my oldest baby is 12! {fresno clovis photographer}
July 22, 2010
Seems like she was dancing around on my parents deck singing songs from “Beauty and the Beast” in her little Snow White costume just the other day… now she is getting ready to register for junior high… *sigh*… But she is still as sweet as ever and we couldn’t be any prouder of our Princess. Happy Birthday, sweetheart!!
My daughter and I saw this cake on Bobbi+Mike ‘s blog and we knew we had to try it. I used to make all sorts of crazy, amazing cakes for the kids’ birthdays, especially my daughter’s since she’s the oldest… But it had been awhile since I have done a fun cake, so we decided it was time for a fun one! It really wasn’t very hard and the results were so worth the time it took to cook the 6 layers (3 shifts in the oven with my 2 cake pans)! This one was vanilla, but next time, we thought it might be fun to flavor the cake with some kind of fruitiness…
I had some great help in getting our masterpiece underway…
Cutting into the cake was SO exciting!! 
1st birthday to 12th birthday… passes so quickly… Love you much, birthday girl!!
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weekend camping!! {fresno clovis photographer}
July 21, 2010
My husband and I both grew up camping, but my husband is a camping pro. Seriously. He went to school to learn how to run a camp, because that is one of his great passions. He really wanted to end up in Jackson Hole, Wyoming (his favorite — truly beautiful place) running a Christian camp with his close high school buddy, but plans changed, life happened, and he took a different career path. But his love for camping and his talent for cooking awesome camp meals and planning itineraries for great stuff to do is still a huge part of him. When we camp, I do not do a thing. He cooks, cleans, puts up, tears down… everything. I completely relax, and I love it! And I love him for making it such a wonderful time for our family (among other reasons… ). Now that we live in central California, there are a MILLION terrific places to camp!! This past weekend we got to go to Dinkey Creek for the first time, and between the fishing for trout, bumping down the natural waterslides in the COLD creek, watching our kids explore, and enjoying s’mores with friends, we could not have had more fun! If we only had more time to take in every great site… my husband could come up with a plan to visit each state park campground…
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I love the wedding photos, and the rainbow cake is just great, but I had to comment on the camping pics because I can’t believe how much this looks like Kentucky! I would have sworn you went to the place where we love to camp! And, how great that your hubby does everything!! I think I’d have to make him go every weekend. lol!
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summer… {fresno clovis child portrait photographer}
July 17, 2010
The word summer carries so many memories for people… swimming pools, vacations, days of doing whatever we want… Summer for me as a kid was spending hours in my room reading the pile of books I got to check out at the library, which is not the norm for most people, but my daughter seems to have taken on that trait as well… And summer also means family vacation to me — my sisters and I were blessed with the fact that almost every summer we got to take a week or so and travel to whatever destination my parents dreamed up, and we still laugh about the stories and photos from those days in our orange VW van (with the huge rocks piled at our feet on the way home… that is a long story for later) and our pop-up camper, seeing so many things all over the US. Whatever summer memories you cherish, I hope you are making many new ones this summer and savoring each moment… because summer is only a few short weeks and is disappearing fast…
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This is very cute and sweet! Simple yet very fantastic.
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4th fun {fresno clovis photographer}
July 10, 2010
Hot dogs, baked beans, fabulous dips and chips… cool dip in the pool, talking with friends in lounge chairs, watching kids laughing together with school friends they haven’t seen all summer… loud banging fireworks in the street, glowing sparklers, moms trying to make sure no one blows off their fingers… the joys of the 4th of July . Too bad its only once a year. Hope you all had a wonderful time celebrating!!
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Such cool images!!
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super fun and fantastic photos!
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Fantastic pictures Tangie! Love them!
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Love the swirly photo!
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Wow, Tang. I remember being at that first birthday party! Beautiful cake. Happy Birthday, C!
merci and i were at the first birhtday party, too! remember it well…it was HOT!! i have lots of pics from that day by dad’s pond. how i wish we could have been at the rainbow cake bday perty too!! maybe when you’re here at christmas, you can teach us how to make that cake and we can have a big bday party for all the kids….complete with balloons and streamers!!!
love you!
you will have to tell me what supplies i will need to make the cake….did you use special food coloring? remember, you are talking to a non-baker here!
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