a long overdue update! i have only had a few posts since the holidays because we have had a lot going on at the hitt house and adrian hitt photography. i'm hoping this will bring everything up to speed! we celebrated our christmas a few days early so that we could head home to oklahoma for the week of the holidays. i mentioned in an earlier post that this had been one of my favorite christmases... it still rings true. even though things played out differently than we could have anticipated, i hope to never forget the lessons i learned. the beauty of old relationships and friendships, forgiveness and redemption were all awaiting us. for the first time in 4 or 5 years, my entire family got to spend christmas together. this alone would have been a great enough gift. i also got to catch up with friends from high school... i had no idea how much i missed all of them! so thank you to susan, jason, ben, brandon, willie, derenda and david... i think we all needed the therapy ;) hehe
here are a few visuals from our holiday time...
details of our tree
can you tell that we're fans of the holiday season?!
one of brian's suprises that santa left... :)
as soon as we arrived in oklahoma, we drove to see my grandparents. they live in a house that my grandfather built back in the '70's. the awesome thing about their house is that nothing has changed since then! they still have all of the velvet wallpaper and crazy colors. when we were kids, we all thought their house was the coolest! it was unlike any other home we had ever seen. this was taken in the "red room"... aka: den. my dad and my nephew, nic are playing chess.
a little more detail of the chess pieces...
benny was a bit scared around nic. here's nic trying to make up with him :)
after we returned home from christmas and new year's, i left for a photo conference in tampa bay, fl. it was the perfect start for a new year! thus far, it was the best investment for my company. i was able to glean so much knowledge from well-respected photographers and business people in our industry. it was fun as well... which never hurts! :) once i landed back in nashville, i shot the fall 2008 line for coco bonbons. i have much more to share from my time with them, so keep an eye out for that post!
adding to the chaos/excitement of the new year... our house is for sale! it went on the market a few days ago and we also placed an offer on another house in nashville. so, now we're playing the waiting/constantly cleaning :) game. here's a look at our dining room.
can't forget this! here is a portrait of brian's nana and roland. isn't she beautiful? she's an amazing woman and brian and i are both very thankful for her love.
lastly, how are your new year's resolutions holding up? i'm doing better than i've done in previous years, but still working on getting all of them in place! reading more and for fun was one of my mine. (the last non-business/photography book i read was last christmas. hence the resolution to do better this year :) ) sunday night i started the lovely bones by alice sebold. i've already read half of the novel... it's quite the page turner! pick it up if you haven't already. but, if you're not much into reading, peter jackson is currently working on the film scheduled to release march 2009.
i hope everyone is enjoying the new year thus far! thanks again for all of your support and stopping by to read my rambilngs.
peace.
adrian
