Professional Pictures

We have only ever had one photographer take our family pictures, and she is no longer doing photography.  So, I was really nervous about taking pictures with someone new.  We had friends recommend Cassie Price, so I contacted her.  

We had a wonderful experience.  She and Sonya Schultz did the entire shoot together.  They worked together like a well-oiled machine.  The boys cooperated for the full two hours, and Monroe was awesome.  They kept commenting on how easy she was to photograph.  I love every picture she took.

Graham

Pierce

I bought these hats on Etsy. I love them!

I love Graham's smirk in this picture.

I made birth announcements on Shutterfly.

We completed the boys' room with a canvas and two pictures.  It's now my favorite wall.

We also updated our family room collage.  I am going to use some of the old pictures in other rooms.

Thank you, Cassie, for the beautiful pictures of our family!

4th of July Week

Monroe loved doing/watching fireworks.  The boys did well with them too.  

Lighting off some leftovers from last year one afternoon

We had dinner at Grandma Dee's for her birthday

Then, we lit off fireworks with them.

On the 3rd, Troy and Ashley came over.  We fire pitted, lit off some fireworks, and watched the neighborhood shows.  There were so many fireworks in our area.

For the 4th, we went to Zach's cousin's house in Hastings.

I made a strawberry poke cake

I love this picture of Dedrick, Bentyn, and Monroe eating Papa's homemade ice cream.

Zach, David, and Derek gave us a great firework show.  I didn't get any pictures, though, because it was way too loud for the boys.

First 4th of July

It was a fun week, but I'm glad the late, loud nights are over.