Our Little Pilgrim

I wanted to have holiday photos taken, Valentines, Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas and to carry this tradition on to all of our kids, making them special family memories. It started with Ava's first holiday photo: Valentines Day. She was a Month old, laying on her pink and white satin blankie with miniature angel wings. This was her Valentines gift for daddy. For Easter, she laid in a basket, wearing a sweet dress her Auntie made her and playing with a soft, chocolate brown (real) bunny. Emphasis on real, we have a photo of the very moment both Ava and the bunny realize each other is real and upon finding this out, Ava raises her little arms up, eyes amazingly 10 times there normal size and the bunny jumping out of the basket for his dear little life. I think that was my favorite photo in the series. This year, for Thanksgiving I wanted to dress her up as a little Pilgrim. Well, actually at first I wanted to dress her as a little turkey since she's my little turkey butt, however, finding a little gobbler costume was next to impossible. I decided then to make her a simple Pilgrim dress using, yes, a witches costume on clearance 75% off after Halloween (I paid only $1.75). Using a white sheet we had stored away, it took me only a few days of cutting, ironing and HAND SEWING. Hand sewing? why is that a big deal? My hand is next to useless, so with each stitch I reminded myself how cute and sweet Ava will look when it was finished. And boy, that was an understatement! She looked beyond cute! We go to DeeDee Ortiz to get her photos taken, DeeDee does such a wonderful job and is incredibly talented!