2012

If I were to treat you to a cup of coffee and spend some quality time telling you all about the things the Lord has done in the past few months, we would be catching up for hours. Really, I have it in my mind that I would take you, friend, into O'Henry's for an afternoon coffee date and we would be asked to leave at closing time. God's grace has been abundantly poured into my life and I don't ever want to stop talking about it. During our time spent together, there would be a lot of tears and disbelief about how good He has been to me despite how fallen I am. But also smiles and hysterical laughter over hilarious stories, and a lot of lengthy descriptions of new friends & "holy sandpaper" (as my mom likes to call the people God places in your life that you have a hard time being patient with, but they are clearly there to edify you/smooth you out/make you more Christlike.) I've been a lot of places, done a lot of things, had a lot given to me and a lot taken away. I've been broken and healed several times over. I am so thankful for a year such as this one.

I graduated from Auburn.
I spent a summer serving with Student Life Camps.
I lived in Colorado for three months.

Three big, life changing things that I fully intend on sharing more about when it is not 2 AM and I have to be up in five hours. I hate that my infrequent desire to sit down and write comes at the most inopportune times, but I try to take advantage of it when it does.

did you know...

1. the day one of your best friends gets married will be one of the greatest days of your life.
2. finishing out your mom's china pattern for her christmas present is, according to the sales associate at belk, one of the sweetest gifts ever. who knew?
3. a new power cord for a macbook costs around $86 after taxes. basically, this blog post put me out $86.
4. highway 31 turns into a parking lot the two weeks before christmas
5. babysitting for three kids under the age of 5 for six hours will either make you rip your hair out or make you want to be a mother so badly you can't stand it. my experience was, thankfully, the latter.
6. I'm currently constructing my top 10 albums of 2011 and it's practically impossible considering:
a) I only bought seven new releases this year (I counted), and...
b) what I did buy, I don't feel like putting into a favorite order. friends, you're going to have to settle for alphabetical. sorry.

hello, hello...

just a recent favorite, and proof that I haven't fallen off the face of the blogging universe.

Mrs. Katie Douthit

I can't even begin to describe how glad I am that I can finally share these... They were taken at the end of April, and for obvious reasons, could not to be shown until after Katie and Nathan's wedding. It almost feels unfair to have been hiding away so much beauty for weeks on end, so praise the Lord-Katie and Nathan are finally married and I can show everyone how beautiful she looks in these pictures! Katie was my current roommate, Ashley, and I's discipleship group leader our freshman year, and I feel very blessed to have been able to spend an evening photographing her with Ashley assisting. It was like a little reunion. :)

All pictures: Olympus OM-2 with 50mm f/1.8 lens. Film: Kodak Portra 160NC.

Constance & Andrew

I did it. I completed my first engagement session. And it was so. much. fun. I can't even tell you how long I have wanted to take my love for photography as a fun hobby and turn it into something more serious. So when Auburn bestie Constance (who has known almost as long as I have how much I've been wanting to do this - she never heard me shut up about it), got engaged, I jumped on the opportunity to take her and Andrew's pictures. Here are my favorites. Enjoy!

P.S. this entire session was done in FILM! woo hoo!