A Pony Birthday Party

We had a sweet, little celebration for this sweet, little girl.

My dear cousin Bethany and I

I had to wait a couple frames to get my dad's eyes on me... he couldn't take his eyes off of momma.

I love that.

Momma and her SIL Laurel, and little Cruz

Beautiful sisters, Bethany and Elisabeth, sitting for the last of my pictures, (I was bossing people around to get these groupings).

The cake was Evie's request... chocolate, yellow, with unicorns on it with purple and pink too.
The frosting was peppermint, yum.

The ponies were from LaLa's childhood, (Evie's grandmother that we don't call grandmother)!

Handsome daddy

With cinnamon & sugar pretzels, white-chocolate pretzel rods, bowls of lollipops, punch, grapes, and cake and ice cream we had way more goodies than what we could get away with!

The carousel cake topper made a hat for Finley. It was much cuter on him, of course!

Later that day, dinner cuteness. I had to grab my camera to catch the mimicking.

This isn't the best photo of it, but I wanted to show you the funny little unicorn I made for Evie! It turned out so small and that made it really tricky, but I am hooked and want to make more little dolls and animals now, like this one... too cute!

She is Three

It is her birthday.

So, I'm taking a long, sighing look back at how she's changed. We are so thankful for this little girl.

Happy Birthday Evie, you are three years-old!

You love the outdoors,

music, dancing,

and reading.

You are adventurous, spunky, and fun to be with.

You are beautiful inside and out.

You dance in the church aisles and in the street.

And when I am getting grumpy you sing "You Are My Sunshine" to me.

You are our sunshine, and we treasure you Evie.  

The Sims/Bogner Family

Another adorable family that I've been blessed to photograph recently.

The two ladies on either end of the larger group are twin sisters, if you couldn't already see that. I met them in a missions class called "Perspectives", and they befriended me... I can't remember how long ago that was, but I think it's close to ten years gone by now! Oh my, how time flies! And I must tell you, they are the sweetest, most genuine people you'll meet.

 

These pics of the two of them make me grin. The joy just spills out of them!

I'm a goner when it comes to father & son, (or daughter) pics. But this one's especially fun because daddy was telling his son a knock-knock joke.

 

My friend who gives a hug that makes me feel love down to my toes.

Sweet down deep! Precious people.