1 Year Pictures

I finally took Caleb's one year old pictures last week. He is such an easy going, fun, loving little man. He is so happy and brings so much joy into our home! Enjoy the pictures.

Do you have a favorite? PLEASE tell me! (Numbers are on top of the pictures)

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6. 7. 8.I really enjoy comments on my pictures and like to hear which ones you like. Also, I've been asked to photograph a wedding this fall and I'm extremely nervous. I need practice! If you need a photographer for family pictures, children's pictures, etc., let me know! As of now, I don't charge anything (but remember I'm not a professional)! Thanks for looking!

4th of July

Our 4th of July weekend was busy but fun. Ryan's sisters and children were in town so we spent a lot of the weekend in Lander with family. Monday morning, I got up and ran a 5k with my dad. He took 1st in his age division and I took 5th in my age division. The rest of the day was filled with resting, fireworks, and food!

Ryan did Celeste's hair since I left the house before they were awake!

Caleb picked the weeds out of Grandma's grass

Every child loves the Snaps! Here they are attacking Aunt Amy with them

It was quite frightening to me how much Celeste enjoyed lighting off bottle rockets. :S

And of course, Sparklers!

Being in Lander, WY on the 4th of July is an experience. That town goes wild. Everyone lights off big fireworks. Ryan's mom lives at the top of the hill so we sat in our lawn chairs and watched the sky light up. It was amazing!

Hope everyone had a wonderful and safe 4th of July!

Gingerbread Girl

Remember this picture?

For Valentines Day, my mother gave us the books Gingerbread Girl, Gingerbread Boy, and Gingerbread Cowboy. Celeste loves the books, therefore, we read them often! Along with the books, mom gave us a kit/pan to make our own gingerbread girl. 4 1/2 months later, we finally got around to making our gingerbread girl!

I asked Celeste if she wanted to come open the oven and look at our gingerbread girl. She got a very worried look on her face and said, "No! She'll run away! We have to leave the door shut!." So here she is looking at her gingerbread girl in the oven!

(please excuse the outfit. She dressed herself!)

I'm not a huge fan of gingerbread, so we made our girl out of sugar cookie dough!
Celeste had lots of fun decorating her.

Finger licking good!

I think the "hair" was her favorite to eat!

Our finished gingerbread girl.

Thanks mom for the gift! We had lots of fun creating our Gingerbread Girl!

Birthday Boy

On Sunday, June 19th, Caleb turned one year old! Happy 1st Birthday Bub! (Celeste calls him "Cabub" so his nickname has turned into Bub.) He is the happiest, most content little guy you've ever met. We enjoy having him in our family and love him to pieces.

Because it was also Father's Day, we had a Father's Day/Birthday dinner with all our family that live close. We ate ham, yummy potatoes, Strawberry Pretzel Salad, rolls, and broccoli. Yummy! Then we opened gifts.

Caleb had helpers opening his presents
Cake time! This is as creative and fancy I get decorating cakes! It's not my specialty, but I thought it turned out pretty cute.



Caleb was getting anxious and wanted his cake now! No need to sing, just let him eat!

As you can see, Caleb loved his cake.

He loves chocolate!

We love you Caleb and are so blessed to have you in our family!

Cousins

At the beginning of June, we got to go to Nebraska to help celebrate our triplet nephews first birthday. It's hard to believe it's been a year already! That just means Caleb's birthday is right around the corner.

Both of my children loved playing with their cousins. Caleb sat and played with trucks. Can you imagine family get togethers when these four boys are 2?

This is Dylan

The four boys. From left: Kyler, Caleb, Dylan, and Brodie It isn't easy to get four almost 1 year old boys to look at the camera at the same time. They were too busy driving their trucks.

Celeste LOVED this swing set. She stayed on it for hours. From left: Celeste, Mya, and Jaden

Love this picture of Celeste :)

She also loved driving this Cadillac around. She has expensive tastes. ;)

Here is Grandma Mikesell with all her grandchildren.

We had such a great time! Celeste didn't even want to come home and decided she was going to stay there. She didn't understand that she couldn't stay and the story ended by me carrying her to the car kicking and screaming. Maybe some day we will have a yard big enough to have a swing set so she will like home, too. :)

Again

I'm at it again! Here are a few of my favorite pictures I took of my neice, Elsie. They turned out so cute! Do you have a favorite?

Thanks for letting me take Elsie's pictures! I love it! :)

Recent Photo Shoot

I had so much fun doing this photo shoot for a friend of mine! I wanted to share just a few.

Her kids are all so cute! And her girls are gorgeous!

We even got a picture of all 6 kids smiling. That's success right there!

Thanks for letting me photograph your children. I love it!