Maya is Tutu Cute!

Tuesday morning I got out of the shower to find Maya's 6 year old brother helping her get dressed. He was slipping on her black tap shoes after dressing her in this new outfit that Grammy bought her. Immediately I thought- PHOTOSHOOT!

Most of these poses Maya came up with on her own.

Kisses to everyone!

Maya Turns 3!

As I stood in Old Navy picking out pink shirts, the rain beat down on the pavement outside. Ruined. The party was ruined. I spent weeks planning the details. Maybe because I'm artsy, maybe because Maya's just so darned cute, or because you only turn 3 once. Whatever it was, I was pulling out all the stops so that this was a party to be remembered. I based the theme on the book Pinkalicious where the girl in the story eats a ton of pink cupcakes and turns pink.

Everything was pink. I got Georgie Lou's Retro Candy shop to cater a candy buffet. I bought pink flowers from George's Flowers. I rented a Cotton Candy machine from Krueger's Rental. And I bought everyone pink clothes to wear for the day.

But then it started pouring rain, and just wouldn't stop. Until 30 mins before the party was to start. The clouds parted and the day was PERFECT.I served all pink food.I read the book to the kids :)I had them decorate their own cupcakes.We sang...

Maya opened presents.Then we painted faces. Charity and I are available for hire by the way ;)Big thank you to Charity. She took most of the photos for me so that I wasn't consumed by that task. She also helped me arange the flowers and paint faces! Thanks DAWG! Haha.

Maya is STILL talking about her pink party. It was a huge success. I think I have to start two more careers. Children's party planning and face painting!

Proud Momma

I'm a bit of a Tom Boy. I used to play men's lacrosse. I started playing the women's version of the sport when I hit college. After a year on the field, I stepped in as our only goalie and at one point was ranked in the top 20 goalies for DIII women's lacrosse. So needless to say, you can imagine how proud I am that my son, at the mere age of 6, attended his first ever lacrosse camp at Messiah College this past week. He was several feet shorter than the rest, but every bit aggressive. That's my boy!
That's a catch!

And I'm sure this is about to become a GOAL!! Whoot whoot!

Not going to lie, I got a little choked up watching him.

It was an awesome experience and the coaches were very supportive of my little man. Thanks to everyone who helped to mold his skills, but most importantly his confidence, over the last week.

Independance Day Weekend

I hope that everyone had a wonderful 4th of July weekend. We spent a lot of time by the pool and partaking in firework activities. Here are a few we set off at home last night.AJ with his sparkler.Maya with hers- double fisted.

Happy birthday USA!

Word to Your Mothers

From now until Mother's Day I am offering prints at 1/2 price off the original pricing on any new orders placed between now and then. Since every post is better with photos, here are some of my mother from our Disney trip...

Thanks for everything Mom! I'll print whatever you want for free ;)

Soccer season

Just wanted to share some soccer photos of Andrew with you all. He has his first game today so I'll probably post more later. I need to post photos more often. I have so much to share. I need more motivation though. I guess sometimes I feel like the only one looking at my blog is my anynomous coworker "M". I would like to do a blog reader/comment poster reward of some sort. I'm open to suggestions so leave your ideas in the comments below.

That pose is Andrew's idea- not mine. Just sayin'.

Next three are an action series of him throwing the ball at my lens. We had a long talk after I finished shooting these :)

Don't worry though- no cameras were harmed in the making of these picutres.