Lemonade Stand Photo Session

A while back, I won a Lemonade Stand mini photo session from Brooke Richardson Photography's Facebook contest.

Olivia wasn't fond of the grass and Naomi was more interested in playing with all the other awesome toys in Brooke's backyard than in playing with the lemonade stand or getting her picture taken.

But, through all of that, Brooke still managed to snag some great pics of the girls.  She was calm and worked well with the girls.  The lemonade stand and props are super cute!

Here are my favorite shots:

 

First Day of MDO 2013

This year both of the girls are in a Mother's Day Out program at a church near our house.  It is the same program Naomi went to last year and in fact Olivia is in Naomi's old classroom with one of her former teachers.

Naomi had a rough first day - cried at both drop-off and pick-up and refused to go potty the whole time.  You heard me right; she didn't want to be left, she didn't want to go home at the end of the day and she held her pee from about 8:30 am until about 2:30 pm without having an accident.  Suffice to say, having to pee that badly, she was grumpy and didn't nap either.  (Update since I'm publishing this so late and backdating again: She has since adjusted really well.  No more crying and after several weeks, she finally started to use the potty at school - she really did hold it the whole time for about the first month or two of school.) 

Olivia had a good first day.  I really don't have much more to say about it.  Dropped her off smiling, picked her up smiling, and that's about it.

Here are some pics.  It was really hard to get any good pics.  Get together and smile was clearly not on their to-do list for the morning.  

Naomi trying out her new nap mat and loving it

The girls sitting together (about as smiley as it got)

We are so over it!

Olivia's Birthday Invitation

I love Olivia's First Birthday invitation and coordinating thank you notes AND I love that I made them myself.  For the invitation, I scoured the internet for inspiration on design and wording and then busted my rump on Publisher to crank out my own.  For the thank you notes, I was inspired by some thank you notes that my friend Katy bought from Erin Condren.  I loved the wording idea so I tailored it a bit and put it on the same background as the invitations.  I took my Publisher files up to a local printer and had them printed and cut down to size.  I am so happy with the results!  

PS. I have misplaced the Thank You notes in the move, so as soon as I find them, I'll send them out.  In other words, if you're wondering where yours is, it'll arrive at some random point in the future.  Sorry, Olivia's mommy got a little in over her head in the latter part of the year.