Friday Photo Favorites

We didn't take one, single picture on Easter.  So, last week I took some fake Easter photos of Brenna.

This charade is OVER, Mom! 

Sneak Peak! Sshhh!

 Emily did a wonderful job capturing our family's love and made us look dang good, too!

Christmas Dresses

When Brenna was born, my mother gave us a collection of special clothes and shoes that were mine as a little girl.  Sadly, we forgot about them for awhile and before we knew it, Brenna was too big for a lot of the really cute summer dresses.  We put her in one of my favorites tonight for Mass and had a short photo shoot after.

Enjoy!

Friday Photo Favorites

It's pretty hard anymore to get a picture of Brenna without her trying to eat/play with the camera.  If she's doing something cute I'll pull it out and start snapping, but quicker that you would think possible, she's headed my way, salivating, with outstretched fingers. 
Here are a few cute faces that I managed to catch the other day.

Check out those teeth!!

"I hear that shutter, and I'm coming for you!"

"What's in there?"

Friday Photo Favorites...

...that I can't wait until Friday to post!

 

Brenna just loves being outside exploring.  Hope you're all enjoying the beautiful weather as much as we are! 

Back in action!

Hello, all!  Sorry it's been so long since we made a post, but a lot has been happening around here.  My first excuse for a lack of posts is that I lost the cord to our camera and couldn't get the computer to read the SD card, so I had no way to get pictures off the camera and onto the computer.  But, what once was lost is now found and the camera a rearing and ready to go.  My second excuse is that in the span of about two weeks these things took place:

-Closed on our house
-Spent a weekend in Traverse City with Brenna at Geegee and Papa's house
-Came home to pack/move and Brenna got a fever for 3 days
-Moved (despite the sick little one)...(and found the camera cord under the couch!)
-Grandpa Blaxton passed away (the very night that we moved)
-Applied about 15 gallons of paint to the walls/ceiling of our house (much thanks to Mom and Dad Leikert)
-Attended the viewings and funeral for Grandpa
-Got new carpet and moved into the rest of the house

Everything has definitely settled down since the move and our house is slowly starting to feel more like a home.  Our families have been amazing through the whole transition and we TRULY could not have done it without their help.

In the weeks since the move, Brenna has had an explosion of development.  I swear, in one week she went from little baby to toddler.  She is now walking confidently and has successfully stood up with no assistance one or two times.  She eats three meals a day (of solid food), which is a HUGE improvement from her erratic bouts of liking/disliking solids.  She claps, sings, says "Dada", "Mama", and "Uh-oh".  She loves stuffed animals and anything soft and cuddly, books, music, dancing, and being outside (especially cross country meets where she claps and squeals for the runners).  Everyday she changes and picks up on some other little noise or skill.  And at 20 lbs she outweighs her 4-months-older-cousin by almost 4 pounds now.

I can't believe she'll be one in less than a month.

 

Hopefully soon our house will be put-together enough to post some pictures or a video.  Until then, here are a few more of Miss B.

Beach!

We had our first outing to the beach a few weeks ago!  Two of our best friends are training for an Ironman Triathlon and wanted to get some experience swimming in the open water so Chris, Brenna, and I went with them to Grand Haven and had a nice walk down the pier while they swam.

Splish Splash

Brenna loves her bath time!

Friday Photo Favorites

 

 

 

 

 

Emily's birthday inspired this photo shoot :)

Friday Photo Favorites (a few days late)

This post was open all day on Friday but Little Lady kept me very occupied, preventing me from finishing the post.  So here it is a few days late.

 

Mom, are you done yet?

 The next few are typical faces that we get to see on a daily basis.  Feelin' those chompers, suckin' those lips!