Four, already?!

I don't know how 4 years have passed already since our family gained a precious little girl named Cora Beth, but that is what we celebrated last weekend -- her 4th birthday.

So when your daughter is born in the dead of summer, you look for the coolest way possible to celebrate...which means POOL PARTY!

We celebrated at her Nonna's house in Lexington since they have a pool.  The party began at 6pm so the temps had cooled down considerably, and it was very overcast.  So overcast, in fact, that the sky dumped a fairly big thunderstorm on us before it was all said and done.  It's okay, though, because by that point, most everyone was out of the pool anyway, eating cake and watching the birthday girl open her presents.

It was a good time and she racked up, as usual...

Okay, so let me just pause here for a minute.  Cora Beth is now to the age where she can tell you what kind of party she would like to have to celebrate her birthday.  And bless their hearts, my brother & sister-in-law asked her what she wanted.  And then had to scramble to make it happen.  She wanted a "pink tool pool party".

Uuuhhhm, okay.

:: whispering ::  How are we gonna do THAT??

Okay, okay.  I've got it -- we'll have it at my mom's house, right?  Cuz she has a pool.  So there's that part done.  And, and...we can get her a new pink bathing suit, huh?  That can be the pink part.  So now...the tools.  Hmmm.  What if I just make a cake and we stick some plastic tools on the top?  How 'bout that?

Sounds good to me.

Oh, and then your awesome sister can find a cute little tool set to give her as a gift! She is the best aunt! :)

We love you, Cora Beth!  Happy 4th birthday to you!

Happy 4th birthday, Addison!

I had the priviledge of witnessing the sweetest thing this past weekend.  One of my dear friends has a daugther who turned 4 last weekend and they had a TEA PARTY for her birthday party!  It was the cutest thing -- so girly and fru-fru.  PERFECT for all these girly-girls at Addison's party.

Bekah did so many amazing things to make it special for Addison -- lots of sweet little girly details, and I had the best time photographing everything for her so she could enjoy the tea party with her daughter.

Here's a sneak peek:

Happy birthday, sweet girl!

NYC

Well, it's just ridiculous how long the lulls between posts are on this blog.  I guess you can tell that I'm not doing much in the way of photography these days.  For others, that is.  Of course, I'm still taking lots of photos -- I have an 18 mo old, for crying out loud!  If you'd like to see some recent photos of him, you can check out his blog.

Today I have photos of our recent trip to NYC.  Jeff had to go up for work for a few days and I decided to tag along.  We left Deacon home with his Grandma Sherry (Jeff's mom) and they had a ball together.  :)

We missed Deacon a lot while we were gone, but we had a good time on our "getaway", too:

Jersey City, NJ -- we stayed here, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan, and caught the PATH (NJ's version of the subway) into NY each day...

Yankees Game 1 -- we had seats in right field/bleacher section (aka the rowdy section :)...

Grand Central Station -- it looks just like it does in the movies!  I was really hoping a flashmob would break out while we were standing there...

Yankees Game 2 -- our seats for this game were on the 3rd base line, 3 rows from the field!

Toys R Us, Times Square -- yes, that is a full-size ferris wheel INSIDE the store!  This place was amazing, with 4 levels to shop on, and included an ice cream store (Scoops R Us :).

Hershey's Store, Time Square -- of course, all you can smell is chocolate in this place, and they give you a Hershey's Kiss when you walk in.  :)  You can make your own mix of Hershey's Miniatures here, and they have an 8 oz package of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups!  You wouldn't believe the size of each of those cups!

Foxwoods Theatre -- we saw Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark on Broadway while we were there.  It was INCREDIBLE!  We had great seats, even in the back of the theatre.

Brooklyn Bridge -- we didn't have time to park and get out to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge (I think my photos would've been better -- without all the bars), but it was pretty cool to drive across.

See?  I do still take LOTS of photos.  If you want to see more from our trip, you can go here.

how long?!

It's been HOW LONG since you've posted on this blog?!

Deacon, 16 mos

my fave time of year...

Lindsey & Corbin

I recently did a mini photoshoot for a friend of mine who is due with her 2nd baby boy within the next few weeks.  Her first baby boy is 8 days older than mine.

Yeah.

THAT'S CLOSE.  :)

Anyway, she and her husband are super-excited about Carson's arrival but Lindsey wanted to get some photos of her and Corbin together before he gets here.  I got some pretty good shots down at Soundside Park in Surf City, including these:

3/4 of a year gone already!

Just poppin' in to brag a little bit...

[sweetest 9.5 month old EVA.]