Two Photo Shoots, Thanksgiving and A Baby Blessing

Cutest Baby ever! Brett took some great pics of Zoe when she was still little. I love this first pose because I have a picture of me doing the same thing when I was little. :)




Another photo shoot. She's actually a few months older here than she was when she was actually blessed, but at least we took pics when she still fit in her dress. As a side note, Brett hasn't edited these yet so he may or may not be grumpy that they aren't a polished representation of his crazy photoshop/camera skills. I'll probably end up re-posting some when they get edited, but I'm trying to get to a current date on the blog, and it will drive me crazy if I don't go in chronological order... yeah I'm weird, but so is the rest of the family so I fit right in. :)


Man we have really cute kids. :)


We went down to NC for Thanksgiving and Zoe's blessing; it was so much fun. Aeriana loves her Grandpa, or as she calls him "Gan-pa". Here they are on the way back from a trip to the park.


The blessing was beautiful and wonderful. It was so awesome to have Matt and Renee there to take part in it with us.



Matt, Chad, Zoe, Brett, and Doyle. The men and the baby of the hour!


Brett's parents and us.


Uncle Riley loved to play with Aeriana (and the feelings were definitely mutual), but chasing her around was tiring. Of course, he still wanted to be close to a niece, so he look a little nap with Zoe. :)


We also celebrated Christmas at the same time since almost everyone was there. Matt, Renee, and Jaeden even joined in the fun! Isn't Jaeden the cutest!


Ahhh, the start of the obsession, she didn't even know she had just gotten her dream come true. DORA!!!!


Aeriana was almost as excited to watch other people open presents as she was to open her own. Almost.


After the blessing and presents, we all had dinner together. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of all of us together so this will have to do. You can see the tables a bit, we had the kitchen table plus two long folding tables and we were still squished. There were 20 of us, I think. It was crazy! But awesome. I love being a part of a big family.


"Ummmm, Uncle Brody, that's a really far drop to the floor and you don't look to awake..."


Also while we were there we threw Renee a belated Baby Shower! It was the first Baby shower I had ever done and I thought I got pictures, but I guess not. I think it was fun and that everyone enjoyed it. I do know that we had awesome prizes for the games, candy and gift certificates to Borders. :) Love you Ne-Ne!

Thanksgiving was incredible with Zoe's blessing, fun holiday celebrations, family and friends. What more can you ask for?

Labels: Aeriana, baby, family, holidays, pictures, trips, Zoe

posted by Erin at 10:42 PM