Brandi Sutherland Photography

We are moving to a new home here in San Antonio (no friends we are not leaving town) so last week I had a huge online garage sale and it was a smashing success!  I am going to post stuff for sale on my blog as well so if something is still available it will be posted here!  Once it is sold I will remove it!  Below is our sofa that is for sale.  It is a custom made W. Schillig Sofa and we are asking $2950 for it.  Email me at:  bgbrandi@hotmail.com if you are interested!

For the last 13 weeks I have pretty much been cooped up in my house cuddling with my sofa trying to get passed morning sickness!  Well this past weekend Dub and the girls got me out of the house and off to New Braunfels for some fresh air!  We went to visit Dub’s grandparents who live out on 30 acres in New Braunfels.  The breeze that hits their back porch is so wonderful and I really enjoyed watching the girls wave and say hi to the cows over and over.  Later in the afternoon I got to go sit by the river and watch the boys do some fly fishing and hang with the girls as they threw rocks and sticks into the water!  All in all a great day to get out and get some fresh air.

It’s hard to believe Sophie turned 4 yesterday!  Time just flies and the older you get the more your realize how true that saying is!  I can remember the day we headed to the hospital to have Sophie I was freaking out b/c I knew nothing about taking care of children.  My brother is 11 years older than I am so I didn’t even have siblings my own age growing up.  You know you should worry when even your mom fears for your unborn child.  The best part is though is that it all comes naturally!  Sophie is an amazing girl!  She is so smart; I would even venture to say smarter than an elephant because this kid doesn’t forget a thing!  She is super sweet and caring.  I always get a kick out of dropping her off at school and her hugging her friends to start the day!  I feel so blessed!  Happy Birthday Sophie; I love you more than words!

Sloane Age: 2 1/2  Of course I had to include our littlest turkey in this post because she is growing up so fast too!

I promise peeps I have not fallen off the face of the earth; I have been trying to take a break and fill Christmas orders.  I am finally getting around to posting some pics from our family Thanksgiving.  I love having Thanksgiving down in Uvalde b/c the boys do a South Texas meal which is fantastic!  Our family is so much fun and I love doing family pics when we are all together because there are so many generations of people in our family.  My kids are lucky enough to get to spend a lot of time with not only their grand parents but their great grandparents are still very much around and so much fun to be with.  Also, on a side note ladies my cousin in the cowboy hat below is a super cute and super single firefighter so if you have any prospects shoot me an email!

Jamie is one of my best friends and she started this awesome website called:  Savvy Mommas.  The website is: www.savvymommas.com.  If you have not been to her blog and you are a mom here in San Antonio then you are missing out!  Savvymommas.com has a wealth of information about things going on in San Antonio, projects for your kids, the best places to dine with your family…. pretty much anything that you would want to know about what do with your family or things that involve  family here in San Antonio is on her website; so check it out!

Well….these are the last of our trip pictures!  We had the BEST time!

About two weeks ago I was flipping through Southern Living and I saw this whole article on the Blue Ridge Parkway.  The Blue Ridge Parkway is a scenic road that goes through the mountains in the Carolinas, Virginia on up.  Words cannot describe how beautiful the scenery is on the parkway so I knew we had to go!  So, we planned a very last minute trip to take the girls to Asheville, North Carolina to see the leaves change since that is definitely not something you see in San Antonio.  It was hands down the best vacation we have been on.  I am going to be posting pictures from our trip over several different post.  Enjoy!

This is Sophie hiding from the food at quite possibly the worst bbq joint we have ever been to.  I think in Texas we are spoiled by good bbq.  We went to this place that was packed with people and had great reviews about the bbq.  Well; we got our bbq which was cold yes COLD turkey and no bbq sauce to be found in the joint.  They were known for their coleslaw which was really just a whole lot of mayonaise and cajun seasoning.  YUCK!!!!!  Loved North Carolina….but not the BBQ!

This was the super cute home up in the mountains that the girls and us had to ourselves.  We had so much fun gathering leaves which we are drying to put on our Christmas tree this year!

The sunlight that would come through the trees was so beautiful!

We have been so lucky to finally get some rain here in San Antonio.  It almost looks like Spring outside!  A couple of days after the rain a huge field of white flowers popped up by the girls school so I couldn’t resist all of us jumping out of the car on our way home and snapping a couple of pictures!

The Sutherland Family had such a fun Labor Day weekend!  It was non-stop for us all weekend!  We went home to Uvalde and had so much fun visiting with our family!  The girls loved it because they spent two days in the pool with their cousins!  We also did our fair share of bird hunting!  Sunday we sat under my sisters cabana by the pool and watched the kids swim as well as shoot birds with their dads.  We though we were relaxing until it would suddenly be interrupted by crazy gunfire!  These are some pics from yesterday when Dub decided to load up the girls and their pop guns to take them hunting!  Enjoy!

Sophie would rather just cover her ears versus wearing ear plugs!

The serious hunters!

My brother-in-law Ross and his girlfriend Palmer!

Uncle Ross and his girls!

I melt when I look at this picture!

Two nights ago I was invited to dinner with a group of amazing wedding and family photographers from San Antonio and Austin!  There were 15 of us ladies (girls only) and I had a blast!  I couldn’t decide which was better; getting to hangout with other girls that share the same love of photography as I do or the fact that they were all of the photographers that I totally look up to who do amazing work!  We took a group picture while we were out so hopefully I will have it posted in a couple of days!  Now off I must go but I promise to post some sessions next week!

—b