I Love You Alani!

11 days till the big 1!

Okay so yesterday I was so busy I forgot to post “Day 18” well I didn’t totally forget, but by the time I remembered it was 12:00am and I said I’d just make 2 posts in 1 tomorrow (Today).

Just the other day I decided I wanted to have a 1st Birthday smash cake photoshoot for Alani  (Yes I always come up with ideas last minute). Anywho, I brought it up to Sekou and he said, okay go for it (I love that guy for always supporting my last minute craziness).

Because her birthday party is in less than 2 weeks, and I want pictures for her party, I decided to pull out that good ol’ Nikon and take the pictures all by myself, well not all by myself my brother, who is just as patient as I am played photographer for most of the photo shoot, thank you, thank you, thank you..

Okay so anyone who knows me knows that I absolutely LOVE taking pictures ever since I was a kid, and I want to make lots of memorable moments that I have pictures to show for.. In elementary and Junior high school I always had a disposable camera (remember those) and I was always the one taking pictures at school trips, recess, etc. I remember my freshmen year in high school I got my 1st digital camera for Christmas. Unfortunately my most latest digital camera (which was the best one I’ve ever had) got misplaced and I never got another camera after that until Mother’s Day, thank you again Sekou, don’t worry I won’t misplace this one.

Okay I just went off topic about how much I love cameras, but if you don’t have one, get one, even if it’s just a regular digital camera those are great too, Sony was the best for me.

Okay so back to this photo shoot. When we decided we were going to do the photo shoot ourselves I got straight to work, I started with online inspiration (Pintrest and YouTube), you ever seen how cute those cake smash photoshoots were, Alani just had to do one.

 Once we figured out the theme I went and bought one too many things from party city. Then I decided I wanted to make her photo shoot cake by myself, because YouTube makes everything seem easy so I gave it a try, making that cake gave me a headache it wasn’t as easy as it seemed (damn you YouTube), but it turned out okay, and I’m proud of my work.

I set up everything all by myself, even though it took me two hours to do something that should probably take less than hour, it turned out great. You try setting up a backdrop with a walking 11 month old around, yes that includes lots of ripping down stuff I just put up, putting streamers in her mouth, trying to bite the balloons, maybe next time i’ll make sure someone is around to watch her before I start.

But let me tell you, Alani had Sooo much fun during picture time, we played her favorite song (watch me whip) and watched while she laughed, smiled and danced the photo shoot away.

Thank you Sekou, my siblings, and parents, for making this photo shoot possible, Alani and I Love You!!!

This was a long read, but sometimes when I start writing I can’t stop I want to give you guys all the details. Thank you for stopping by.

Here are pictures of the setup.

Here’s me acting like i’m some type of photographer, lol. Maybe next time I will leave it up to the real photographers, it’s not an easy task!

12 more days till the big 1!

On this exact day last year I was patiently waiting for baby girl to come on out.

I was so sure she was going to be here before her actual due date, which was the 21st, and plus I wanted her to be a Leo, because my mom is one, and all the other Leo’s I know I love ( Yes I’m that person who believes in astrology, and reads horoscopes. When I first meet you chances are one of my ten questions will be “what’s your sign”).

Anywho, because I “knew” that Alani was coming early we decided to take last minute maternity pictures.

This was a picture after our shoot. I love how my belly photobombed the picture, too cute!

I miss my belly, but not that pregnancy nose.

14 more days till the big 1!

These past 2 days Alani has been waking up, and going straight to her shoes trying to put them on, all by her little self.

I think it’s the cutest thing ever.

I know she feels like a pro walker now; walking with shoes on.

How cute is she with her pajamas and sneakers, you should’ve seen her yesterday with her cow boy boots on with her pajamas (the funniest thing ever), I suck for not getting a picture of that one.

16 days till the big 1!

17  more days till the big 1!

PS. I still love my moby wrap, it serves a lot of purposes. Like cleaning up, doing laundry, shopping, yea just about anything, without having to worry about Alani putting everything in her mouth!

Thank You Moby Wrap for your all purpose carrier!