Family pictures

I finally got a wireless remote for my camera and was excited to try it out with family pictures. We woke up and at the spur of the moment decided to get dressed for pictures. Stasa did not want to cooperate at all and my remote refused to work. So we ended up setting the camera timer and I ran into the frame every time. Ex.haust.ing. But at least we ended up with a few good shots. AND we even got a couple of just me and Tom, which is really rare. I'm going to attempt it again in a couple of weeks for Christmas card pictures.

Spring Cometh

The other day I realized that I never took Lexi's official one year old pictures. Mom fail. I wanted to do the cake smash pictures with her, but figured there was almost no way to do them without Stasa wanting to participate, so I decided to shoot for some cute pictures of her in a spring dress and romper. Major fail. Lexi wanted next to nothing to do with me and my camera so I took the opportunity to snag a few cute shots of Stasa, who was mostly cooperative.

My all-time favorite smile:


Ha! She is so my kid. I had told her to sit nicely and to give me a smile. I died when she smiled like that. Of laughter. And then we told jokes and she gave some genuine smiles.




At this point Lexi had eaten a bit of a snack so I decided to throw her in the mix to get a shot of the two of them together. Ha! As if.





They always win. Always. I threw in the towel in hopes that after lunch and nap they'd both be in good moods. Both girls woke up happy, so we jumped in the car and drove to one of my favorite sunny patches since we lost the light in the house. And hotdog! They both cooperated and I love the pictures I captured.



And COME ON. Look at who was hamming it up.





Happy kids, happy mama. Have a great weekend!

Picture overload!

Princess Stasa and all of her jewels

Goofball

Ready to feed all of her animals

Look what daddy taught her

General Stasa

Music hour

And yes, she picks out her own outfits.

I drew a person on the chalkboard wall and Stasa took a piece of chalk and colored between his legs saying POO POO!

ESCAPE!

Catching up, again

WARNING: picture overload

Tom's Uncle Manoli came to visit:

Stasa got new shoes and wanted to show them off:

And then she managed to get into all of our freezer bags:

More park time:

Climbing up the big kid slide:

And then climbing up the wrong way:

Playing on the big kid equipment:

Finding one of her favorite toys: a stick

And stopping for a quick ice cream:

Relaxing with Daddy (she's going through a major daddy addiction phase, or maybe she's just a daddy's girl):