Yup, I’m still hanging in here.  Well, I guess I should say baby boy is still hanging in there.  I’m due tomorrow, but apparently no one has passed along the message to the baby since he seems pretty comfy in there.

So, I figured I might as well start setting up times for my holiday mini sessions.  I have a ton of people anxiously waiting to schedule theirs, so here you go!    I’m still firming up the location, but I’m fairly certain they will be at a beautiful, private historic residence in Odessa.

You’ll need to send a 50% deposit to reserve your time slot this year.  Email me to reserve your session.   erin@erinfarrellphotography.com

Since I’m no longer taking on any weddings or portrait sessions, you’ll be seeing a lot more of my personal photos for the next two months. 

Molly doesn’t turn two until September 10th, but with a baby due on August 29th (ACK!), I decided I’d rather have her party early and do it pregnant than with a newborn in tow.  I decided on a sock monkey theme and I must say, it turned out super cute.

The invitations I designed:

Molly sporting her handmade sockmonkey dress I bought from Etsy seller, 3lilmuses.

The favors:

The adorable cupcakes a friend made for us.

The little piggy ate TWO cupcakes!

Her new balance bike from Mommy & Daddy.  If you’ve never heard of these, it’s a pretty neat idea.  Usually kids go from a tricycle to a bike with training wheels to a bike with no training wheels.  Well, the concept of balance bikes is that you go straight from this bike to a regular bike with no training wheels.  You’ll notice the bike has no pedals — she has to use her feet to move it.  As she gets bigger and gains more coordination, she’ll go faster and faster and start to pick up her feet and coast.  So, hopefully she’ll learn to balance a bike with a little less fear than sticking her ontop of a regular bike where she can’t reach the ground.   We’ll see.  But my husband and I were pretty excited about it.