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November 28, 2016 By // by kate

So this year, Thanksgiving looked a bit different than it has in the past.

Rather than spending the holiday at the Oregon Coast with my family, we stuck around Ohio, spending Thanksgiving itself at the home of our friend Vanessa and Bryan, with their families, and then the weekend with Jeff’s family in Mercer County, where I volunteered to cook for everyone. (Our immediate family on the Heitkamp side numbers at just over 30.) It was a blast.

Both Eddie & Otis (our chihuahua’s) spent the weekend with us getting snuggled all over, sneaking bites of turkey, and enjoying the chaos that comes with 15 small children running around and playing. Thursday night, when it came time to leave Vanessa & Bryan’s, Eddie staged a protest, running into their bed room, rather than agreeing that we should go home.

I didn’t spend as much time behind my camera as I would have perhaps liked, but the time spent with family & friends in the kitchen(s), playing games, and watching football, was so perfect, and so needed.

Happy belated Thanksgiving, from our family to yours.

Connor | First Birthday Party | Columbus Lifestyle Photographer

November 21, 2016 By // by kate

Connor’s First Birthday

Connor’s First Birthday

Connor’s First Birthday

Connor’s First Birthday

Our youngest nephew Connor turned ONE yesterday! ONE! I can’t believe it’s been an entire year since he came into this world.

He’s a vivacious, lively little dude, who has mastered the art of crawling, loves putting EVERYTHING in his mouth, playing with his big brother Tyler, and snuggling with their chocolate lab Dakota. He’s independent, hates to sleep, and loves to explore.

Watching him explore and discover the world is one of the biggest blessings in my life, and I can’t wait to see what this world has in store for him.

Weekend In Review | k.H.a.lifestyle photography | Columbus Lifestyle Photographer

November 21, 2016 By // by kate

Friday night took us downtown to Nationwide Arena to watch the BlueJackets take on The Rangers, (we won, btw) Jeff and two of his brothers were off to schmooze in AEP’s corporate box, so Mariah and I took our tickets for a gals night… great game, bookend-ed by drinks at Gordon Beirsch made for a great Friday evening.

Every year the female contingent of our family here in Ohio spends the Saturday before Thanksgiving kicking off (and in some cases completely finishing) their Christmas shopping. Due the fact that until a few months ago I lived in Oregon I’ve never been able to partake in the Heitkamp Ladies Shopping Day.

This year, I was all in. We started the morning with everyone converging on my sister in law’s to game plan our day, then as all mornings start, we hit Starbucks for our liquid energy and we were off… Target, Toys R’ Us, Hobby Lobby (LOVEEEE Hobby Lobby), fast stop for lunch, then back at it, Kohls & ended at the Polaris Fashion Place Mall.

Largely, I was along for the ride, as Jeff and I plan on utilizing the fine folks of Amazon for the bulk of our Christmas shopping so we don’t have to schlepp gifts back to Portland with us, or mess around with shipping. Christmas decorations & household decor on the other hand… We’re finally to to the point that we’re ready to start decorating here, so the timing of a girls day at Hobby Lobby was just about perfect. I can’t wait to start decorating for Christmas, which will take place much to Jeff’s chagrin next Sunday, when we get back from our Thanksgiving celebration at his parents.

Sunday our littlest nephew and God son Connor turned one, so we all converged on Greg and Meredith’s to celebrate the little dude, whom when presented with his little cake to smash was just not quite sure what we wanted him to do with it.

We wrapped up the weekend again in front of the fireplace, winding down from a busy weekend with family, and gearing up for the week ahead, which, according to all the notes I have, is going to include a bazillion pounds of potatoes, as I gear up for side dishes for Thanksgiving at our friends home, and then the family Thanksgiving in Fort Recovery this coming weekend.

BlueJackets Game

Ladies Shopping Day

First Birthday Outfit

We did some great shopping.

Connor’s First Birthday

BlueJackets Game

Weekend in Review | k.H.a.lifestyle photography | Columbus Lifestyle Photographer

November 14, 2016 By // by kate

This was the first weekend since we moved into our home in Dublin, and really since we’ve been in Ohio that we didn’t have a list a mile long of unpacking boxes or house projects to get done.

So we decided to explore.

Friday night started with me teaching my youngest brother in law (Curt, you’re also currently my favorite brother in law) how to make a kick ass meal, with only a few slight hiccups. Also, probably the most exciting moment of my last week, I found a store that carries Los Vasco’s wine. The wine that has long been the house red at my mom’s house, and reminds me of home, so I did what any sane rational woman would do, I bought three bottles. (which, to my credit, was less than the case that was my knee-jerk reaction to finding out here)

Saturday, Jeff woke me up asking if I wanted to try out a new coffee shop on High Street in Worthington, which turned into walking all along High street, drinking coffee and poking through the shops. Knowing that we didn’t have anything waiting on us at home, we decided to expand our exploring up into Delaware, for more poking around and lunch.

As we drove, I hit up Yelp, (which I must say, is an app that I use on the daily, especially now that I’m exploring in a whole new part of the country) to find us a place for lunch, and we landed at Restoration Brew Worx.

KILLLLLLER good food and great beer. And hard cider. Jeff and I took advantage of the exploring time to start to nail down details of a new project that we have in the works, as well as stopping every oh, three feet, for me to snap another photo. (Thank God for a patient husband)

Drove a couple hours up I71 to Akron, to photograph the coolest birthday bash I’ve ever seen for a fellow photographer, then back to Cbus.

Sunday brought more exploring with Jeff, this time up to Sunbury, which is a small town to the north east of the city, again poking through small shops before meeting up with my friend Heather and her family for lunch at the Firehouse Tavern for burgers and again, beer. (hey, it’s the weekend)

To wind the weekend up, I had a session at Battelle Darby Metro Park, with two of the most fun people I’ve had the pleasure of working with. They pretty much gave me creative license with their session, but more about that when I post their session’s blog.

Sunday was capped off with butternut squash soup Jeff had waiting, a big pile of blankets, a super smooshy big chair, and a roaring fire in the fireplace.

As far as weekends go, one of the best we’ve had since we moved.

Katy & Josh | Christmas Card Photo Shoot