birthday celebration...



i had edited these pictures to the best of my limited ability and they looked great! (great by my own personal standards but not by any professional standards :) )  but then i go to put them here, and all of my editing just vanished.  so after literally days of trying...i give up...the important thing is that all of harper's fun and excitement is recorded for future posterity.

oliver jack was born for this :)

she doesn't even have to try...cute just oozes out of her naturally...

see?

all grown up.

silly adam with a finger 'stache.

sweet jade...almost a teenager but can still have fun like a kid. 

finger 'staches and a unibrow.

painting...well, everyone except for bria who claimed that she "preferred not to get messy".

bria, used crayons instead....

harper's best friends: bria and ayden

sweet merri...i loved watching her interact with everyone...such caution, such sweetness, such innocence.  she is a beautiful girl and i love her :)

favorite picture ever.

one of my favorite girls ever.

another of my favorite girls ever.

pin the 'stache on the man: harper's favorite part of the night because "everyone was laughing so hard".

i love harper's face in these next two pictures...she had the best time and her laugh just says it all.

emmi's plates...i asked her if the cake plate was hers and she started giggling uncontrollably and said, "yes. and this one. and this one. and this one. and this one."

beauty and the beast

bella was a big hit

happy 8th birthday harper faye.  i love you more than i could have ever imagined and watching you grow has been one of the biggest privileges of my life.  you are full of life and love.  somehow you manage to be an unlikely combination of an old soul and free spirit.  i know God has big plans for you...that's been clear from the beginning...but seeing you now makes the possibilities seem unbounded.  i love you.  yesterday, today, and tomorrow ever after.