Emmie's party and {many} other pictures.

Here are just a few pics from Emmie's party

Sunday. I made the cake myself, but out of

fear of being put on Cake Wrecks, I will not display

a straight-on picture of it! I have made cakes

before, and they usually turn out fine, but

I was really pressed for time on this one

(I was still working on it when the family

started arriving!) and I made the icing too thick-

never a good thing. So here we go:

We are singing 'Happy Birthday'

and she's very excited by the cake.

Jacob blew out her candle for her-wasn't that sweet?

I gave her the whole part that had her name on it

she was a little timid at first.

It didn't take long to get into it!

Yay!! Cake is good!
After she made several attempts to dump her
plate on the floor, I just dumped it onto her tray.

Ain't she sweet? ;)

Then came presents-don't ask me why in the

world I thought it was better to do the cake

first-I had to do serious clean up before

we could do presents!!

I thought this picture was hilarious-

'I pity the fool that touch my present!!'

This was my favorite pic of the day.

Paul took it, and I love that the toy is in focus

and she is a little blurry-it's a great effect.
Every time she got something open, she would

go, 'ooohhh, ooohhh!'

You can see that she's saying it here.

She had a great birthday. She loved the attention,

and the cake, and the presents!! And I loved watching

her. She's just too big already. My sweet

baby girl. :)

These next pictures are some that I took

because I decided I was going to take her

one year pictures myself. I'm not done-I

want some of her in her birthday dress,

but I haven't had time to do those. I took some of

these and did them in sepia for the I♥faces

theme this week, but I didn't make the deadline.

I wanted to show them anyway!

I like the sepia, but I really liked the color too!

I wish I had remembered a backdrop!! {sigh}

This one might have been right up there with

my favorites if it were not blurry-it looks

a little less blurry in the sepia.

Just cause I thought it was cute.

I love this one-I did fix the red eye, but I

uploaded the wrong copy!! This is

quintessential Emmie.

Ok, I think this is my favorite Emmie pic.

This first one is SOOC (straight out of camera)

This one I played with in Photoshop-love

the vibrant colors.

This is the sepia one.

And this is my all-time favorite.

I'm really starting to LOVE photoshop.

I found Pioneer Woman's blog the other day,

and if you get a chance, you should check it

out! She's pretty cool, and has tips on everything

from cooking to photography to homeschooling

to ropin and ridin! That's where I learned the

few things I'm (finally) able to do with

photoshop. Her photos are AMAZING!
Anyway, I've kept you here long enough.

Hope you like the pics!

This was when she finally got tired of the picture session.

'ENOUGH!'

And that's all she has to say 'bout that!

TTFN,