Spring Fling 2009

We went to the Woodall Ranch for our youth's annual Spring Fling on Saturday.

Kaitlyn & Abby had a blast!

Until Kaitlyn found a present from the horses by the barn...."Okay, I can handle it!"
"Or maybe not!" Poor Laney in the background was so kind to hold her shoe!EEEWWWW!Sometimes the best pictures are when they don't even know you're anywhere around!She LOVED riding the horse with Daddy!So did Aubrie!But she had just as much fun hangin' with Gibson!

Thanks, Kim for taking pics for me since I left my camera at home! She got better ones than I would have anyway!

Great pics taken by a great friend!

My coworker and friend Mindy took the girls' pictures the other day in their Easter dresses in front of her beautiful flowers. I couldn't have asked for better! She did an AWESOME job! Thank you, thank you Mindy!!!

I wasn't going to have my picture made with them, but I then I got to thinking about it and realized that I have very few pics of them with me! I'm always the one taking the pics!

So excuse the lack of effort in not wearing lipstick!!! Oh, and that lovely spot on my top lip is the last stages of a nasty fever blister! Ugh! Hate it! Emma wasn't thrilled with getting her pic made especially after she had fallen off of the bench. There are about 50 pics of her crying that are priceless!Aubrie gettin' some love!My Aubrie is going to be 4 in less than 2 months and it is unbelievable what a "little girl" she is becoming! There was a long time (as I'm sure you remember) that she wouldn't look at the camera AT ALL for me and often still won't. But she put on a little show for Ms. Mindy! She really got some good ones of Aubrie by herself!Here are a few of them together! It was so hard to get a really good one b/c Emma wasn't in the best of moods after her fall and she wouldn't get her fingers out of her mouth! It took mom and me standing in front of her singing "Itsy Bitsy Spider" over and over just to get these!Here are a couple of great shots she got with no fingers in mouth and looking posed!
But this next series of pics are my favorite! She had been so unhappy the whole time and we were just about to give up, but then "Cookie" (Mindy's cat) came along and her mood totally changed!She thought Cookie was pretty funny!Her she is saying her new favorite word...."WOW!"
She calls a cat "A BAT"....not sure why, but that is what she is saying here.One of my favs! Soooo Emma!Love this one too!Getting over it!Look at that prissy hand!"Okay, ladies...that's a wrap. Nap time!"

Aikin Playground & Other Randomness

My kids are growing and changing so fast and I have found myself wanting to capture every moment I can on camera. I'm not great at taking pics as you have seen in the past and if you never want to look at my blog again after some of my random posts about nothing, don't feel bad. My plans are to print these posts eventually and put them in a notebook for their scrapbooks to have when they are grown. So....anyway....nuff said bout that....the other night Kaitlyn and Aubrie were tackling their daddy and at first Emma thought it was pretty funny! Then she started fussing because she thought they were getting too rough!

Can't get enough of the pigtails!

The girls love going to Aikin's playground up the street! Here are action shots I caught!

Aubrie wanted a turn with the camera! Lovely, I know!

This was ALMOST evidence that "crack kills".....thanks for being modest for the camera, honey!

I've been playing around with a digital photo online program
called Picnik.com.....its really good and its FREE! So here are some that I've cropped and added text too.

My beautiful coworker and one of my best friends, Penny! This was at the "I Love Paris" fundraiser for Paris Education Foundation.