Ten on Ten: April 2013

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{a tooth fairy visit}

{kyla’s favorite breakfast}

{headed out}

{why is target in all my ten-on-tens}

{is it spring or is it winter}

{watching elmo potty time on the pot…gearing up}

{midday bus stop}

{naptime essentials}

{she thinks its spring…pay no attention to those black clouds}

{mom, do not touch these until I get home from school… DO NOT clean these up}

{pioneer woman bruschetta}

 

a nice day with not too much action. make sure to tune in soon so you can catch a glimpse of my girl who looks like a jack-o-lantern. she wouldn’t oblige me with a photo before school. She has three teeth currently gone from her tiny little mouth. it’s pretty cute.

also on the agenda…potty training. i’m afraid to start. this was just a precursor to beginning.

A Raw Hide Birthday Bash!

While in Arizona we celebrated little Harper’s 3rd Birthday at the Raw Hide Western Town, a throw back to the 1880’s. We some dined on Rocky Mountain Oysters, took a walk through town, pretended to be jailbirds, all while wishing Harpie a Happy Birthday. The girls enjoyed riding three burros named George, Bert, and Sharon. They also panned for gold and rode in a real stage coach (which of course they thought was more royal than Western). Panning for REAL gold was thrilling for Kyla who just loves anything “golden” and once took golden foil from a candy coin for show and tell. Heidi loved petting the mini horse. It was all very fun. I love these pictures….

Arizona by Kyla

I let Kyla walk around Joe’s Farm Grill with my big Nikon. She was having a blast and got some pretty good pictures too…

Look…she even got a nice sun flare while photographing this domesticated parrot in a tree. Remember my last experience photographing a parrot…I steered clear.

Spring Break

We just returned home from a SUNNY SUNNY Spring Break in Arizona. We soaked it up. And now we are back home to the rain. The girls swam hours and hours a day. Kyla was a little fish. Her favorite thing to do- pretending to be a life guard, jumping in and saving people. She stayed in long after the others had gone in for a break. She looked so old to me with those long skinny legs, sunglasses and mouth with no teeth in it. Heidi and Pearson were buddy buddy and by the last day were taking risks and swimming without wings- thanks to Casey’s teaching strategy he called “short swim." Molly was Molly. Loving life at moments and totally exhausted and losing it at others. She had her morning swim and her afternoon swim and her three hour long nap in between. She was loving Gramma. She refused to be in most photos, as you will see there are none of the five girls. Harper had her birthday party (more on that to come) and was just her cute Harper self. Thanks to Gramma and Papa for a nice sun-filled week.

 

Stay tuned for more…

Mom Photoshoot

 

Remember the Mom Photo Challenge I did last fall? Well the prize was a photoshoot with my girls. Here are a few of my favorites from that day. Molly had a terrible cold so it wasn’t ideal and she wasn’t in the best mood but she was a little trooper anyways.