Tagged | cherry street photography
September 16, 2008 | Filed Under Personal, Uncategorized | 1 Comment
I’ve been tagged before, but I figured I’d play along and keep the game going.
Miss Stacy tagged me this time. 
I’m supposed to name 6 Unspectacular quirks about myself.
1. I have an obsessive/compulsive need to “clean” the table when we go out to eat. I wipe all the crumbs & water spots with my napkin and stack the finished plates & trash together throughout the meal. The crazy part is that I only do that when we go out. It doesn’t bother me at home. LOL
2. I frequently talk to inanimate objects. Telling them to behave, move out of my way, how their day was, etc. I never said I was normal. 
3. I’m somewhat of a perfectionist and if I can’t do it “right”, I just don’t do it. Hence, a lot of things don’t get done around here much to my husbands dismay.
4. According to my dh, I don’t clean, I straighten.
5. I have to fold the laundry straight from the dryer. If I don’t get it as soon as they finish then I’ll just heat up the clothes again to get the wrinkles out. I hate folding wrinkly clothes and I hate ironing even more!
6. I get motion sickness something awful. I have to sit at least in the middle of the movie theatre and sometimes I even have to close my eyes during the movie if there’s too much action. It’s a total buzzkill.
RULES:
1. Link the person who tagged you
2. Mention the rules on your blog
3. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours
4. Tag 6 following bloggers by linking them & leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they have been tagged. (coming soon)
And since a post without a picture is just cruel, here’s a details shot from my girlie’s birthday party this past weekend.
My big girl is turning 8!!
September 6, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Am I really old enough to have an 8 yr old?! Hold on….double checking….yep, I’m old enough. Darn!
My girlie is turning 8 in a little over a week. She’s such a sweetie and has such a good heart. She’s an awesome big sister too. We took some quick birthday shots earlier this week and she was actually a very willing model (usually she hates it).
Here are some of my favorites and a peek at her invites…
Odds & Ends…
September 2, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments
It’s been a little while since I posted so this post is going to be a little bit of everything.
Firstly, I hope everyone is drying out after Fay decided to grace us with her presence for several days. We had it pretty lucky considering. The worst part about Fay for us, was the “togetherness”. We were stuck inside for days and we all got a little sick of each other. And now we have Hanna approaching. Oy. Let’s just hope she stays on her projected path. Anyhoo, here’s a picture I snapped on my iPhone of the calm before the storm.
Blast from the past: I was going through some stuff on my desk and I pulled out a journal that’s been sitting there forever. I pulled it out b/c I started working out again and I wanted to use it for my food/workout journal. I opened it up only to find something interesting right inside the cover. I found the first sonogram picture from when I was pregnant with my second, Hayden. He wasn’t even a “peanut” yet! I showed it to the kids and got all sentimental on them. Hayden thought it was pretty cool. He had a huge smile on his face while I was talking to them a little about the process of a baby growing inside the mum’s tum. I thought it’d be fun to share the first picture of our little man.
And one more thing I have to share is that I totally forgot to wish my hubs a public Happy Birthday. We had some family over and would you believe I didn’t take one single pic. I find that I miss a lot of what’s going on if I take pictures at events so normally I just don’t take many and in this case none at all. Anyway, belated “Happy Birthday!” to my hubby (& his twin bro)!!
Coming soon….I’ve got a sneak peek of the holiday cards that will be available this season. It’s not too early to book your holiday session. I will have some special holiday session pricing soon as well. Can you believe it’s actually that time of year already?! Only 113 shopping days left!
We survived…
August 19, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 5 Comments
the first day of school! BOTH of my little monkeys are in full time school now. Holy cow, where did the time go? I have a Kindergartener and a Second grader! Geez. Could they not grow up so fast.
Our morning was going pretty smoothly. We all got up easily, ate breakfast, & got dressed. I couldn’t believe I actually had time to take some real pictures before we left. Unfortunately, like always, I overestimated how much time we had to spare and in the end we were rushing to class. It might have actually been a good thing though because I don’t think Hayden had any time to be nervous about his first day of Kindergarten.
I hope you don’t mind a lot of pics.
Last Minute Vacay! Out of Office 7/18-7/22
July 18, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 3 Comments
I know I’ve been MIA lately. I am so so sorry. I promise to get back on a regular schedule after the mini vacation. I’m also having a little trouble uploading photos so I have to get that fixed as well. Although I can upload them, they are sizing them down and it makes them pixellated looking. Ugh. Such a pain in the butt!
Anyhoo, I will officially be out of the office from 7/18-7/22. Any calls/emails will be answered when I return. Thanks so much!
With that, I will leave you with a picture that has TWO hints of upcoming blog posts! Stay Tuned…
Yum-my…
June 25, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
For those of you who do not have People.com on your iGoogle, here’s a little video I had to pass on. It’s Tim McGraw being, ummmm, Tim. It’s why he’s soooo stinkin’ hawt. He can be super sweet, talking about how in love he is with his wife and then he can be a total tough guy about to get in a fist fight on stage. Check it out!
Hmmm, I wonder if Faith was thinkin’, “dang my man’s hot!” or, “I can’t believe he just did that!”. LOL.
Mark & Anne are getting married!
June 4, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 5 Comments
I had my first ever engagement session last weekend with two awesome people. Mark & Anne are getting married this November and they picked me to take their engagement photos. We headed down to St. Augustine and first had a drink at A1A Ale Works to loosen up a little. Afterward we just walked around to find some cool spots and then across the Lions Gate bridge to take some shots with Anne’s Mini Cooper.
I had such a great time hanging out and taking pictures that day. Thanks so much to Mark & Anne for putting up with me and to my assistant Marsha for helping me out even though I didn’t utilize her nearly enough as I should have. Also, to Marsha’s hubby Josh & my hubby, Eric for keeping the couple “loose” during their photos.
Here’s a little sneak peek for Mark & Anne. I hope you like them!
My little Graduate…
May 29, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments
It finally happened…my baby boy graduated from preschool! *sniff*sniff* He’s grown up so much since he started the 4yr pre-k. He went from a super shy guy who took forever to go into the classroom in the morning to my big boy who would only let me give him a kiss goodbye if no one was watching. At the beginning of the year he didn’t know all of his letters, much less the sounds. Now, he knows all of his letters by sight, with their sound and is even reading at Kindergarten level. He just blows us away. We are so proud of him.
I tried to take some pictures of him all dressed up, but apparently it was too bright outside. These were the only ones I could get.
Isn’t he handsome all dressed in his shirt & tie?! He looks like such a little man. In fact he said he looked just like daddy when he got dressed.
He would not look at me when I was taking a picture! Silly goose.
Here he is singing his little heart out…
Here he is getting his “diploma”, aka rolled up white paper with a ribbon.
AND, b/c this post is all about my little man, I thought I’d throw in his favorite song of the moment. He always wants me to play “say what you need to say” when we’re in the car and he’ll sing the chorus over & over again. Go ahead, say it with me, “awwwwwww”.
Nature…
May 21, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 5 Comments
Anyone who truly knows me, knows that I am not the nature girl type. I am not fond of the heat (or cold) and I despise BUGS. Actually, the only bugs that make me squeal are the ones that like to buzz by my ear and not go away or the ones that bite. I start to freak out when I shoo it away and it continues to buzz in my ear!
So, my hubby decides that we should go on a hike last weekend. You can imagine how excited I am about hiking, right? Being the trooper I am, I don’t whine or complain once. That’s right, just call me team player. I figure it’s family time and exercise all rolled in to one anyways. I decided to take my camera along too just in case I found anything interesting. The hike was all good. The weather was fantastic, the kids enjoyed being outside and to top it off I burned a whopping 750 calories. Woo-hoo!
I didn’t find much to photograph, but here are a couple of my pics from that day…
Facebook anyone?
May 16, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
So, apparently Facebook is the new Myspace. You can upload photos, posts messages on others “walls”, send little digital “gifts”, play lots of crazy games & stay in touch with people from all over. I have a facebook page under my name, Katie Higginbotham and also a Facebook Fan Page for Cherry Street Photo. Feel free to come on over and say hi! (Psst…If you write on my wall I’ll gift you a $25 credit towards your print purchase with any paid session fee) As part of my HS Senior sessions you will receive Facebook/Myspace images for you to use on your own pages. Heck, even if you’re not a senior, just ask when we do your session and I’ll send you some web images for your page too!
Also, there’s this application for Facebook called “Flair” that is so addictive & cool! You choose from a bunch of uploaded images and it will make those images into buttons and then you arrange them on a virtual corkboard. If you have a Facebook page & have a session done by me I will send you a personalized button with one of your pictures from our session. Then you’ll be able to stick it onto your corkboard on your page!
Here’s my current Flair:
