We went to the new Windmill Playground at Frontier Park in Prosper this morning, and it tired Kate out enough to take a nap!! Victory!
Kate made a new friend...
All tuckered out!
(from May 29, 2012)
These were taken back in May on the morning of the day I had to ship back my D800 camera rental. I had to get in a few last shots with it! Unfortunately, I was by myself, and the ground was pretty muddy (and Caroline wasn't a walker at this point - I had her on my hip most of the time), so it was quite a challenge!
These were the girls' Easter dresses...
Trying to blow the dandelion...
(from May 18, 2012)
These were taken on an evening when we met another family from our church LifeGroup for dinner and playing in the fountains. We stayed for the show, where the fountains are "choreographed" to a few songs. Kate loved the music and showed us some new dance moves...
PS- You can tell this was before I got my camera fixed on a couple of these, but I'm sharing anyway!
That evening we went to the park to eat our dinner and play. It was a happy first birthday!
But day of the party was WINDY. I mean SUPER windy. I had bought balloons, but the second I got them out of the car, all the strings wound up around each other and they were all in one huge clump. The wind was so strong that the balloons kept popping at random even though there was nothing near them! I had banners to hang that I couldn't hang, and all of these cute decorations that I just couldn't use in that weather. I couldn't even put my cupcakes on the cute stand I had for fear the wind would blow it over. Everything pretty much just got thrown on the table. I was so sad! A lot of time and expense went into all of that, and I was so frustrated that it all went to waste. Not to mention I was disappointed for the lack of cute decoration photos! I had to keep reminding myself that everyone was having fun, and that was really all that mattered.
(from May 14, 2012)
Caroline and a couple of her Lens Baby pals modeled for our group to have a "cake smash" shoot. It was really challenging for me to keep her contained and shoot. I had icing all over my camera!
These first ones of her with the strawberries were inspired by the top image here on this blog. With her first birthday party being a strawberry theme, I was dying to try this!
And some balloon shots...
And finally a few cake ones. I was really disappointed in these, but I can't begin to tell you how difficult it was to wrangle her and shoot. Also consider there were several other moms around me taking pictures, so I couldn't exactly move into any position I wanted! But this girl got INTO this cake. I mean, she pretty much dove in, and she even had it all in her hair by the end.
I can't believe it's been so long (2 months!) since my last phone dump. The first one in this set was from Father's Day!
At the library on Thursday...
