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a birthday buddy party


In the last post I shared the first birthday photoshoot. Now it’s time for the party!

So, you probably already know that Maggi and Evangeline share a birthday. It’s still a big deal to me. I love that I get to celebrate my daughter and my best friend on the same day!  

birthday buddies last year and this year
birthday buddies
I realized that day that I was pretty awful about taking good party decor pictures. But this kind of gives you and idea of how I decorated. And those paper fans? Yeah, those are going to stay. I love them!
diy paper fans
party decorations
birthday decorations
We tried doing a little photo session right before the party but Evangeline wasn’t too thrilled with doing that. She just wanted her mommy.

woman and baby

young woman and baby girl
girl and cute baby
I really wish I would have done a better job about getting pictures of Don and I with her. These are sadly the only ones I got with her.
mom and baby
young mom and cute baby girl
jessica roberts and best friend
I made matching cakes for the girls. I am no cake decorator. 
white birthday cake
26 years old
Kingston’s face in this one cracks me up
blowing out candles
blowing out candles 2

Funny story. As the 25-30 of us (all gathered on our deck) finished singing “Happy Birthday,” we heard the deck’s wood start cracking. Evangeline was already starting to smash up her cake at this point and then there was complete chaos. Everyone started running inside to avoid the collapsing deck. So Evangeline had to finish the cake indoors. Thankfully, I was able to borrow a flash from a friend (thanks Rachel!) to snap a few pictures of my baby girl demolishing her cake. I’m not sure if she even ate more than a bite or two. She had the best time smashing it and throwing it on the floor. I think she may have 3 big brothers 🙂

birthday girl
messy baby eating bitthday cake
cute baby eating cake
After the party, I snapped a picture of the kids on the couch (on the right.) Then last night, I was looking back through the pictures I took a year ago and found this other picture from the night we brought her home from the hospital. I thought it was so sweet to see the change over the past year. But Kai’s giant smile hasn’t changed a bit!
one year later


We are so blessed to have this sweet little girl as our daughter. She has such a silly, happy personality when she feels comfortable in a situation. But the moment things are a little off, she becomes anti-social, serious, and a big time mommy-lover. She becomes more beautiful every day. I look forward to seeing her grow up and I pray that she will become a young woman who loves the Lord and seeks Him first!

baby girl in white dress
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Evangeline is one!


I can hardly believe that my baby girl is one. If you’ve known me for any length of time, you’ll know that I’m very much in love with our little Miss. I love everything about having a daughter…especially the clothes. So of course I had to whip up a floral crown and tutu for the big birthday event. I took her over to my grandma’s house to snap a few “first birthday” pictures. I had this whole vision that I was going for…I only wish I had someone with me who knew what they were doing! I’m still really happy with the pictures that I did get (even if she refused to cooperate.)

birthday girl

 

cute baby

 

cute birthday girl

 

one year old

 

birthday photoshoot
evangeline on bench

 

diy flower crown

 

homemade flower crown

 

baby girl is 1 year old

 

evangeline 9
baby playing in field

 

these two are with my iphone
evangeline 11

 

evangeline 12



As long as I sat her in a chair, she would sit still for the pictures. But she wanted to get down and play. I’m going to work on convincing her to be a more willing model.

I’ll be doing a followup post with birthday party and birthday buddy pictures.