tuesday

Carter & Ella finally come home tomorrow after a long 10 day trip to Seattle. I miss these gorgeous faces. I just want to hug them & squeeze them (and if my dad were here he would call them George). Now summer can finally begin.

monday

All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee;
All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see;
All Discord, Harmony, not understood;
All partial Evil, universal Good;
And, spite of Pride, in erring Reason's spite,
One truth is clear, "WHATEVER IS, IS RIGHT."

-Alexander Pope

Sunday

I will give you three guesses as to why Vivian Tru looks so happy, and the first two don't count.

The other day I had a client at my studio for a photo shoot & when I was done Aubree & Ella came in and started playing with the tea cups my Grandma Vivian gave them when we were in Texas. (Just for the record, I NEVER let them play with the tea cups, but they were in my studio because I was going to use them during my newborn shoot.) Usually I see my kids do or say cute things and I think to myself, 'write that down' but then the day goes on and I forget... but this time I had my camera right there and I'm so glad I did. Someday I will be able to show them that they got along!






And just in case you think they are always girly-girls & sweet, here's one that shows what really is going on...


post edit: When I say impromtu, I really mean it. Ella had just gotten home from her last day of school and instead of having her friends sign her yearbook - she had them sign her arms! And bree, she was dressed at one point, but then she changed and put on those mis-matched pajamas. But I couldn't pass up the cuteness.

Swiper, NO swiping!

So, I know that my two year old is watching too much TV when she takes her brothers fork during dinner, shoves it underneath the table runner, turns to him with a big grin on her face and says, "You're too late! You'll never find it now!"*

*every mom who has seen too much of Dora is laughing right now, every dad (okay, I think my dad is the only male reader of this blog) is scratching his head and thinking, I don't get it.

America's Next Top Model

I asked Ella to help me try out my new lights... and this is what I got. Seriously, this was ALL Ella. And no lie, she is the best oldest daughter that I have! I love, love, love her and her sparkling personality.

Carter's S.A.

Part of Carter's standardized testing next month is to write a persuasive essay. At parent teacher conferences last week his teacher, Mr Paver, said this is an area that he needs improvement. Specifically in length and organization. So today when we got home from church, much to his chagrin, I told Carter and Ella that if they wanted to watch the Super Bowl that they needed to write a persuasive essay about why they should be allowed to. Ella came back with a piece of paper that said, "Ella's S.A." and was a list of reasons. Apparently, she needs some clarification. But Carter's was pretty good, so I thought I would share it here.

I think I should watch the Super Bowl because today I said my testimony. Which I have only done once in my life. To tell you the truth it was very scary to me. If you think about it I messed up when I said it.
My second reason is I was very well behaved in church. I held Vivian when Ella was done. I got Aubree two or three times. Plus I offered to change Aubree's diapers.
My next reason is yesterday I was reverent and funny. Why I was reverent is because when we were talking about fasting. When I was funny was when me and Ella were playing around when we were doing the dishes. Come on that was very, very funny.
Well I'm not going to say thank you and good night (the way he ended the essay I had him write yesterday) but I will say this, I hope the Saints win.


Needless to say, we will be watching to Super bowl today. Carter hopes the Saints will win and I hope the commercials are good!