Jennifer's First Birthday

It's been a little less than a year since I wrote a blog post about Baby Jennifer - my first time meeting her, a few weeks after her birth. 

And now, the sweet little girl is one year old and brings so much joy to her family!

I was going to take one year pictures of Jennifer until the weather cancelled our plans of going to Kansas City, so I got to take pictures of her birthday party -- equally as fun!! :)

Of course, little Nathan did the honors of blowing out the candle for her :)

She wasn't the type to really dig into the cake, but she humored us for quite a while by kind of playing with it. At this point we could all tell she was done, though ;)

It was quite chaotic to try to get all of them together... but at least one shot of them all looking in the general direction is worth it :)

-MarLeahJoy

My Favorite

When it comes to children... no favorites are permitted, right?

No, I don't like that.

Let's just say if they are your OWN children you can't pick favorites ;)

Because I think I have a favorite.

It might be because she is my Aunt and Uncle's first grandchild so she is the central attention of every family gathering. Nonetheless, little Lacey is so sweet that who couldn't love her?

-MarLeah Joy

A Graduation

That would be my younger cousin and my little friend getting ready to play in the band. : )

Thanks to all the people I was sitting with for cheering so loud for Rodney, I was able to get a good picture of his face as he walked in, haha. ; )

His speech was very memorable! He did a wonderful job of breaking through the typical and saying/singing (yes, singing!) things that really stick in people's mind! It was great... and funny! : )

He's a really great guy!

-MarLeahJoy

Graduation Party

Last weekend was my cousin's graduation party. I was super excited when I found out that my other cousin, Heather from craftyscrapbooker, was going to be there!

We also switched lenses for a little while so the first few pictures were taken with her 50mm 1.8 lens. I love the depth!

The graduating girl!

I don't know why I seemed to take so many pictures of Darren. Maybe
it's because he was the most active :)

This was about my favorite part of the day; Heather and I got to venture out and get some pictures of us together. Oh, how I wish all of my friends lived close!

These were all taken with my lensbaby. I'm loving it more and more!

Yuck!

Crazy Darren decided to pass us and Nathan who was in his Grandma's car and taking it slow (we were already taking up the whole road so he took the ditch :P)

-MarLeahJoy