I was in town yesterday with Garrett and we stopped by my favorite alley for some photos. He’s such a little model…haha. Oh and he said the funniest thing the other night, lol. I made a big pot of Gumbo for dinner and we were sitting down with some friends to eat. I mentioned that I loved the okra in it and I couldn’t wait to try a bite of it. Well, Garrett gets this shocked look on his face and says “You’re going to eat OPRAH?!!!” Haha!! We were all laughing so hard! Little goof.

Not much time for a long post now, but I had to share this image of my little guys from the fall. It’s sooo hard to get a one of them together…10 seconds after this was shot they were tackling each other in the leaves, lol.

in spite of Bella and I still working on getting over a not so fun cold/flu thing, there was no way I was staying cooped up in the house when the weather was this warm! Sure it was cloudy and windy, but we had temps near 60 yesterday. So out we went to find some puddles to tromp through (until she fell in one and said it was too “nasty”).

I’ll post more when I get them edited…for now here’s one of my little girly girl getting as close to dirty as you’ll ever find her.

I’m in love with this spring line from Catimini! We bought several outfits from it and the colors are sooo pretty! I thought I’d share some images here as I had several people email me asking what brand this was when I posted on Flickr.

One of my fave stores to buy Catimini…Dragonflies and LadyBugs

miss bella’s silly pose

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Ok…so not only am I lucky to have gorgeous clients, I’m so blessed to have the cutest kids around, lol. Could also be that I’m their mom and totally biased, but hey, that’s fine.

Garrett is by far the easiest of my kids to photograph. The kid wants to be a model. His main reasoning for this is that he wants to get paid. More money = more DS games and a mini dirt bike…which I told him he could buy now, but he isn’t riding it until he’s 16. I know I’m a mean mom. Haha…so anyways, I’m not sold on the modeling idea, so in the meantime he models for me. Gotta love it!

Sometimes people tell us we give our little Bella too much attention…that she’s going to get spoiled. It’s true, we do dote on this little girl, all of us…Damian, myself, the boys. She is more then special to us.
So we all stop and watch her when she dances and then dance with her. So we all jump to give her kisses and “minky” (her word for candy) when she gets hurt. So we all fight over who gets to sit by her when we go out to eat. So she has her daddy wrapped tight around her little finger. I admit to all of this.

What people either don’t know or forget is that Bella is a special blessing from God that brought incredible joy to our family after a tragic time in our lives. See…she isn’t the first little girl born into this family. No…just over 4 years ago our first daughter and our boys first little sister, Emma, went to heaven. She died just before her due date leaving a gaping hole in our hearts. God is a big God and with his strength we made it through the worst of the pain. We grew together as a family and learned that God gives joy where most people can’t imagine it.
We found out that we were going to be blessed with another little girl. And when Bella Grace was born she was our little princess girl. There is no way Bella replaces Emma, but we felt so lucky to have Bella safe and sound with us. Another chance to raise a little girl. So…yes, we do give Bella a lot of love and attention. She is a special blessing that reminds me daily of God’s grace.

So…perhaps you can see why we might give our baby girl so much love. We know first hand that life is so fragile. Hang on tight to the ones you love.

He looks so stinkin’ cute in it, but he won’t wear it for more then 5 minutes because according to him the fur “itches his ears”, lol. At least I got him to keep it on long enough for a quick photo.

We’re busy, busy, busy, here! Our remodel project is almost finished and I can’t tell you how ready I am for that. Although I’m already planning which room to attack next, hehe. Then in just a few weeks we have huge things happening with my business…I’m so excited!

I’ll try to get back in the swing of things on the blog now that the holiday madness has slowed. Here are a couple of Garrett for now.