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I’m border line embarrassed at how long it’s taken me to finish these photos.  But at least they’re finished now!  I’m going to let the photos tell the story this time.

Kyle LOVES to photograph sunrises.  I’m not joking when I say he took almost 800 sunrise photos from a week at the beach!  Yeah, crazy, right?!  Don’t worry though I’m not sharing all 800 with you only 2…my favorite two : )

Me on the other hand, I like sunsets.  It’s much more my time of day : ) And Pawleys Island gets such beautiful sunsets.Early morning snuggles are the best.
Auntie Melissa getting some in too : )Another sunset, and this time we decided to take Emmy & Nate with us.  You saw this photo in the previous post, but I love it so much I had to include it again!
Yep, we train them young in this family.One of us : )

Then our other 2 nieces arrived and it was time to play on the beach.  Or dig a big hole.  Whatever makes you happy.This is Hatty.And her twin Lilly, with chocolate all over her face : )

Emmy and her twin…
…Nate, who followed Lilly’s lead.This is our 92 year old grandma.  She’s the reason we get together every Thanksgiving like we do.  And on the right is the entire family, minus my dad because we forgot to take the photo before he went to play golf.This was a totally un-staged moment.  I was just happy I had my camera ready to capture it.  Hatty cracking me up as she lept into the cold water.And I’ll end the Thanksgiving half of this post with our crab friend.  Isn’t he cute.  

I love Christmas traditions.  Especially the ones that involve pizza and Christmas lights : )  Every weekend before Christmas we go to Richmond to spend time with our family up there.  Friday night we do pizza at my sister’s and go see the lights downtown.  Then Saturday we all have dinner at Dad’s and do our annual Chinese Auction gift exchange.  It’s something I look forward to every single year.  Here’s a snapshot my Dad’s half of our family, as you’ll see Emmy and Nate made it their goal to get in every photo this year, haha.

I wonder if this is how it always went down when they were kids.  Dad beats up on Craig, while Uncle Carlton pretends to ignore what’s happening so he can’t get in trouble for it later? hahaNate has become such a ham!  And this was right about when they the security guard told us our camera was “too” professional and we had to stop taking pictures!  Can you believe that?!But they can’t tell me not to take pictures outside!  My sister and soon-to-be brother!Us…and Emmy : )  Aren’t those lights amazing!
Dad & CindyAnd my brother, sister-in-law and Emmy & Nate.  Love this one!

These are our holiday memories from 2011.  Hope you made some with your family and documented it with a photo!

January serves as a much needed break for us every year.  It’s our time to unwind and catch up.  Currently, we’re working on a new website that should be done and revealed soon!!! And when we do reveal it there’s going to be a huge give away!  Our promo video is completely finished, and we can’t wait to show you that too!

Some of the things I’m catching up on at this moment are our personal photos from Thanksgiving and Christmas.  I’m sure I’ve been driving my family CRAZY with how far behind I am on those!  I hate not being able to show them off sooner.  But I’m not going to lie, it was fun going back through them (after 2 months) and reliving all the memories from that week.  Next week I’ll have a full post up with those adventures, but for now here’s one of my favorite memories from Thanksgiving, us spending time with our niece & nephew.  One day we’ll grow up and have a family of our own, but for now we are loving playing Auntie A.J. & Uncle Kyle.