She Is Five

Last week my first little girl celebrated her 5th birthday. Wow, I have a 5 year old, wow I have 3 kids, but that is a whole other blog post! Anyhow, since things have been a little, well, busy around here we decided to keep both of the kid's birthdays low key and celebrate with just us. We started the day off for her with the infamous huge balloon and presents of course. It was a pretty low key day, she went on a nature hike with her Daddy where she climbed over fallen trees, jumped off logs, swung from vines and in general had an all out fabulous time. Neal said they probably walked for over a mile in the woods at the end of our cul-de-sac and she was sad they had to come home. She took along her camera so she could snap some photos of all the nature she saw and Daddy even entrusted her with his camera which she actually got some really good shots with. She is definitely following in Daddy's footsteps there with her love for photography. All her birthday dreams came true when after lunch we revealed to her the Silvermist (one of the fairy's from Tinkerbell) cake that she had been talking about for days. All in all even though there was no huge party this year with all her friends, we did our best to make her feel special and make the day all about her. We will make up for it next year when we will certainly have our work cut out for us when we celebrate 3 birthdays all within 3 weeks......stay tuned for that one!











Painting her toes the day before her birthday, a gift from Gigi and Papa Slimick, she was so proud of herself that she painted her toes all on her own.

it's a wonderful life.........

A couple of weekends ago we set out for a family photo shoot to get some pictures for our Christmas card and to document our ever changing children! I have to say that I was pretty pleased, actually overjoyed with the way they turned out. This is the way we will be doing photos from now on, just us and Neal's trusty tripod and keen eye for style and design. Here are a few of my favorites from the day........there are many more favorites of mine, but I figured posting all of them would get a bit redundant! Enjoy my beautiful family and the talent of my husband.

Shameless Plug

I have to brag on my husband for just a minute. I was one man down yesterday while Neal was in Virginia photographing a wedding on the most picturesque Lavender Farm. I can't even begin to describe the amazingness (if that is even a word) of the pictures he took. Sometimes, well most of the time really, I am just blown away by his talent and eye for things. Here is a quick preview, but to see more amazing shots click HERE to go to his blog.