So, we both dressed for fall in the beginning of the day, because it was chilly!  Once again, by midday I was sweating!  You can even tell as these pictures progress.  Shade/cloudy at first, and then SUNNY. Hahaha.  I love this next one.  🙂On me…

In the earlier pics of us, Maya is eating.  Pretty much the only way I can keep her happy and entertained while I get a few shots of just me.  Sometimes only one shot 🙂  And honestly, sometimes all she wants to do is go run and play (who can blame her!).  To get at least one shot of the two of us together, I sometimes bribe her with food :).  When she was done with her wrap, she wanted to look in my mouth to see what I had.  It’s only gum!  haha.  She had to make sure though 😉

 I can’t decide if I look like a cross between a lumberjack and Pocahontas, or…if it just looks comfortably fall like 🙂  Either way, I was so comfortable!  Until the sun blared down upon us 15 minutes in.  Seriously, I don’t want to complain about sunshine, but the bipolar disorder of the weather right about now is killing me!  Cold and bundled up…then 15 minutes later sweating and peeling off the layers?  Not cool… This is a little path that is the entry to a park that we’ve been going to.  Every time I pull in, I think…”We should totally take pictures there!”  And… so we did 🙂  That said, there were people running, biking, walking their dogs… Again, feeling like a total nerd taking pics, but whatever! 🙂 And then the sun came out! And then it was behind a cloud… So, Maya wanted to wear this dress.  “White Princess dress!!!” to be exact 🙂  All well and good, except it had been POURING all morning.  So…needless to say, the pictures of Maya in her pristine white dress are few 🙂Can I just say that I was DYING when I saw these clogs at the thrift store for $5??  They aren’t the most practical with the slight elevation, but so cute!!! And then she ran down the hill one to many times and face planted into a pile of mud haha.  Totally not hurt, but the dress…needed a good dose of OxyClean 😉

On me…

 I’m entering the busiest time for my business.  I’m at the tail end of wedding season, so I’m fulfilling all the DVD’s and making their albums, and then Familypalooza has officially started.  I’ll be booked every weekend from now until mid December.  I LOVE what I do!  I know that I’m super lucky to get to spend my days with Maya, yet get to get away and be creative on my own.  That said, it does make me a little more appreciative of these fun outings, because I don’t get to see her as much on the weekends or while I’m editing at night.  Even more appreciative that I’m documenting them to look back on and enjoy… The best part of these next images?  There is NOBODY off to the right.  She’s just looking over there and cracking herself up.  I was dying laughing.  Then…because I was laughing, she started laughing even harder.  God, she cracks me up!  And…herself too, obviously haha.I kid you not, there were about 20 images that I took and I weeded them down 🙂On me…

 I’m so glad we took these in a park that was fairly empty.  This rock was not small!  I really wanted to get an image of Maya on my lap, because she’s all about sitting on my lap and getting nuzzled (got it!).  However, me pushing the self timer button, running to leap onto the rock in tight jeans, get her on my lap, all while making sure neither of us fell off…in TEN SECONDS?  Hahaha.  Yeah, a few outtakes.  And possibly a little flashing of toddler undies 😉

 And so it begins… The mornings are cool.  Afternoons are warm.  Evenings are chilly.  All this calls for layering… I’m wearing sandals until it starts pouring!! 🙂 It’s hard to tell, but these have skulls on them.  So cute!  Maya is obsessed with skeletons 🙂  And the faint camo print on these jeans??  LOVE!!!“Mom, look, it’s a jelly fish!”Maya is SO in her happy place around dogs.  She looooves them, and they loooove her!  These two played/chased each other in the parking lot for about 20 minutes.  At the end…they were both tuckered out.  WIN!! 🙂  It does make me sad that she didn’t get to know Greta better before she passed 😦Earlier in the day, I took Maya to the dentist with me.  They said it was good to have them come see you sitting in the chair before it was their turn to go.  She did great (thank you iPad and Frozen ;)).  At the end, they let her pick from a “prize basket”.  She picked a purple dinosaur, and never let it go for the rest of the day 🙂  Kind of just want to eat that sweet face up-dentist approved 😉On me…

 At least that’s what I tell myself.  And since I’ll never know what would have happened, I’m right, no? 🙂  We had planned to meet some friends at Remlinger Farms last week.  It’s a “farm” that’s about an hour away, that has rides, animals you can pet, a train ride, and overall just sensory overload fun for your toddler.  Well…come to find out they are closed during the week in September.  They hadn’t updated their website, so they were kind enough to give both my friend and me 4 passes to come back (score!).  But…we then had two little girls that were all amped up for an adventure… :{  SO…we went to the closest “park”, Tolt MacDonald Park.  Turns out it’s a campground with a super cool suspension bridge!  I kind of want to go back and go camping here.  I say this as a non camper.  They have yerts that you can rent.  For those of you not familiar with what a yert is (I had no idea!).  It’s a “tent/cabin”.  No amenities, but these had flooring and bunkbeds.  That is my kind of camping 🙂I thought Maya might be scared of the bridge.  It actually swayed when you were in the middle!  But…nope.  She ran back and forth from end to end a kazillion times. Taking a breather… 🙂I yelled for her to stop, and then was actually kind of impressed that she held her dress up… Sadly, it didn’t matter because she found an even BIGGER puddle which drenched her completely… Which is why she’s wearing MY shirt in this picture haha 🙂 Later that night (and an outfit change for Maya), we headed over to my parents house (who live a few blocks away).   Someone wanted to wear her horse crown.  “Mom, look!  I’m a horse!” See?  Horse tail 😉 On me…