{photography by Shannon Kirsten}

{boys are in Busy Bees c/o — how cute is that jacket?! }

Even though there’s a nose picker in this one, we’re all smiling, and all looking at the camera.  So nose pick and all, I think we’ve got a winner (:  There really is something so special about having one of your (incredibly talented!!!) best friends document these memories year after year.  Since we moved in, we’ve done one on our dock and in front of our home every year.  How is it that we’ve already been here now for three years?  And we finally got a new coat of paint on it.  You may not be able to tell, but I can, and it feels so fresh now.  My dad still has to do the door though.  In that black lacquer that I’m dying over, but have researched that it’s really tricky.

Anyway, I hope you all have a happy first weekend of December!!