Introducing Cal

At the beginning of December, we had a {meet the baby} shower for my friend, Megan.

As always, it was a very well coordinated bfe event.
I was excited to design the invites.

My mom was gracious to let us have it at her house.
Christie was master cupcake baker. 

Audra and Amber addressed the invites, and searched out the perfect paper goods.

Yeah, your mouth is watering, huh?!?
The chocolate were my favorite. They had Cherry in the center, and a chocolate covered cherry on top!
I think the other ones had cookie dough in the center.


After we got all set up, the guest of honor arrived...

(I'm so glad he's getting use of out one of Barrett's hats! I loved this little hat. I think it was from my friend, Bethany.)

The Annual Pumpkin Carving Party

The Friday before Halloween, we had our annual pumpkin carving party at Brent and Megans.

Only this year....

We never really got around to the actual pumpkin carving! Oops!

Guess that's what happens when you add two new babies to the mix since last year's party.

I must say I was very bummed.
If we wouldn't have had to leave at the crack of dawn the next day for Manhattan, we would have stayed to carve!

So....we had pizza, let the kids run and play, sat by the fire, made smores, and enjoyed being together.

{some snapshots from the night}

Of course we had to end the night with a bfe baby shot!

I can't believe there are SEVEN of them now!

We all had to snuggle baby Cal too! Justin got to hold him for the first time :)

Thanks for hosting the annual gig, Brent and Megan!

Can't wait for next year! You'll have a one-year-old!

Welcome Baby Cal

Remember in May when we went to the "preview" for Norah Kate's new baby!?!

If not, you can read all about it here.

Barrett and I wore our BLUE, and hoped that one of my BFE friends would finally have a BOY!

We were so excited to find out that they WERE!!

And now...the sweet little baby boy is here!

Callum John

October 17th, 2010 at 12:17 p.m.

8 pounds, 3 ounces

20 inches

He is so mellow and precious!
I just want to show up at Megan's door every day and snuggle him!

She might get tired of me =)

I did enjoy every second of his newborn shoot on Wednesday morning, though! He wins the award for BEST newborn I've ever shot! It took me about 30 minutes of snuggling, patting and rocking (this was complete torture for me, as you can imagine) to get him sleeping. But, once he was out...he was OUT .... O-U-T, out! I moved that little guy into a hundred positions, took hats on and off of him, took off his diaper, and he just kept snoozin'. Another reason I love him so much already!

I am swamped with editing from sessions over the last couple weeks, but I couldn't resist doing just one to show Megan and Brent. This is one of my favorites!! Megan always has the cutest Fall decorations, and they made the perfect subtle background! The basket was from our friend, Audra! It was just the right size for Cal! Thanks, Audra!!

Welcome to this world, Callum!! You are one very loved little man.

I am so excited that Barrett will have another little boy to play with at all the BFE gatherings, 

and I can't wait to watch you grow!