I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream 4 Ice Cream

Thanks to Renee for reminding me that I had not posted these pictures yet. Caroline's party this year was so much fun. The theme was 'I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream 4 Ice Cream.' She was turing 4 obviously. And this worked perfectly because Caroline loves ice cream. A lot. 

Snow day {my photography}

Unless you have been living under a rock it's likely that most of your news lately has been about the Polar Vortex and the snowpocalypse. After getting 6 inches of snow last Wednesday, we got another FOOT on Sunday. Needless to say most of the state of Indiana was shut down for the better part of Sunday and Monday. When the snow started falling the temperatures were pretty tolerable so Caroline and I went out to enjoy it. Caroline always wants to go out and play in the snow, and we knew the temperatures the following couple of days were not going to allow us to be outdoors. We were only out for a little while, but Caroline has so much fun!

Happy Birthday, Caroline!

It hardly seems possible that my baby girl is 4 years old. It seems like just yesterday she was a soft, squishy baby in my arms. 

Now she is such a big girl!

Fall Photo Shoot {my photography}

 Last Monday DH and I took the day off and took Miss Caroline to the pumpkin patch. It was cold and even started to rain as we got ready to leave, but we had a great time. Caroline loved searching for the perfect pumpkin and playing in the blow up caterpillar.

March Photo Shoot {My Photography}

The weather so was beautiful on Friday. I was on my way from work with the windows down and I decided it was the perfect day for a photoshoot. We haven't been outside for months, so when I got home I asked Caroline if she wanted to go outside and play. Of course she did, so she packed up all her toys in her little backpack, I changed her clothes, grabbed my camera, and we headed outside. Luckily the weather was so nice and the sunlight was so pretty, these pictures didn't require a whole lot of editing. These were taken in about an hour and just in my back yard (and on the unfinshed porch as you no doubt have noticed)..nothing fancy here.

Caroline by the year

I thought I would share with you today a little ditty that I do every year for Caroline’s Birthday.

After her party is over, and she has had her yearly checkup with the doctor, I take the picture that I used for her birthday invitation and I ‘edit it up’ with all of Caroline’s favorite things for the year. It’s fun to go back even now when she is only 3 and see how much things have changed. It even reminds of things that I have slowly started to forget, like how much she loved her bunny when she was a baby.

When I started this project, Picnik.com was my editing site of choice, because it was fast and easy. Now that they have shut down, my editing program of choice is Picasa. You download it right to your computer, so you don’t even have to connect to the internet. That’s my favorite part of course, since I don’t have constant, reliable access to the internet. Now I can edit at my leisure.

*Note: I don’t use Picasa for photo editing, just for adding text, but you can do that too.

Caroline's 1st Birthday- Winter Wonderland

Here's a little blast from the past. I have blogged about Caroline's 2nd and 3rd Birthday parties, and then thought maybe I should go ahead and write about this one too.

This was the first party that I ever really did. I wanted to do a Winter ONEderland theme from the time she was born in the middle of the winter. The pictures are pretty terrible despite my attempt to re-edit them. These were the pre-DSLR days. It is crazy to me how much Caroline has grown and at the same time how much she has stayed the same.

Caroline is 3!

Here are a couple of pictures from Caroline's 3rd birthday. It was about 6 weeks ago, so I'm doing better than last year in posting! This year the theme was "Caroline is turning 3, Come and celebrate with me!" Ok, not really a great theme, but basically I got to do whatever I wanted...and that was awesome.
We had the party at our house this year. In the past it has been at my MILs house. Since our house is much smaller we only had our immediate families in attendance.

Caroline is TWO Sweet

Well they say better late than never, so I hope you agree. Now that you are all in a sugar coma from Halloween, I know all you want to do is look at some more yummy goodness!!

Caroline's birthday party was in January, and I am just getting around to posting. Geez. It's basically time to start the planning for the next party. Can you believe she is going to be 3 in 2 months already! Dang!

And I thought I knew exactly what I was going to do for her party until I ended up pregnant with twins. Now I am thinking I will be too miserable to want to deal with it in January. Anyway, back to the party.

The theme was "Two Sweet" and we had it at my MIL's house.

It's the perfect theme since her name is Caroline and she is pretty darn sweet.

Caroline is TWO Sweet

Well Sunday was Caroline's Birthday and Saturday was her "TWO Sweet" birthday party. Things went fabulously. I had my friend Kim of Frames Can't Catch You Photography come to capture all the special details. I will be doing a bigger post about all the party details once I get all the pictures, but in the mean time, here is a shot of her eating a cupcake at her birthday party. She is so adorable I can't even stand it.