I can't believe

this little guy is already a year old!! I have had the pleasure of taking pictures of him 4 times throughout the past year now, and have become quite good buddies with him and his big brother! I think I take pictures of their boys about as often as I take pictures of my little ones - and I love it! It's so much fun to watch them grow...and isn't he just adorable?! Check out his gorgeous blue eyes!!

A First for Miss Ceili

Ceili, like I have said before, just doesn't have hair that grows at anything but snail speed! In her almost 3 1/2 years, she FINALLY had enough hair to go to Cookie Cutters for her very first haircut!! I am hoping the 3 inches they cut off will help her hair grow a little quicker (maybe at turtle speed) and get a little thicker! She had a good time, sitting in the pink Barbie chair and watching Dora while she got her hair trimmed! She did such a good job, and even though I got a little teary-eyed, we all love her new haircut!! Here are a few pictures from her adventure at Cookie Cutters. The first one, I had the hairdresser hold the comb up to show how much she was cutting off...not too much, but enough!! Check out her hairdo in the second picture - I think she could make a fashion statement with those pigtails and clips!! Ceili had such a good time that the next day, she asked me if she could get her hair cut again!

What else to do on a rainy and snowy day

but to drive over an hour to cut our Christmas tree down?! So maybe it was rainy and spitting snow this day, but we made the best of it and had a great time picking out the PERFECT tree this year! Ceili had a blast helping Daddy cut it down too! Although it would have made sense for us to each have a nice warm cup of hot cocoa, Ceili decided we needed to go into their Homemade Ice Cream shop and eat ice cream instead! What a funny girl! We have made this a tradition every year since Ceili was born (she was 6 months at her first Christmas!) and hope to continue it each and every year!

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Bald Babies

have a special place in my heart! Ceili was pretty much bald her entire first year, and it looks as if Keaton is following in her footsteps. I just love little bald babies, and I am sure you can see how this baby girl won me over!! Her brothers weren't too bad either - such cute personalities each one of them had!!

Such a fun session

with such a cute family! We had a perfect day for our session - we couldn't have asked for it to go any better! Isn't their little girl just beautiful?!

Halloween Festivities!

I know these are late...but there are ton to make up for the lateness!! We took the kids to Zoo Boo with Auntie Mamie, Uncle Matt and Carter...and had tons of fun!! Ceili went as a wizard and Keaton was a turtle - their Mommy was a little behind on their costumes, so we had to make it work with what we had! Carter was a little golfer - too cute!

A few nights later, we all sat around the kitchen table and carved our pumpkins! Keaton just wanted the pumpkins for himself...and even ended up chewing on some pumpkin guts!!

Ceili decided her pumpkin had to have triangle eyes, a square nose, exactly 5 teeth and hair! She was so proud of herself for giving her pumpkin hair all by herself - she did such a good job!!

And Keaton just played with the pumpkin guts...and threw a royal fit as soon as I took the bowl away from him!

And our finished pumpkins...from L-R...mine, Keaton's, Ceili's and Justin's.

So, when I was a baby my parents carved a pumpkin and put me inside my pumpkin and took my picture...Mom always says she was Anne Geddes before Anne Geddes was herself! So, when Ceili was a baby, we carved a pumpkin to look the same as mine as a baby and we stuck her inside the pumpkin for pictures. And...what else could we do but do the same for Mr. Keaton?! So...the tradition continues on...

Nana and Papaw stopped by before Trick-or-Treating to see Little Bo Peep and her lost Sheep!

I took the kids trick-or-treating while Daddy stayed back and handed out candy. Ceili had a BLAST and even asked to go again the next night...and the next night!!

Justin always works so hard on decorating for Halloween and Christmas...I had to show you that his efforts definitely paid off this year! He made the fence one day while the kids and I were gone...and it was just the touch we needed...now it looks more like a graveyard! Kudos to Daddy for making it the house everyone wanted pictures of their kids in front of!!