us {in photographs}

my sweet, sweet friend, nikki, sent me a message a while back and offered to take pictures of our family.
she is just starting her photography business and she specializes in story telling photography.
of course i was thrilled to say yes!!!

oh. my. goodness.
what a priceless gift she gave us.
she captured, us. 
how we are....in our home.

she gave us so many amazing photos, i had a hard time narrowing them down share with you.
so i'm sharing a lot. :)

i know.
i could not love them more.
we were pretty much beside ourselves when we saw them.
there are not enough words to thank nikki for capturing this moment in time for us.

if you're local and interested {i'm sure you are :)}...check out nikki toth photography. :)

from her website:

"My passion is photographing everyday moments and making them magical.  I want to capture your family's story and help you remember those details that are so easily forgotten. 

Storytelling.  That is what I do. 

Thank you for trusting your story to me." 

how great is that? love it. 

love her.

thank you a million times, nikki. 

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one year photo shoot

you know how sometimes you can plan the perfect photo shoot in your head and then on the day of photos your child scrapes up his nose or gets pink eye or cuts her hair or is finally cutting her first ever tooth and is in no mood?

yeah well, it happens to the best of us.
and of course, on the day of ruby's one year pictures she was in a cranky-pants-tired-fussy-don't-mess-with-me kind of mood.

yet, somehow, from a miracle from heaven, our sweet friend, Ali, was able to get some sweet gems out of ruby's cranky pants self.
and honestly, i wouldn't want to paint a perfect picture anyway.
i like real.

so here's real.

and real is beautiful, isn't it?

so thankful for these moments captured.

on the way out the door, i grabbed a flower from a vase on the table.

what a pretty distraction.

her eyes are piercing.
i am honestly amazed at how beautiful she is.
i know i'm her mama....but she is stunning.
i can't get enough of her.

so thankful that Ali was able to quickly capture these sweet moments while i was busy sweating and singing songs and clapping my hands to try to coax some smiles out of our girl.

behind every cute photo is one lunatic mom making weird faces . . . right?  :)


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ten months

and just like that, our little girlie girl is another month old.

and cuter and sweeter than ever.

clapping is her party trick.

she loves to clap and does it a lot. 

she claps if you smile at her, claps if you sing to her, claps if she's happy, claps if you're taking her picture. . . .  the girl claps. :)

ruby started crawling when she was 9 1/2 months old.

she gets around really well but she doesn't go far. 

she likes to be around people. always.

in fact, she cries like you broke her heart if you walk out of her line of sight. 

she's getting more hair and now weights a whopping 16 pounds.

ruby's a contented baby girl and is easily entertained with a few little toys.

she loves her family and gives us hugs & squeezes a lot.

she's also started patted my back when i pick her up.

precious. 

i am soaking it up.

it's a photographic miracle that she has a bow on in these pics.

typically she starts grabbing the bow to pull it off the very second i put it on her.

then she gives me a look like i am nuts for having put it on her in the first place.

break my heart, little girl.

somehow she was distracted and didn't really notice the bow {flower} this time.

whew. crisis averted.

she still sucks her thumb when she's sleepy.

sweetest little thumb sucker i ever saw. 

ruby jane. . . 10 months old and as yummy as ever. . . 

:)

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eight months

baby girl is eight months old.

and yes, i feed her well. ;)

this past month she said her first two words!

first she said "bubba" and continues to say it {with a huge smile} when she sees her brothers.
her second word was "dadda," which again is accompanied with a huge grin when she sees her daddy.

some things about our 8 month old ruby girl: 

*she blows raspberries when she's happy

*she's ticklish 

*she's very cuddly. she holds on to me and buries her face in me with a big grin. 

*she loves to play peek-a-boo

*she loves to bounce in her "janey-jump-up"

*she sits up completely unassisted now

*she shoves every living thing she can get her hands on, into her mouth

*she sleeps great

*she eats 2 baby food jars at a sitting, 3 times a day

*she loves to be sung to

*she is a happy, sweet baby girl. :)

yes, her belly is folding over the top of her tutu.
sister is juicy. :)

she still loves that sweet thumb. 

what a precious joy.

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