A Very Merry Christmas

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! We celebrated the birth of Jesus with our families, ate a ton of amazing food, and received way too many presents. This was a special Christmas because it was Gracie's first. We had so much fun watching her experience all that is Christmas for the very first time. Here was our amazing Christmas in pictures.

The awesome family photo Brian took. It was SO good to have them here for Christmas! We love them and miss them like crazy!


I love this picture! Not the best quality, but so full of emotion. Ainsley loves holding Gracie and here she is making her laugh. I loved seeing Gracie playing with her cousins.

We received so many wonderful presents from everyone. My favorite part was helping Gracie open her presents and watching her excitement as she discovered her new toy. Some of the things Papa and Kaymi got her were a talking kitchen, a walker, a beautiful doll named Gracie, and her very first basketball goal! This is one of the toys she got from Uncle Brian, Aunt Brooke and her cousins Ainsley and Braxton. She LOVES this activity table!

This picture is one Brian took and it is one of my all time favorites of Gracie. He took this while setting everything up for the big family photo. My little naked baby is so cute on this beautiful antique couch!

Over at Papaw and Mamaw's we opened up more presents and Johnny got to be the reindeer. Cutest reindeer I ever saw!


Mamaw and Papaw got Gracie her awesome playpen, a baby karaoke machine, a little people nativity scene, and some of her favorite books. Here is Gracie with Mamaw riding the train Joey, Nicole and Jackson got her. She's pretty excited about it!

One of the best parts of the night was the last present the boys opened up. They each got an authentic moose glass that Cousin Eddie drank eggnog from in the movie Christmas Vacation! Best gift ever mom! Hilarious!!!
What a blessed Christmas!!!

Priceless Pictures

"Capturing the moments you never want to forget."
This is our motto for our photography business Raspberry Rain Images. It is important to me to document life with pictures. I love knowing I have reminders of the different stages of my life, my single years, becoming Mrs. Jonathan Williams, and now my life as a wife and mother. I wouldn't give up these pictures for the world! These images bring back so many wonderful memories, evoke emotion that still moves me to thankful tears, and remind me of how good God is.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Baby's First Christmas

Well, this will be our first Christmas as a family of 3. I will say, everything has felt more "Christmasy" this year as we get to share our favorite holiday and time of year with our favorite little girl! She is mobile now and will crawl over to the tree every chance she gets. Once there she looks at the lights, plays with the ornaments at her level (non-breakables of course) and pulls the bows off of the presents. The Christmas tree lights and ornaments are definitely her favorite. Her least favorite part, Santa. On Friday we dressed her up in one of her many Christmas outfits and headed out to the mall for that oh so important first picture with Santa. She looooved every part of our outing, except for the picture with the extremely realistic looking Santa (seriously one of the best Santa's I've ever seen). We went ahead and purchased the over-priced picture package because 1. we had to ( its her first christmas!) , and 2. her expression is AWESOME! I think she is smarter than the average 8 month old and realizes that sitting on a creepy old man's lap is not fun and NOT very Christmasy!

Here are a few pictures of Gracie in her cute little Christmas outfit. I know the bow is big, but seriously how cute is she?!


The skirt is so cute it makes me want to cry!


And here is the infamous Santa picture. Are you wondering what I am (is that the real Santa?