BJM’s Photos

Don’t you just love the ultra dry winter air that plays havoc with your laundry and hair? Ally was playing inside of her pop up tent when Nicholas saw her new hair-do. . .LOL! Who’s ready for some warm weather and sunshine?!? 🙂

I’m spending an unexpected day at home since Ally’s sitter is sick. . Ally has been playing with her Little People castle most of the morning . . I brought her princess dress up stuff down from her room and she’s had it on for hours. . .Our princess playing in her castle! The sun is so pretty shining in through the back doors. . I had to grab a few pictures and share part of our rare weekday at home together.

Ally got to play in the snow for the first time tonight!!
Her first winter, she was too young, last winter she was sick a lot and when she wasn’t sick, we didn’t have any snow! We bundled her up in her boots, snowpants, coat, hat and gloves. . .By the time we got her out there it was about up to her knees. .Nicholas pulled her around in her sled for a while, they stopped occasionally to catch some of the fluffy snowflakes then they both ‘helped’ Bryan clean off the driveway, sidewalk and cars. I’m not sure how much help she was, but she sure had fun! Hopefully the snow sticks around for a few days so we can go out and play some more!

How cute is this?!? What else needs to be said? 🙂

For Nicholas’ 13th birthday this year, Bryan took Nicholas and three of his friends to Glow Putt in Gahanna. I was looking forward to going too, but Ally was sick, it was SUPER cold and Nicholas thought it would be cool for it to just be the ‘guys’. . .wow. . he really is 13, huh? Bryan did an awesome job taking pictures. . The boys reported that is was indeed a lot of fun. Seriously. .how cool is that? I wanna go too! After playing 18 holes, they went to Cici’s to get their fill of pizza and pasta. Wow. . he’s 13!

At our Portrait Party last month, we accepted donations to benefit the Riverside Children’s Hospital NICU.
THANK YOU to everyone that donated money and to those that donated actual items! We had some scrapbooking items, over 28 blankets, and a 4X6 photo printer donated! With the money we collected, we bought over 200 pcs. of photo paper, a supply of ink cartridges, 12 hand mirrors and more scrapbooking supplies. Check out the picture below of the whole donation!
We delivered everything the day after Christmas. One of Ally’s nurses was there and came out to visit with us for a little while. We attempted to get a picture of them together but Ally turned super shy and faked sleep for the photo. . . what a goofball! The last pictures are of the card I made to give them with the donation. . so they could see how much she’s grown in the past two and a half years and to say THANK YOU for taking such good care of her during her NICU stay!

Here is a sampling of the photos that were taken at our Portrait Party that we had last month. Thank you to everyone that came!
We had a great time and hope that you all did too!