5 and Fabulous!

My first born turned 5 today.  How can that be?!?  Sadly he has been running a fever for the past couple of days so we had to postpone his party until next week.  He feels tons better today though so we celebrated, just us, with brownies, ice cream, candles, and a present (taken from my stash of Easter basket toys).  It was quite a success!

So in honor of my sweet boy here is one of my favorite layouts of him as a baby.

One fine October day when my first born was about 7 months old I decided to take him outside for a photo shoot.  I just put out a blanket and sat him down.  I had a lot of fun playing with angles and the focus.  How nice those days were when they would just sit and let you photograph them.  Those days are LONG GONE!  :)

I pulled my colors for the page from the outfit he was wearing.  I love the mix of the green, pale blue, and brown.  I thought that mixing color photos with sepia tone ones would make a nice contrast. To make the color photos really pop I matted them several times with a wide border of this cute leaf patterned paper.

I was so excited when I found the quote "Tall oaks from little acorns grow" in one of my vellum quote books!  It went so perfectly with my tree shots.  As I was digging through my sticker stash I found these nature stickers.  I loved the rustic bark-like look they gave the page.

My boy has grown so much in the last 5 years.

He is kind, helpful, nurturing, and so bright!  He is my joy and my heart.  I can't wait to see what this new stage of life will bring!