My entry for this week’s I Heart Faces photo challenge. This pic totally shows off Julian’s personality!
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This is for the Willette Eyes Challenge. I so love this picture of my little Lukas on his bday. I don’t get many pics of him smiling any more…the terrible two’s have taken over my sweet baby!
Finally! A picture of all of my kids together! I haven’t gotten a shot of them together since I did the pics for our xmas cards last year. I’ve been dying to get a shot worthy enough to be printed out HUGE so that I could display it proudly on my living room wall. This is it! And the other two below are hung up right next to this one. I’ve been trying to redo my house, hopefully I can post a few pics of it soon. Figures, I forgot to take “before” shots.
You would not believe how much work this shot was. And the main culprit giving me the trouble was the littlest monster. Man, I’ve got my hands full with that one. I thought the curly haired cutie was going to make me loose it. But little Lukas has topped them all! I guess his big bros taught him well…and he took it to a whole new level! LOL!
Niko is a total sweetheart and I’m about to loose him to kindergarten…sniff sniff. He is such a lovable kid and my little helper. He’s pretty nervous to go to school so that’s making it harder on me…yeah, I said “me”! The only time I’ve been away from him is when I had his brothers or when he sleeps over at his aunt’s house. Ok, so I’m definitely the one having a harder time with him starting school! You can’t blame me, I haven’t sent one of my kids off to kindergarten in about 9 years…yup that means my daughter is going into 8th grade! High school next year…help!
I love this shot of Julian! It’s his classic pouty face. I’d say he looks like this in 90% of the pics I’ve taken of him. He just likes to be, how should I put this…difficult! Pretty much he wants to do the opposite of what you want him to do (doesn’t sound like me at all!
. So, I need to remember that if I want him to smile I need to tell him not to!
I came across this lovely little blog called The Paper Mama this week. I’ve been on the hunt for sites that host photo contests. These contests have been so inspiring to me. I’ve gotten some great shots that I probably wouldn’t have otherwise taken. So the theme for the contest is absolute favorite and I LOVE this picture! I know I’ve posted it on my blog before but I had to share it again! If you love it
My entry for this weeks purple challenge for I Heart Faces.

We threw a carnival themed birthday party for your two year old over 4th of July weekend. I was so excited how well everything came together. I wish that I was better at planning ahead though. Most of the decorations were made the morning of the party. I was actually still sewing together the crape paper 5 minutes before we walked out the door. And to give myself a little credit I did start everything the week before. But I got stumped on what I wanted to make and my best ideals just seem to always come at the last minute. So I guess no matter how far ahead of time I start I’ll still be working up to the deadline!
I just love how the main table turned out!
I made all of the birthday hats from scrapbook paper.
I loved his little birthday hat!

I put white and yellow mini marshmallows on top of the cupcakes to look like popcorn.
Some of the little carnival accents are from the scrapbooking section at JoAnn’s.

I found the vintage looking clowns and balloons on Etsy.
The kids loved helping themselves to all of the candy!
I’m sure you’ve seen this picture of my bulldog when she was a sweet little puppy. Well, she’s still a sweet but not so little. In fact she’s grown into quite the fat piggy, complete with snorting!
Iheartfaces is have a pets photo challenge this week and I knew right away this is what I wanted to enter! Wish me luck!

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