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5 Years

Lake Gaston and Raleigh NC

Joe and I celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary last week! It’s hard to believe that we’ve been married for that long, time is truly flying! We celebrated by getting away for a few days and going to my favorite place (in the United States at least), Lake Gaston in North Carolina. My sweet in-laws were…

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May 7, 2013 - 4:47 pm

Allyson - Well said, Courtney. :-)
Congratulations to you both on 5 wonderful years!!

May 7, 2013 - 5:10 pm

Kole - So sweet and simple…XO

May 7, 2013 - 5:20 pm

Jessica Fike - What a great post, Courtney. Nice reminders and realizations. Also love your green rain jacket. :)

May 7, 2013 - 5:55 pm

Lauryn Galloway - LOVE this post!! So many truths. Congrats on 5 years friend!!

May 7, 2013 - 6:13 pm

Kate - :) Court… Love this post. Thank you for your very real, very raw, reminder of love and marriage. Might need to bookmark this page to visit on a daily basis. lol. So glad you two are living your “happily ever after!”

May 7, 2013 - 6:36 pm

jamie - really adored reading this courtney. you’re beautiful. sounds like a great time away reflecting. :)

May 8, 2013 - 1:30 pm

jamie - happy five years! i loved reading this post and your heart in each word expressed your desire to love your husband and to love the role God has called you too. what wisdom and your trip to unplug looks so peaceful!

Snow Day

in the springtime

It’s the 5th day of spring and we currently have 5 inches of snow on the ground. While normally I would gripe and complain, today I’m enjoying an unexpected slow, snow day and the blessings that accompany it. Joe took off today, not just for the snow, but to help finish up our tax prep….

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March 25, 2013 - 6:23 pm

jamie - i love that snow slows everything down, its one of my favorite things about snow, even when its spring. i like the filters on your images!

March 25, 2013 - 9:17 pm

lauren - Piper the bunny! So funny that you get all these action shots and as soon as the hood goes on she? goes still for posing time.

Memories of Nana

This past weekend we had a memorial service celebrating my grandmothers 92 year life on this earth. She passed away a little over a week ago in my parents home, my mom and I were with her as she passed. One of our prayers was that she would pass peacefully and God so faithfully answered…

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March 11, 2013 - 2:24 pm

Liz McKee - Thank you so much for sharing your Nana’s beautiful life with us. Her lessons will live on in love, through your family. What lovely, cherished memories!

March 11, 2013 - 2:35 pm

Christina Elgin - I truly enjoyed this. Beautifully written! If only we could all have a Nana like her in our lives. What precious memories you have.

March 11, 2013 - 8:45 pm

Beatty - Courtney, that post is BEAUTIFUL! What a lovely lady “Nana” must have been…I am sure she is just as charming now in her new home…Heaven….. I have very fond memories of both of my “mom-moms’” and I hope to get those memories put into words and shared on paper so that my grandbabies one day will know all about me and my mom-moms’ lives. What a blessing you have been given …..my sympathies to you and your family.
BTW-I am friends with Carole & Scott and I LOVE your photography!!!!

March 12, 2013 - 1:19 am

Sara Hood - Even though I heard this on Saturday, I loved reading it again. We have lots and lots of wonderful memories of Alma, and our lives are richer because we knew her.

March 14, 2013 - 6:13 pm

Hope - Sounds like Nana was amazing! What a heritage she has left. A big hug to you, dear!

Lessons from Piper

unconditional love

In the 3 years that we’ve own Piper, we have learned a lot from her. During the first few days after we brought her home, we learned that a puppy is much like a newborn. Blissful sleep interrupted and always having a listening ear to hear if she was whining in her crate, needing us…

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In Front of the camera

Cunningham Falls adventure

First off, thank you all for your excitement yesterday as we launched my new site and blog, it means so much! Still kinda giddy about that too. Now that I have a shiny new blog, I’m going to post things more often. I really slacked off over the fall and through the holidays. I think,…

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February 13, 2013 - 7:51 pm

Selena - Piper looks so stinkin happy in that last pic :) Love these pictures!

February 13, 2013 - 8:21 pm

Tara - Beautiful. Just beautiful.

February 13, 2013 - 8:59 pm

heather - They are adorable! Love the ones with Piper :)

February 13, 2013 - 11:27 pm

Sheaulee - You look gorgeous! Umm I need Suzanne to do my hair too hahha! Congrats on the new site and blog too!

February 14, 2013 - 3:20 am

Naomi - These are so lovely!! And I completely agree, your hair is fabulous!!

February 15, 2013 - 10:11 pm

tania - well you are gorgeous and should clearly get in front of the camera more often!
and rebekah, these shots are incredible. i’ve said it before, but you have such a magical sense of landscape. this looks like an enchanted forest.

February 18, 2013 - 5:22 pm

Mary Marantz - BEAUTIFUL Courtney!! I love it! And you HAVE to tell me where you got that DRESS!!!

xo
M:)

February 20, 2013 - 3:52 am

Meg Smith - A true beauty you are, Court! The look in Joe’s eye must be love! Thrilled for you and your new blog!

February 20, 2013 - 6:32 pm

Lesley - I die every time I look at these. You guys are too adorable.