Married! Abby & Andy

Abby and Andy were married over a month ago - and I'm just now posting my favorites from their wedding. Sorry for the delay! They had a beautiful church ceremony followed by a lovely, fun reception. In between, we stopped at Ameristar for pictures because it was WAY too cold to do pics outside.



The adorable twin flower girls!







Married!





The Bottleneck Blues Bar made a very interesting setting for pictures. Luckily, we were able to get the whole place to ourselves for a little while.















The surprise, choreographed wedding party dance -

Welcome Baby Isaac

One of my very best friends, Natalie, recently gave birth to little Isaac Jameson. He is sooo cute and I'm so glad that my son now has a little boy best friend! Here are his newborn pics -







The piano in the background is a mini-grand that Natalie got at her baby shower. Natalie is a very talented pianist and I wouldn't be surprised if Isaac turned out to be as well.

Happy Birthday, Jack!

My son Jack turned 1 on January 24th so of course, we had a huge party for him. The theme was "Where the Wild Things Are" (the book).

Here's the front of the invitation I designed -



The book takes place in a jungle and the main character, Max, wears a wolf costume and a crown. So I decorated the front table with the book, little stuffed characters from the book, vine-like streamers, monster masks for the kids, and crowns for all the guests to wear. On a separate table, I had a "decorate-a-crown" station and a Where the Wild Things Are coloring book and view finder.



What I tried to do was make the room look like a jungle/forest. So I used brown table covers, green streamers, and green balloons (to make it look like trees). I'm not sure if anybody caught on, but I was happy with it. I also printed out some quotes from the book and taped them on the walls.



Little play area for the kids -

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The cake and cupcakes -





Awesome little cut & fold decorations that I found online -



And the guest of honor arrives! He is wearing a wolf costume, just like Max from the book wore!





Reading a book -



Jack's best girlfriend, Sammy, wearing her crown.



Cake time!





Kids wearing the masks -



Mike and I with the birthday boy -




The birthday party was a huge success. We had about 50 guests. Just enough kids. Jack had the greatest time and I think everyone else did too. I had SO MUCH FUN planning and decorating this party for him. Even though he won't remember it, at least we will have pictures and videos to show him!

Married! Samantha & Jeff

Congrats Jeff & Sam! Such a sweet couple, I feel lucky to have gotten to spend the day with them and photograph their wedding.





The hotel they got ready at was so beautiful - we were able to get some great bridal photos there!











Jeff and Samantha made the programs themselves - they were so cute!











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