One Year Ago Today...

The most precious child was born...

 

 

... and stayed in the hospital for way too long.

 

 

 

10 days later we brought her home.

Mommy and Daddy love you more than life itself baby girl!!!

My family... my life :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sneak Peek...

For those of you not on Facebook, here are the sneak peeks our photographer released.  I seriously cannot wait to see the rest!!!!!

One Year Photoshoot

Avery had her 1 year photo shoot by our fabulous photographer friend, Emily, of Emily5Photography.  She did my maternity shoot and Avery's newborn pictures.  She did Laila and Grayson's newborn sessions as well.  Needless to say she knows our family pretty well now.

The shoot started at 8:00am with a family session.  Avery was fussy and hardly gave us any smiles.  Mommy was stressing out and getting flustered.  We brought her inside and let her play some and eat a few goldfish crackers.  Then we had our 1st wardrobe change into her ruffled romper I purchased on Etsy along with a strand of my grandmother's pearls.  These shots are going to be priceless.  The "fancy" outfit paired with the mossy rocks outside was a perfect combo.  I could tell Avery was "done" and needed a nap ASAP. Emily was soooo nice to agree to come back after her nap.

Avery woke up rested and ready to go.  She was FULL of laughs, giggles, dance move, baby babbles and smiles.  We took some more family photos in her turtle smocked outfit and she was a perfect angel.  THEN came the balloons and smash cake.  SO.MUCH.FUN.  I cannot wait to relive this experience at her 1st birthday party.  After she smashed and smeared cake all over the place we placed her in a basin of bubbly water.  She was a total ham.  I am so excited to see the photos. We had an excellent day.  An extra thanks to my Aunt Toni, Grammy and Mom for acting like total fools singing and dancing trying to get our little girl to smile.  Thank goodness no pictures or videos were taken of that. 

Here is a sneak peek from my aunt's camera :) 

 

It's a boy!!!!

Congratulations to Joe's twin brother Jeff and his wife Nicki on the announcement of their lil boy, Brayden Paul.

They went to the doctor at least two weeks ago and got the envelope with the sex written inside. I have no idea how didn't look at it--I could have NEVER done that!!  They gave it to me Labor Day weekend. I think I had it for approximately 43 minutes before I ripped opened that sucker.  I was in charge of getting the balloons to go inside the box.  It was an honor to be trusted with such precious information.

Here's a video of the balloon release.  You can tell from the crowd that everyone was so excited!!