Sunday, December 8, 2013

Thanksgiving Weekend

We had a wonderful holiday weekend with friends and family this year. We started in Jesup visiting my family for their traditional Thanksgiving get together. I tried out my new toy - a tripod! Using my new handy tripod I got to join everyone in the family photo!


After the big family lunch and pictures, some of the family headed out into the woods...


On Friday we headed back to Atlanta and stopped by a tree farm to cut down our Christmas tree. This was so much fun! We will definitely be doing this again next year!


The tree ready to go home with us!

We then spent Saturday at GaTech cheering on the Yellow Jackets... unfortunately we lost in double overtime, but it was still a great day!




On Sunday, December 1st, we started off our Christmas season at the "Hill Old Fashioned Christmas Celebration". This was a blast! See more about this on my last post.

Hill Old Fashioned Christmas Family Celebration

The Hill family hosted an Old Fashioned Christmas Celebration on December 1st and kicked our holiday season off with a wonderful evening of delicious food, crafts, hayrides and they even ended the evening with a live Nativity and Christmas Carols!

The event was held in the Hill Pavilion on the Hill Family's beautiful property in Suwanee. The hostesses had prepared festive snacks for everyone to enjoy, crafts from Christmas tree ornaments to cookie decorating and they even had a station for making "Ornaments for the Birds to Enjoy".












The food was displayed beautifully and of course delicious!


 
Ornaments for the birds to enjoy! Pinecones, peanut butter and birdseed were supplied to make these fabulous outdoor ornaments!

All of the craft and activity stations were wonderful, but the Smores station was my favorite!


Of course an Old Fashioned Christmas could not be complete without a visit from Santa! It was so much fun to see this! Santa arrived on a tractor drawn "sleigh" to visit all of the children at the event!



One of Santa's "Reindeer" even showed up to help with the Hill Family Christmas Celebration! 



A few of the "grown-ups" made sure Santa had their Christmas list too!



After everyone visited with Santa there were tractor driven sleigh rides for all!


The evening ended with a beautiful reading of the Christmas Story, a live Nativity and Christmas Carols.




This event was such a beautiful way to start off the Christmas season. I was told at the event that this may be the "First Annual Hill Old Fashioned Christmas Family Celebration" and I certainly hope it is the first of many!










Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Churchman Family Christmas

Last Saturday I got to do a shoot with some of my favorite people, who happen to be one of the cutest couples I know, and their adorable puppydog Tucker! John and Caitlin just celebrated their third anniversary and they are still as adorable as ever. We spent Saturday afternoon in Roswell taking pictures for their annual Christmas cards.


We started in a cute little park in downtown Roswell that was complete with a gigantic Christmas tree! Tucker was such a little gentleman for the photo shoot! 



These two love to play when Tucker isn't looking!
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The Churchman Family


We finished up a great afternoon at the waterfall near Roswell Mill.



Monday, November 11, 2013

Washburn Baby Book Shower

This weekend we celebrated the much anticipated arrival of Baby Girl Washburn with a children's book themed shower. The inspiration for the food, drinks, desserts, decor and even gifts came from some of the classic children's books. The decor included a sampling of these classic books displayed throughout the party and banners made up of tiny replicas of these beloved stories. The appetizers, main dish, sides, punch and desserts were all inspired by the hostesses favorite children's books. The guests were asked to bring a children's book in lieu of a card to add to Julianna's library.


Banners of some favorites!




Here are some of the delicious book themed dishes.

"Yucky" Potato Salad Casserole

"Green Eggs and Ham"

French Croissants

Apple Cake from "The Giving Tree"

"If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" - Gluten free cookies

"Pinkalicious" Cupcakes

Royal Rumpus Punch

Peter Rabbit's Spinach Salad

Pigs in a Blanket for "The Three Little Pigs"

"Can't You Sleep Little Bear" - Figs glazed with honey on Brie

Catepillar Sandwich and Fruit Salad

Tapas for "The Story of Ferdinand"