summertime morning walk on the beach...

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A daily 8 am walk on the beach was one of my favorite memories of our Laguna Beach vacation. These two were the early risers on this trip so the three of us (and my camera) would quietly sneak out of our room and head for the beach attempting not to wake the others. Although sweatshirts were a must on these chilly early mornings, it was defineltly summertime at it's finest! Sigh...I want to go back!

Peek-a-boo...

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I actually took these photos way back in FEBURARY and am just now getting around to editing them. I have to admit that when I opened them, I fell in love with them all over again!
I'm heading offline to pack for my spur of the moment week long beach vacation so if I'm slow to respond to comments and emails, you'll know why!!

we went to see the llamas...

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We went on a little impromptu walk yesterday evening down a little dirt road in our neighborhood to see the llamas. The light was LOVELY as you can see. I took 3 shots and my battery went dead. Sigh. I guess two decent shots out of three is not too shabby but I can't stop thinking about all the missed photos in this yummy light. I guess you could say I'm a little obsessed (my husband sure would).

how we've been spending our summer days...

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We've been spending lots of time at the pool this summer. We have all been loving it. She has been obsessed with this little red slide there. She climbs up all by herself and turns around and goes down backwards every time. She probably is one of the littlest kids there to have a go at it alone (with me standing right at the bottom of course). By the look on her face, I'd say she is definitely {enjoying life}.
Go check out more enjoying life entries...

lipstick and little girls...

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What is it about little girls and lipgloss/lipstick? She loves it. Even obsesses over it. Anything that resembles lipstick she pretends to put on her lips and tells me "makeup mama". It makes me giggle. The other day she reached up on my messy bathroom counter and got my concealer. I found her like this, applying flesh tones to her little pink lips. I love how she is looking at me like "how long do I have before you take this away". Yes, she cried A LOT when I finally did. Sigh. It's hard to get mad at her when she's so darn cute! :)

project 21/52 {dream}

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This kid plays hard and really he needs a nap every day but at four years old he doesn't want to take one. About 3 times a week, I find him in random places asleep. Yesterday, he feel asleep just like this. Made me giggle so of course I had to capture him dreaming away...

project 20/52

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All year I have been doing a little personal photo project. I haven't really shared much of it on the blog. It's a 52 week project or one photo a week for a year. Each week there is a theme. This week's theme is motherhood and as many of you mommas out there know, May is a busy month when you have kids in school. I have hardly picked up my camera the last two weeks. I've been running all over: piano recitals, baseball games, soccer games, preschool programs, kindergarten graduation, dance recitals, class parties and the list goes on! I did manage to capture this moment though. This is my kindergartner. She is growing up so fast (makes me wanna cry) but this is motherhood. It's my job to make sure all these little monotonous things (like homework) get done so they can grow up to be responsible adults. It's really hard a lot of the time and I must admit that 8:00pm (aka bedtime) might be favorite time of day on many days. BUT there are always times during the day when I have little moments that make it all worth it. Sometimes they are silly things like watching my growing 6 year-old-soon-to-be-1st-grader do her very last kindergarten homework assignment and feeling the depth of just how much I love her...motherhood SO HARD yet so REWARDING!

PS If you want to see my other project 52 photos head on over to my flickr photostream here.

all she wants for christmas is her two front teeth...

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She lost her two front teeth two consecutive days in a row! After she lost the first one, she cried and told me "Now I can never smile because I look so ugly".  It about broke my heart. I mean, she is only six years old. When my son lost his front teeth, he could have cared less. He was just excited for the money he would get from the tooth fairy! Of course the next day at school, a kid told her she needed braces. Sigh. The next day when she lost this one, she was a little more used to the idea. She still wasn't diggin' it though (as can plainly be seen from her expression in many of these photos). I may have bribed her to show her teeth for the picture. I think she looks pretty dang cute but she doesn't believe me!
She's growing up and it SCARES me to death!

almost one year ago...

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Sigh...she has grown soooo much. It SCARES me how fast time is passing. In the chaos of learning to cope with having four kiddos last year, I'm realizing, as I go though my hard drive, that I took lots of pictures throughout the year and hardly even looked at them. I edited almost none. These are like new to me and I'm SO happy to have them.

PS  Can someone PLEASE stop time for me? Thanks.

sister love

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Found this while cleaning out files on my hard drive. It was over a year ago and I CANNOT believe how much they have changed. This is a serious gem and I'm not quite sure how I overlooked it! It must have been because of all the sleep deprivation and craziness that having a new baby brings!

this little piggy goes to the market...

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I must admit, I got lots of funny looks taking these pictures at our local favorite hangout, Costco! People must have been wondering why in the world I would want to take pictures there! It was very funny and I'm so glad I did it. It's a slice of our life! And a trip to Costco almost always involves, suckers, churros, and lots of begging to buy junk we don't need! hehehe (it could be said I'm the sucker) These are the things that I want to remember someday when they are too big to sit in the cart. Just love these.

I got a new camera bag/purse from Ketti Handbags (which are apparently really hard to get). I am in love! It is so stinking cute but it also safely holds my camera! I no longer have to take my purse and my big ugly canon camera bag in order to bring my camera along! Often, I just left it home because I just can't deal with all that stuff plus hold a kid or two on either hip! I am going to start taking photos like these more often! I only spent about 5 minutes taking these photos but MAN I love the results! I treasure these already. It almost makes grocery shopping look fun! :)

P.S. I'm kinda proud of how healthy my shopping cart contents look (and I'm not talking about my kiddos). Don't judge me for the premade jello and pudding cups! :)