Back to School!

Ugh.  We started back to school a couple weeks ago.  No one was particularly excited, but it's gone really well.  I can't believe I have a second grader and a fourth grader already!

 Our last year doing this shot this way until high school.  We'll see if they let me then. 

 The signs were hung upside down.  Ha.

 My fourth grader.  I can't even believe she's in her last year of elementary school.

 Davis is in second grade.  She's  not a morning person, but once she gets there, it's all good.

 Also, she's a huge Harry Potter fan now.

 My three amigos.

 This is when Marls realized it was their last year at school together until high school.  There were lots of tears.

 We were about to head out and Norman asked for this picture.  I'm so glad he did.  It's one of my absolute favorites of the three of them together.

Davis is Seven

I can't believe my Davis is seven.  Here are some of the portraits I did for her birthday.

This was me just playing around with my camera.

cold plate for lunch one day.  sitting on a bench they built with daddy. 

An indoor tea party with friends.

So we tried for indoor photos because it's so freaking hot here, but I wasn't that happy with them.  She makes some pretty great faces though, so I'm sharing them.

We had  a little concert one afternoon.

Fixit is not sold on this idea.

We got a book from the library for marls to read about playing guitar.

Prepping for our adventure in Ireland, we made Irish soda bread at granny's.

Everyone working on a sewing project while the bread bakes.  I'm finishing up my quilt binding, and the kids are learning to embroider.

Davis finished her first project.

I finished my quilt!

My big seven year old.

Tea with her favorite loveys, dino and anna.

Using special tea cups from my collection.

The awesome outfit granny made doodle.  So perfect for her!

i was messing with a new camera trick.