Connor's First Birthday! | Personal

I can’t believe my baby boy is a year old!! Ahh! His birthday fell on a Saturday so we had the party on this day! My best friend Whitney from the Cake Bakkerij made Connor the CUTEST and most delicious cakes!! I’m so obsessed with them!!

Connor LOVED his cake! Adaline blew out his candle and they both grubbed on his cake! Haha!

We love our handsome birthday boy!!!!

Twelve Months of Connor | Personal

The buttercups bloomed on my dads farm so we hiked up the bluff to take photos! If you haven’t noticed this about me, I will always take photos if there are flowers around ha!

Here are some favorite memories from our home!

My mom started working in the greenhouses so we went to visit and the kids had fun playing around!

Connor’s new favorite thing: pretending to drink Pap’s coffee and getting SO excited out it!

This was probably one of my favorite photos of the kids together, and some of my favorite photos of Connor! I had a vision for this photo, and it turned out exactly the way I wanted! I was so excited! And they both had fun!

It started warming up outside so we took advantage of that and took some trips to the park and spent time out on the farm! (Oh and took some cute selfies :))

The first weekend in March (literally right before the world shut down) Adaline and her daddy attended the Cinderella Ball at our church and oh my goodness, my heart couldn’t hardly handle it. Adaline looked so gorgeous (and that husband of mine looked prettttyyyyy fine ;)) They both had so much fun! Jon said she might have been just a little young, but next year she should have a wonderful time!

A few favorite memories :) One of those was I finally got Connor switched to a sippy from a bottle! I didn’t think we could do it but we did lol! And he got his second haircut before his birthday party!

Beautiful rainbow!

Here is Connor’s 12 month photoshoot! I love this sweet boy so much!

Eleven Months of Connor | Personal

This month was full of first for Connor! One of those was going out of the country to Jamaica! (But i’m going to make separate post about that :)) Here are some favorite photos from home! He always has the brightest smile!

I had a little photoshoot with Connor in his Titans onesie! I love those big blue eyes!

Both of the kids got their first haircuts this month!! They both did amazing!

We did have an exciting thing happen this month, we sold our old house in BG! It was definitely a bittersweet time for us, but we are so happy to finally close that chapter and move onto being able to enjoy our new home!

We went outside to enjoy our first “snow” haha! Of course I had to do a short photoshoot!

Here are some favorite memories!

We celebrated Valentines Day together, starting with heart shaped pancakes on heart plates! Connor was definitely a fan!! :)

I didn’t do much for valentines day, but the kids loved the big balloons I got from Kroger! haha! And of course we had a little photoshoot! And Jon got me some beautiful roses! :)

And we also celebrated 11 months with Connor!

Ten Months of Connor | Personal

This month we were so busy celebrating Christmas together! So I planned something fun for the kids to do from Dec 1-24 to keep us in the Christmas spirit! :) I tried to photograph most everything we did but I missed a few days! One of my favorite memories is our Christmas Dance Party!! Oh my gosh.. it was so SO fun! I got our speaker and looked up some kids Christmas songs on Youtube (Santa Shark and Christmas Freeze Dance were their favs) and we danced the night away! :) Then we ended the party with cookies!

Another favorite memory was building our gingerbread house! I have never built one before so it was very interesting haha! Connor couldn’t do much, but I made sure he was up in the action! I took a few photos on a timer and some of his facial expressions are so hilarious! I thought the house turned out pretty cute though! I used it as a centerpiece on our kitchen table :)

** That last photo is of our Christmas tags from last year! I got the idea from A Beautiful Mess blog to do personalized gift tags with photos! I added the date to the photo but I loved the way they turned out! Plus you can use them for ornaments!

We had our first Christmas celebration with Jon’s mom since she was heading to Ohio and we were staying here on Christmas. This was Connor’s first time opening presents and it was adorable to watch him! Adaline had a blast too :)

The kids got dressed up on the Sunday before Christmas.. had to document it! Plus I got a super cute picture of Connor in the tub with a bubble beard! :D

Then we had Christmas with my parents and my nephews! Adaline’s favorite toy was probably the bouncy Dino that my dad named “Dumpy” because he would dump her off haha! The boys got a laser tag game and the guys went outside and played that for a couple hours!

We spent Christmas Eve with Jon’s dads family!

On the way back home there was a GORGEOUS sunset. I had my tripod in the car so Jon was kind enough to pull over on the side of the road and take photos in a field!

The kids woke up on Christmas morning to presents from Santa! Adaline had been BEGGING for a Paw Patrol Tower since she found it in a target magazine for Black Friday. She was so excited to finally get it! I absolutely love seeing their smiling faces! It was beautiful!

We spent Christmas Day with my family. That afternoon my brother was kind enough to take some family photos of us! I will always cherish these!

After Christmas we spent a lot of time winding down at home! Connor started crawling AND pulling up right after the new year so we got a lot busier chasing him and baby proofing the house! We also got a visit from Great Grandpa Kenney!

10 months with our baby boy!