A Party fit for a Princess

We had Miss B’s first birth­day party at our house on Sun­day.  Just as we did for Ty’s first birth­day, we invited all of our extended fam­i­lies over to cel­e­brate this day with us.  It was so nice to see every­one and to have them all over to the new house.

Here’s the birth­day girl hav­ing her morn­ing break­fast.  Ty said “I won­der if she’ll look older now that she’s one” before she woke up in the morn­ing.  I think he was a bit dis­ap­pointed when we went in her room to see that she still looked the same! LOL

As soon as b’fast was over, it was time to get the giant cup­cake cake dec­o­rated for the party!  We had a cup­cake themed party.

We also had a whole slew of smaller cup­cakes for every­one.  I loved this Cup­cake Stand, it was so cute to dis­play them all!  To feed my Esty addic­tion, I got these adorable cup­cake wrap­pers and per­son­al­ized cup­cake top­pers.  I just loved how they all came together for the dis­play!  And Tyson was such a good lit­tle helper and put all of the giant sprin­kles on the lit­tle cup­cakes. 

It’s Party time!!  Here with Grandpa Al & Grandma Arlene.  Adorable birth­day dress from here and bow from here.

The dainty pinky in the air.  Don’t we all eat our crack­ers like this? LOL

Who are all of these peo­ple and why are they here?

Time to sing!

Good thing we have our help­ful big brother around to blow out the can­dles for us!

Time to enjoy a cupcake

SO big!

Time to open some present!

She LOVES her new tea party set!

Me and my girl

Tea any­one?

I’m still hop­ing to get a Bailey’s first year post up later this week, so stay tuned for that!

Project 52: Week 9

Ok, I’m going to let you guys have a lit­tle fun here and see if you can guess what I was doing that caused this havoc!  Let’s just say my vac­cum did not like me very much after this.

Catching up…

Finally, I feel like I can breathe.

The last month has been such a whirl­wind in our lives, but a won­der­ful one.  When I look back at the last few weeks, I won­der how we sur­vived, but we did, thank God, and we’re all set­tling in.  We couldn’t have done it with­out the help of our fam­ily.  We hired some amaz­ing movers as well to help.  If you are in need of a mov­ing com­pany, I highly rec­om­mend Two Men and a Truck.  They were A M A Z I N G.  The best money we ever spent.

We offi­cially moved into our new house on the 26th.  It’s been a lit­tle over a week, but now it’s begin­ng­ing to feel like we’ve been there MUCH longer than that.  I drive by Tyne Lane every day and won­der how our cute first house is doing.  I’m sure the new own­ers are lov­ing it, but part of me does miss it just a little.

We also had an awful deci­sion to make about a week before our move.  Our dog, Zeus, was 9 years old (that’s senior for a Dober­man) and his health had been declin­ing pretty quickly over the last few weeks.  We knew the time was com­ing, as hor­ri­ble of a deci­sion as it was, we made the choice to put him to sleep and let him cross the Rain­bow Bridge.  It was a very sad day for our fam­ily, but we knew in the long run, it was the right deci­sion. 

We’re now get­ting set­tled into our new home.  I have been tak­ing a few pics here and there, but it’s been such a mess with boxes and unpack­ing, that I’ve been hold­ing out on tak­ing too many until it’s all pret­tied up.   So, when it’s all nice and pretty for B’s party this week­end, I’ll be sure to take some new ones.

Speak­ing of The Princess, can you believe she’s turn­ing ONE on Sun­day?  I know I sure can’t!!  We took her one year pho­tos on Sun­day and did a cake smash.  Stay tuned for those, but here’s one of my faves of her laugh­ing at her brother.  And I LOVE my new nat­ural light stu­dio in the house!!  I can’t wait to use it over the com­ing years!!

While I’m on the sub­ject of photography…I’m hav­ing an amaz­ingly fun con­test over at the Ten Tiny Toes Blog.  Def­i­nitely go and check it out and I’d love to have you join in the fun!

We’re here and alive…

It’s been a WHIRLWIND the last week and a half.  Lots of ups and downs to say the least, but I’m happy to report that we’re all moved and get­ting set­tled into our new house.  Pic­tures are com­ing soon, I promise!!  My poor cam­era has been neglected lately, but I’ll be mak­ing up for that big time in the next few weeks

We LOVE the house though.  I feel like we’re liv­ing in a hotel and will be going back “home” in a few days to our old house though! LOL  The kids are adjust­ing well and life is get­ting back to a some­what nor­mal rou­tine again.

We’re excited for the weather to warm out so we can get out and get to know our new neigh­bors and get to the park down the street!

Now…we have to get ready for the big FIRST BIRTHDAY in just a week and a half!  Can’t wait!

& 8"> Project 52: Week 7 & 8

I know, I’m late post­ing my Week 7 photo, but I’m sure you guys can for­give me since we’re in PACKING HELL!!!  So, here’s last week’s and this week’s, all in one post.  And this is prob­a­bly the last one I’ll post from our old house! Yay!

Here’s last week’s.  I’m doing an online pho­tog­ra­phy work­shop and was try­ing to work on get­ting a motion blur shot.  There’s so many tech­ni­cal things wrong with this photo, but I still love it and it cracks me up.  This was Tyson’s ver­sion of Cross-Country ski­ing while we were watch­ing the olympics.  In case you can’t tell, that’s two hockey sticks as skiis, and his poles are a golf club and a bat.

And for Week 8.  Bai­ley got this cute lit­tle stool that is a puz­zle with her first and mid­dle name on in.  She’s OBSESSED with tak­ing all of the let­ters off and putting them all back on top of it (and into any assort­ment of con­tain­ers as well).  She’s still not crawl­ing yet, but I’m actu­ally happy this week for that with all of the pack­ing we’ve been doing.  It’s keep­ing her out of a lot less trou­ble!

The best part of moving…

is shop­ping for stuff for the new house!  We’ve been using an old kitchen table that we got from a fam­ily friend for $5 for the last 7 years.  It worked well, but I can’t wait until our new table arrives.

I’ve also been drool­ing over a front loader washer and dryer for MONTHS now (maybe if I love my washer and dryer I’ll love laun­dry more?)  We just ordered these today!

Now, to just get them all deliv­ered and installed…think that could go off with­out a hitch?