K Loves BBall.

This past weekend we went to visit Wisconsin and spend some time at a new place that Amelia's parents had purchased.

One of Sandy's gifts for Russ was the construction of the bball pole, a must in every Robertson driveway. In visiting, we discovered that K loves basketball.

Maybe Dad will have company to watch the NBA....someday.

K gets rocked at the bounce house.

Wait until the end...then you see some air. And yes, she is laughing. I promise.

We know what she really thinks.

Family Photos.

Photo shoot. Here we come. You cannot imagine the difficulty I had in weaning down to just these few photos for the blog...there were literally hundreds of good shots.
I have lots of photo-phobia about getting pictures taken and that I am not going to be happy with the shots. It all started back with my wedding photos where I pretty much HATED all of the ones taken by our professional photographer. I actually hide my album, because although I Loved my wedding, I am so sad about the pictures. The ironic thing was, my mom, who is an awesome mom for many reasons, in this instance it was because she planned my WHOLE wedding, let me pick out my photographer. Lo and behold, it was the only flop of the wedding. Lesson learned. Mom picks everything :-)
Anyways, I couldn't have been more happy with these pictures. They pretty much made up for the wedding fiasco and then some.
I know I've said it before, but all the credit goes to our good friend Cherish Pennington. She just sees the world differently than the rest of us and then manages to capture it with a camera. Amazing.

So here goes.

Grandma and Grandpa (and K is coming to get you!!!)

Dad and Grandma Ann

Grandpa T and Nene

Three generations. And yes, we are actually related. Even though the little one looks different.

Family Shot!

Sigh. I guess P-dog is part of the family.

Auntie Laurie!

The artist herself. And her very entertained subject.

Me and my little peanut.

Like I said, I loved all the photos.

Birthday Celebration!!



In honor of K's bday, we had a little gathering :-)
Cherish took so great shots so I am going to mostly just have this post be pics.
Thanks to all our friends and family who helped make it such a special day.
And I know I sound like a broken record, but really, cherish is awesome. All of her candid photos are these lovely artsy shots of the whole crowd. When I take candid photos, everyone has their eyes closed and is in some awkward pose. sweet.
Anyways, here goes!


Opening gifts. I found the whole "opening gifts" mostly involved me, opening gifts. Less from baby K. Her main interest seemed to be in the discarded paper.

Phoenix=sad she didn't get gifts.

Excited.

Ok. So there is this whole series of shots that closely detail K's discovery of the yumminess of cupcakes. I think I'm just going to have to make a facebook album titled. "k meets cupcake." Be on the lookout. Seriously.

K and friend 1.

Friend 2.

Few more. There were more friends here, but these are the best shots...

I love boxes!

It was a great little celebration. Although I do feel like it is probably more for us than her, I think she liked it :-)

Next post...family pics. Then Baby K photo shoot. I guess I have to stop calling her "baby" cause she is now more of a "toddler." Hmmm. Will consider it.

Cupcakes

Cherish took a few cool photos of Baby K's bday cupcakes, so I thought I would post them.
The truth is, they were awesome. And I messed the recipe up.
So I can only imagine how much more awesome they would be if I actually did it right.
Recipe can be found here

Half an oreo at the bottom of every one.

The finished product!

I'd say...success!