of Three Loves Photography sent information out about Christmas sessions I knew we had to snag one. Jennifer blew us away yet again with the great shots she took of our little family! Here are a few of our favorites. . .

A Blast From the Past

About a month ago I was going through my old Facebook messages and noticed that there is an "other" category. Yea, yea, yea, I know. Welcome to 2014, Lauren. Anywho, I saw that I had a message from some random person. I curiously clicked it to see what it was about and was shocked to see a picture of some of my stuff. Not just any stuff either, stuff from my past!

I read the message and learned that the woman found the stuff in an old dresser she and her daughter bought at Goodwill. The dresser was MY childhood dresser; the dresser that was in my room growing up. Turns out my parents donated the old clunker (this thing was insanely heavy) to Goodwill in an effort to declutter their house. Apparently they managed to crack open the painted top drawer and found a treasure trove of my old junk.

A few things they discovered:

A cord and instruction manual from my high school stereo system

A list of my favorite recipes my mom used to make

My high school license (hellooooooo over the top eyeliner)

An invitation to my high school graduation (class of 2006!)

A ticket stub from my senior prom

Some old class trinkets from Charleston, SC

A Brad Paisley concert ticket from 2005

A receipt for the final payment for a class trip to NYC

Some random pictures I hung onto from college

An empty bottle of Ralph Lauren's Lauren perfume

My very first pair of glasses!

 Scottish pup magnets from my grandparent's trip to Scotland 

Ironically enough they just returned from Scotland with a Scottish pup bib for AG!

Corsages from my junior and senior year proms

A marker thingy ma bobber for making the varsity swim team

Buttons, buttons, and more buttons!

How random are these things?? I love that the woman was kind enough to find me and let me know she had these trinkets. There are still good people out there :-)

Newborn Photoshoot

A few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to have our sweet friend, Amaris, get behind her lens and capture some pictures of our little family. A wonderful thing about having her take the pictures was that she already knows us so well having gone to church with us in Raleigh, been part of the same community group, AND shot our wedding four years ago. We were so blessed to have her visit our home and capture some amazing images! Here are just a few. . .

Baby feet

*swoon*

Picture Perfect

If you've been around for a while you know I love pictures. If you take a look at my facebook or instagram accounts, that fact is even further confirmed! So, when about a month ago the oh, so sweet Pamela let me know about Easy Canvas Prints I knew I had to investigate.

This stellar company takes pictures from your life and transforms them into art on a canvas. When they offered me an 8x10 I knew exactly the picture I wanted to use. . .

These pictures are almost a year old now and with little nugget on the way I'm sure our walls will be transformed, but I still love the pictures we had taken last summer. Our photographer captured our little family in such a fun, unique way with every picture turning out beautiful. It looks even better on a canvas. . .

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