First of all let me put out a disclaimer! These pictures were taken by my amazingly talented friend Kelle Hampton, and I am sure there is some rule about taking pictures from someone elses blog and putting them on your own... but I couldn't contain myself!!!!!!!! My sweet little Abby is receiving First Holy Communion next weekend, and Kelle is doing the pictures for the entire church!!!! So we got to have a little fun w/ Abby early so she will have some displays for the ceremony! She did all of this at her home, in her yard and even w/ a baby on her hip at times!(sweet Lainy Love) So here goes... I have been thinking about this day fir a long time! I think being Catholic is wonderful and we are a family rooted in our Faith. Trying to raise my children Catholic is sometimes hard, and by that I mean I just want them to understand it and truly embrace it! I want them to find all of the customs and traditions as sacred as we do! Starting with her 1st communion! We have been practicing how to receive communion, and what it means an what a sacred blessing it is to come into communion with your church! She has gone to her first Confession and she is truly excited to be doing this! So with all that thinking I am gonna let you in on the personal side, this is a little hard but here goes! My dad passed almost 8 years ago (Abby is 8) and I often wish he could see them growing up. My mom and dad were married for 35 years and I feel blessed by my childhood and all of that! So my mom has re-married and is very happy, she gave me her wedding gown that she wore when she married my dad and it has been in the closet, I have kind of thought this would be the answer to Abby's 1st communion dress. So the time came and I pulled it out, and it had that smell, the smell of my Mom-Mom's house(my grandmother) and I got out the wedding picture of my parents and I looked at the beautiful dress! This dress that my Mom-Mom made with her sweet hands! I looked at the pearls and the fabric is amazing... but my favorite part of the dress is the buttons on the pack. Satin buttons, lots of them all the way down the back, and so my mission began. Called Jack's Aunt Sandy who was a seamstress in New York and has made all of the other nieces dresses and I asked her! Well "yes" was the answer and here is the final product! Along with the veil that Jack's mom went and got for her, also a rosarie and a prayer book, and sweet little white gloves. I took her for her shoes, she had one request... high heels! we found them and before we could by them she had to go walk around on the tile in the shoe store to make sure the"clopped"!!!!!!! So Kelle's pictures today, she wore here cross that she was baptized in that her god-parents (Uncle Dom and Aunt Ria) got for her, and the new earrings with little diamond and pearls that Daddy and Mommmy got her! My friend Jacy came and did her hair and she was just basking in all of the fuss and fun! We got to Kelle's and I had to stop the lump in my throat when it all came together! Then she posts these pictures on her blog and I finally cried! The sweetness and innocence was captured perfectly and I could not be happier! to check out all of Kelle's amazing pictures go to www.enjoyingthesmallthings.blogspot.com

Book her now, because she is on the rise and I want to get her as much as I can before she is booked out months at a time!!!!!!