Lucky me got to celebrate Mother’s Day twice! Once with my parents the weekend before, before they left on a trip, and then again on the actual day!
It’s the one day I can talk the Huz into pictures, and I’m not ashamed to say I take advantage of it every year!
So…this year was totally low key. My parents were out of the country. The boys were with their mom, I didn’t schedule any shoots, so…the day was…OPEN. In other words. HEAVEN!
The Huz secretly washed my car inside and out in the morning while me and Maya took a long walk along the beach.
Midday, I still wasn’t sure if pictures were going to happen. I’d like to say, I prepared the Huz, but…I didn’t. SO…last minute. The weather cooperated, and I casually suggested it. Before I’d even taken a shower. He said “Of course” as if he’d expected it. Because… 🙂
Seriously, the best way to get Maya into pictures, is for us to say we want pictures by ourselves. I’m not going to complain, because…I mean… 
She LOOOOOVES her daddy. And, I love that, too. 
One of my favorites!
The Huz caught this one 🙂 
I can’t even handle how cute she is, especially when she’s looking at the Huz!!!
All the who wears what aside. What I really wanted was this. I always want to capture “US!”
It’s what I always want to capture, and on Mother’s Day, I can do that. I’m not the best with words, but I am damn good at capturing US.
LOVE YOU BOTH MORE THAN WORDS!!!
On me…
So, I asked Maya what she wanted to wear. She picked a dress, and I planned accordingly. It was a dress I’d been dying for her to wear! I got a little excited, and planned our outfits to match.
THIS MIGHT ACTUALLY WORK!!!
Then… the dress she picked was “TOO ITCHY!!!!” Literally, I was dressed, because I wait until the last minute to get dressed.
“WAIT! I’ll cut the tag!”
“STILL ITCHY!!”
“How about if we put a slip under the dress!” (because randomly, I have a toddler slip!!?)
We put the slip on.
“Ok, I want to wear THIS!”
“MAYA! It’s a slip. A, you will be TOO cold! B, you have to wear something over it. Maybe a sweater? A jacket?”
“NO! THIS DRESS! I mean, slip!”
UGH…
“Pick something else. ANYTHING ELSE!” (ok, any of the 3 other dresses that somewhat go with what I chose to wear to go with the FIRST dress you chose! ;))
But…I’m still wearing this. Which perfectly went with the dress she picked at first, and thankfully went with the 4th pick that I showed her.
And….she’s done 😉
Maya was in RARE form!! Seriously, cracking us both up-as always.
Loooooove this next one. Her looking back up at me…dying.
And then…. a little dance off?
I totally love this one, except for the fact that my head looks GINORMOUS!??
I triiiiiiiiied to take that gum wrapper out of her hands. She’s obsessed with gum. I kid you not, she probably has 5-6 pieces a day (sugar free!). And she loves to hold onto the wrapper. So, she can spit it out after 10 minutes and give it back to me haha 😉
She loooooves her Meme!!
I’m kind of obsessed with cropped denim lately, and the more flare I can get the better. These…not as flared as I wanted, but since they are my favorite denim, I’ll wear them no matter what!
I was on the fence on the asymmetrical design of this top. I’m usually all for “out of the ordinary” when it comes to design, and…I’m glad I went for it. Love the sides of this top!
Soooooo, this was one of those days that Maya was NOT in the mood. AT FIRST. I asked her if she wanted to go play somewhere, and she had a most definitive “NO!”
And…. this is what she wore to gymnastics free play. I always let her pick what she wants to wear. At this point, that is the going rule always. But…for free play gymnastics, she has the option of her normal leotard (mandatory for actual class), or tights and a top. Today, she chose ALL PINK. I am really not much of a pink gal, but Maya….she’s ALL IN! I swear, she looks like a Pepto Bismol bottle some days, and…I just let it go. Because, if she’s happy, I’m happy. Which…took a while, and if I’m honest, isn’t completely true haha. 😉 
Her hair too. It was down for gymnastics, and then half way through, she was like…
Oh, and that stamp on her neck? Yeah…they get stamps at the end of class, and Maya always wants them on the back of her neck, forehead, feet, and now…neck. I feel like maybe the fact that I have tattoos might bite me in the ass… ;}
I can’t even tell you how much I love this next image. GAH! She is just too freaking sweet.
Like…this.
And, I’ll just file this look under “things to expect in the teenage years….” 
On me…
Yup. Every once in a while, I call to my daughter like she’s a dog 😉
And then…Because she needed a little warming up, and me being a monster seemed appropriate ha! THIS is what family pictures really consist of haha 🙂
In another post, I’ll show how cute these boots are! I found them for $4, and then later realized they retailed for over $100! SAY WHAT?!!
Seriously, DYING!!! Her dress….it’s the PERFECT twirl dress, which she happily did all around our house. In the cold with a bunch of layers…not so much. Thankfully, I bought it in a size 6 hahaha. SO…be prepared to see this dress and another one just like it a LOT! SO CUTE! 
And, because it’s rare to get the Huz in some pics…
Maya CANNOT handle people getting their pictures taken without her. I got 1 shot of my parents before she photobombed them! Yet, on the way there her exact words were
And then!!! Honestly, I always think “All I need is ONE!!”
But we got a couple of super cute ones!
THANKS MOM!!
And then, I had to get a few of the kids, because…are you kidding me??? 
I can’t even handle this… 
On me…
Envision dozens of cars driving past me right now…AWKWARD 😉 
On me…
Yeah, right about now, one of my neighbors came home. Don’t mind me in shorts…while it’s 50 degrees. Oh and this tripod? Yeah…don’t ask. AWKWARD! ;} 
I’m thinking if I DO go with this outfit, I need to adjust the drawstring, because from the back???? NOT GOOD! Again…things I can’t really see when trying it on in my room. YAY blog! 
On me…
Maya said she wanted me to throw her.
She’ll have to settle for above my head haha. I swear it still surprises me when I capture these with the self timer. I actually caught a few this time!
“Mom, you chase me and try to tickle me!” Ok… 🙂 
And then….truth be told. I took these next ones over a month ago. We had tried to catch the sun before it went down, but since we can never leave the house without about 20 delays, we got down to the beach after the sun had set. At 4:30pm mind you 😦 So, I didn’t even bother trying to take picks of me or me with Maya, and let her just run around and have fun. I’ve been dying to blog them, but never got around to it! THEN the other day, Maya decided she wanted to wear this dress again, so I figured I merge the two posts!! 🙂 
LOVE her little smile!!!
And…she’s off!
Right after this one, she took off running again….into the water. Lovely. 😉
Didn’t quite catch this one in time 😉
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