Favorite Foto Friday #100!! - TINY DANCER!

My tiny dancer has been so excited for her ballet classes to start! She has been dressing up in her leotard, tutu and ballet shoes for our dance parties on the porch, and even though I messed up the lighting, I just love this series of pictures... there is something so precious about seeing the joy on a little girl's face when she thinks she is a ballerina!

Love this action twirl shot!

Yeah! My 100th Favorite Foto Friday post! This calls for a little giveaway for my FFF friends! To enter, please post a direct link to your FFF for today AND leave a comment letting me know that you are entering! I will draw a winner on Sunday evening! I promise you will love the prize... but it will remain a surprise until I draw the winner!

In the meantime... here is MckLinky to help get you linked up!!



The theme for next week's FFF is FRIENDS!

Wordless Wednesday

How can I say no to this face?

Favorite Foto Friday #99 - MY GIRLS!

My oldest baby girl is a SENIOR in High School!! Morgan had her senior pictures taken last month and they turned out GORGEOUS! It is sometimes hard for me to look at her and realize that my baby has become a young woman!


We also had a mini session for Sophie~Bug during the shoot while Sissy was changing her clothes... and I was so pleased with how ALL of them turned out! I am much poorer than I was before I saw these pictures! I could not walk away from all the amazing pictures (over 275 poses) of my beautiful baby girls.


I wanted a picture of the two of them together so that someday, they could look back and see just how much they loved each other at this time of their lives! These two were always meant to be sisters! I thank God for the gift of all three of my children every day!!


Grant did not come to this photo session and I know that many of you have sent me private messages asking about him. He is doing very well and I will share some pictures of my growing boy very soon!

Here is MckLinky!! Be sure you are linking your blog post and not just your blog address in the linky!! Can't wait to reconnect with all of you!



We are going to finish out the rest of August without any themes... just continue to post your favorite FFF of the week and link back to here to join in! Next week is my 100th FFF post. I am going to do a surprise giveaway to one of you who link up here next Friday!!

Welcome Back Wednesday

(Sophie in her hat from Lori at Charlotte English Boutique)

Helloooo!!! Missed me?? Have been enjoying the summer with my kiddos. School has started back and I am trying to get things back in gear... but I plan to be back this week to host Favorite Foto Friday (no theme)! Is anybody still out there?? Sorry to leave you hanging for so long!!

Have been keeping up with many through Google Reader and Facebook, but have missed blogging. Looking forward to catching up with all my friends!

Favorite Foto Friday #98 - RED, WHITE & BLUE!

Summer is just flying by and I know I am the worst blogger out there as far as updates. Great intentions, but not so great on the follow through. With that... I am taking a bloggy break for an undetermined amount of time. I won't be hosting Favorite Foto Fridays for the rest of the month of July... check back in August and we will resume when presumably things will be settling down into more of a routine! No linkies will be posted here but feel free to keep on posting those FFF and check back here in August for the resumption of FFF. And, you never know... may have to do a little giveaway for FFF post #100!!

No need to worry about us... just lots of things going on.

To follow the theme this week, I am posting a little Fourth of July through the years of my littlest US citizen!!

2006

2007

2008

2009

Here is MckLinky!! It has worked great for us! Hopefully, when we return in August, we will have more families participating again and MckLinky will be our best friend! This list will remain open through Saturday and after that, the linky will be closed to additions!



As always, thank you so much for stopping by! I love all my bloggy buddies! See most of you around Facebook!

Favorite Foto Friday #97 - HOME!

I am excited about this week's theme because my first born baby, Morgan, is HOME from her month long exchange trip to Argentina! She had a fabulous time and an experience she will never forget! We missed her so much!!

She arrived home to a gathering at the airport and one very excited little sister who ran up to give her a giant hug!




Here is one excited little cutie-patootie helping her sissy with her luggage! Tee hee... couldn't resist!


Plus, I have "home" on the brain! I am in the process of getting my current home ready and staged to sell. I am so incredibly sad about moving my family from the place we have taken from house to home and made it perfect in our eyes. Yet, I am excited about the possibility of a new start for all of us! With the economy the way it is, some instability in my career and some very deep debt I have found myself in from medical bills, school tuition, failed investments, etc... it is time for us to move down to a more affordable home and lifestyle.

Here is our current home now... I just love it...


I am going to miss it so much!! The nightly dance parties and gently swinging on the porch are my absolute favorite time of day!

Looking forward to visiting all your HOME pictures this week!!

I am so excited about our new MckLinky system! I feel like we are finally able to reconnect by seeing everybody right here in one place! Hope you all love it too! Thanks to MckMama and Brent (Abby's Dad) for developing our new linky widget!



Next week's theme... your favorite RED, WHITE and BLUE picture! Have a fabulous Fourth of July holiday weekend! Happy Birthday, America!!

My name is...

SOPHIE!!

And I can write it all by myself (with a little help from mom with my "S")!!

Mommy is so proud of her baby bug!! I am pretty proud too!