Gratitudes and Gifts




 The 30th birthday as we all know is a very special birthday. My Best Friend that I have known for 15 years is 30! We live about 500 miles away from each other right now. My entire family will be traveling and joining her for her BIG birthday party and giving her a gift next week! Despite distance I wanted to give her something special on her actual Birthday!


I am so grateful for my friend and sometimes I wonder if she really knows exactly how much . I decided to show her my gratitude through this gift!  Here were my steps:         
1.   I  printed out a letter(posted above) explaining the gift...

20 Gratitudes + 10 Friendship Gifts= Happy 30th Birthday LaDonna.

 



2. I found  a pretty card stock of butterflies to fly my Gratitudes! I then typed 20 gratitudes to place on the front of the  butterflies. It was not hard to think of 20 things..at all!

 


3. I then found 20 pictures to place with each Thank You note. I placed the pictures on the back of the butterflies! Finding pictures was easy also(the majority of the pictures I  found I was pregnant )...we have taken so many pictures over the years!

 




4. In college me and the BF would randomly by each other gifts and give them to each other with a note that said "Happy Friend Day!".  I decided to buy my BFF 10 random friend gifts i.e her favorite cookies, fruit, workout shirt, lotion, jewelry, cute socks, and more!

 




5. I placed all the gifts in a cute gift bag and wrapped all the Thank You notes together!

 

7. Lastly, my Lil Helper and me taped it up and sent it to the Post Office!

ChildHood: Shower Faces

How many shower faces do you have? My Boy has many! He has recently stepped into the shower world(supervised 100% of the time and assist is strongly needed). My husband and I get a kick out of how animated our Son can be. I did not know that so many different faces could be produced in the shower. I was able to capture a few to share!

This 1 photo above is what I submitting for:

My Camera's 1st Wedding

Last week we traveled to southern California for a wedding. Our friend Chris was marrying his beautiful Bride. Chris is a great guy that is now married to a wonderful woman! We became friends with Chris in college, he was once my Husband's housemate, and was the videographer for our Wedding. We were so excited to get an invitation to his wedding and be able to make it! I was also thrilled because it would be the 1st time my camera was in attendance at a wedding! Here are some pictures to enjoy from the beautiful union!





































































Congratulations Chris and Bernadette! We are so happy for your beautiful union!

Baby Love...

I will have to admit that I miss being pregnant, okay just a lil bit. With my last pregnancy I had the pleasure of being pregnant with one of my dear friends. It was fun to share the journey with such a wonderful person ! Even though we now reside in Northern California and she still resides in Southern we were able to share our pregnancy journey with each other miles away. The picture above was from her Northern Cali Baby Shower(their family lives close to us). She was 31 weeks and I was 33 weeks pregnant!

These are the proud Daddy's! Our baby girl and their baby boy was around 3 months and meeting for the first time!

Now these 2 munchkins are 8 months old! Their parents are chasing them around the room as they crawl, climb, and try to put EVERYTHING in their mouth. We were honored last week when our friends opened up their home and showed us some lovely overnight hospitality! It was also so fun watching these two roll around and play that I had to snap,snap,and snap away!

They even had a pretty Lady come over and add her spice to the fun!

We shall see if this Lil Man and Lil Lady will find more interest in each other 20 something years from now....I am just saying that it is a possibility!!!




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