Alexa's 1st Birthday!

Miss Alexa turned one on Saturday! I CANNOT believe how fast this year has gone by! WOW!!!

She is awesome and we love her tons! I will post later about all that she is up to and her stats, but I had to blog about her party first! It was a blast!!!

Thank you so so so so much Jacque for all your help with decorating and the cupcakes!

BEWARE:

There are a lot of pictures! Oodles and oodles! Some of our family and friends couldn't make this glorious event, and we were sad about that..so they get to relive the party through this post!

Enjoy!

Don't these cupcakes look scrumptious? I would have to say I am rather proud of Jacque and I's skills. They turned out better than we expected!Me with my birthday girl! She wasn't all for posing for the picture obviously! haha!
Chayse and the "One Shoe'd Bandit" birthday girl!

Daddy and his baby girl!

Uncle Travis with Alexa!
I got her this cute little cupcake balloon! Couldn't resist!

She can get anything she wants with this smile!

My mother in law made her this DARLING cupcake dress for her party!

Doesn't she look so cute?

Thank you LaDonna!!!

Oh how we love Lilybeth and all her chubbers!

She knew what was coming.

" I get to make a huge mess and fill myself full of sugar..and NO ONE

will stop me!!"MMMMMMMM!

" What?"~*~

PRESENT TIME!!!

Thanks to everyone who spoiled this little girl rotten! She loved everything she got!

Now she finally has some girly toys to play with!!!

Thanks Great Gramma Helen!!!

I know this picture is a little blurry, but I love it anyway!

Here is the little diva with the purse Grandpa F got her and

the cell phone Jenny R got her!

She loves to carry around her purse but wants it up on her shoulder like Mommy.

She loves to chat on the cell phone as well, in her baby gibberish! (Just like Mommy; minus the baby gibberish part!)

"Don't mess with my new dolly!"
She makes my heart melt!

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What a fun party we had for her! Lots of cake, ice cream presents and the best of all:

friends and family

to share it all with!

Thanks to everyone who came!

We love you all!

We missed those who couldn't make it!

P.S. Thank you to my Dad and his friend Jacque for playing with the kids!

They LOVED it!

You were so good to play hide and go seek and you even helped pick up the tornado of toys that were strewn across the room!

Thank you both so so much!

A little of this..a little of that!

Not much goes on in January..its a hard month to get through! Glad we made it to February! We hung out a lot at home in January, since we had a lot of red air days. Unless we were going to preschool or running necessary errands..we tried to keep ourselves occupied inside. We read books, colored, watched TV (probably more than we should have), and did a lot of dance sessions in our kitchen! Here are just a few pictures of the kids. We are getting a little stir crazy and cant wait for our trip to San Diego in a couple weeks. (Though someone should probably knock me or Alexa out for the plane ride....Im not sure how she will handle it and Im not sure I want to be conscious enough to deal with it! Haha!)

I was on the computer one night and Brandon was watching TV. He asks me if Chayse is by me and I said no and we were wondering where the heck he was. Well he fell asleep in Alexa's carseat. It was quite funny.

This is Alexa's favorite place to sit downstairs. She sits right in the corner of where the couch and loveseat meet. She will sit and pretend to draw, read or just watch her crazy brother. She is very tired in this picture and sat down to take a break!

Brandon and Chayse decided to play football in the house. It was just a stuffed football but Chayse definitely got a kick out of it!Alexa has some crazy hair when she wakes up! It cracks Chayse up!

Chayse thought it would be fun to take pictures of them making silly faces. Oh the things we find interesting to do when the weather is crappy and the kids are bored!

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Alexa is turning ONE on Saturday! I am still in disbelief and denial. I refused to pack away her burp cloths when I was going through the clothes that didn't fit her anymore. I got sad when I found some infant gas drops and realized she has grown out of the need to use those. She soon will be forward facing in her carseat so I can see her cute little grin, and that I am excited about!!

Stay tuned next week for a post on her birthday party!

First Newborn Shoot!

So my friend Brienne let me come take pictures of her cute baby girl! It was my first newborn shoot and it was a lot of fun! She is so so so so cute! She makes me baby hungry. Alexa isnt eve one! AHHHH! (Don't worry..Im not ready for another yet!) Anyway check out her cute pics! I am doing another set of newborn pics today! She is 1 day old and we are doing hospital pics! In about a month I get to photograph new twin baby girls! Oh I love my job!

http://www.leavittphoto.blogspot.com/

Food Storage...dun dun dunnnnn...

Ya, I never thought I would see the day that I would blog about food storage. I keep having this nagging feeling in the back of my mind that I need to do food storage. We have some..but definitely not enough. If you are like me, you think the whole process is so overwhelming you haven't a clue as to where to start! Well as I was blog hopping, I came across this blog that helps you get your food storage going. It will give you one assignment a week to complete, and I figure I could handle that! Check it out! http://oneshetwoshe.blogspot.com/

I am off to start assignment #1!

A new addiction

I'm slightly...no..wait..very addicted to these new delicious granola bars! They are delicious and healthy for you! Can't beat that! Click here and get $0.75 off coupon and try them out!

Let me know what you think!

Fire Department

Chayse and his preschool class went to the fire department yesterday! Chayse was very nervous and shaking most of the time, and didn't want to go turn on the lights or get in the trucks to check them out. If a big hype is made out of anything, Chayse gets very nervous. So I tried to enjoy it through the tears and constant asking if he had to go to the top of the truck. Maybe we will try and go another time when he is a little older! I took a few pictures from my camera on my phone so they arent the best quality. Chayse did inch away from me for a few seconds for a picture, but he is absent in the others because he was glued to me!

I love my beautiful babes!

Oh how I love these two little ones! They are for sure my favorite subjects to photograph!

Website is done!

I revamped my website over the holidays and love the turn out! Make sure to check it out! My pricing has changed a little, in order to make it simple and to the point!

Don't take too many pictures....

or Chayse will give you the "stink eye".....

Time flies when you are this cute...

I can't believe that in a month, Alexa will be one!

How did she go from this...
to this....
so dang fast!

Maybe I'm biased..but she is the cutest little darling ever and I couldn't love her more!