The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway

"Here I stand
In the light of day
Let the storm rage on,
The cold never bothered me anyway"

- "Let it Go" (Frozen)

We have had a very wintery winter. And I'm loving it! I went out yesterday with Ben on a little ice adventure at a nearby park and couldn't stop snapping away at the amazing beauty all around us!

-mk

January Snow

Is he not the cutest little 4 year old ever?

It snowed last weekend. Beautiful white snow. Despite beings sick I had to get outside with my camera. And I'm so glad I did.

Did you notice Joey rocking those to-big-for-him pink gloves? Yeah that's because his gloves were lost :) That's our life.

Did you notice how happy they all look? How excited they are to be outside and having fun in the middle of winter.

Did you notice how vivid the colors appear against the white snow?

The snow's been gone for several days and been replaced with cold rain.

Hopefully we'll get at least one more snowfall this winter.

~Mary Kate

Road Block

The most time consuming part of blogging {for me} is choosing and editing the pictures. Usually. 

I just type out a few sentences and let the pictures do the majority of the talking. Usually.

But tonight? Tonight I'm struggling to put my thoughts to words. I've started this post four different times now, going off in four different directions, but I didn't like any of them. I sat down planning on writing a wisdom filled post but I guess that will happen another time.

For now I need to go to bed and get a good night's sleep. Tomorrow is an exciting morning, I have my second family session! This time outside. I'll get better pictures but it's going to be about 27-30degrees and a little windy so I might freeze.

 

So goodnight my dear blogger friends. Your sweet comments warm my heart and it's fun to know that somewhere, some of you are reading this. :)

I've been playing around trying to create a watermark that I love and I think this may just be the one! What do you think?

~Mary Kate

 

16

I had an amazing Sweet 16 party Saturday. It was wonderful! It was exactly what I had wanted. I don't have time to post all the pictures from my party. However I did participate in this weeks Scavenger Hunt show I wanted to share that with you all.  (I haven't done the Scavenger Hunt in weeks!)




Food

Food from my birthday tea party. My mom made the cake herself, isn't she amazing? All the food was homemade :)

Purple

Rosie in all her snow garb. She sure loves pink and purple!
In Disguise

Not sure if this counts, but oh well :)
Shapes

The garland decorations we had up for my birthday party.

Photographers Choice

One of my favorite pictures! It's from our freak October snow we had last Saturday.

 And I have a couple pictures from my b-day besides the two above.

Each place setting had a name tag for you to wear. I handmade each favor box and made a couple of the name tags and my grandmother made the rest of the name tags.

The tables!

Details.... :) Those are the favor boxes I made in the top right hand photo. :)

Our family room transformed into a magical tea room. I took these the night before.

Guests starting to arrive and have fun!

More decorations. My grandmother made the balls (right). They were really simple, just time consuming.

I received this beautiful necklace from my bff, Anna.

And I'll leave you with some of the last photos I took as a 15 year old:

And I took this photo of my sister Rose last week:

And tomorrow I will hopefully be getting my permit so I can start driving!!! :)
~Mary Kate