Kathryn Michelle Photography: The Jackson's : Thanksgiving Portraits

Marriage is wonderful. If it's your thing, it is a bond between two people that leads to so many memories, learning experiences, and cherished moments that you will savor for a life time.

James and I's family are just about everywhere you can imagine - California, Philadelphia, Oklahoma, Singapore, the Philippines... and those are just our parents and siblings! In some sense, we absolutely love this. Our childhood experience of constantly traveling and seeing the world continues to this day as we bounce from continent to continent visiting family members. But on the flip side, we often find ourselves yearning for the typical "American" family structure where your relatives are just down the street from you, or within a couple hours drive... which brings me to my first point. Marriage is wonderful, BUT, switching on and off for holidays just plain sucks. We always find ourselves wishing the travel time from one family members home to the next wasn't 28 hours by plane, or we could call on Scotty to beam us up asap and take us to our next family member's home.

For thanksgiving this year, it was our turn to spend it with my immediate family. Now the trip to Singapore was just a wee bit too far for us to fly, so we were just SO incredibly grateful that my sister flew in from Oklahoma and my amazing and determined parents flew in from Singapore. We truly had the funnest time taking them around, feeding them more meat and bbq than is socially acceptable, and spending lazy mornings on our couches talking and making memories.

My mom and I were set on getting some family pictures done since us being all together is such a rare occasion. So after ~~pleading and forcing~~ kindly asking, going through a few hundred clothing options, and getting everyone outside, we set up the tripod and just LOVE the results. My favorite pictures have and always will be the accidental ones - cue the picture below :)