Emma's Outdoor Tea Party

When it came time to take some pictures of Emma for our Christmas card, I thought how fun it would be to do something outside. And then I thought how fun it would be to give Emma a little tea party. And then I thought how fun it would be to do both! Thankfully, we have a photographer in the family who is willing to work with my quirky ideas. (Daniel's sister, Kimberly, is a GREAT photographer--I highly recommend her!) We took Emma to Granny White Park, which is where we go for walks and to play at the playground. I wanted to take pictures somewhere that Emma was familiar with her surroundings. The photos turned out darling!

This is the picture we ended up using on our Christmas card.

There are only about 300 of the most darling pictures you've ever seen, but I'll tell y'all a funny story about the photo shoot and then show the pictures to illustrate it. When I set up the tea party for Emma, I also included some Falltime cakes in the display. I didn't think Emma would eat them because she's never had them before and she wouldn't know they were edible. This was a bad assumption. But it did make for some adorable pictures!

If that's not just the cutest sequence of a little baby girl eating cake, then I don't know what is! Big thanks to Kimberly!!!

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Falltime Festivities

We had some wonderful and very fallsy days this past season! Emma and I did some paintings and lots of baking and Emma wore her costumes for Halloween (that her Mimi purchased last year--thanks Mimi!), and played in the leaves and went to a Fall festival in Franklin and many other Fall time activities!

The painting setup

We got a little messy

Emma's Falltime Collection

My Sous Chef

Pumpkin Pie cooling next to Emma's creations that are drying

Front Door Wreath

The pumpkins I painted for our front door 

Playing in the leaves in our front yard

Trying on her ladybug costume

The Zebra costume try-on was like Ralphie with the Bunny costume

Fall festival in Franklin

Family walk at Radnor Lake 

Waiting for the Trick or Treaters that never came

Lots of candy for a tiny zebra.

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Pumpkin Patch

In October we took Emma to a Pumpkin Patch at Walden Farms. Emma was so tiny last year when we took her and this year she really got to enjoy it a bit. A lot of October was warmer than we'd hoped, but it was still a beautiful day to enjoy the Pumpkin Patch! Here are some pictures of our fun outdoor afternoon! We love Falltime!