Happy Easter and a SALE

 

I just wanted to wish you all a beautiful Easter Sunday! I tried to take a few shots of the girls all dressed up SUPER quickly as we were headed out the door yesterday for an Easter egg hunt. I got one (above) where they were at least both looking at the camera and then the rest pretty much looked like this:

Lillie did smile sweetly (after donning an Easter bonnet my aunt sent her) for about a minute... 

...and then she kept telling me she wanted to make "funny" faces:

 I also wanted to let you know we are having a two day sale! Get 30% off anything in stock in our shop today and tomorrow only!
***DISCOUNT DOES NOT APPLY TO DOWNLOADABLE ART***

I also wanted to wish Jon a very happy 33rd birthday! Have a beautiful and blessed Easter!

        Christ the Lord is risen today, Alleluia! 
 Earth and heaven in chorus say, Alleluia! 
 Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia! 
 Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply, Alleluia! 

   Love's redeeming work is done, Alleluia! 
 Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia! 
 Death in vain forbids him rise, Alleluia! 
 Christ has opened paradise, Alleluia! 

-Charles Wesley

Happy Valentine's Day

Good morning! I just wanted to wish you all a Happy Valentine's Day! I had a little Valentines inspired photo shoot I wanted to do with the girls this weekend but they weren't feeling well so we didn't get to it. I did make Lillie stand still for two seconds with this delicious cupcake Jon brought home for the girls yesterday so I'd have something red to post this morning even if it is a little blurry. I didn't get one of Lola because face was already covered in her icing before I even got my camera out. =)

Anyway, I hope you all have a fabulous day. I'll be back tonight to introduce our first handwritten chalkboard download! 

Lillie's Birthday Cake

I've got this one last post here with some random shots and then hopefully after this I will have enough of my more recent photos edited to start posting photos of some of our new products, Jamie's shower and two photo shoots that we've done during the past week and a half. We've gotten quite a few e-mails wondering about Lillie's birthday party this year. (You can see her Cinderella party here, her Twelve Dancing Princesses party here, and her Pink Party here.) We actually didn't have a "real" party for her this year. Instead she chose to go to the Great Wolf Lodge with my sister, Dana, and we had a little cake and some presents at our house with just our family and my two sisters and brother-in-law who were all visiting. I do plan on having a little party with her and some of our neighbors later this month or next that if we do I will post pictures of that. I did take some photos of her cake (I was expecting her to request a Barbie or princess cake but she actually requested this cake!) and of her opening a couple of presents and blowing out her candles and seeing how I am behind on all of my recent photos thought I would share them today. This is the same cake that we did this summer but this time we did it with a cream cheese frosting instead of chocolate frosting.

Also, I wanted to let you know that my friend, Melaine from My Sweet Savannah got locked out of her blog =( and had to start new. Here is her new blog address: www.mysweetsavannahblog.blogspot.com

Have a lovely evening! I'll be back soon!

Dashing Through the Snow and a Few Pictures from Indiana

I am sure most of your are busy with last minute Christmas preparations but I just wanted to pop in and let you know that we are excited to be offering our first 20 by 20 pillow cover today in our shop! By going with a gray fabric and white ink we thought this would be a great pillow to have all winter long.

 

I also thought I would share a few of the photos I took last week while we were visiting Jon's family in Indiana.  Here Lillie and Lola are snuggling with their new cousin, baby Ella.

 

Lillie and Ella

Lola with her Grammy

Lo and Ella

Jon's grandfather with his three great granddaughters

I hope you all have had a lovely weekend and have a Christmas Eve tomorrow!

Merry Christmas from Lillie and Lola

Lillie and Lola just wanted to pop in and wish you all a Merry Christmas! I can't believe it's less than a week away. I think I better finish up my Christmas shopping...

Have a blessed Wednesday!

Another round of Christmas Card Outtakes

Thanks to lots of traveling, people visiting, the girls being sick, and being sick myself, I felt like I have spent most of this fall playing "catch-up" on this blog. I am excited now for the first time in months to finally be caught up. I think I have photos for at least two weeks of posts already taken (although I still need to write them - haha!) so starting tomorrow I will have quite a few new posts including more Christmas decorating and at least two tutorials. And I still have a few more things left for December to finish up and photograph and then we have several fun things I am working on for January including Jamie's baby shower! For today though, while I finish up editing some of the new photos I thought I would share some pictures of the girls in Colonial Williamsburg that I took several weeks ago.

A while back I showed you some of my attempts of getting a good shot of both girls together for our Christmas card. I ended up taking two more stabs at it but unfortunately never got the shot I had in my head. I did get our Christmas card finished up though and started getting them sent out yesterday. Here are a few shots, from our third unsuccessful try at getting "the shot".

I got a few pictures of them on their own, although to keep Lola still I had to give her a lollipop...

But then when it came time to get them both in the shot I pretty much just got their backsides...

I hope you all have a lovely Saturday! I am planning on taking the girls to see Santa later today...we'll see if this year goes a little better than the last few years - haha! And I'll be back tomorrow.

Happy Birthday Lillie

Today my precious little Lillian Annabel turns four! I cannot believe it. Where has the time gone? Here are some of my favorite photos of her from this past year.

I had planned on having a couple of other things in this post but I am having trouble keeping my eyes open so I will have to save them for the next post.

I hope you all have a blessed Saturday!