And then she was 5!

Happy birthday to my vibrant, always-performing, happy, loves to share (most of the time), BFF loving, opinionated girl!

We love you to pieces and can't believe 5 years has gone by!

Can't wait to see with the next 5, 10, 15 years has to bring (ahhhhh!!!! 15 years!!!)

And thank you to our fabulous photo assistant/babysitter. We love you to pieces L!

Someone's turning FIIIIIIIVE!

My girl and I had some fun tonight for her official 5 year pictures.

We'll have a her party in a couple of weeks and she's sooooo excited. I asked her what she was looking forward to about her party. And true to her social butterfly nature she said, "My friends coming over to our house." How can you not love her?!! I know I sure do. 

Full post to come after she turns FIIIIIIVE!

And this is our super special sweet-as-can-be babysitter/photographer assistant who helped us out on the shoot. 

Thank you Ms. L for always having our backs and taking care of our family in one way or another!! XOXO!

The R family {San Jose, California, family photographer}

And another family that decided they wanted an out of the box location for their family pictures this year! I loved it!

This weekend was a fun weekend for this girl behind the camera!

Thank you R family for being troopers!

The G family {San Jose, California, family photographer}

A little sneak peek for this fun and adventurous family!

I wanted to add this shot for her momma who was concerned that her hair was too wild and crazy. Ummm….. nooo! not one bit. I loved it!!

The M family {San Jose, California family photographer}

We didn't let a little overcast weather keep us away!!

Thank you again M family.

C & E's adventure {San Jose, California, family photographer}

This past weekend I got to hang out with two fun boys and man did they make me work! I'm only use to girls and all things pink & purple but I LOOOVED my time with them. So much fun balled up into two sweet boys!!

Thank you C & E!

Cookies, lemonade and donating to the hungry

This past summer Early Bird wanted to have a lemonade stand. Unfortunately we weren't able to get around to doing it until a couple of weeks ago. Since we live on a cu-de-sac we don't have much foot traffic, however, our church definitely gets alot of foot traffic after the services so we decided to set up there instead!

I asked her what she wanted to do with the money and she said she wanted to donate it to the hungry. (She must get that from me ;).

So, we finally set up her stand after church service a couple of weeks ago and she did a GREAT job! A few days before we made a sign, Snicker doodles,  oatmeal and store-bought chocolate chip cookies (shhh! don't tell anyone the chocolate chip cookies weren't homemade!). 

She ended up making $134.50 and we did donate it to the hungry!

We had so much fun and loved getting to help those in need that we might make it a yearly event.

Also, that morning, before church service, we were the official greeters. She passed out the bulletins and I shook their hands. We made a great team and had alot of fun in the process!