I love my iphone. Even more so, I love instagram. So much so that for the last couple of months I've rarely picked up my camera to take personal pictures of everyday life. It's a shame, because I can feel it creating a disconnect between the two of us (and by "us" I mean me and Tilda, my Canon 5D mk II.) It's a combination of things really. The iphone is almost always with me, instagram allows me to edit the photos right away, and therefore creates immediate gratification. It's so fun! Sometimes when I crawl into bed I pull up all 336 instagram photos I've taken since July and scroll through them all, looking back through my life in small moments. It's a picture journal. But then again that's what this blog used to be on Sundays. So, as excited as I am about iphone photography, I am sorry to you (my loving readers), to Tilda (my patient camera), to my blog (it's been so neglected!), and most importantly to myself, for being lazy and too busy to blog and push my creative limits lately. Let's just say my excuse is that the last 2 1/2 months have been INSANE. I've slept on 9 different beds, couches, and floors in 7 different states. I lived out of a suitcase since November 20th until this week. I put well over 2,000 miles on my car and saw a lot of the people that mean the most in my life. My computer was in a box a lot of that time, and my camera mostly taken out only when it had to be. It's been rough, but I'm so proud of myself for getting through it. And I'm so happy to have these cute little instagram photos to look back through and share with you on this lovely Sunday morning.

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onward and upwards.

I'm already embarrassed that it's taken me this long to blog about Thanksgiving. But I figured it was better now than later because a week from today it will already be Christmas, and then I would really look silly. Boy how time flies.  

I got a call in late October from my big sister inviting me to come spend Thanksgiving with her and her husband. They had just moved to NYC only a couple short months before. It was my first time there, and I have to say the trip was magical. But, more on that later. Here are a few images from our cozy little holiday together in their small Brooklyn apartment. It was a perfect day.  I had (and have) a lot to be thankful for.

I loved the view in front of Chelsey and Jeff's apartment. There's an amazing cemetery to the left and to the right, lady liberty.