Wild Flowers

Grammy has beautiful wild flowers growing in the woods behind her house. She enjoys showing the girls the pretty flowers and captured some really cute photos, too!

Claire & Anna 2012

When I had Anna's 4 year photos taken, I had Amber sneak in some of Claire by herself and Claire and Anna together! Amber gave me over 80 edited photos, so it was hard to narrow the ones down for the blog. I do have all 80+ photos on Facebook if you're interested in looking at all of them!

So Claire!!

Love this one of Claire!

One of my all time favorite photos of my girls together, if not my favorite ever!

Anna's 4 Year Photos

I adore these photos of my big 4 year old! 

Photos taken by Amber Wing of Ciao Bella Photography

 She got her ridiculously long, dark eyelashes from her daddy (and everything else!).

 I love my dark haired, light eyed girl! 

 Amber is so talented! LOVE this photo of Anna!

Stay 4 years old forever, okay!?!

Jill Bug is ELEVEN!

So hard to believe to my niece, Jillian, turned eleven on March 1st! She's such a sweet girl and we had fun celebrating her over the weekend! 

 My mom made Jillian a swimming pool cake since she's a competitive swimmer. It turned out so cute and she loved it!

Happy Birthday, Jill Bug! We love you bunches!

Great Grandma

I took the girls today to see their Great Grandma McDowell. We've continued our tradition of going over every couple weeks for lunch and spending time hanging out with her. Every time we leave, she thanks us for making time for her and gets teary eyed (which makes me teary!). I don't think she knows that we get more from our time with her than she gets from us. She's taught and continues to teach me so much about life and love and pursuing godly things. She's one of a kind... a true gem!

 Mrs. Hoke is one of my Grandma's closest friends and she happens to live down the hall from my Grandma at Brookhaven. Over the last several months, the girls and I have sort of adopted her as another grandma!! She is the sweetest lady and the girls just love her! She gives them the biggest hugs and CANDY! We look forward to seeing her every time we visit with my Grandma and enjoy taking her little gifts, too! What a lovely 92 year old woman of God. Such a blessing in our lives!

 Mrs Hoke and Claire!

 The girls helping Grandma McDowell with her puzzle (sort of!!!).