Wedding Fun (kinda)

In October I was asked to shoot our friend's wedding and let me tell you, I NEVER want to do a wedding again.  Some people LOVE it.  Me?  Not so much.  If I didn't love this couple, I would have said no.   But I didn't say no and forged ahead.   I was seriously a nervous wreck all day.   Here are a few of the shots

I can't decide if I like these next two shots in black and white or color. 

What do you think? 

Here are pictures of my favorite guys!  

Sweet boy was SO SO good! 

I am so happy that they trusted me enough but seriously guys....never again.  

Pumpkin Patch 2012

Hello friends!  I hope you are having a wonderful holiday season!  I decided to take a little break from a few things and my poor blog was on that list.  I needed some time to just check out of social media for a while.   I am going to try to get caught up from October...we will see how that goes!  I wish I had some life changing news or wonderful insight on life.  But the truth is I am still a trying to stay above the water.  Some days are better than others.  I tend to stay busy in order not to think or feel.  My goal each day is to thank the Lord for the life that I have been given.

So to start the catch up here is a post I started in October and never finished....


One night last week, after dinner, Artie and I decided to take Grayson to the pumpkin patch.   This week/weekend is a little crazy and there would not be any time before Halloween!  So a last minute trip it is.

He was in such a good mood!  I think having a full belly helped plus he gets SUPER silly at night.  Win win.

Waiting on the pumpkin train

Not so sure about the ride....

Oh this IS fun! 

Gray likes to look at animals from afar haha

Now the good stuff! 

 He wanted to sit on all the pumpkins! 

I must sit on that one too Mom

The pumpkin patch had a wooden train play set and Gray was SMITTEN! 

And just to let the tears flow....

October

I seriously love October.  Like a giddy school girl crush on October.  I think it is because it means the beginning of ALL my favorite holidays.  We are hitting holiday central wahoo! It is now ok to put out all the spooky decor I want and eat every pumpkin flavored thing in sight.

I am going to try to get my house decorated for halloween this week.  I started with my wreath on the front door.

I took Grayson outside to look at it and asked him if it was spooky.  He then kept asking me if things were spooky for the rest of the day.  He would hold up a toy "Mama spooky?" haha.  So cute! 

I am going to try to participate in A Grand Life's photo a day on Instagram. 

 Hopefully I can keep up!  I am going to try to post the photo's here once a week.  My name is heathercallen if you would like to follow along. 

Last month I had the honor of taking some friends engagement photos and senior photos.  It amazes me that someone would EVER want me to take their pictures.  They turned out great...thankfully! 

This month our friends are getting married and have asked me to take pictures....I am terrified.  It is a VERY small wedding but still important.  Yikes.   It is at the end of the month so I have plenty of time to study! 

And because I can not leave a post with out a picture of my little guy....

Oh goodness he is adorable.  I think my holiday craziness has rubbed off on him...he insists on carrying this pumpkin around all day.  Oops.  

I hope you have a great week! 

30!

I am finally getting around to blogging this.....

In May I turned 30.  Do you know how weird that is to say?   I still feel like I am 20 and that is all that matters right?  Fortunately for me, I look like I am still 20...so no one is none the wiser ; )


The theme was French country (ish) and I found this cute little bee on Etsy.  It was perfect for the invite!

I thought it looked a little French country and decided to use some french wording on the invitation to tie it all together.  

The phrase "Trente Est Le Nouveau Vingt! "  was born.  

(30 is the new 20)

The invitation-

I wrapped the invite in burlap and lace for a special touch. 

The farm that we use for all of our parties has a wonderful, secluded little area by a creek that is just beautiful.  It is the perfect place to dine under the stars!

I had a specific design in mind and poor Artie had to execute it.  He enlisted the help of Ashley and Alison to help make it everything that I wanted and MORE!  It was seriously the most beautiful party I had ever seen.

 The main table- there were hundreds of mason jars filled with candles! 

If you look in the top left corner you can see the guitar player....he was awesome! 

It was perfect to have him playing while we ate dinner. 

The baby's breath center pieces

The place setting with the menu

 Another view of the table that turned out a little brighter.

The food!  Yummmmmm! Seriously so good!  

Assorted cheeses, rosemary chicken,

 roasted vegetables, salad, tea and 

lemonade! 

I completely forgot to get a picture of the dessert table!  

I LOVE LOVE LOVE pie...more than cake actually.  

There is a little restaurant in our town that makes AMAZING pies and

 Artie bought all of my favorites!  

 This space is somewhat in the middle of the woods.  

Once the sun went down, it was magical!  

There were mason jars filled with candles everywhere...even hanging in the trees! 

Funny story.  You know how I said that the party was in the middle of the woods?  Which means that there are no lights anywhere in sight.  Well we did not think that through very well because we had to clean up at the end.  Luckily we had all the mason jar candles because it was DARK.

It was definitely something I will never forget.  Thank you Artie for putting this together and thinking that I deserve something so beautiful!  The night was truly magical!