TWINS :D

soo, i have so many photos from over the weekend that i think it'd be crazy overwhelming to do them all in one post.

thus, i decided to break it down and do several posts.

and this post just happens to be all about my new twin cousins: abby & becca :)

okay, so these precious little girls are pretty much identical so it's really hard to tell them apart - especially  when they're wearing the same adorable outfits :) but that's okay because i'm pretty sure i remember which one is which.

first off, miss abby.

they both are such happy little munchkins but abby seemed happiest :) she was always smiling and in this particular case, it was due to my little sister ruby talking to her :)

but like i said, she's pretty much always pretty happy.

but has many other adorable facial expressions too - like this is her "shocked" look :D haha

i love it :)

i think the reason i picked abby out as the happier of the two, was because becca seemed to always be sleeping! which is totally not a bad thing at all.

doing her wake-up stretches :)

we were all laughing that this was her grumpy face :D

alright, here we go - see? i told you they were both happy babies!

and a close-up, because they gotta be equal :)

anndd - one for the road.

this is my sister ellen holding both girls.

they're so tiny and huggable and squeezable! :D

I Heart Faces - Best of May

wow - what a week.

my little sister was here all week long and we had amazing times :)
[and we did a photoshoot for last week's i[heart]faces theme, more of those later]

and then we had a tornado hit our little area thursday.
and a bunch of people lost a bunch of trees.
and a lot of people lost power for a long time.
and we lost all our internet.
boo.

but it was all good because we left friday to head down to the lake-house for an amazing memorial day weekend!

ahhhh - i am not even sure where to begin with those photos.
so, let's make it easy and start with this week's i[heart]faces challenge, which is simply, best of may.

i have soo many.
but i loove this photo of my hubby & my cousin, crammed onto the tiny tube, being pulled behind my dad's boat at about 45 mph.
okay, maybe not that fast, but it looks that fast right?

haha loove it :)

be sure to hop over to i[heart]faces for more amazing photos :)

I Heart Faces - Yellow

This week, I couldn't think of a single photo I had that would fit the i{heart}faces challenge for this week, which is simply: "yellow".

So, what's a photographer to do but go out and create one?

And lucky for me - I had a FABULOUS victim that so happened to be staying at my house for the week :D

UNfortunately, it's rained all day.

But then, after we had cleaned up from dinner, the sun peaked out just a bit and we took the grand opportunity to soak up some soft light.

Isn't my little sister beautiful?

Be sure to check out i{heart}faces for more amazing "yellow" photos!

PS - Mom: can you believe that I got Amy into a yellow shirt? :D

Abby & Her Prince

I was relaxing out on our back porch this afternoon, reading a great book, when I heard the puppy going after something.

After a few minutes of hearing her pawing the ground and letting little "ruffs" out, I got up to see what she was doing.

I couldn't see what she was after, but I could hear something rustling through the leaves.

Abby was bound & determined to get this thing, whatever it was.

And then, I saw it:

Poor little froggie, he was just minding his own business when he made the mistake of attracting my puppy's attention.

Well, Abby was convinced that this was her new play toy. And Abby doesn't exactly play nice. But before I butt in to save the froggie's life, I couldn't resist snapping a few photos :)

(by the way, Abby's nails aren't that long, she was stretching toward him and her claws came out like crazy!)

But then I realized what she was doing!

She was just trying to kiss him to turn him into a prince :)

Unfortunately, that didn't work out too well.

Anyways, I shooed the froggie back under our porch and told Abby not to play with him any more.

I went back to reading my book & Abby went back to tormenting the frog.

A few pages later, I fell asleep.

And woke up to see my puppy rolling in something.

Yeah. You probably just got the same picture in your head that I did:

Frog guts.

And then, as I watch, she jumps up and grabs whatever she was rolling in, up into her mouth and starts running around the yard with it.

Well, I was fully awake now and could not allow my puppy to eat a frog. SO I jumped up from my chair and yelled at her to drop it.

She must have a hearing problem because she didn't listen. Derrick heard me yelling and went to see what she had. She dropped it for him.

And much to my happiness - she had a stone.

PHEW.

Dirt & Blisters

This is what we looked like, after digging in the dirt all morning :)

And then we took a break & went to see Pirates of the Caribbean 4.

And then we got back to it and dug in the dirt some more.

And we looked even MORE gorgeous after that round :)

My "little" sister is up visiting me for the week & I put her to work today -

We dug up and prepped two flower beds that were non-existent when we woke up this morning in front of my house and now they're all ready to be planted.

And then we raked and raked and raked the garden out back so it's ready to be planted too!

I think I'll have dirt under my fingernails forever :)

Especially since tomorrow we plan on planting all my seeds!