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family pictures {2019}

Our family Christmas cards were sent out at the first of the month (woot!) but I also wanted to share the remainder of the photos from this year’s family photo shoot. Christmas cards and family photos are my very FAVORITE thing about the holidays. We send out many, many Christmas cards every year and receive almost as many, and it brings me SO much joy!

We had the wonderful and lovely Ashley Vos behind the camera again this year, and if you are local to Seattle, I cannot recommend her enough! The location was Volunteer Park in the Capital Hill neighborhood. It was SO cold but boy was it beautiful with all of the leaves! {Also, the girls were a little shy/grumpy/not interested when we first started, but warmed up at the end! I was a little worried about the pictures turning out, but Ashley is magic!}

And here’s a picture overload of the Lower family!

daphne {month thirty-three // two & three-quarters}

{ {alligator: JellyCat // tee: Hanna Andersson (old) // leggings: Cat & Jack}

eloise {fifth birthday party}

This past weekend Eloise turned FIVE and we threw her a party. When I asked her what party theme she wanted, she immediately said “Rainbows and Unicorns!” And it turns out, every other little girl’s birthday party we have gone to this year has had that same exact theme. Ha!

{The invitation from my go-to Paperless Post. Eloise got to pick it out this year completely on her own!}

daphne {second birthday party!}

Just this past weekend we took the morning to celebrate our sweet Daphne turning TWO!

Unlike parties in the past, I purposefully kept this party (very) small. I really wanted it to be about Daphne, so we invited two (close) family friends (who have a younger sibling Daphne’s age) and family. Usually we end up with a house-full of people which is SO fun, but we often don’t get to see and actually chat with our guests. We also kept the food scene super low-key (a few snacks and cupcakes) which meant we all enjoyed the party!

Invitations from Paperless Post which you know is my favorite since I love all of the designs. Plus the guest tracking is amazing.

daphne {two years}

{alligator: JellyCat // tee: Old Navy (old) // jeans: baby Gap (old) // hat: DIY from last year’s party}

{two years} TWO years?! It feels like it couldn’t possibly have been two whole years. And at the same time it feels like we have known Daphne for so much longer than two short years!

eloise {four & a half years}

{lion: jellycat via Nordstrom // sequin shirt: Gap Kids (old) // leggings: Cat and Jack // hair clip: Ryan and Wren}

{four & a half years} Oh man, guys, four & a half! It really feels real that Eloise is growing up. She’s just 6 months from being FIVE and registered for Kindergarten!

daphne {first day of preschool 2019}

{hair clip: Ryan and Wren // jeans: babyGap (old) // boots: Hunter (old) // jacket: Gymboree (old) // backpack: vintage // letterboard: Letterfolk (Poet)}

daphne {month twenty three}

{alligator: Jelly Cat // (Eloise’s) tee: Cat and Jack // leggings: Cat and Jack // bow: old}

family pictures {2018}

Most of you are probably on our Christmas card list so you’ve seen at least a smattering of our family photos from this year. But, I ended up buying the entire gallery of photos this year since I couldn’t choose just a few, ha!, so here is a photo over-load because I also couldn’t choose which ones to share either.

We shot these at the UW Arboretum just as it was really starting to look and feel like fall, and even though it was drizzling rain, it was perfect! As we have for the past few family photoshoots, we used Ashley Vos, and I highly recommend her if you are local to Seattle!

Also, when did my girls get so grown-up?!

daphne {month twenty-one}

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{alligator: JellyCat (old) // dress: old // leggings: babyGap}

{month twenty-one} Happy December! Maybe it is because I am in denial that we are rapidly approaching Daphne’s SECOND birthday, but it just does not seem like it’s been an entire month since her last monthly post. Continue reading “daphne {month twenty-one}”