Donna Harris Photography

My Beloved Dog, Max, passed away yesterday. I am planning on posting pictures in his honor. If you knew me at all, you know that he was my baby. I will love him forever.
….will update soon!

Donna

Santa Year by Year

Every year since we’ve been married we have had our picture taken with Santa. We go to Mid Rivers Mall and see the exact same Santa. I love this little old man and was very happy to finally take Roman to get his picture taken with him this year.
I told the picture staff that we’ve been coming every year since we’ve been married and they told me that this was Santa’s last year. He’s getting older and just can’t do it anymore. If you look really close, you can see the tears in my eyes. It was a bittersweet time. I’m happy to start a new tradition of Roman getting his picture taken with Santa but I’m sad that Christopher and I will no longer have ‘our’ Santa.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Where did the year go? I can’t believe that Thanksgiving is this week!
Now the whirlwind of the Holidays can REALLY begin! I refuse to shop for Black Friday, though. It seems in the years past that the super-low doorbusters weren’t worth the extra trouble. One year we got up at 2 am just for $3 memory cards for our digital camera. Now we have a ton of those memory cards scattered throughout the house. The problem is, they are nice to have but they are only 1GB. I am always switching them out and trying to keep track of the ones I’ve recently filled. If you know me and taking pictures, I NEED the extra memory space. It would have been much more prudent to just buy one 4GB memory card and be done with it!
I also remember going to Best Buy that same day and saw a CD I wanted on sale for $7. When I went looking for the beginning of the checkout line, people were constantly telling me to keep going. I saw a sea of arms gesturing back. As I continued to walk through the store, following this long winding line of people, I realized that the checkout line was literally the length of THE ENTIRE STORE! Not worth it for a $7 Justin Timberlake CD.
Black Friday or not, enjoy this week! I hope you get stuffed with a ton of comfort food and are surrounded by the ones you love!

Here are some recent photos of my son, Roman, on Halloween.

The thing is, he totally was meant to be Count Dracula. He’s got the built in widow’s peak and at the time he didn’t have his FRONT top teeth but the side ones… so it looked like baby fangs!

Of course, this year was the time to show Roman off in his costume so we hit Main Street and said hello to everyone at the salon while they passed out candy for “Trick or Treat on Main Street”.

We also went to visit the Wicked Witch of North County, who, 364 other days of the year is known as my mom. She has always dressed up as a witch for Halloween as long as I can remember!
Every year she says it’s her last. I’m thinking this year she means it. Look at how scared Roman is of her!

The Big Bang Theory

Bangs are hot.
This fall all I’ve seen are unapologetic, wide, thick bangs. Short or long hair, these bangs are totally attention grabbing. I just came from a cut and color class and two of the three new looks that I’ve learned had serious bangs. Let me know if you’re up for them!