Happy Birthday, Yaya!

October 28th is Yaya's birthday!  To celebrate we went down to Celina last Friday night for a sleepover!  The girls were so excited and asked every day if it was time for sleepover at Yaya's yet!  We got there around 6:45 on Friday and they had made a delicious roast for supper.  After giving Yaya her gift (like 5 minutes after we got there) we just hung out as a family until we gave the girls a bath and put them down for bed about an hour late.  Saturday morning we had another delicious meal of egg casserole and we spent the day just hanging around.  It was very nice and relaxing.  We ordered amazing Padrone's pizza and filled our bellies with that and some yummy cake before heading home.  Happy Birthday, Yaya! We love you so much!

Happy Birthday, Jagger and Charli!

This post is overdue, as we attended Jagger and Charli's party on October 13th.  Jagger turned 7 and Charli turned 5.  Their birthdays are one day apart.  What a change in weather from their party last year where we all wore tank tops and were outside the whole time. This year it was cold and rainy but we had a great time indoors!  They painted pumpkins in the basement and played with all of the other kiddos.  Soph was sick so we took Will to the party because he was sooooo excited and would have been crushed to miss it. Happy birthday to two of our favorite friends!

Family Pictures 2012

If you are my Facebook friend then you've already seen these but I know not everyone is so I'm putting them on here, as well! Last Sunday (10-21-12) we went to Wildwood Metro Park in Sylvania to get some family pictures taken.  It was the MOST gorgeous and perfect day I could have asked for in the fall.  It was 63 degrees and sunny.  The girls had been sick for a few days leading up to the pictures and so I was contemplating rescheduling but thankfully they kicked the bug on Friday. 

We've had such great luck with photographers in our life.  JP Photography took our engagement, wedding, Skees family, Mya and Stella's birth and 1 year pictures and we LOVE her.  She decided to just do weddings at this point and so last year we had to find someone else.  Kasey Photography did the girls 2 year pictures and we LOVED them, as well.  I went to high school with Kasey and had seen a lot of her work and was completely impressed.  She did an amazing job!  This year Kasey had a baby in August and was taking some time off so we had to find another photographer.  My brother's girlfriend, Lindsay, suggested her best friend who started a photography business. She was extremely reasonable and I liked what I saw of her work so I called her up.  Helena was WONDERFUL!  We got the whole shoot done in like 45 minutes and she said she would have a few sneak peeks up for me soon and that she would have the whole CD ready in a few days.  She wasn't kidding.  She posted 10 sneak peeks on Monday and that night told me that my CD was all edited and ready for pick up!  We didn't end up meeting up until Friday but still that was less than 1 week to wait.  My kind of girl for sure!!!!!

I'm not going to post all 64 pictures but just some of my favs!  Enjoy!

Now to choose some for my walls....