iPhone Thursday

Sunsets

Yellow, orange, purple and red, each is glorious and unique.

The iPhone captures them beautifully.

I processed all of these using the CrossProcess App for the iPhone.

Memories in the making

If you went up to my sister Nina today and asked her to sing Queen Latifa’s Fly Girl I can guarantee you I know exactly what would come to her mind.  It would be the parody song we made up one night about my mom’s yellow Chevette, a car that throughout our teenage years we were utterly embarrassed of.

We are from  a very small town that has a “main street” we all called The Avenue.  Everyone who was anyone, in our eyes, could be found hanging out on the avenue.  We had to drive down the avenue everyday in my mom’s yellow car.  I remember Nina and I would duck down so no one would see us.  My mom would tease us and honk the horn to draw even more attention to us.  Who were we kidding, really?  How many yellow cars do you see a day?  In a town of less than 5000 people,  everybody knew who was in that car!  Nina used to joke with me that she was glad I was the oldest because I would inherit the car first and she wouldn’t have to drive it.  One night while laying in bed cracking up about how proud my mom was of her car we made up this crazy song about it.   As I am typing this post I am singing it in my head, “Fly car, come here, cause your yellow and your fine and I want you to be mine”.  I love that 17 years later i can still remember the words.:)

The memories I have of my sister and I growing up are some of my fondest.  After all of the fights, the boys, the clothes, that ugly yellow car, and our lives going into two completely different directions, one thing that will never change is the fact that my sister will always be my best friend.

Nina has given me the greatest gift a girl could get,  four sweet boys who love to call me Aunt Kita.  It warms my heart when I think about all of the memories they will make together, all of the silly songs they will make up when they are supposed to be sleeping, all of the times I know my sister will embarrass them.  No matter where life takes them they will always have a friend in each other.

I found these band shirts at Target and knew right away we had to do a photo shoot in them.  Nina rocked the boys out with the fohawks and baby chucks.  Too cute!!!!

My brother-in -law, Kevin, who wins father of the year in my book every year.  His kids adore him and he loves being their Dad.


Since I bought the boys a tshirt, they wanted to get me one too.  I love it.  It has a camera on it and says ” And that’s when I snapped”.

Newborn Jada

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of taking this sweet little girl’s very first photos.

Meet baby Jada. 

An Aerial View

All processed using the Shakeitphoto app

Amber and Bryan

It wasn’t the venue or the vows or how beautiful Amber was.  It wasn’t the dress or the (really cute) shoes or the that the sky was the perfect shade of blue. What I will remember most about Amber and Bryan’s wedding is that they are two of the kindest people I have been lucky enough to be around.  Photographing their wedding was a far more than an honor, it was a gift.

These two are meant for each other.  Being around this kind of love feels good.  It was the way they could not stop looking at one another like no one else was there.  While they stared into each other’s eyes with tearful smiles, I saw pure affection and devotion,  compassion and happiness.  This is what love looks like.

Amber and Bryan, you are why I love what I do.

I started the day with Amber getting ready.

Gorgeous!All of the girls were so nice.The first look.
Amber’s flowers were arranged by Case’s Golden Leaf Florist.  I just love a sweetheart neckline, so feminine.They got married at St. Joe’s Church in Cold Springs.The white rose represents Bryan’s grandmother.  It was placed next to Bryan’s mother to represent where she would have been sitting.
What a great looking couple!:)My favorite!