Photography by Linden Claire » Family

snow day!

lindenclaire — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:10:49 +0000

it finally snowed this weekend, and while i was so excited for it all i did was run out and take some pictures of cecily playing in it! haha oh well maybe next time i will go sledding a few times! for me it was more fun to just laze around and make chili and apple pies! I spy an Eskimo

down

the

hill

weeee!!!

this picture of them sledding makes me happy

Cecily’s snowgirl!

thanks for stopping by!

~Linden~

Sabrina

lindenclaire — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:47:19 +0000

sabrina recently had her braces taken off and a new haircut and she wanted to rock it out for some photos… so of course i didn’t mind helping her with that!

below is a few that we took

I hope you enjoy looking at her beauty! (she is growing up so very fast)

Christmas 09

lindenclaire — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:22:22 +0000

Christmas was a week ago and i’m just now getting around to posting about it We had a fantastic Christmas, it was kind of sad and exciting since it was my last one at home, since i’m getting married in 4 months!!!!

decorating our gingerbread house

Christmas morning our charlie brown tree
Sabrina modeling her presents !

Whit & I reading the pioneer woman cookbook

Our Tree!

& the mantle

Matt’s ornament that i got him in Nashville Matt’s Aunt Beverly gave us the snowmen and his mom gave us the house!

I hope you all had a wonderful christmas and a happy new year

Linden

the hallman’s

lindenclaire — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:40:00 +0000

aunt marcia asked me if i would take some pictures of Erika, Lance & Chloe … here is what i got

Chloe

Erika

Lance

then i took some of Erika & Scott!

thanks so much for asking me to do these for you aunt marcia

the theme is pumpkin!!!

lindenclaire — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:10:06 +0000

it’s that time of year again, for all things pumpkin & scary!

aunt marcia had a pumpkin carving party to celebrate

mom made these yummy owls and spider webs!

we had pumpkin bars.

pumpkin cheesecake

pound cake decorated with pumpkins

blinged out pumpkins

painted pumpkins

we enjoyed the fire!

and then it was time for pumpkin carving

cecily grew her own pumpkin!

yuck!

these are the tools you need to carve a wonderful pumpkin!

ewww pumpkin guts!

scary huh?!?!

the castle was my work of art!

matt’s mummy!

brooklyn’s first pumpkin!

she really enjoyed it!

whitney and josh had fun!

after pumpkin carving it was onto mummy wrapping!

meredith and laura with their mummy!

the winners of the mummy wrapping!

i hope everyone has a wonderful and safe halloween!

come along with me…

lindenclaire — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:24:44 +0000

to the apple orchard!

we can get jam

and pancake mix

we can play in the house

and dance in the trees

and be happy

we can take our pictures by the tree

isn’t she pretty!

we can visit the petting zoo

and hide in the bamboo

we can have fun with friends.

be a rockstar like sabrina

be adorable like cecily

we can get our pictures made with our aunt

and get our pictures made with family

hopefully your family picture will be better than ours… but i love it anyway it’s so us

what fun we had at the apple orchard! but the fun isn’t over yet!

we were soon off to the carl sandburg house… mom’s favorite place to go in the mountains…. i quickly found out why… care to join me??

aunt melanie this one is for you

the trees are beautiful…

the water fall

yellow trees = happy me

i love love love profile pictures…

and green

and people who lay down on the wet ground when i tell them to.

i love this happy carefree picture

i love random fire hydrates

i love bamboo

i love him & his muscles he totally has the tree beat, i don’t know why it’s even trying to compete!

i love old barns

and green moss

i love my sisters for modeling for me!

i love laying in the sun with him

taking pictures of the grass

god’s pretty amazing to make such beautiful things

i like water.

whitney does too

sabrina likes taking pictures

watch closely

he is walking

he is tripping

he is falling! ahahahhahahhah!

p.s. no one was hurt in the making of these pictures!

i love fall colors

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i hope you guys had fun! come back anytime

i will be posting something about pumpkins next!

trash the dress – julie

lindenclaire — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:38:02 +0000

as bobbie mentioned on her blog i took them to an awesome location, and since i was with them and i had my new camera, i snapped a few also, i downloaded them when i got home because i was so excited to see what i had, then the next day i was going to take Maggie’s pictures, well instead of using my other camera card i decided to just delete julie’s pictures off thinking oh i’ve already downloaded them it will be fine… I get home and get to looking and guess what?? they didn’t all download!!! i was sick how, did i let this happen? so bobbie told me to take my card to Wolf Camera and they could probably get them off of it for me. so i took it today and he told me since i had already taken more pictures since deleting them that they would probably not be there. i said thanks for trying to help me and went along my way and decided in the future i would just be smarted.

i hope you like these julie i had a ton of fun taking them with you guys! next time i will make sure they all download before i delete!

fun fact: my mom made julie’s dress 6 years ago when she got married, and now she is making my dress for when i get married in may, i’m so excited and i know she will do a beautiful job!

We went on a trip :)

lindenclaire — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:10:23 +0000

Friday we went on a trip to the mountains for Mom’s birthday!

Last year we went camping (by camping I mean “glam camping” it’s the best way to camp in my opinion, it’s a tent with a roof over the top and a bathroom and shower built on the back!) and went on the Virginia Creeper Trail, in Damascus Virginia, we had so much fun so we decided to go again. So we made our reservations and loaded up and we set off. Little did we know that a rainstorm was right in front of us! We get to the camp site and it starts misting so we think no biggie…

We started preparing our meal of Campfire Chicken!

Whit took over chopping potatoes from me so I could take pictures!

Mama D worked hard to get our meal ready

Mama B. worked hard also

Doesn’t that look yummy ?!?!

We cooked it over this…. it smelled so so good while it cooked

Funny story as we are all sitting around the fire in chairs, Cecily was sitting on a log, and she so calmly said “MOUSE!” and I thought I saw it coming for me it looked huge and terrifying so I screamed and ran flapping my arms! That mouse was not going to get me!

So while everyone else was busy preparing dinner I took Matt’s picture

Just a side note that has nothing to do with our trip, Notice all of Matt’s hair? Well yesterday he decided he needed a hair cut…… the lady scalped his head… it is now a half inch long all over his head.. I choked back laughter while it was being cut, because I’m supportive like that! So back to the camping trip

Cecily and Matt had a race, Cecily won!

Dad and Mr.. Donnie (as everyone calls him) enjoyed the campfire and long conversation

Meredith & Matt pretended like they were a couple… ( I think they forgot that Matt & I just had the raddest engagement pictures taken! )

So I jumped in a for a few pictures so you guys would know that I actually was along for the trip! Well I got half way in the picture…

So Meredith took pity and took one of us together I’m so hardcore I didn’t even take my backpack off… (some of you will be pleased to know that I finally invested in a real camera bag!)

We decided to have a jumping party

Their timing was way off…

Hey Matt… your head went away…

Oh you are cool….

I jumped, because I’m cool! Matt not so much…

hey hey do you see my cool boots?!?! I bought those so when I’m taking pictures the ants can’t get to me, and if they do oh boy I will… I don’t know what I will do!

Jumping is fun!

Me: Hey Cecily

Cecily : What ?

Me : You have bird on your shirt!

Cecily: looking down… looks back at me.. it’s supposed to be there! DUH!

ahahhahah I’m funny huh?!?!

While we were having fun Sabrina was being Cinderella!

At least she smiles about it!

Cecily was a monkey!

She walked the tight rope!

Everyone else had their pictures taken with Dad last year when we went camping, but Meredith & I didn’t so we fixed that little problem!

Meredith & Dad

Dad & I

We played games!

Scrabble is always a must in our family!

Cecily and Mrs.. Becky played Uno

I fell in love……

With the bokeh…

He fell in love with me <3

The bokeh is to much for me to handle… I have to move…. Hey Back Country Camp Ground get me a tent ready I’m moving in!

We drank lemonade!

Meredith loves me

They are nerdy!

I think I’m going to get a Canvas of this… Wouldn’t it be lovely hanging on my wall?!?!

This last part will be about our bike trip

This is what happens when you go biking in the rain.

The train depot!

It was a cold rainy trek down the mountain

But it was worth it!

Mama D. & Papa M. didn’t brave the conditions with us, they were really glad they didn’t come when it started pouring rain!

The rain made us do silly things like…… This…

Hello there! Can I come visit you up there on the mountain one day?!?! We could take really pretty pictures!!

Hey hey I think I know them… the people on the trail way back in the distant!

It’s Mama B. & Papa D.!!!

So we get to this lovely field right here….

and I said Matt “Stop I want a picture” so I stop and as I’m getting off my bike my feet slip and down I start going down…… then Matt comes flying up beside me and almost ran into me, and off the seat I go right down onto the bar, it hurt so so bad my leg has been quite sore. Somehow I’m the only that has crashed both times we have gone……

So I got back on the bike like the big girl I am and laughed it off….

If I had only known all the cold rain and mud puddles that were ahead of us I would have sat down on the path and cried… Yeah I’m tough like that…

But then I would have missed this little stream that ran through the little town along the way.

So I cuddled up to my soon to be hubby!

and I drowned my sorrows….

In a Coke and hit the trail again, we still had 10 more miles to go in the rain… I so wish I had a picture of us at the end… but my camera was safely tucked away in my backpack under my lovely poncho. I can assure you it wasn’t a pretty sight. Sabrina looked like she had fallen face first into a mud puddle…

That was a long recap of our trip, I hope you enjoyed it!

Leave me some love <3

~Linden

Whats to come…..

lindenclaire — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:41:46 +0000

I’m so excited about what’s to come I just am so busy with my full time job, editing seems to be put on the back burner + my photography class and wedding planning! I’m getting married in 8 months and I have nothing planned… eekk…

I feel like I have been neglecting my blog so here is a sneak peek of what’s to come

Leave lots of love and let me know what you think!!

Ashton and Colton

Thanks for being so patient

Ashlyn

Meredith :)

lindenclaire — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:02:50 +0000

These two are my favorite!!! Which is your favorite, the color one or the toned down one?

Hello random field beside the road with wonderful light!

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