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68 degrees.
flip flops.
picnic lunch of cheese & crackers and applesauce.
a walk.
a blanket.
bare feet.
laughing.
talking.
pretending.
Xander's Optimis Prime voice.
watching birds.
laying.
"sleeping."
taking it all in.
witnessing creation cry out His praises.
realizing [again] that I've got everything I need right here and everything I need is enough.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson
happy valentines day lovers.
prettiest breakfast. [source]
lovely. [source]
pretty balloons. [source]
pretty much my favorite. EVER. [source]
and a little peek at what these little girls were hard at work with this week (all pics straight out of camera -- a little dark, yes.). [see what we did [last year].]
Hailey's: [VERY little help from me]
Evie's: [a little more help from me]
hope your day is full of love.
xoxo.
okay. I'm the WORLD's WORST blogger. for real. I KNOW! I know. I'm really trying to get better because I know how inspired I get from looking at other's blogs and I'd like to think I have a little to offer. only thing is there's SO much going on in our world right now, I've just been doing the balancing act. And apparently, the good 'ol blog is what gives when things get chaotic.
just pretend that didn't happen.
I have some AMAZING photo shoots that I've been working on to blog about [I'm HORRIBLE about blogging photo shoots!], like 4 weddings that never hit the cyber-waves and TONS of personal outings and pretties that never debuted like I intended. And I'm sad about that. I want to get better. I really do. [sidenote: did you used to apologize to your diary when you didn't write for a long time? Just me? "Dear Diary, Sorry its been so long since my last entry..." Maybe its that crazy need I have to apologize for EVERYTHING...hmmm...if you did (or do!) please share. I need to know I'm not alone! ha!..okay. end of side note]. so here I am. starting over. because I get overwhelmed with trying to play catch up and then just get apathetic. And I loathe apathy.
just pretend that didn't happen.
This past week has proved to be INSANE for me. Lots of personal challenges, lots of deadlines, new adventures, and all the stuff in between..and it was capped off with [what could have been] a horrible end, of which I will blog about later..
BUT snow day with the kids was amazing......for the most part [all photos taken with Hailey's point & shoot..so nice to stick it in my pocket and not lug my big momma camera around in the snow...]
[and with p&s cameras, come no view finders. And with no view finders, come out of focus pics..especially when you can't actually SEE the screen b/c of the BLINDING white snow]]..
this little girl lost a tooth the night before...
I know. We make pretty babies.
We did a little sledding...
Xander found a hole in the snow...
and we built a little snowman (the snow was pretty icy as it hadn't actually snowed for about a week)
I know you're jealous of my Sacajawea-like boots. But did my feet get cold (or wet)? No they did not.
and then we had some lunch...packed stuff to make sandwiches. delightful.
at this point the kids were getting REALLY cold (Evie was pretty much inconsolable for the remainder of the trip because snow got INSIDE her boots and made her feet wet. And when your feet get wet, you're DONE.). So we needed something to get them back "into" the snow. And that's when Jon found it. It being Max's "footprint" (from where the Wild Things are)...and we were home free. well, all of us besides Miss Evie.
and then we did a little more sledding..
and then set the camera on a big snowman someone had built days before...and rocked the self timer.
and if you look REALLY closely, you can see just how much Miss Evie is enjoying our trip by this time...
Funny, as she was the MOST excited to see the snow. As patches of snow turned into wide clearings of snow, she giggled and squealed and finally exclaimed that she was so happy that she was happy crying! and I think THAT was the sweetest moment of the day.
and I won't just pretend THAT didn't happen.
