Funny…I took these almost a month ago, but kind of forgot about them.  Oops!Sometimes she does these really quick repeated kisses.  Like woodpecker kisses haha.  And, I LOVE that she just runs and jumps into my arms! Loooooove this shot.  The clouds…the wind.  There’s just something about shots from behind for me.  I love the story that they tell.

On me…

I edited the boy out of the shot above, but here he is.  Not looking, because…I want to protect him I guess 😉 But THEN his grandfather walked up too, and in the ENTIRE beach.  Stands right behind us?  Like not even random about it-totally on purpose got in the shot.  Kind of threw me off, because I was waiting… Oh well.  Oh, and it’s not like I don’t expect people to get in my shot.  We ARE on the beach.  But this particular beach is usually pretty empty, and we were the only four people there!!!

That awkward moment when you actually did your hair and wore decent clothes because your neighbor had a party for their 3 year old, and you say…yeah, I’m totally taking pics of myself while Maya is inside going potty hahaha. DYING!!  😉 Thumbs up!!  This is her new thing.  We did a throw (which did NOT get captured properly, but they cheered and Maya gave them the thumbs up haha) I can’t even handle her sweetness!!Then, our neighbors asked her to dance.  I mean…duh.  Easiest thing to ask Maya!MY FAVORITE!On me…

 Yes, I am almost a week behind the actual times… 😉

After the morning Easter festivities, we put on some comfy shoes and headed down to a rocky beach to look for beach eggs. 🙂 An EGG!! 🙂 These are now in a pottery bowl on our dining room table.  Instant art! 🙂  Ok, there might be someone that finds this offensive/reports me for taking beach rocks.  Oh, well.At first, when she started walking on this log, I was nervous.  I yelled for her to be careful.  Then I watched.  She balanced along it like a champ!And then she kept doing it over and over!And then, she started running along the LOG!  I was both freaking out that she would fall in all those rocks, and totally proud of her balance!!Btw…this is what she wore earlier for Easter.  I picked the dress, and she picked the jacket.  We both decided on the boots 🙂On me…

I don’t even remember what was going on here.  Whatever it was…not pretty 😉

 It’s been rainy off an on lately, which is more normal for this time of year in Seattle.  It was kind of nice to put on a cozy sweater and boots again for a change!  We were out running errands, and by the time we came back home the rain had stopped.  SO…we headed off to this little park by our house for a bit.

I also realized that I rarely take pictures with my bags.  Mainly, because I don’t carry them around when we are off adventuring/playing.  BUT…I scored this amazing bag on eBay recently for $30 with free shipping and I’m so in love with it!Basically, I need a ginormous cavernous pit that I can stuff everything under the sun into to avoid Armageddon when we are out and about 🙂 And…she’s off! 🙂 On me…

 If there is one thing I could tell my teen/20/30 year old self (and actually listen to!!) it would be to not tan!  Ugh, I did it all (baby oil, no sun screen at all, tanning beds!)!  As pale as I am now, I really do have olive skin that gets niiiiice and tan, BUT it’s not worth it!  The skin cancer scares (heaven forbid they become a reality!), the wrinkles, the age spots!!!  SO glad that hats are all the rage now! She could throw rocks for hours…No, she did not make these cairns.  How cool are they though!! I had to tell her numerous times how special they were and not to take them and throw the rocks in the ocean ;}She loves collecting “eggs”On me…

 I wasn’t planning taking pics of us this day.  I had a shoot earlier, and on my way home to pick up Maya from my parents house I saw these gorgeous fluffy clouds over the skyline.  Since I already had my camera in the car, basically I had to take pics of us in front of this backdrop haha. On me…

Let’s file this under “self timer fail” 😉

 Green is my favorite color, so the only problem on St. Patrick’s day is deciding what green item I want to wear! Yup, this is usually what’s going on when I take the pictures of just me 🙂 And…sometimes it takes a while before she’ll be interested in me again haha. And then SHE wanted to push the button, but not get in the picture.

“Mommy, I take a picture of YOU!

No, you wait there, I’ll wait here.

Ok, now let’s push the button and see what it looks like!”

What have I created 😉

(below pic taken by Maya ;))Love it when I catch her mid groove!  She’s always busting a move!So, funny story.  Last night I paused a movie that we were watching and I told Maya it was time to go up and take a bath.  She looked at me and said-

“I’m going to count to 3…and then…you will turn that back on!”

It took everything I had in me not to laugh.  Good grief.  I’m in for it…On me…

Well, that idea clearly didn’t work… 😉