a jolly Christmas to you!

jolly: adj. in good spirits, merry, joyous, informal, happy, cheerfully festive, delightful

I don't know about you, but I absolutely LOVE Christmas music!

Here are some of my fav's this year[in no particular order]

Here With Us - Joy Williams

Winter Wonderland by Newsboys

This is Christmas - Kutless

You're Here - Francesca Battistelli

Songs from David Archuleta's cd 'Christmas From the Heart'

Christmas This Year - TobyMac
How Many Kings - Downhere

BarlowGirl's cd 'Home For Christmas'
'A PureNRG Christmas'

What Child is This - MercyMe

Christmas Makes Me Cry - Mandisa with Matthew West

Songs by Jump5

Joyful, Joyful - Casting Crowns

The Night Before Christmas - Brandon Heath

What was your favorite Christmas song this year??

I'd love to know!

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I got PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 9 for Christmas!!!!!

So please bear with me through trial and error(: Any tips from you pro's are gladly accepted!



{taken the last day we were in Indiana}
and yes, edited on PSE (:



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Don't forget the REASON for the season and have a wonderful day!

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-corina.dm 

One last Christmas.

This is a beautiful--and sad--music video by Matthew West.

{go to the bottom of the page to turn off blog music first}



In town.

Like I mentioned before, Kendra and me drove out to town for more picture taking...

It was warmer. ?? Ok, just say a LITTLE bit more warm.

Anyways, minus the cold it was a ton of fun!!

Enjoy!!

Kendra:

She's beautiful I'm telling you, beautiful!

and yours truly:

warming my hands....

Did I mention that Kendra made the A-mazing scarf I'm wearing?

Standing beside a big patch of ice.
Told you it was cold!

Anyone who really knows me notice the not-exactly-real/normal smiles???? (no teeth showing) I had a thing put in my mouth called a 'hyrax'. It's in there to widen my mouth so when I get braces in a couple months there's room for my teeth to straighten.(: Also, if you were wondering, YES it was painful a few weeks ago when I had to tighten it twice a day... It's not so bad now although food gets stuck.Alot. Like when my aunt made yummy chicken noodle soup. It took more time to pick out the chicken than to eat the soup... Ok, so where was I?? Ahh, yes, my entire jaw got about 5mm--seems more like 5 feet--wider which means that I now have a big gap in between my two front teeth... I'm used to it now(I think???). Dr. said it should come together in couple weeks. When my teeth are all nice and straight like Kendra--who just got her braces off not too long ago--I'll have a nice big smile to show you!! Can't wait!!!

When you're usually the one behind the camera you don't think about it but THE SHUTTER SOUNDS HILARIOUS when going off rapidly..

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To warm up, we went into this cozy book store.

Lots of color + books + yummy light + cousins having wayyyy too much fun = super fun pictures

Story time with Kendra.......

Yummy bokeh. Pretty girl.

I know.....I look so relaxed.

The reason??

You can't see it in the picture but a car is approaching from behind..

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More to come from our trip.

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Happy, happy news!!!!!!!!!!!

As of today I am now a legal driver!!!

{no mom or dad in the passenger seat}

-corina.dm

One cold morning before breakfast.

It was before 10am.

2 cousins who are a little crazy.

We didn't find out till after we came in that it was 10 degrees wind chill.

20 minutes from start to finish.

A morning mini-shoot.

{side note: all pictures were taken with my uncles 5D and 50mm 1.4 lens...}

My amazing, talented, beautiful cousin took my pictures; I took hers. All edited by me.

you have NO idea how cold i was!



peek-a-boo!
i put on my jacket and warmed my face while
K got the camera to the right setting...





see my breath?? (:

introducing.........

my cousin, Kendra



gotta love the sunflare



After breakfast we decided to snap a few inside and experiment with window light..

That same afternoon around 3:30 we went out to town to take more pictures!!

Pictures from the afternoon shoot soon to come!!!!

-corina.dm

With blue skies and colorful leaves

.........comes sniffles, sore throat, freezing toes, and a want to stay in bed all day long.

If it wasn't for the beauty of fall I'm not sure I could love and enjoy it...

color?...

or b/w??? I couldn't decide..

I took a friends senior pictures last weekend.

We went to this A-mazing town! Gorgeous alleys, lots and lots of old brick buildings, RR tracks, and I think there was a warehouse across the tracks that we didn't even check out!

3 CHEERS FOR DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!!!!!!!

Have a great weekend everybody!!

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-corina.dm