thanksgiving

Happy Belated Thanksgiving!

We spent the holiday with Nathan's grandparents in Oklahoma. Makayla really enjoyed visiting with everyone and playing with the leaves in their yard!!!

Yes, it has been almost 2 months

Here are some pictures of Makayla that I took at the Old Mill in NLR.

It has been almost 2 months since my last post. That is totally a reflection of how hectic our life has been lately.

Here's what has been happening lately:

*Makayla turned 2 on November 1st!

*Makayla's Uncle Ryan was busy playing football, so we all 3 went to a few of his games. Makayla had a blast. She loves football.

*We took some pictures at the Old Mill in Little Rock which is site of the picture that plays in the opening credits of Gone with the wind.

*We have been super busy with work and other activities, so there has been little time for anything else.

*Makayla's school has their thanksgiving feast yesterday. (I don't have any pictures though because I had to work and couldn't be there with her)

Grand Finale

These are some pics from the coast that I took. The view was breathtaking.

Throwing sand

Makayla now has expereinced the joy that can only come from picking up a handful of sand and chunking it at anything that happens to be in the way which was often herself because the wind was blowing.

Coffeshop Actions

I use coffeshop actions to edit my pictures on photoshop pretty often. This is one of my favorite pictures that I took on the beach. I think that it looks great in color of black and white, but I used a few different actions for you to see since I know that many of you use photoshop.

original

classic black and white bitersweet vintage

chocolate
denim

Black and white on the beach

I got the opportunity to take lots of pics on the beach that I thought would look great in black and white. These are by far some of my favorites that I took all week. little feet

Nathan's sister Candice

Kaylie

Kenzie chasing her Uncle Ethan

They were supposed to jump on "3", but Kenzie's "3" was never the same as mine. I still thought that this was an adorable picture.
Candice and her boyfriend-I love this picture.

Nathan, Makayla, and Me

McKenzie is always so vivacious.

Family pics

We went to the coast at Newport, Or while we were visiting family. The kids and grown-ups had a blast. Nathan and his siblings played in the pacific while Melissa's girls went back and forth from the water to the sand. Of course I spent our time at the beach behind the camera while Grandma Lorri managed the grandbabies. The coast was beautiful, but I won't be revealing those marvelous pics until later this week.

I really wanted to take pics on the beach, so we managed to squeeze the tripod into our 1 suitcase that we checked for $20. (CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT WE REALLY DID HAVE TO PAY THAT JUST TO CHECK OUR LUGGAGE?) Anyway, I have never been to the pacific ocean before, so I didn't realize that there wouldn't be much pretty white sand on the Oregon coast. As you can tell we had mud. That is apparently what they have on the coast there, but we used the mud anyway.

These are the pics that I took of the family at the beach.

Melissa with her girls-Mistie (11), Kaylie (7), McKenzie (6)
The whole group-Me, Nathan, Makayla, Ethan, Melissa, Lorri, Candice, McKenzie, Mistie, Kaylie

Me, Nathan, Makayla

Nathan, Me, Kaylie, Mistis, McKenzie who is making glasses with her hands

Nathan with his siblings