georgia - for my family

(click on the pictures to see them bigger, unless it will take an hour to load each one.)

-i have a sad sunglass burn-

-for dad.  a pelican eating a fish.- 

(family, can we please play Pit over Easter break? I can't wait!)

your wish is my command.

...Pictures from May 22...

we make it fun

Bandanas? On! Taylor Swift? Turned up! Rags? At the ready!

Commence cleanage!

Well then Mom disappeared downstairs for a few minutes so we took the liberty of adding a little fun to our major clean-out-and-clean-up-the-upstairs afternoon.  Here's how it went:

"Ok! Everybody do Audrey!"

Note sweet, serene faces all around.

"Ok! Now everybody do Merrill!"

So we all get crazy.

Then some of us decided to put our bandanas on Indian style.

We're saying hello in Indian, I think...

The simple act of moving your hair from back to down and flowing changes you from an Indian to a Hippie. Woo!!

Audrey on a fine spring day.

Piper

I took these pictures solely for Lydia's benefit.

Ok..maybe I'm warming up to her. Just a little.

miss keira

annie grace grace meany peterson

"Thanks, E. You're the best."

"Yes, yes. I know, daaahhhling."

;)

Thanks for teaching me how to wash dishes like a normal person. With a sponge. ;) Thanks for screwing around Walmart with me. Thanks for making me feel so pretty Wednesday night. Thanks for being my 'roadworker hottie' buddy. Thanks for kissing dating goodbye with me. ;) Thanks for rocking out to Britt Nicole with me. That might've been my favorite part. Thanks for letting me walk Leroy. Thanks for pulling the "really BIG pEn" out of your really BIG purse. Thanks calling me right after I tick you off. Thanks for being my friend. And thanks for teaching me what "BFFR" means. :)

I am going to start a fund. It will be called "Annie-needs-this-2008-Grand-Prix-with-heated-leather-seats-and-a-remote-start-so-donate-NOW!"

The End.

Oh, wait. One more thing.

I love you!

(One more. You are waaaay cuter than Britt Nicole. End of story.)

i'm not quite sure...

The Capitol

The Lincoln Memorial

"Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until...every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and
righteous altogether.'"

I am still recovering from the sight of the Lincoln Memorial.

Wow.

L&L

Though it was fraught with both peril and embarrassment, I had a mostly decent day keeping the girls last week. I'm just glad Jarod left when he did. :)

Please meet Mr. Wobbly Hoeboken and his co-creator, Laurel.

And this is Miss Lydia, whose attention span hasn't quite gotten to snowman-making caliber yet. So she ate the snow instead.
Watch and Observe. Everything has fun-potential. Even a DiGiorno pizza box.

Before: a hat.
After: a super-duper, cooler-than-ice, fantastically-creative, personalized hat.

After a much-needed nap, Lydia was raring to go. This girl has life. Let's jack up that Hannah Montana and dance!

"Liioiiifeee's what you make it so let's make it ROCK!"

One is calm, focused, and creative. The other is goofy, joyful, and 150% all the time.

I love them both!