Watch out Nancy...

here we come! My girls have discovered the Fancy Nancy book series and love to get them from the library. The other night they decided all on their own that we needed to have a Fancy Nancy dinner party. They let us all know that we needed to dress up and so we did! What a fun night was had by all...the best was to listen to their comments, my all time favorite was Lainey who said, "It's just like eating at a restroom!" I think she meant restaurant!

Photo a day...

So I was all ready to take my friend Laura's photo a day challenge, these are from the 2nd of June, the girls and I had so much fun exploring the fountains downtown, but my camera took an untimely death the very next day! The next day we went and picked blueberries and I stuck my camera in the cooler, where I had a bag of ice and when I finally went to look for it the next day it was soaked! I was so mad at myself. I never put bags of ice in the cooler, I always use the reusable frozen things, there just happened to be a bag from the night before and so I stuck it in there.


So that's the story of why I can't do the photo a day challenge...but if I were to do it here would be my first set of pictures and the story behind them.

The girls and I were downtown at the thrift stores and they asked if we could go to the fountains before we left. I had decided that I would try to take time to "smell the roses" with my girls and so I said yes. These fountains are really not for wading in but how do you keep little girls away from water? I seem to remember my sisters and I wading in these same photos years ago to take a picture for my parents. It was lunch time when the girls were playing in them and it was fun to watch the expressions of all the business people going to lunch who stopped to smile. I realized I had my camera in the car and I made them go back with me to get it so I could take pictures of them playing, it wasn't too hard to convince them to get in a second time!

Beach Photos

These beautiful photos come courtesy of my amazing photographer sister...how lucky we are to have a truly talented photographer in the family! We took these photos a month or so ago and I just love them! I recently moved furniture around in my house and one of the main reasons was so that I would have a place to hang copies of these photos!


When she was taking these photos we kept joking that Lyndie was probably wondering why her sister's were being so nice to her, as they were so sweet with her and just walked along gently with her...which is not always the case!