one|december

I can hardly believe we are closing out our first YEAR of our “One” blog circle! And I cannot wait to continue this tradition with these fabulous and talented ladies. We are excited to keep the circle going in 2014. Our circle of friends has had quite a year. There have been a lot of ups and downs in our group, and I am happy that we have been able to support each other, even from afar, through all of it – good and bad.

A highlight of 2013 was finally meeting *everyone* in our group in September when we traveled to Colorado. The only downside to that trip was that it was much too short! I am excited for more meet-ups next year!

So for my last post of the year, I thought what better way than to kick off the new year than with a brand new baby? Meet the newest member of my extended family, Cooper! He was born in early December, and was just a week old when I snapped this. This generation of our family is ALL boy. Cooper makes seven of them, to be exact! And all of these boy cousins are a whole lot of fun. My brother, cousins, and I (and our numerous boy children) all live within a few miles of each other and we get together often. I love that the boys will grow up together.

I kept circling back around to this shot because the first time I met Cooper, just a few days before this picture was taken, the kid would NOT open his eyes. For anything. He just slept right on through everything (which is a fabulous feature for his parents, of course). So I thought, great! He’ll sleep through the entire shoot and it’ll be a piece of cake! Well, guess who was just Mr. Bright-eyed and Bushy-tailed through most of the shoot? Maybe I didn’t get a lot of those sweet sleepy newborn shots, but it was such fun to see his eyes and hang out with him one on one for a little while. He kept actually making eye contact with my camera which was so much fun for me to capture.

Happy 2014 everyone! I hope you continue to follow me and my friends as we continue journaling our lives, and the lives of others, with our cameras. Click here to follow me to Georgia to see what my friend Kim has been up to in December. Kim is a great storyteller who shoots both digital and a variety of film formats. Then continue clicking through the links to travel around the US and see the posts from all of my talented friends. Until next time – see you next year!