Old Houses

I loooove old houses. I want one so bad I can taste it. When I ride through places like Cottage Hill, Capitol Heights, Highland Gardens or Cloverdale/Idlewild, it seems like every other house I see makes me say - I want that house. I want that house. I want that house.

Oops! I forgot the Car Show!

So with everything that's been going on lately, I completely forgot to post pictures from the car show we went to back on April 12th!

It was very cool - I love stuff like this! It was in the parking lot of Food Fair in Millbrook - just up the road from the house - so when the weather cancelled my bridal portrait shoot that day, me, Lee, the kids and my dad went up there instead. I loved moseying around, looking at all the old cars, and grabbing a few shots of them as well. Here's a bit of what I got:


A silly little self portrait :)

For Leda

My friend Leda has challenged herself to taking a picture of each letter of the alphabet. However, Leda being Leda, she's not taking pictures of actual letters...she's taking pictures of things that look like letters. Here's an example of what she's doing: Letter A. So when I saw this today, I immediately thought of her. The Letter X, just for you Leda! :smooch:

Kaylin your Bridals are up! I don't dare post any of them on here in case Ryan stumbles across this!

For all the rest of you, Kaylin is my "I am NOT a traditional bride" Bride! We had an awesome time Sunday at Shakespeare taking her Bridal Portraits. Her mom, aunt and grandma came along for the ride as well. Her mom and aunt were aprehensive about a few of the shots we took, but they took it all in stride so Kaylin could play runaway bride!

Kaylin & Ryan will be getting married in May right here in Montgomery. I'll be sure to post some of Kaylin's Bridals along with a few shots from their wedding then...just can't let Ryan see the dress yet! ;)

Deidra and Chris were married today at Southern Magnolia in Montevallo. If you're getting married in that area, definitely check them out - what an outstanding venue! Also, checkout Whitehall Caterers...the food was divine!

I love it when I see a groom's eyes well up with tears for his bride, and I was not dissapointed today when Chris saw Deidra for the first time. Simply Wonderful.

After the wedding, the wedding party went to a favorite bar of theirs to celebrate.

Cheers Deidra and Chris! Many years of wedded bliss to you!

Picture Perfect

Kelly and Phillip (who by the way, were my first '09 couple, and Kelly is also good friends with another '09 Bride, Claire) are getting married in the Birmingham area in May of 2009. After much searching, they've found an absolutely perfect venue. Watch for e-pics, they'll be coming within the next month or so!

04.13.07 Recital Time!

Today I met Shannon and her kids, Nathaniel and McKenzie at Robinson Springs Park for pictures of McKenzie in her dance recital costumes. Talk about bringing back memories for me! (For those of you who don't know, I started dancing at 3 years old and didn't stop until my mid twenties.)

Here's Nathaniel. He was a card and spent much of his time climbing on top of this fence and jumping off. I managed to snap this during one of the rare times he was still.

And this is McKenzie's ad I made for her dance recital program. I absolutely love the quote her mom found for it!

04.07.08 - More Birthday Festivities!

And this time, the birthday was mine! :)

Leda and I started out the morning by going over to the cow pasture behind my house.

Leda was bold enough to climb the fence (getting stuck in the process)

However, I decided to stay on the other side of the barbed wire! (Although I did lose a flip flop in the muck at one point...luckily, I was able to rescue it!)


While back there, I learned that apparently dinosaurs aren't extinct after all.

After that, we went into Montgomery and had lunch at the Brew Pub (my favorite!) and then went down to the Riverfront.




The splash pad down there is awesome! The kids loved it! Next time, I'm totally playing in it myself!




(P.S. For any of my brides out there - the Riverfront would make a PERFECT Trash the Dress site!)

04.07.2008 Oakwood Cemetary

I've lived in Montgomery for...12 years now...and have just had my first visit to Oakwood Cemetary. I wanted to visit Hank, then I wanted to see all the old stuff too.

Visiting Hank:



BFF Leda


We get to this next section of the cemetary, and Leda suddenly stops. She looks up, points and with awe mixed with incredulity says, "What is THAT?" "What?" I say. "THAT!" she says. I keep looking and cannot figure what in the world she's talking about. I only see trees where she's pointing. I don't get it. Finally, she elaborates.

What was it that had her stumped?

The moss. *giggles*



When she put it on Flickr, she even called it a moss tree. I :heart: her. (BTW, it's Arbor Vitae, the tree of life. ;)

Tyler and Cole. They became such good buds!

A couple of other shots from Oakwood: