I have taken so many photos that I LOVE this autumn… when I saw the theme of this week’s contests at I Heart Faces I had to make a choice… a hard choice… Here is the one I chose…
My girls… Autumn Beauty…
Truth be told I have learned the most about photography from this blog, I Heart Faces. Check them out!!
And to check out more of my photography, go to my photo blog.
Pam
I took Leah and my niece Livia shopping yesterday. One of our stops was David’s Bridal, where I looked at dresses for Lana’s wedding and tried them on. They wanted to try on too, even though they are not in the wedding party! They had so much fun and are convinced that they are getting fancy dresses for this wedding too! Check it out, and yes, there is one picture of me in there in my dress.
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This is the dress that I choose to buy for the wedding.
No, that isn’t me. That’s the dress. In the color TRUFFLE. (I am the one in the smilebox video remember) If you haven’t been to a wedding in awhile, the going thing is to choose a color and let the bridesmaids choose a style. I am very pleased with this option, because I could choose a dress that fits my body and not have to fit into something that doesn’t fit me right and I don’t really like!
When it came down to it, this was the best fit for the style I am was wanting. I wanted it to be short, and I didn’t want 1/2 my cleavage falling out. Some of the dresses I was told could be altered for less cleavage, but then that would cost, and then the dress wouldn’t really look like it was supposed to look anyway!
Now I remember why I didn’t ever like buying dresses. Why I wear jeans, and t-shirts everywhere I go! Getting that zipper over my bust line is just depressing!
I am determined, along with every other girl who walks through the doors of the bridal shop, to be a size or two smaller by the time the wedding arrives. We will see.
As for the little girls. I am searching e-bay for dresses that are used to get for them. I have found some and they are excited to get some fancy dresses to wear to the wedding! Hope that all works out! After having them try on those at David’s though, I get a feel for their sizes better. (at least we don’t have cleavage to deal with yet!)
The girls and I had so much fun shopping for the dresses!
Then we hit that awesome jeans sale at OLD NAVY! $12 adult jeans and $7 kids jeans!! WHOO HOO!!!! I love OLD NAVY… they boost my self-esteem after trying to zip that dress! Please don’t tell me their sizes run big. I like their sizes. So in one day I wore an 8 and a 14. Hum. I like jeans.
Pam
Take 3.
I had this all ready to send and the ELECTRICITY went out! Would you believe it!!
I made the slide show of my two daughters and 5 nieces last week. They all wanted beads in their hair! It was fun!
What hasn’t been fun is getting this slide show to post. I don’t want to even think about how much time I have spent this morning trying to get that slide show on here. It works fine on the website, but it won’t transfer. URG! So here are the pictures anyway. Maybe another day it will let me put the slide show on! At least today it is letting me put on pictures!
All the girls…
Kiahna’s hair on the 4th!
I pushed the beads up on the braids with the stars on them. I looped ribbon around the pony tail holder to have the streamers in her hair! Still loving those big ballies!
Leah with 2 cornrows.
Kaitlyn, 4 braids…
Livia, 2 braids, 2 cornrows…
Whitney and Breann, who wanted their hair just the same, with snaps at the scalp and 6 braids each…
Hallie, a veil style with braids… snaps and beads…
That isn’t nearly as fun as that slide show I still can’t get to publish! OH WELL!!
My finished hutch!!
Close up of the distressed look…
I am very pleased with the finished product! I am going to try it out on the INSIDE of one of my kitchen cabinets today… we will see!!
This is a huge accomplishment for me! If you are visiting my blog and don’t know me or my life for the past 3 years, you just have to know that this is God’s power to help someone accomplish the impossible!
PRAISE HIM!!
Leah had friends over yesterday. I took them to the pool…
After we got home, the spent the rest of their evening practicing and putting on two plays! Some of the girls had written one at the end of the school year and preformed it for their class, and the other one Leah spent the week writing! A singer and a writer that girl!!
I’m gonna see if I can’t get a small clip to post. I give myself 1 minute to accomplish it and I’m stopping… ready? Go…
Okay, times up… I thought I had it…her are some pictures of their disaster, stage.
and performance…
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Memories were made, pants were peed, laughter in abundance, Mt Dew was spilled, all is well…
The evening ended by staying up until 1 am to watch the first video tape of Anne (with an e) of Green Gables! I see why it is so loved! What a neat mother-daughter movie to watch!! Thanks for suggesting it Kite Flying Sarah!
How about some pictures of some beautiful ladies at the beach???
Kiahna blowing bubbles!
Isn't this a beautiful one of Hallie...
I love the one that I put on of Leah earlier the best I think, but here are some more good ones...
Serving up Slushie at the pool!!
And then there is Kiahna! Throwing sand... Eating sand... saying cute things... doing not so cute things... we won't print that here... and making us laugh! She told me., "mommy, did the sun make you brown like me?"
She plopped herself down next to this little boy, who we do not know, and proceeded to start a sand fight with him!! Look at her laughing!!
Kiahna was totally thrilled to get to wear her "pretty white dress" on the beach! She asked all week and I let her wear it the last night for pictures... this is what she normally looks like after our evening beach walks...
DO YOU SEE THE SAND???
Lana and Hallie...
Leah, Kiahna, and I...
