Imogene's Birthday

Imogene want a princess tea party for her birthday, so I found a teapot, sugar bowl and cream pitcher and served an assortment of pink finger foods. The other girls all dressed up, but at the last minute, Imogene decided that she didn't want to wear her princess dress, so she wore her sundress instead.

The Poly Pocket Cake- this was by accident- I just wanted to put a flower on the cake and it happens to look a lot like the polly pocket logo,

We made Butterflies, made bracelets and rings, watched a princess movie and used many, many stickers.

Xander's Birthday

We had a few boys over for Xander's birthday.

They watched the lego movie

and played some Wii. 

To top it all off, I made a (huge) Lego Cake.

FYI- if you ever ant to make one, I recommend using ding dongs. I made cupcakes and then had to shape them.  ALso, you probably don't need an entire bottle of blue- but feel free to add as much as you want.

Baptism

So even though I was at a photowalk that morning, and was in "picture mode" I did not get very many pictures of the baptism or the party at our house afterwards. I think maybe the last minute running around (because I put the wrong address on invites), left me too flustered to focus enough to take many pictures.

(yes, he has had a haircut since then. The plan was to get one before the baptism, but we ran out of time)

A Birthday Party-In Pictures

Mimi @ 2

I was able to get Mimi outsode last week to get her 2 year old pictures done, she was very cooperative and I have some great pictures. I love her little half smile. I didn't realize how often she does that until I was going through all the pictures.

This is her official 2 year old portrait

And a few more shots to capture who she is-

Jedi Training Academy Scrapbook

Day 13

Collage

Use clipping masks and brushes to collage a series of photos

Day 8: Add text

Day 8 assignment: Using Text

Add text to a photo

optional: add texture or coloring

Mimi 1 year photoshoot

Imogene at the Beach

Xander is a bit of a ham

Disneyland (Just a few Favorites)

These are a few pictures that I couldn't fit into any particular category for a post, but I love them and had to get them up.

MiMi started smiling when we wanted to take a picture so now we get a cute but fake smile.

Imogene never stopped smiling the entire time we were on the carousel. She says her favorite ride is the Haunted Mansion, but I would think from her reactions that carousels are the best.

I have more pictures of this face than I can count- she isn't sure she likes the flash or the little red eye light.

I don't have words for this picture- I just love it.

Sweet as Honey (hahaha)

Xander's favorite ride: Space Mountain!

(Though he looks a little terrified, I guess that's part of the thrill)