I will always love overalls! I think I actually owned this pair in a couple of colors back in the 90’s! I just recently thrifted them for $6, so I have no idea from what era they originate. I love that they are a little cropped (not sure if they are supposed to be??), and they are beyond comfy!
I’m not 100% sure how I found Crew & Lu, but I’ve been following her on Instagram for a while now. Uyen is freaking hysterical, and she makes the most adorable clothing!! A few weeks ago, she had 60% off almost her entire inventory, and I jumped at the chance to get a few things for Maya.
When we opened the box, Maya “Ooooohed and aaaaaaahed!” She kept saying “Oh, THANK YOU MOMMY! These are amazing!” I may have gotten a couple of dresses… 🙂
LOVE the back on this dress!!
And the twirl factor is off the charts. A total win in Maya’s book 😉 
On me…
Sandals- Salt Water Sandals
I didn’t get a good picture of the front, because she was constantly running away from me haha. BUT… the thing that initially sold me was the fact that they zip all the way up the front!!! It makes getting them on (and more importantly OFF) super easy! Even soaking wet-SCORE! 
It was actually pretty cold and windy when we first got to the park. We ate a picnic lunch, and then decided to explore around the low tide.
Once again…I had issues with my remote trigger. I made sure to change the batteries right before we left, but didn’t check the batteries. Turns out, one of them had been sitting in our “battery drawer” for a while, and was totally corroded ;{
Then it started getting a little warmer…
haha. This totally cracks me up. Again….SO glad there weren’t very many people here.
Maya could literally spend the entire time swinging if I let her. Honestly, in my more honest bad mommy moments, I usually try and go to parks that don’t have swings. She won’t run around and play if they are there.
This face is so her. Trying REALLY hard not to smile 😉 
Although, this is even MORE her….
On me…
LOVE HER!!
One of my favorite shots from the day… Although, I have a few! 
OMG! Both of our faces here hahahaha.
Another favorite… 
The camp Maya went to was 1.7 miles from our house. She walked there every morning, and 3 out of the 5 days walked home too! SO proud of her!!
She wants to pet just about every dog we see. This owner was nice enough to let Maya throw the Frisbee for her dog a few times 🙂 
I had this idea of shooting through the hanging branches, except it was pretty windy, and half the shots are like this… 🙂
My girlfriend’s teenage daughter curled Maya’s hair while we caught up. I’ve never curled her hair before, but it looked SO PRETTY!!
On me… (no time for links, sorry!)
Getting her to come to me when there’s all the open space from low tide, is practically impossible! Although, I tried to take a bunch while I was holding her, but my remote trigger was acting up-GRRR! 
Our shoes didn’t stay on long 🙂 
And, she’s OFF! 
LOVE this next one!!
hahaha. 
I had to get in the water for this shot, and let me tell you. The water was COLD!!! 
I took these the day before I left on my girls weekend over a week ago…
For a sizing reference. I’m 5′ 8″, and I got a small. It’s actually almost too long! Nothing a little knot doesn’t fix!
Because…twinning is winning! haha. 
Maya wanted to “Make me look beautiful” by putting weeds in my hair 😉 
You can’t really see them, but…so sweet! 
I can’t even handle her sweet smile!!! LOVE HER!
The low tide was SO cool, but it was SO slippery out there on the rocks. We ventured out a little bit, and then came back.
I thought about messing with this image in Photoshop to enhance the beauty, but decided to leave it exactly the way I took it in my camera… 
Same with this one. I’m not much of a landscape photographer, but I couldn’t help but take a picture on this day. 
And, I’ve always wanted to capture Maya mid jump. Oddly…when I finally did, I realize it wasn’t exaaaaaactly how I pictured it in my mind 🙂 
Earlier we saw a purple sea star (that I took a video off, but spaced on taking a picture of!) and a live crab, but it quickly hid under a rock. Later we found a baby crab that was sadly not alive anymore…
We had a little “Pretty Woman” moment, where I pretended the crab bit her 🙂 
Seriously…that face!!! 
I literally want to eat her up!!
It’s hard to get Maya to come anywhere near me, because she just wants to run and play in the sand.
Yup…this view is only a few yards away from the above shots! Honestly, not even that! I could have pivoted from the above shot to get this!! 
She honestly face planted in the first 5 minutes!! 🙂 I’m SO glad I thrift all her clothes!!
EXCEPT for the fact that once she’s down there…she doesn’t want to get up ;{
So, I have to offer to play with her (which is really all I want in the first place!) 🙂 
And….back to playing in the sand.
Until I gave her permission to just jump and play! 
But….
So, I ordered another shutter release, but it’s on back order. SO…the last few shoots have been all with the self timer. I CANNOT WAIT for the new shutter release to get here!!
And…her chasing me to the spot 🙂 I love this little pocket of sunshine and all the shade around it…
Wanting up…
Once again, I hadn’t planned on throwing her, but she came running full force at me, and we caught it perfectly. Well, not perfectly because I chopped off half of her body. Love that I still got her face…in the shadow and all.
Bubble gun that we got from the dollar store. So cool, because it doesn’t require batteries. NOT so cool, because you have to push the trigger a kazillion times to get a lot of bubbles. That’s hard for her, so she usually gets one big bubble… 
This next shot is totally blurry, and I don’t care!! I tried “gunning” some bubbles for her, and then attempted to run back to catch her chasing them. Well, the wind was too strong, and… 
You can’t tell, but it was 75 degrees. We were both HOT! And I was totally sweaty from running back and forth between the camera, and then chasing her. SO…we made the executive decision to leave and go play at the indoor gymnastic free play. Always sad to leave… 
On me…
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