Our baby girl… got ear tubes.

Our sweet baby girl had to get ear tubes yesterday. And of course, I had to document every second that I could. It was really early in the morning (7:30… which is really early for us) and she was hungry and still tired. No eating from 2:00 am the night before surgery until after the surgery because of the anesthesia. When we handed her off to the nurse, she started screaming… and apparently didn’t stop  screaming until they knocked her out. The doctor informed us we have an “angry” little baby… I totally disagree. She isn’t angry, she just has a hot temper and doesn’t like strangers! Thankfully, everything went perfect and we hope for no more darn persistent ear infections! And, another positive, she slept through the night last night, all night… she hasn’t done that for over 10 months! Here is our brave little 15 month old, Bradley Kate.

2011 Women’s Show

A couple of weeks ago, I participated in The Women’s Show. This show was held inside Liberty University’s Tolsma Indoor Track and was hosted by Kim Jennings of Lynchburg Shows. There were over 170 vendors present and it was an all around successful show. It was so nice meeting so many super nice ladies (and a fair share of men came through as well, who were also very nice). As the show was coming to an end, my husband came by with my little girl, Bradley, and we snapped a few images of our display.

Lil, Brock, & Lil b

 

family love

Here are a few pictures from this past thanksgiving. Our family is getting bigger and bigger each year.

I love my family.

Bradley’s 1st Birthday Party

Here are some photos from Bradley’s 1st birthday party. We held the party at Liberty Mountain Snowflex Center and we had a Minnie Mouse theme. It was so nice to have so many friends and family members join us in celebrating our little girl’s first birthday. She has truly been a blessing to us and we are so thankful to have such a precious baby girl.

Bradley’s Cake Smash {Lynchburg, VA-Children photographer}

Bradley is already ONE. We thought it would be fun to celebrate her first birthday with a Cake Smash Session! I absolutely love the idea of documenting a one year old with their very own cake… 🙂 Bradley loves sweets, but during our cake smash session, she just wasn’t feeling it! She preferred to eat a few sprinkles and just paint the icing on her leg… which still made for some adorable pictures. We are going to make Cake Smashing a tradition for any children in our future and then get our favorite photo from the session printed on a mug as a keepsake. Here are a few photos of our precious baby girl. We love her oh so much!!!

 

Our Visit with Santa…

 

All dolled up to meet Santa!

 

the train...

 

Big cousins Lilly and Hudson get to test out Santa... they decided he was cool.

Lilly and Brock

I've never heard Ella Drew scream so loud!

Bradley tried so hard not to cry... she did really good, considering...

I love how Brock is giving "thumbs up"... he LOVES trains.

KK and Bradley

GiGi joined us!

one more train ride! why not?

Oh how I LOVE this time of year!

A hodgepodge of the last week…

Thanksgiving has come and gone… but what a wonderful day we had! It started with our breakfast tradition at my mom and dad’s house with my mom’s amazing Oyster Stew, accompanied by bacon, biscuits with apple butter, eggs, and hot chocolate or coffee. After breakfast, all fifteen of us made our way to the backyard for some family pictures, which was a success. After our big breakfast and all the pictures, we all needed a little rest… so we all departed for a few hours in order to get  ready for our big Thanksgiving Turkey dinner. After we ate our dinner, some of us decided to go to Toys R Us for the Black Friday Sale that started at 10:00 p.m. We ended up staying out until about 1:30 a.m. and got some incredible savings on Christmas/Birthday presents for Bradley and all our kiddos! Friday, we decided to go pick out our tree and decorate. This is Bradley’s first Christmas, and it has been so much fun seeing her interest in the tree, the ornaments, the wrapped presents, she’s so curious! This past week she also found a cup of hot chocolate on the floor (left by big cousin Lilly) and got her first taste of “heaven.” She was being so quiet that I realized something must be going on… and there she was sitting with her face in the mug, practically taking a bath in it!

Bradley’s 1st Halloween!

Bradley’s first Halloween… Minnie Mouse. She’s 10 months now! Clapping, standing alone, waving to everyone… she’s growing up so fast! Here are a few pictures from Halloween…. and a few other random pictures from this week (so far) too!

HOTT Couple Alert!

My little sister and her husband are super cute! I took a few pictures of them last weekend, and I wanted to share their good looks with the world! 🙂 I am also VERY proud of both of them… Katie is finishing the accelerated Nursing program at LU in December and Jon is applying for Dental School. Way to go guys! I love you two SO much!