Pulling from the archives today! This was Ruari’s eye when she was like 4 or 5 months old. 🙂 I took it with my point and shoot. I still love it.

I like to paint in Photoshop.

I swear if you got a LOT closer to the leaves on those flowers you’d see veins. 😀 ;D 😀

This Saturday we stepped out to my buddy Kelsey’s house for her son Braedon’s 5th birthday! I had so much fun. And, I swear Ruari did too… after I stopped making her pose for a steppin’ out photo. 😀

♡ Chelsey

June 25th
This weeks challenge: Favorite photo from June.
The challenge: The challenge will be based around your children. Take or find a photo of your baby (or kid… or puppy… or kitty). Just pick your favorite photo from this past month. 😀

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Here are a couple links to some free photo editing software if you don’t already have something:
Picnik 
Picasa
Gimp
Pixlr

♡ Chelsey

June 18th
This weeks challenge: Parenthood
The challenge: The challenge will be based around your children. Take or find a photo of your baby (or kid… or puppy… or kitty) with a parent/grandparent. 

{Mick and Jess}

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{Mom Tried It}

{Life by the Creak}

{Blue Skies Photography}

{Photos By Shyann}

Congrats to my top 5 winners! If you’d like… you are more than welcome to grab a Top 5 Photo button below!

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{Being What I Want to Be}

{A Sorta Fairytale}

{They Call Me Mama}

{The Franklins}

{Miggyhood}

f you’re one of my favorites you are more than welcome to grab a “Paper mama hearts me” button below!

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Winners so far this month:

– Self Portrait: … Snappin’ Candy …

– Family: … Mama and the Dudes …

– Green: … RSVP Ink …

– Parenthood: … Mick and Jess … 

And, if you all get a moment….
I’d LOVE a vote! 😀

♡ Chelsey

Hello my baby girl!
You are officially 18 months old… well, you were on the 18th. BUT, I didn’t make it on the date… as usual. No matter! Here we are. I now have a one and a half year old baby. NO… toddler! I mean… you aren’t really a baby anymore.

I can’t even count how many words you are saying. The doctor asked me at your wellness check… and I told her over a million. Because… you say and know so many words! Sometimes it surprises me when you see something and you say what it is! How do you know? You’re so little! You can name most of your body parts… But, you absolutely refuse to call your toes “toes”. I say “toes” you repeat “tootsies”! Ha! I blame Coral (via Kelsey) for that one! It’s cute. 🙂

You’ve renamed your stuffed dog, Bernie, “Buh-bee”. <3 . You love your cats! Angus is just there… you love him, but he wont let you slap him like that cats do (they’re sick and they love being slapped). You’ve recently decided that you love to watch Dora (yay! that gives mommy some time to get stuff done! :D). I like to put hats and other accessories on you and tell you to go look in the mirror or show your daddy… you smile and walk slowly (making sure not to drop what I put on you) to look at yourself or show Mike! Ha!

Well… you’re even MORE addicted to your pacifier… I’m starting to worry that you wont ever want to give it up… especially since you’ve been walking around patting it like a baby and “shushing” it. Oh man. You absolutely love animals of all kind… except for Chickens. You were actually shaking when you saw your cousin’s chickens. You would point at them and say, “No no no no no no.” That’s not going to work so well since I plan on getting chickens next year! 😀

I could go ON and On and ON ON ON about everything your doing… but, I wont. It’s all been documented on this here blog… bwa ha ha ha! 🙂

I love you SO much. Happy 1.5 year! Next up: Potty training? Hmmm….

Love,
Mama

♡ Chelsey