it isn’t often that i blog about things of a personal nature. however, given the christmas season and the wonderful people i get to share my home and my holiday with, i just had to post a few pics from the blantation christmas festivities. what a great time spent with our family-away-from-family! our first christmas tree (it’s real, of course)!! my homemade stockings for each of the blantation residents. opening gifts… love these people so much. merry christmas and happy holidays to you all! hannahelaine

best baby name ever! spent last week out in denver visiting my sister for the holdiays since she can’t make it home. while i was there we snuck baby ellie-mae out back for a quick photo session. and by quick i mean like 3 minutes….that’s all the time you need with a face this cute! check it out…. showin’ off the new teeth :) and just a quick one of rach because she’s so fun. i love denver! hannahelaine

i got to spend a large portion of last weekend at the National Youth Workers Convention in nashville helping my husband promote the child sponsorship work of Compassion International. in addition to seeing 145 kids get sponsors for the first time i got to spend some time with the beautiful Alathea girls (whose studio session i photographed earlier this year) and the brilliant live painter, Scott Erickson. in addition to spending time with some of these lovely folks i also witnessed their talents on stage through the lens of my camera — and believe…these are some seriously talented individuals. here’s a little peek at what i captured…. i LOVE these…