Picture Time!!!!

It's that time again, 4 year pictures!!!!! The last couple years my sweet friend Shannan has taken Rileigh's pictures. She's now got a 7 month old along with her own 4 year old so I felt bad asking her to take Rileigh's pictures! I wasn't sure what I was going to do!!! I looked online at other photographers work in the area but thought I'll try taking some myself first and see what I get! My brother has a really nice camera so I borrowed his (Thanks Uncle Jim & Aunt Jaime) and off we went!

Of course I picked the HOTTEST day to go to the Greenway and take pictures! I don't think we were there 15 min. before we were all sweating to death!!!! Still got some cute shots but they look better in blk/wht. (hides the sweat!).











DAY TWO: After coming home and looking at all the pictures I took I wasn't 100% satisfied! So off we go again! This time we went to the new Gatway area! I was VERY pleased with this photo session!!!!!











As you can see I have the most BEAUTIFUL girl in the world!!!! Love you baby girl! xoxoxo

Happy 4th Birthday Baby Girl!

There are no words that can describe how lucky I am to have this little girl as my daughter! She's a smart,loving,caring,hard headed, stubborn sunshine of my life! I can't imagine my life without her!


When we started planning her b-day party I asked her what she wanted to do this year. She threw out several options but kept coming back to Strawberry shortcake. Everyone know's I'm not big into character party's so before I agree to it I had to look online to see what all I could do with Strawberry Shortcake! After SEVERAL hours of playing around online I told her okay she could have SS--she was SO excited! And the planning begins......



This year I decided to do somethings different: I didn't have a big cake, I decided I was going to do customize cupcakes. Rileigh also requested to have PBJ's for the food this year. At first I was hesitant cause I didn't want people to leave the party hungry so we timed it so it was after lunch and before dinner. Plus lets face it the party is for the kids and what do kids love...PBJ's!!!!!
I had a LOT of fun putting this party together, I made almost all the decorations myself(with the help of a wonderful friend)! I would go online and find ideas and then when I saw the price of it I thought hum...I can make that all it is is scrap booking paper! So needless to say I spent many of nights up late cutting! (Was not easy to do when R was awake cause she wanted to help WAY TOO MUCH)! It was all worth it when your little girl goes in the dining room where it's all laid out and screams out "WOW mommy, this is the BEST bday party EVERY"...made my heart melt. Totally worth everything we did!
Here are some of the decorations that I made!


Pom Poms

Buffet Tags

Flower With Strawberry Shortcake

Balloon Holders

Happy Birthday Banner

Up close Picture of the Banner!

Straws with all the kids names on them!

Rileigh's Artwork she made for her party! Of course she had to add some stickers to personalize it!!!





I want to add, all the pom poms around the lower deck was made by her daddy! Yep that's right he helped make decorations too(not much just the pom poms!!!) He loves his little girl!

Here are just some random pictures of her and her friends playing! She is very blessed to have so many great friends! Even though it was a 100 degrees outside the kids still had a great time playing in the bounce house and on the swing set! We had ton's of fans everywhere (really those were for the adults- don't think heat bothers kiddos!!!!)










So the group picture didn't turn out so well!!! Should of had them sitting with the sun behind them not blinding them!!!! This is almost all the 21 kids that came, some had to leave early! This is one sweaty group of kids!!! LOL BUT they were all having fun and that's all that matters! Thanks parents for being such great sports, Rileigh's day couldn't of been any better!

Presents: WOW is all I can say! She is so blessed with everything she got! I don't think there was anything she didn't get!!!! This year from mommy and daddy she wanted a ballerina doll she saw a couple months ago. We've been telling her she better start being good if she wanted it!LOL The morning of her birthday she comes running downstairs "MOMMY, DADDY can I finally get my ballerina doll it's my birthday!!!!" Needless to say when she open it she was ecstatic!









So I'm realizing we didn't get a lot of pictures of what she actually got, just her opening them so here are just a FEW of the things she got: Lot's of Strawberry shortcake stuff including SS House, SS remote control car, SS Bat & Ball, lot's of dress up cloths (Princess, Tangle, Barbie with matching outfit for her barbie) She got a cowgirl outfit for her baby doll and a carrying case for them. Lot's of cute cloths, Baseball Bat. Like I said these are just a few of the things.

Again, thank you everyone that made my little girls 4th birthday so special! She will never forget it! Happy Birthday Baby Girl- we love you more than words can describe!