Beautiful Baby!

My big girls have been in Texas with my mom for the past week, so I decided to take Ella downtown for 10 month pictures. We didn't take 6 month pics because it was February and very cold outside, and at 9 months it was the end of school and craziness...so we decided to do 10 month pictures instead! I took her to the Myriad Gardens, which are beautiful by the way! It was 1000 degrees yesterday, so I took the pink tutu and just left her naked. I think they turned out very cute! I took a couple of other outfits too, but these are my favorite! :) Gotta love a chunky naked baby in a pink tutu!


Ella showing off her standing skills


such a cute girl!


Sweet face


My favorite, even though she is not smiling...her eyes are amazing!

The Flower Fairy

This weekend was Annalise's very first ballet recital. She started taking ballet last summer as a trial to see if she would like it or not. She had begged for a couple of years to take ballet, and so Ryan and I decided a trial summer would be a good idea to see if she really liked it before we committed to pay for an entire year of ballet. She loved the summer session and did awesome for never taking dance before then, and her teacher bumped her up a class for the 2008-2009 year. She was the youngest in her class by at least 6-8 months, but it didn't bother her to be the youngest, or to not know anyone, she quickly made friends and loved her class.

She worked really hard for her ballet recital that was June 7th. The dance school did a production of Peter Pan and Tink. It was really great and nice that it was a show instead of 100 random classes getting up and doing random dances. She had a lot of fans...Mommy, Daddy, Memaw, Mamaw, Uncle Ryan, Holly, Grandaddy and Grandmommy all came to watch her big night.


She was a flower fairy in Pixie Hollow (where Tinkerbell lives). She was so cute! She thought she was big stuff because she got to wear makeup...


Here she is with her best buddy Aidan (the squirrel!) Soooo cute!



Annalise and her buddy Julia. Julia goes to school with Annalise but she is a grade above her. She really loved getting to know Julia this year.


Annalise and Uncle Ryan.


She had such a great year. She was also nominated by her teacher as the Victory School of the Arts Student of the Year. She made it to the semi-finals. We couldn't have been more proud of her! Here is a little bit of her dance...She is on the very end