Family Photos!

In 2012 Hardy and I tagged along with his family to visit the Unclaimed Baggage place in Alabama.  During our visit, his sister snagged a pretty awesome deal on a Canon camera.  It takes beautiful photos.  I asked her to take our family photos last August and since Persephone has changed so much I asked her to take some more this weekend.  I'm so happy with the results.  We choose to do outdoor photos because the scenery is perfect and the lighting isn't something you could recreate no matter how advanced you are.  You may have already seen these on Facebook and/or Instagram so don't feel like you have to scroll through them again.

Here are some of my favorites from this Saturday!

Her dress came from Cracker Barrel

She loved pointing and looking at the horse (this one was named Driggs)

But she wasn't so sure about petting him

The only way we got her to get near this tub was to beat on it.

Using it as a drum....

We took the photos on a farm across the street from Hardy's parents church in Gillsville.  The family there was so kind and generous to allow us to use their property.  In this photo you can see we're actually sitting on pieces of an oak tree the gentleman had made, as well as the table.  It was so neat.  Looking at the photo though, I almost look like an outcast, I could easily be cut out of the photo hahaha.

I absolutely love the smile she gets with her Daddy

LOVE love LOVE!!

Pointing at the chickens that pecked her just moments before.

How cool is this antique tractor?  Made of cast iron.

I googled it and it's worth close to $500 brand new.

Water baby

We have a true blue water baby.  She's not actually blue...but she does love water.

A couple of weekends ago when the weather was nice, we set up a sprinkler and let her play in it.  She was in heaven.  She didn't care if it sprayed her in the face...in fact she was trying to DRINK FROM THE SPRINKLER.

She may be part dog, I'm still trying to check that out...

Easter!

We attended church this Easter at Hardy's parents church.  Persephone was surprisingly pretty chipper after only getting about a 30min nap.  She was well behaved, it was 45min into the service when she finally decided she was bored. 

This was after she "read" the hymnal, waved at people and tried to sing along with the choir.

Do you think God will smite me for taking a bunch of pictures during church?

April, eggs and sunshine

Sunday April 13th we headed to Hardy's parents church for lunch and an egg hunt.  We tried to attend the actual service, but Persephone almost ALWAYS goes down for a nap around 10am and we felt it would be cruel to wake her up.  She did wake up in just enough time for us to make lunch and the egg hunt.

I was feeling nostalgic and decided to put her in one of my many dresses from my childhood.  This particular dress I wore in a few pageants as a babe.  

This is me in the dress 

It fit her like a glove.  

I wish she would let me put bows in her hair, but it's hit or miss most of the time.

The luncheon was to honor our nephew who just returned from South Korea with his wife and son.  They're headed to Washington (state) at the end of this month.  After the yummy lunch a ton of eggs were scattered for the youth to find.  Persephone really could care less about looking for them.  When she did pick one up she would yell "ball" and proceed to throw them.

She also has a bad habit of holding chocolates in her hand until they melt.  They passed out some big bubble sticks to all the kids though and she loved that.

Aside from not having white shoes (ok Mom...I get it) isn't she just ADORABLE?!?!

I just LOVE the look on her face in this one.

No one showed her to hold her skirt..haha

Right across the street from his parents church, well actually in two different directions there are farms.  At the picture right above you can see tall grass and a pretty red barn.  I decided to take Persephone over there for an impromptu photo shoot.

They would have turned out better without a lollypop, but you do what you have to do....

Twenty nine - XXIX

Yesterday was my birthday.  Good ole' 29.

This was me...fresh out of the oven.

April 8, 1985

2:56pm

Isn't it kind of strange that most babies look pretty much the same at first sight.

To me they do anyway.

I'm not afraid of that number.

I'm not afraid of aging, especially since you can't stop it.

I actually do think I get wiser with age, so how can that be a bad thing?

I started getting gray hairs when I was pregnant...so I can't even list that as a problem.

I've always loved naps, so getting older gives me a valid excuse to warrant a nap.

This year Hardy got me a new shower head.  This is one of the first times he hasn't gotten me a cd, movie or concert ticket.  I was impressed.  Not that I don't enjoy those other gifts, but he definitely thought outside the box.  What was even more impressing is that he remembered to buy seal tape so it wouldn't leak.  Way to go!  I love the new shower head.

I also decided to use $20 of my birthday money on scratch off tickets because I've never spent that much on them before.  Today at lunch I purchased 5 $2 tickets and 10 $1 tickets.  Guess what I won?!?!

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$2.00 and 2 tickets - - - FML    Never.Again.