birthday invitations

As April approaches I realize that my baby girl will turn ONE! What happened to the past 11 months? They just flew by.

How I loved each second of Reagan's life. She is such a wonderful little person. From the moment we met, it was love at first sight. I remember looking at her little lips, little face, and tiny little hands. She was just perfect. I fell in love immediately! She was so good at life as my brother says. She would eat sleep and smile. She would hardly cry. She was the perfect baby. I am so blessed.

To celebrate such a wonderful year, Christy and I decided to take some pictures and perhaps use them for the birthday invites. Well, as it usually goes, one baby was happy and the other not so much. I am not sure what it is about taking pictures. I could NEVER be a professional photographer. As it is I am sweating, running after her, shoving little Puffs in her face just to get a smile. This is with my own child. I couldn't imagine taking photos of other children. I would be stressed and probably annoyed!

I finally decided that I don't care if she is smiling or crying. These moments are times that I will never get back. I cherish every moment we are together. I love coming home from work and watch her run up to me with a huge smile. I love that on the weekends we can stay in pjs all morning and eat a nice breakfast together. I love that she loves her sister and her family. I can't believe she is growing up. I love her so much!

Here are some of the shots we got of the girls.

Reagan not happy but very hungry.

Emily is as happy as can be!

Kylee is being her self walking off with our props.

Here she is cooperating somewhat... as long as we give her what she wants.

The girls thought it would be fun to use me as a jungle gym. My thoughts were, where are the dads when you need them??