Alice in Wonderland Birthday!!!

We joined up this weekend for a Mad Hatter tea party! :) I apologize, I was slow taking pics and running around like a chicken with my head cut off since you see Bobo tearing up the food table already, and me neglecting Little Miss's guests doing their craft in the kitchen (to which I didn't take a single picture of!) Anyway, we had a great time and it was nice to have a small party for a change!

Now, you are BOUND to notice the AMAZING cake and cupcakes we chose for this party... while I WISH I could say I had such incredible talent, alas, I have to give credit to Lisa over at Create it with Cake! She also did Bobo's cake 2 months ago for his birthday too.

In addition, the ADORABLE custom Alice dress was made by Polly at Apron Envy!!

Now, I did make the paper flowers....LOL like this even compares with Lisa's cakes (you can see her assembling in my kitchen in the picture below) or Polly's mad sewing skills :) And I designed the tags on the tea cups that were inspired by a fantastic designer I found online. The idea was not my own.... just wanted to point that out :) I forgot to take any close ups, but you can see some a few posts down when I talked about the Wonderland Jar Cookies.

Happy Birthday, beautiful princess!!! :) I love you so much and can't believe I have blessed with 5 fantastic years with you! I can't wait for a lifetime of more memories :) :)

Here are also some pictures from her 5 year portrait session I did this weekend!

This little girl is OBVIOUSLY the daughter of a photographer... she climbs up to this little spot, poses herself and says, ok Mommy, this is a great spot with my Alice dress :)

Playing Catch UP

So things have been pretty crazy, good crazy, I never thought that I would be this busy this quickly with my photography.....and I love it! I sometimes forget, however, to take pictures of my monkeys!! We went to Old Towne Spring one afternoon before I was shooting a wedding near there and got some shots of the kids. I wish we had time to get more (plus we were there on a Saturday....busy busy!) But I do love the ones we did get! That little Bobo is a difficult one to grab, but I did get some smiles :)

My little Bobo

He is 19 months now! He is getting so big and doing so many new things now, it just amazes me. Its like his personality exploded over the past month or so. He is now saying all kinds of words and just is growing so fast! Nite nite was a new one today :) He usually just says "bye bye" to me but actually said nite nite today. One of the funniest things I think he does is he thinks that saying bweeese (read - please) gets him whatever he wants, like that is the magic word and that gets him my cell phone, Little Miss's littlest pet shop or a turn to bang on daddy's laptop. I love him :)

He also had his 18 month check up two days ago. He is right were he was before 50% for weight - 26 lbs, 75% for height - 33" and 50% for head circumference 19"

My Little Man and Our Fostering Journey

Looking back on the last several posts I see that the majority of my pictures are of Little Miss. I assume that is simply because Bobo is so hard to photograph. He doesn't look when I tell him, he doesn't hold still, or smile on cue... of course its easier to take pictures of a 4 year old than a 14 month old! Alas, it certainly isn't good to have a lack of pictures of my little guy, so I took some this morning. Here are some that were my favorites!

The quality on this one isn't that great, but I love the expression on his face :)

Now, I was thinking about our fostering journey and how I haven't updated the blog as far as where we stand. Our home study caseworker was out of town so it took some time for her to get in contact with us. We have our official walk through and first meeting with her on Saturday. We are excited but nervous. Then she will come and interview the kids and me and then Dave will stop in at Catholic Charities (since it is right by his work) and do his interview there. The caseworker did say that SAHM's are the easiest since you can tackle them and the kids at the same time and she perked right up to learn Dave could just stop by - got her out of making two trips out to our house, which is about 45 minutes each way. She said that moved us up her list.

So that is how things are going with that. We hope to have all of this taken care of by the time we leave for Disney (WOO HOO September 13th!) so that we can come home and get our first placements!

Fancy Nancy Tea Party

Any girl loves being fancy sometimes. Well, we put this to the test with our Fancy Nancy Tea Party. Little Miss was so excited that she wore her outfit to Academy yesterday after she finished picking it out!

Little Miss Turns FOUR!!!

My little baby isn't so little anymore :( She is officially a "preschooler"!!! I don't know why, but 4 just seems so much older than 3, much more than a year. We have been so excited planning and preparing for her big Tinkerbell birthday bash and it turned out wonderfully! Including our family we had about 35 people. I can't believe we all fit in our house :)

A fantastaic friend of mine took pictures for me to celebrate this monumental day!

So onto the pictures (and there are still more to come!)






















I did take two of her to send to a friend that had to leave early and another who made 2 shirts for Little Miss, I wanted her to be able to see them on!

Thanks Araceli!!

Thanks Lee, Lacey and Brooklyn!!

Thanks Aunt Lisa for my Oregon Shirt!! Woo hoo Go Ducks!

Also, a picture for my Parents of Little Miss putting together the puzzle they sent! She loved it!