Garage Light Check | Home Lifestyle | Fairhope, AL

Two of my three kiddos humored me this afternoon for a garage light check. Ever since we bought and remodeled this house- I've envisioned being able to use the garage for an available light studio. They weren't thrilled, but they did it. It really didn't take long and no one was harmed in this experiment. The teenager wanted to be all teenager cool like and as you can see he has a partial head shot. I really like it anyways. It's moody and that is what life is like right now with the teen in the house (but really he's a super sweet, kind guy)!  Hopefully, they'll be willing to play my game again soon.  

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A New House- Another Christmas Morning

This year's Christmas marks a new beginnings of Christmas mornings. We completed a year- long renovation and moved into our new house. This created pause and thought into how our family's Christmas morning would work. Traditionally, the kids wake us up from outside our bedroom door and only Paul and me enter into the living room to "check" if Santa indeed did come to deliver presents! Our tradition has been for the kids to line up in the bedroom hall before they go see for themselves so I can take a picture. My first thought looking at this year's picture is "Wow!"-

They've grown so much. Wilson is as tall if not taller than me (cough… 5'10") and the others aren't far behind. Our feet are big too! We are all into adult shoes now.

One day when I get all my photos back together in a mutual spot, I'll round up these Christmas morning hall pictures and witness the yearly growth of my kids. But for now, the here and now, I relish in my kids excitement to wake up in our new house on Christmas morning and for their joy in seeing the presents that have been left. We feel so blessed to have a place to call home, family to share it with  and old and new traditions to carry on.

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