I love you Papa!

This was after Wednesday night family dinner.... Mikayla was "teaching" and Papa was her student.... LOL

Happy Birth-a-versary!!!

Last weekend was my birthday and Michael's and my 12th wedding anniversary. Here is some of what we were up to... little miss made us some cards :) I LOVE these, I wonder how everyone else stores their painted treasures, currently I have a 20 gallon bucket that is rapidly filling....

Here is the anniversary card.... I definitely see some promising crafty talent!! she had no adult help with painting .... only help with spelling

She picked these roses for us from Papa's front yard.... doesn't her hand look gigantic reaching for them!

Such a beauty!!!

To celebrate dad had us over for a good old fashioned turkey dinner - it was AMAZING!!!!

Some gluten free cupcakes :) they totally hit the spot!!! Scrumptious

We officially decided that Mikayla needed to share my birthday too, so she got a Happy Birthday candle and we sang to her too - even though we sing Happy Birthday at most meals.... LOL

What a fabulous weekend!!!! Thank you everyone!!!

Photo shoot at the park

Well, I will confess that I have a ridiculous amount of pictures from our outing to the park (there are a ton on here, please know there are at least 50 more that didn't make the blog cut, hee hee. I just can't seem to help myself when photographing a certain, wonderful little girl. I think she has fun too.


Here she brought her umbrella for some shade from the sun and me playing with b/w settings.

What is a photo shoot without some funny faces - here's the face she gives her daddy when she wants something and the answer is no .....

Here is her monkey mouth...LOL cracks me up every time


ahhhh a nice one :)

Snoozing for a minute

Please daddy......

I am so sweet....

Ballet on the bench

Kisses to my adoring public..........

Jumping off the bench.... this was fun...we were laughing so hard.... she may or may not have been laughing so hard that she fell off of it at one point.... which may or may not have lead to even more laughing..... (no injuries were incurred during this event)

Now for the swings..... yes I know she's getting to big for the "baby" swings... but that's all this park has.... she's good with it....so I am too :)

Labor Day Fun!!

We really had a great weekend. Nothing we really set out to do...did we do for one reason or another but it was still fabulous!!! The weather seemed like it was one extreme to another, still hot but it was either too windy to sail (weird on a sail boat, right- we just don't take any chances especially with Mikayla on board).... or it was a bit ominous....

We still went to the boat, hung out, had picnics, went swimming and played outside to our hearts content!! Our days were full of fun and happiness!!!

Always a princess...hee ehe

Mikayla's new monkey mouth....

Oh YEA...can't you just see her snapping a "Z"

Not exactly sure what she was looking at here... could be a she was having a "moment"....

Cheesie grin

I saw the best ballet program ever.... on a picnic table bench... complete with singing too :)

The backdrop for the ballet.... ahhhhhh sooooo nice!

oh and the ominous weather I was talking about.... this is a storm we literally were racing home to stay out of....