We celebrated Thanksgiving early this year for a couple of reasons: many of us weren't going to be home on the actual day of Thanksgiving and the arrival of new baby White to Donnie and Kristen is suppose to arrive any day now (due date being Thanksgiving day). Also, I am not allowed to travel after November 18. Boo. We have NEVER had a family photo like this...EVER! Especially with dad in a tree!! Until I saw this photo, I never stopped to think how incredibly blessed we are to have everyone home. It doesn't happen often and typically never on an actual holiday but we sure know how to make it a holiday! I see the bigger picture now. and it is beautiful!
White Family Thanksgiving 11.13.11
Grandkids 11.13.11
and of course, by February there will be 2 more from me. YIKES! Still digesting the fact that there are TWO, yes 2 babies kicking around in there. Its getting cramped for sure and soon i will be on bed rest. but trying so hard to keep these babies in until 35 weeks. Aren't they cute. Baby A is a little girl and Baby B is a little boy. Still don't have any names. we are working on that but figure we have some time left. I feel once i am on bed rest I might have some more time to catch up in all the awesome blogness i missed this summer, so be on alert for past blogs, don't want any one to miss what we were doing with our lives then!
If I should have a daughter…“Instead of “Mom”, she’s gonna call me “Point B.” Because that way, she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I’m going to paint the solar system on the back of her hands so that she has to learn the entire universe before she can say “Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.”
She’s gonna learn that this life will hit you, hard, in the face, wait for you to get back up so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.There is hurt, here, that cannot be fixed by band-aids or poetry, so the first time she realizes that Wonder-woman isn’t coming, I’ll make sure she knows she doesn’t have to wear the cape all by herself. Because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.
And “Baby,” I’ll tell her “don’t keep your nose up in the air like that, I know that trick, you’re just smelling for smoke so you can follow the trail back to a burning house so you can find the boy who lost everything in the fire to see if you can save him. Or else, find the boy who lit the fire in the first place to see if you can change him.”
But I know that she will anyway, so instead I’ll always keep an extra supply of chocolate and rain boats nearby, ‘cause there is no heartbreak that chocolate can’t fix. Okay, there’s a few heartbreaks chocolate can’t fix. But that’s what the rain boots are for, because rain will wash away everything if you let it.
I want her to see the world through the underside of a glass bottom boat, to look through a magnifying glass at the galaxies that exist on the pin point of a human mind. Because that’s how my mom taught me. That there’ll be days like this, “There’ll be days like this my momma said” when you open your hands to catch and wind up with only blisters and bruises. When you step out of the phone booth and try to fly and the very people you wanna save are the ones standing on your cape. When your boots will fill with rain and you’ll be up to your knees in disappointment and those are the very days you have all the more reason to say “thank you,” ‘cause there is nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline no matter how many times it’s sent away.
You will put the “wind” in win some lose some, you will put the “star” in starting over and over, and no matter how many land mines erupt in a minute be sure your mind lands on the beauty of this funny place called life.
And yes, on a scale from one to over-trusting I am pretty damn naive but I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don’t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.
“Baby,” I’ll tell her “remember your mama is a worrier but your papa is a warrior and you are the girl with small hands and big eyes who never stops asking for more.”
Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things and always apologize when you’ve done something wrong but don’t you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining.
Your voice is small but don’t ever stop singing and when they finally hand you heartbreak, slip hatred and war under your doorstep and hand you hand-outs on street corners of cynicism and defeat, you tell them that they really ought to meet your mother.
amazing. insightful. i can only try to instill in my daughters these things. here is the video, which is 10x better. gives you chills.
It's official..WE ARE PREGNANT, AGAIN! lol. After much discussion with my doctor and my husband and after weighing all the health risks and possibilities of baby being born early, we decided we would try for ONE more. Three is a good number of kids. Its and odd number but still a number we wanted. Because I am such high risk, an ultrasound was immediately ordered. This is our pregnancy at 6 weeks. And just today I had another ultrasound. I am 11 weeks today. Its seems unreal.
And the reason it seems unreal....if you look closely, there are TWO, yes TWO babies in that uterus!
We are still in shock. Over-joyed! in shock. OVER-joyed! it goes back and forth. Just goes to show you should be careful what you wish and pray for....God is testing me for sure on this one. Which is ok with me. Updates and new pictures to follow the next couple of weeks! Stay-tuned for this crazy adventure! It should be interesting.
It was WAY to hard to just pick a few to showcase from this photo shoot! Kate wanted to do a trash the dress. YAH! It was amazing, I couldn't just let them trash their dress before getting some awesome pictures our them and their LOVE STORY! They have been married 9 years! Oh and are they adorable!
And beautiful people!
Love Love Love you guys! Look forward to the fall!!
So this family was a ton of fun! One night, after all practices and dinners were over I drove over to the most beautiful place! We ended up taking some awesome pictures by the sound and on their land! LOVED these fun guys! Sometimes its hard organizing a large family but this family made it look easy. Thanks Renault Family!
while we were on vacation in Maine last week, I decided to host an event and scheduled some sessions. so, it was more like a working vacation but let me tell you these families that I had a chance to shoot were AWESOME! I have never met a cooler bunch of people. makes me what to live in Maine all over again! i miss it so much. and i miss my sister. who happens to live there too.
so take a look at these 'sneak peaks'! they are awesome if I do say so myself.
the two mothers in these families are sisters so it was a lot of fun to do both of their families!!!
Look for more session "sneak peaks" in my next post.
We just started landscaping our house (its been a year and a half since we moved in). We started with these little baby trees and Rowen gets a kick out of helping daddy water them! After a while I think daddy got bored watering the trees and he started to spray Rowen...although in some pictures she looked like she hated it...she really did get a kick out of daddy 'getting' her with the hose. She follows him around like a lost puppy most days. It makes my heart melt.
Enjoy the pictures. You will notice in some of them I have a new logo. Its not a for-sure thing yet I am going between two different logos which I will post later. You can help me decide with one will be a permanent fixture on my photos.
Yes, we went to Disney ( the way only crazy people do) with a 2 and half year old and a 1 year old. and we had a TON of fun! Rowen didn't so much care for the giant characters but never-the-less she had a great time. Maeve seemed to enjoy most everything about Disney. It was a wonderful vacation!
Rowen's Favorite place in all of Magic Kingdom
Honey
Sisters
more Winnie the Pooh
where Winnie lives
holy tea cups, batman!
the Easter Bunny scared the beejebies out of both of the girls
family @ the castle
crazy family at the Castle
rowen went on and on about the castle and Cinderella.
she wondered if Cinderella was waiting for her.
g-pa and maeve @ its a small world
dear rowen is mesmerized by Cinderella
the girls and Cinderella...oh this was fun! they loved it!
