4th

This is where we got to spend our 4th of July. Loads more to come.

Sweet Moments

I was a fly on the wall as Clara and Robert interacted yesterday. This was literally minutes after Robert walked through the door from work. She gets so excited for him to be home. He was worn out but more than willing to play. I am so glad I have such a sweet husband who loves his girls so much and loves more than anything spending time with his family. We love you too!

Thankful

Sometimes when you are the photographer you don't get very many pictures of yourself or your family together. I'm so thankful for my wonderful friend Whitni for taking these pictures for us. I will treasure them forever.

I love Girls

My niece's had their 6th birthday last week, I can't believe how fast they all are growing up! They had the cutest little tea party! It was so much fun that I'm so glad I have a little girl to get to do this kind of stuff for. Here's some pics from the party. The first one is Clara waiting patiently for the party to start. She was so excited!



The birthday girls!









We used all my mom's antique tea pots and cups. And of course it wasn't real tea, but it was some really yummy apple cider

Christmas

We had a really great Christmas this year. Clara was so into it and loved the trees, the lights, the music. Every night before she went to bed we had to sing Jingle Bells to her twice. She would bob her little head on her pillow and sometimes would sing along. She really enjoyed all her presents, especially Rocket from Little Einsteins and her doll house from Grandma. She even helped decorate a bunch of cookies or put "salt and pepper" (sprinkles) on them as she would say. I didn't take a ton of pictures because I wanted to enjoy her opening the presents and I was decorating the cookies too (frosting and cameras don't mix) but I snapped a couple of her Christmas morning eating her m&ms and opening her presents. Also one of her in her Christmas dress I took a while back. I hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas as well, Have a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Christmas Tree

Just a few pics of us picking out our Christmas tree with my parent's and Clara's cousins. We had a great time despite the rain and cold.

Thanksgiving

We had a really great thanksgiving. I didn't take many pictures because I wanted to enjoy the day rather than document it but I did get some in the morning. Our family has a tradition of sticky buns in the morning for Thanksgiving. This year Robert and I decided to have Thanksgiving at our house so I had to make the sticky buns. I was a little nervous because this was my first time making the dough myself, but with Clara's help I think we did a good job. At least Robert thought so.









I love Thanksgiving so much, maybe it's the food or maybe it's all the time I get to spend with family but I'm very thankful we get to celebrate this day. I have so much to be thankful for.

Twik or tweet

We had a great Halloween yesterday. This year was much more fun than last year, Clara didn't get why but she sure got down the how! She caught on really quick that going to people's doors meant that they were going to give her candy so instead of saying trick or treat she would just say "candy!". Then they would hand her one piece of candy and she would give them a look and say "CANDY!". She knew how to play the game, they of course gave her a couple more pieces. she wouldn't let them put the candy in her bucket either, she had to do it herself. Sometimes she would get so excited with the other kids that they would get their candy and run away and she would run with them without getting hers! And she always said "tank you, bye, and hadoweeeeen" as she left. She was the cutest thing and was just having a great time with her cousins. They were all really cute.










She was very ready to go trick or treating.

News

I've been pretty sick and very tired and being at the computer seems to make it worse, so I apologize for not being a faithful blogger but I have a lot I'm working on so there will be some new stuff soon! We got to see the little bean today and it's as happy as can be in there.

And for my clients, I apologize for taking so long on your pictures but I'm working as hard as this little bean will let me so I ask for your patience. I hope everyone had a great weekend!

Oh Christmas Tree

We had such a fun day on Saturday with Doug and Chelsea and their fun kids! We have made it a tradition to go cut down a Christmas tree with them and have held strong for 3 years! This time last year Clara was barely even rolling over but now she was running circles around us!! She had such a fun time chasing her cousins around. I tried some new processing on these pictures, let me know what you think!