HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!

What a wonderful weekend!  We LOVE living so close to family and can't wait to enjoy many more weekends like this in the coming years.

My dad and lovely mother.

Happy Anniversary

and

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!

We surprised mom with a special birthday dinner...somehow.  Dad's not very good with secrets, but the saving grace was that mom doesn't listen to him that much anyway!!

Make a wish!

Happy 70th birthday Mom!

Sunday everyone came to the house for lunch before we all had to go our separate ways again.

Mom and us three girls...Patricia, Sylvia and me.


A couple more girls joined us...Reagan and Tegan :)

Me and my best friend Tabitha.  It is so wonderful to live near her family!  Reagan just loves Zack, and soon we will have a new baby for Luke to "talk" to!  Be sure you will see pics come February :)

HAPPY HUNTING

I just couldn't wait to post this!  This past weekend we visited my family in Alabama to celebrate my mom's 70th birthday with her.  We took pictures all weekend, but I'm pretty sure this is my favorite!  I just love how little miss Tegan's camo goes with the leaves (I'm pretty sure it's designed to do that).   And that SMILE :)

I will be posting lots more pics of the party and gatherings, but enjoy this for now!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

What a fun night!

It took 7 of us to take Reagan trick-or-treating.  She had her own entourage.

I took tons of pics, but as usual, blogger is not being agreeable today so this is all I could get to load.  I will try to add more later.  

Enjoy!

Here's our little cutie!  She was supposed to be a fairy, but she stole Grandma's witch hat and became the cutest witch ever!  She kept telling people "I'm a witch!"  in the cutest tone.  We brought the video camera along so we could get the full effect :)

Getting ready for some candy...

And my favorite image of the night.  Look what I got!!

BACK IN BUSINESS

Finally!  We have arrived in Pensacola :)  We are LOVING the sunshine so far.  Things are starting to get in order around here so that means I am getting back to business!   Just don't expect too much too soon, since last night is the first time in about a week that Luke let us sleep more than 2 hours at a time.  Yea for sleep!!  I will be posting pics of our adventure moving and our new house that is quickly being built soon!  

Tell all of your friends that I AM NOW TAKING SESSIONS.  

I look forward to meeting some new smiling faces!!

Love to all - 

Monica

OUTTA HERE

Hi everyone!  Just wanted to let you all know that moving is now in full swing so we will out of touch via internet for at least a week.  If you email me, please be patient for a reply as we will not have access to internet until the 21st.  Talk to you then!

LITTLE PUMPKINS

We had a chance to go to Maris Farms last weekend to have some much needed family time away from all of the stress of moving.  You know I took the camera.  Here are some of my favorites from the day.

Happy Fall Y'all!

Just toooo heaaaaby!

Luke slept the whole time.  I was carrying him so he was all nice and cozy snuggled next to me.  And being bounced.  That never hurts.  He looks so very peaceful here.  

What a fantastic smile!

ALL DONE :)

JUST FRIENDS

As we are preparing for our big move to Florida, we have been trying to spend as much time as possible with friends.  Here are a couple of pics of Reagan with her best buddies...

Kayla and Lauren came over for a play day earlier this week.  Three little girls running and screaming did not phase Luke, who slept the whole time.

Here she is with Charlie and Declan, both of which most of you have seen tons of pics of since their parents are my best customers!  We have so enjoyed having the Andersons, O'Rourkes and the Scotts around.  It is wonderful to have such great friends when we move to far away places.   Safe travels Liz, C, Charlie and Cargo as you move to a sunnier place also :)  Now that I can no longer take pics of your little ones, you will have to send me pictures as they grow!

EVEN IF I TRIED...

This one takes the cake!  I saw the results of a "morning hair" contest in Parenting magazine so I thought I would see what I could come up with.  This hair would have won easily.

I bet you are smiling now.  How can you see this hair on this happy little girl and not?????

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUKE!

Can you believe it has been a month?!?  I guess since Luke was born on the 31st at 11:09 PM I will have to celebrate his monthly birthday the 1st of each month most of the time.  

Look how big our baby has gotten!

happy birthday luke!!

stretch!  Here he is just waking up from a nap on the 11th.

Here he is on the 16th.  Isn't this outfit adorable?!?  Gotta love Gymboree!

There are those beautiful eyes

I think it may be time for another studio session since those baby blues are open more now.  Let's see if I can squeeze in some time before the movers come!  

We move in 19 days!!

OH WHAT FUN!

I know I have been behind on posting and sharing photos...so here it goes.  A POSTING FRENZY!  I will do my best to post TONS of images in the next couple of days...so stay posted.....

Back to the beginning of the month when little LUKE came into our lives :)

Not to be slowed down, we took a trip to the Puyallup Fair.  This is a huge fair (nothing like it in Alabama).  We took advantage of Military Appreciation Day, otherwise it would have cost as much as a real vacation.  Here are some great pictures of Reagan having a blast!!

All smiles as she visits the "tows".  (Working on the c's and k's right now.)

I'll smile all day but I am not going to pet that cow!!!!

Luke having fun at the fair...night night  (He was only 1 week old!)

Oh boy, this sure is going to be fun!

Hang on!  whoa!!!!!

Her favorite ride, the balloons!  I had so much fun riding with her :)  The week had been so busy with Luke being so very new that I had really missed my little girl.  On top of it, doctor's orders were to not pick her up for a while.  Every time I got near her she would say "too heavy"  which made it hard for me to even get hugs! :(  This was our special girl time.  I sneaked some snuggles in too...

Hooray for the carousel!

I'm not so sure about this anymore...

weeee! That was fun!

A mini family portrait.  (Luke and Granny didn't ride the train with us.)

AND BACK AT HOME...

just bubbles

Reagan asks for her bubbles every time she is leaving or gets home.  I guess I need to move them from right beside the door to the garage.  Going in or out...it's BUBBLES!!!

Well, this took me 3 hours to compose, so the posting "flurry" make take a few days.  Not sure that qualifies as a flurry...

Until next time - monica