also, coming out this month is "southern weddings magazine's" most recent issue that features 60 ways to have a southern wedding.  check out what whitebox and other photographers and planners have to say about how to rock it southern style on your big ole' wedding day!

mel and i are thrilled to be featured in the design aglow innovation issue!  we use so many of their products and love their online magazine.  : )

check it out here.

we had a wonderful halloween weekend.  eliza was so in to it!  she had two costumes.  one for school (they had to dress up like a character from a book so she was the butterfly from the very hungry caterpillar) and one for halloween (a "mean witch").

we had a little halloween party and "spooky" trail at our house before trick or treating.  we had a gross out table at our house where kids could put their hands in bowls full of disgusting things like worms, eye balls, dead skin, spiders.  then we walked across the street to eliza's nona's for tattoos and fishing for glowing eyeballs in red jello.  finally, we walked to aunt lynne and uncle charles' to bob for doughnuts and listen to scary music!

our family:
chewbacca, hans solo, a cackling mean witch, and a one armed cleopatra

ryder liked to eat his chewey hair.

batman and robin and a dolphin.

too much fun for mr. baby.

uncle charles, the wizard.

liza says bobbing for doughnuts is a-otay!

welp, it has been an exciting fall, no pun intended, to say the least.  two weeks ago i (sara) broke my arm when i fell while i was carrying ryder.  he is ok now, but we had a scary trip to the er and spent the night at the hospital.  i have been trying to master being a one armed mom and a one armed photographer.  : )

thank you to all of our awesome clients that are being so patient while i peck away on the computer with my one hand!  mel has stepped it up and she has been doing a lot of the shooting.  i should be back on top in a couple of weeks.  all i can say is thank goodness ryder is ok, thank goodness that i broke my left arm and not my shooting arm and that i have an awesome business parter!

here are a few sneak peeks for what is to come....

karen+kevin, annapolis, md

victor + miharu, durham, nc

lakshmi + brendan, durham, nc

meghan + luke, raleigh, nc

the aikins kids + eliza, madison, nc

noah, the whitebox farm, nc

jake + kristina, raleigh, nc

croquet and cocktails, bald head island

brooke + hap's rehearsal, bald head island

brooke + hap, bald head island

me shooting with one arm!

i had to sneak one shot of my little sweetie in, ryder, 4 months.

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this has been the longest dry spell on our blog!  don't fear....we are back!  : )

mel and i are shooting and shooting on sunday (well mel might shoot clay pigeons, since i have one working arm i think i better not!).  we are taking photos at the blast for boobs fundraiser to raise money for the friends for an earlier breast cancer test.  i lost my gramma and my god mother to breast cancer, so i am passionate about this cause. 

no experience is necassary, please join us!