12 Month Photo Shoot + Cake Smash

I can't believe I haven't posted about EM's 12 Month Photo Shoot and Cake Smash yet! We asked the photographer to get at least a few of the Christmas shots done quickly so we could get our Christmas cards made and mailed and she ended up doing them all right away! After EM's epic cake smash at her 1st birthday party I was super excited for her professional photo shoot cake smash. Apparently EM was not, she wanted NOTHING to do with the cake and pretty much cried/fussed the entire time and we didn't get very many cute pics from that (complete opposite of what she did at her party 2 days prior). We did however get some great Christmas shots and some in the tub (after the cake smash). Here are a few (ok 12) of my favorites and you can check them all out here.

the best one we got

see she wanted nothing to do with it

Love, love love this one!

playing in the tub after the smash

has to get a Phillies one for Daddy
 (her dress is Phillies although hard to tell) 

If you live in central Florida and need an awesome photographer (in studio or on location), I highly recommend Briana from Briana Lugo Photography or on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Brianalugophotography and very reasonably priced too!

Random Wednesday

I love clean sheets on the bed!

Amazon Wishlist are the best for Birthday/Christmas shopping! So easy and convienient! I wish everyone used them! You can even add stuff from non-amazon websites as well, it's a great universal tool! My only problem is it's hard for me to add stuff to my list, I never want anything that I don't need to pick out myself (like I want a new purse but I need to see it in the store/try it on my shoulder to decide). I did add some gym equipment for our new home gym we've created. but what else?? #firstworldproblems

I only have two more working Fridays for the rest of the year! One is in 2 days and I'm on business travel so it doesn't even really count since I'm not in the office. Plus add in my vacation days I'm taking, I really only have 16 working days until Christmas Shutdown and then I'm off for 17 days straight (well I'm taking 2 vacation days to make that happen) One of the biggest perks of my company is our awesome time off!

We have this area/room in our house, it's supposed to be a formal living room when you first walk in the house  but we have nothing in it other than one curio/shelf cabinet and we refer to it as our christmas tree room since that's where we put the Christmas Tree. We don't want to make it a formal living room (such a waste) but can't figure out what else to do with it. We already have a huge playroom/game room loft upstairs, a gym, a study, and a theater room so what else could we possibly use this space for? Any ideas? And it would need to be something that is appeasing to the eyes since it's an open space and not a room with doors. It's probably the last room in the house we want to do some thing with, which means it's on next year's (even possibly the following year) list to complete but since I have NO IDEA I figured I'd better start thinking about it now and start soliciting help!

We're getting EM's 1st Birthday pictures done on Monday. I'm so excited for her smash cake session! We'll also be doing her christmas pictures and hopefully a family picture as well which brings me to my next dilemma, what to wear? I seriously need to go shopping but have zero time between now and Monday due to all the party prep and I have nothing remotely flattering to wear (still too heavy for my normal clothes and everything else is super wornout and not good enough for pics because I've been wearing it sooo often) and I'm dying for a sweater dress! Must find time!! Maybe I can squeeze a quick shopping trip in on Sunday while G is watching football! 

Ok so what is the best feature to use for Blogger (blogspot) comments? I signed up to use disqus and really like it but I believe it requires everyone to make a disqus profile in order to comment. Will that defer people from commenting? I kind of wish I used wordpress vs blogger - seems like their built in comment feature works well (doesn't require people to sign up for anything or have a google ID, yet I don't want the fully anonymous ability either) what is your preference as a blog reader/commenter?

9 Months Photo Shoot

We just got EM's 9 month photos back from the Photographer! She does an incredible job! I had a few friends use her in the past and after trying to book her for EM's 3 month photos and realizing how popular she is (we ended up using Portrait innovations, which did a good job for a studio with no editing) we booked her 6 month photos right at 3 months and then each session we always book the next! Can't wait for her 1st Birthday smash cake session! If you live in central Florida and want to get pics taken of your babies, family, anything really, check out brianalugophotography.zenfolio.com or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Brianalugophotography Here are a few of my favorites (one from each outfit backdrop) from this shoot: 

 

My all time favorite from this shoot :)

We had to distract her with a balloon this time around

It's football season so we had to get some of our football team outfits! I made the eagles one myself :)