I showed this dress on Monday as an every day wear, but honestly…it begs to be worn out!!
All the little details…kill me! Oddly, when I got home, I swear the attached slip shrank like 4 inches!!! I don’t remember it being so short in the store, so I added another slip underneath for coverage!
If I were to go out for New Years, this would absolutely be an option!
I told Maya we could do whatever she wanted for these next shots. I’ll reveal what she really had us doing in the “keeping it real”… :}
All in all, I just want her to have fun, so whatever she suggests, I’m game for 🙂 AND, I got some great shots of us laughing, so I’m beyond happy too!
On me…
Leather Jacket- Doma (old, similar here)
Dress- Joie “O’Shea” Dress (thrifted)
Booties- Nine West (I think 20+ years old! Love these!)
On Maya…
Vest- Zara (thrifted, but similar here)
Dress- Hanna Andersson (thrifted, but similar here)
Boots- See Kai Run(hand me down)
Keeping it Real…
And for those following along, yes…she’s still in the licking phase ;{
In her words when I asked what we should do…“Make funny faces, and pee in our pants!”
“WHAT?!?!”
“Just preteeeeeending!!!”
Behind the scenes video here!
(all pictures taken with a shutter release and tripod, except ones of Maya :))
I wish I could say that I planned this hair flip! But…nope. Total accidental catch, but I love it.
I always ask Maya what she wants us to do in shots.
The girl’s got hops!!
On me…
hahahaha. She wanted to get all up in the camera…
And…licking me yet again… 😦
Hahaha. Charlie standing on his tippy toes! Like he needs to…
I can’t even….
LOVE this shot of them!!!
At this point, I didn’t want to mess with the tripod again, so my mom got these next two of me and Maya 🙂
hahaha 🙂
GAH!!! She looooves her daddy!
This just makes me happy on so many levels. This image captures so much about them, and I love it!
As we were heading to the car, I realized I didn’t have any with my parents!!Mom got this…
Dad got this….
Oh, and I never got any of just me, so…I got these when I came home.
I can’t even handle her…
She’s a one woman show, I tell ya!
I’m her one woman audience… 🙂
I couldn’t decide on which image to post of these next three (there were actually 5!), so…I’m posting all three.
Coming in for a punch to the gut. It’s her new thing, and she thinks it’s hilarious… :{
Didn’t know we were going to do this, or I’d aimed the camera a little higher-grrrr.
I don’t even remember what she was about to do here, but obviously, it wasn’t good haha 😉
DYING over the details on the back and sleeves!!
Oh, and if you’ve followed along…I’m a total sucker for an open back top! This bralette is the best for coverage, and on Amazon for CHEAP! Although, it’s really only good for those of us that don’t have “support issues”. 😉
Oh, and…yes, we are totally matching, and I LOVE IT!
What I use to set my focus on, because she never stands still like this!!
And… Three cheers for mother in laws that live in Oklahoma and send us amazing cowboy boots!!
Omg, that face!!
I was trying to set up for the boot shot ( you can see the focus stand in the background), and Maya kept sticking her head right in front of the lens haha. I Photo Shopped the stand out of the shot in the main post. 
Couldn’t leave the stuffies behind… 😉
The only way I could get her to let go of them, was to offer to swing her…
Love this next one! She normally jumps, but she just kept balancing on one foot and then pushing off into my arms. 🙂
And then the sun came out!
Clearly, I can’t resist a pop of red on either of us haha.
That pose…
When I’m smiling off to the side in images of just me…this is what’s really going on 🙂
She freaking LOVES this ride!! I think this might be the last year she can go on it, which is sooooo sad!
Although, the best part for her was having her big cousin there again!
OMG, dying over Houston and Charlie’s face hahaha.
And…Maya’s face here-HA! What you can’t quite see (except by my sister in laws swirling hair!!!) is that this little ride was spinning around SO FAST! I actually had to look away, because I was getting nauseous… Obviously, I didn’t volunteer to go on this one with her!
The family that rock climbs together…
My dad got this one of me 🙂 Not going to lie. I was shaking for a little while after this. I don’t recommend rock climbing in Frye boots haha 🙂
Gah. How cute would it be to have this every year! Charlie didn’t come with us last year, and I’m not sure she’ll chose this over a party again next year… 😦
I wanted to get a family picture in front of this, but the kids vanished…
The train was the only thing we didn’t do last year, so we wanted to make sure we got on. It was perfect timing too, because it started to rain right before we got on!
Are you kidding me?
Happy Birthday sweet girl!!
Because…someone was TUCKERED OUT!
I can’t even with this next pose. It’s so funny. She definitely went through a “NO PICTURE!!” phase for a while. She eventually would get over it and just play, thank goodness! Unless, of course it’s with my phone. She still is pretty adamant about me not taking pictures of her with my phone! I think she is so used to me having a big camera, that she doesn’t think as much about it. But with my phone, I’m all up in her face and usually asking.
And of course, she’s always jumping and twirling 🙂
After this one, she was like-
On me… (no time for similar links, sorry!!)
And….another picture of her taking a picture of us between my legs 🙂
She was running around by the tripod and ALMOST ran underneath it!! My face…haha.
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