A little photography practice

I spent a little time today practicing taking pictures with a friend, and old neighbor.  She has the cutest little girl (Kate) who has to be one of the easiest babies to take pictures of.  They are both just beautiful!!  You can find Ashley's blog here.  Thought I would share a couple pictures from today.  :)

Caley Bug-a-roo

It's been way too long...

It feels like it's been FORVER since I've been on the computer to blog.  I've been far far away lately, just trying to focus on other things in my life....like cleaning the house :)  It's such a strange feeling to actually have the laundry done everyday.  I guess I've kept it up now for about 3 weeks or so and it feels good.  I just hope it will last.  

Well, backing up a couple of months...Camden played on a pre-season baseball team called the Hunstville Rockets.  Carter was actually able to play in one game when they needed an extra player so getting a little extra ball time before playing spring ball was good for both of them.  

The next couple of pictures are at school when they had to dress up like a character from a book that their class had chosen.  Carter was Thing 1 from Dr. Seus and his friend Margaret was Thing 2.  Camden's class dressed up like The Little's.  He was a pilot and came up with his little costume all on his own.  I was impressed....a snow hat and some goggles.  Loved it.  

Easter was just beautiful this year.  I couldn't have asked for a more pleasant day.  Saturday night we all went over to Ben and Anna's (my brother and his wife) to eat dinner and let the kids egg hunt.  They had such a great time...all nine kids!   My side of the family was there...I think there were 22 of us and we're all going to the beach together in July....CANNOT WAIT!  

Hopefully, I'll start keeping up with the blogging now...if I can keep the house clean too :)  

Brooke

Rock Star

Apparently you can video on the imac.  I found this little video of Carter that he recorded of himself yesterday.  For some reason Thomas and I got a big kick out of it.  See what you think.

The Photo Booth.

No excuses, I'm such a dork.  It sure was fun though.

My very brave and very scared little girl.

Does anybody see anything odd about this picture?  Look closely.

My brave little girl decided to get her ears pierced a few weeks ago.  We had been talking about it for a while but she was just a little too scared to actually go through with it, until, one day she randomly said she wanted to get it done.  I really didn't believe her so i just brushed it off and didn't put much thought in to it at all.  Well, I was so wrong.  While I was at our church ladies retreat, Thomas sent me a picture from his phone of her having it done.  I was totally shocked!  I was a little sad that I didn't actually get to see her get it done but I was glad that daddy got to experience it with her.  They really need more father/daughter time together, so this was good.   She is very much a mamma's girl.

Thomas said she was laughing so loud to try and hold back the tears.  She was very very brave and I was so proud of her for making that choice all by herself.

Two days later, she woke up that morning with one earring gone.  I tried to get it back in her ear but it just wouldn't go through.  Poor thing, I poked and poked but had to give up because it was hurting her so much.

We knew what had to be done now....get it re-pierced. (sigh)

Well, today was the day.  She was very excited about getting it done again and not the least bit scared...so it seemed.  We got into Claire's and then she just started sobbing.  I tried and tried to talk her into getting it done but no luck.  She was so so scared.  Believe me, she's made up her mind.  She will not get it done again any time soon that's for sure.  You could offer her 10 new dolls and she wouldn't budge on her decision.

So...my dilemma.

Do I take the other earring out?  Or....leave it in until she decides to have it done again.  (Which I honestly believe, at this point, will be a very long time from now.)

I need your advice!!  Leave it or remove it??

Marah's Tea Party

This picture was taken at my mom's house during Marah's Birthday Tea Party.  I can't believe she's already five years old!!  All the girls dressed up in their princess dresses.  Too Cute.