Sophie, Selah and Susan

Selah is really into dolls right now (that is a huge understatement actually.)  She always has a doll with her which is exactly like Sophie at this age.  Love that!  Meet one of our many "doll friends."

See Sophie, Selah and Susan.

See Susan pose for a picture.

Selah loves Susan.

Susan can swim float.

Susan floats away from Sophie and Selah.

Sophie and Selah are mildly concerned.

Sophie thinks hard about saving Susan, but decides not to.

Poor Susan. =(

Susan survived though.

This is how Sophie poses for a picture.

This is how Selah poses for a picture.

Sophie thinking about which jump she's going to do off the board. 

Early stages of a great can opener. =)

In case you hadn't noticed, all we've done lately is swim, so stay tuned for more swimming pictures... lots more.

Quick Pic Post

I was over at my parents' house the other day taking pictures of some furniture to do a new post on their website http://www.openwindowantiques.com/.  I snapped a few of Selah and caught this cute one.  This is her favorite way to swing on the big girl swing.

Took this one of the girls' at a friend's lake house on July 4th weekend.

Be back soon =)  I am trying to take pictures of our newly ORGANIZED playroom.  I am so happy with it!

Beach Favorites and Orange Soda

More favorites uncut and unedited because I don't have any photo editing stuff back on my computer yet.

My Wildflower

Sophie Sunshine

So probably no one will think this is funny except for my mom, Elaine and Riley....

Remember the Nickelodeon show, All That?

Well, we watched it and loved Keenan and Kel.  And Kel looooved orange soda!

"Who loves orange soda? Kel loves orange soda!"

Watch a clip of Kenan and Kel here.

Selah loves orange soda too!

and so does Sophie =)

Every Diva needs a good pair of princess glasses!

Be back soon with more pics!

Favorites

I am so behind on posting pictures, I won't even try to catch up.  Last week we had to wipe out our computer (because of a bad virus) and start fresh, so I'm in the process of reloading programs and reorienting myself to the new computer setup.  I am trying to sort through the pictures of this summer so far.  I wonder how many pictures of my kids I'll have by the time they go to college?  Probably close to a million I am guessing =)  What is one to do with all these pictures?  Do we print them or just keep them on the computer?  Photo albums and scrapbooking are both daunting tasks that I am not willing to take on at the moment, so for now, as I sort through the photos, I'll just share a few faves =)

My little cowgirl

Future heartbreaker aka "Luke"

I am sure girls will go gaga for that curly hair

Easter!

The morning started out with Easter Baskets.  My friend Stephanie gave me the idea to do bathing suits in their baskets.  They loved them and also got matching beach towels!

We told the girls that we gave them a gift because Easter represents God's greatest gift to us, Jesus dying on the cross so that we can have a relationship with Him and spend eternity in Heaven!

We were lucky enough to enjoy some of Elaine's gourmet cooking for lunch!

Trent and Graham tag teamed the leg of lamb.

Elaine the Chef

Reese and Selah enjoyed a delicious appetizer of goldfish and Reese thought it would be fun to eat like a puppy I guess.

After lunch, which I was obviously too busy devouring to take pictures of,

we did an Easter Egg Hunt outside.  The kids took off running so fast that this was the only picture I got with all four kids.  Selah forgot about the eggs as soon as she saw the "bike" (four wheeler) as she calls it, or as Sophie used to say, the "fell weeder."

I got one egg!

Make that two eggs!

Classic Reese.  I like how Elaine puts it.  She looks like Graham, but is quirky like Elaine.  If you know them, it makes perfect sense!

Best Buds - They really do love eachother so much!

Bud Bud even got in on the egg hunting.

Onto "Grandma and Grandpa Dye's" House we went.  Love this pic of Selah - this is when she looks like what her name means...to pause and reflect.  She'll grow into it I am thinking.

She is definitely the animal lover of the family.  Here she is with Toby, whom she LOVES!

This is a common occurrence in our house, but catching it on film at the exact moment was priceless.  Selah is a hair puller for sure, and Sophie is like her mommy with her sensitive head.  She practically cries every time I brush her hair, so you can imagine how mad she was after this.

The Post Incident Daddy Hug makes everything better.

I'm sure that I've never mentioned how hard my kids are to photograph.  Oh, wait.  Yes I think I have mentioned that about 1,000 times=)  Selah is hard to get to slow down enough to even look in the direction of a camera, and Sophie has trouble showing ANY enthusiasm (great example here) or she does the classic fake smile. 

So we (meaning I) was crazy enough to try to get them to sit down and smile at a camera after lunch and the egg hunt.  Shocker, this is the best it got.  Makes me laugh though.

The girls with their great grandparents.  Gotta love the tongue hanging out!

Family shot

I wanted to get some more of Sophie, but both girls were over the camera by this time!

What a great Easter!  Beautiful weather and lots of family and good food.

Hope that you had a great day celebrating Jesus too!

Sweet Bunny and Blue Bird.

My great grandmother had special names for her grandkids.  My mom (Yaya) was Candy Lamb.  Yaya decided that her grandkids needed special names so Sophie is "Sweet Bunny" and Selah is "Blue Bird."  I was looking at their dresses and thought the names fit them very well in these pictures! 

I have been thinking about my own special names for them and I think Sophie is definitely Sunshine because I always sing her "You are my sunshine, my Sophie Sunshine," and I am thinking Wild Flower for Selah...  No explanation necessary!

Wild Flower

Love these precious girls so much it hurts!

I took all these pics before we went to church Saturday night.  Trey had to work Sunday, so we were so thankful that our church had alternate services to accommodate everyone.  Such a blessing!

Stay tuned for Easter portraits.  aka, Selah running through her great grandmother's yard at warp speed, and Sophie voraciously gathering Easter Eggs that contained money!  I wanted to take part in this Egg Hunt!

Here is a preview.... 

Finally finished their Easter dresses at 1am on Saturday night.  I am surprisingly efficient at night, when the house is quiet=).