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What do you get when you have a gorgeous family, a sassy full of personality and love baby girl, a little bit of cake and some amazing light?!  You get a bit of magic!  

I’ve known Berkley since we were little, we grew up in the same neighborhood and I went to school (all schools) with her big brother!  The best part of my job is when I get to reconnect with old friends and seeing Berkley was amazing enough, but seeing her as a mom:  breathtaking!

This family is gorgeous and not just gorgeous on the outside (which they completely are!) but they are gorgeous on the inside and instantly once you meet them and spend even 5 minutes with them you feel like you are a part of the group!  A silly group filled with laughter and fun and inside jokes.  This is a family that supports one another more than 100 percent and respects one another in ways that makes your heart so full!  And then there is Ms. Isabelle:  EVERYONE loves Ms. Isabelle and is totally enamored with her!

And who wouldn’t be?!  This almost 1 year old beauty completely commands the room’s attention and she is soo full of life and spirit and happy sass!  She is fearless and she is spunky!  Everyone wants to surround themselves with her and it is a fight to see who gets to snuggle her, who gets to make her laugh and who gets the most kisses!

I felt truly honored to be able to spend an evening with Berkley’s family!  What started out as a simple family session ended in a super fun family cake smash.  Everyone was involved from cake smashing, to cake eating to sticky, slippery ooey goeey mess after!  No one was left un-iced and everyone had a blast!

This truly was an evening full of family and joy in the way that every family hopes and dreams about!

Here’s a peek at some of my favorites from our evening together!  You can truly feel all the love everyone has for one another and the joy they feel at just being around each other!

 

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“Touch Touch Digger”, It’s all we’ve heard now for the past week!  Which is actually pretty awesome!  It was a spur of the moment decision, one that for most people might not have been worth the drive but to us was beyond anything we could have imagined it to be!  

I never expected Tuck to even be home on Father’s day!  I spent hours in the hallmark stores buying the perfect cards:  deployment cards, super hero cards, from your loving wife cards, miss you cards, just because cards and then of course Linc and I made our own cards to send.  I planned our Father’s day box down to the package stuffing and what day I was going to send it out to make sure it got there early!  I was prepared!  But we all know that when you prepare and plan, life has this funny way of throwing you a curve ball and saying:  haha plan for THIS!  The THIS just happened to be a wonderful surprise and we all got to be together for our second father’s day!  That was really the best gift anyone could ask for!

So we woke up in the morning and had our normal routine of breakfast and cards and I asked Tuck what he wanted to do today?  We would do anything he wanted, although I knew he just wanted to spend time with us.  We ran through a list of things we could do:  play in our pool which Linc loves, go to the aquarium which is usually fun but kind of quick, go to the beach like the rest of our area, or we could do something totally different.  We could drive to see the Grave Digger!

Linc’s super into monster trucks these days and I have to admit, it’s really a lot of fun!  So we packed him up, packed up the car full of snacks and drinks and we made the hour or so drive just to see the Grave Digger!  We are really lucky we live so close and both Tuck and I felt we needed to take the time to seize the opportunity, take a Sunday drive with the windows down and enjoy the time together when he is this little!   Enjoy this time when he his so full of excitement and that wow factor is so fresh and so new!

So we drove and we talked and we laughed!  We parked and Linc was able to “touch touch Digger”!

We came home with a few goodies (of course, how could you not when you are right at diggers dungeon).  We came home and we all napped and then we played in the pool together for the rest of the day.  I’d say that was a pretty perfect if not amazing Father’s Day!

It was more than I could have ever dreamed up and my heart was just so full!  Linc is still talking about the day and I am still thanking God for that day!

We have big muscles, just like those big trucks do! One of my favorites! So sweet, nothing like daddy Big hugs for mommy!

 

 

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Could you wait?!  I mean really, could you wait to find out whether you were having a boy or girl… especially when you already have one of the cutest, sweetest and just the right amount of sassy little girls already?!!

I couldn’t!

We had been planning so many fun things for her gender reveal for such a long time!  My girlfriend is also a photographer and an artist so you can just imagine all the ideas we came up with… sparkly gold dresses, urban settings, fireworks, etc!  When we came to our real senses we ended up planning the perfect little gender reveal involving everything special and unique to their family.

Of course though once you plan, something always comes up and that evening we had storms!  Little ones that passed by, thunder that rolled through and rain showers that down poured then stopped then spit then stopped and kept rolling like that on through the evening.  E and I didn’t let it stop us though, with her crazy travel schedule and the anticipation of what was in that lantern… we just had to know!

So we changed direction and you know, I think it was just perfect!  I laugh because when I think about it it reminds me of that saying… you were born on a dark and stormy night… now E can say you were revealed on a dark and stormy evening!

Here are some of my favorite from our quick little session in their back yard!  Her hubby made the teepee, yea he’s awesome like that!

OOOH I’m so excited… what will it be, boy or girl for big sister Clover?!

Congratulations Clover!  You are going to one fantastic big sis!!!!

 

 

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