that i could go to wendy's…
for a fwwosty…
a chocolate one….
not the mixed kind…
and i wish for micah and lizzie to come over….
and watch peep.
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this video will make you grateful for every girlfriend you have.
i cried both times.
i love ALL the women in my life…so dearly.
(i found this at the starnes family…
i couldn't find you first name on your blog anywhere…btw…on purpose maybe?)
don't you LOVE that video?
i wish i could hug every girlfriend i have….right now!
I loved the video. It is so true and so sweet. Friendships are amazing!!! I got all teary reading that and sent it to my best girlfriend. Thank you! I needed that! You made me cry!! I’m so putting that on my blog…if I can figure out how. Thank you:) I cried. As usual for me. Never knew I was such a sap until recently, but this is beautiful. Thanks for sharing! Dear Meg, What an incredible tribute to true friendships and for many of use….the road that is still to come. I have seen this before, and there are tears every time. Women are AMAZING. We need to remember that…that we are in this “thing” together…who cares if you breast feed or bottle feed, stay at home or go to work, are fat or thin, rich or poor…WOMEN need to support WOMEN. We need to replace judgement with prayer. We are such a beautiful tribe, and could not survive with out the love and support of one another. I love this! So perfect. Thank you for posting. I was fine until the last 40 seconds…Love this. amazing. thanks so much for posting that video. kelly is an inspiring writer. beautiful…. and just when i was missing a girlfriend terribly. Hey, Meg! No, no mystery or purpose here…..it’s Casey from The Starnes Family. I’m so glad you enjoyed the video. I have watched it many times and still cry. I have seen this several times and love it more every time I see it. That was amazing. Sent it on. Thanks so much 🙂 Thank you for the Blessing!- I didn’t realize how much I needed it!- perfect timing! oh i love it! thanks for posting. makes me miss my friends and be sooo grateful for the ones i have! I cried too… beautiful beautiful words. Thank you from southern England (High School Musical soundtrack playing here too, somewhere in the distance from the kids’ bedroom!) yes, i have seen this. Wow! What thanks for posting that! Definitely going to be sharing it with the women in my life. Love your blog! (I’ve been lurking for a while.) so sweet~ Loved, loved, loved this video. With oh so much going on in life (especially a woman’s life) this is so…true. *sigh* Thanks much for sharing with us! <3 Wow, thanks so much for sharing! What a blessing. Sending hugs to you…     i took the kids to see grandma and grandpa.
my nieces were there…and my sister too.
we went swimming…shopping…ate too much.
all good stuff.
the big deal was "when is the egg hunt grandma?"
over and over.
we had to dye the eggs first….
   waiting….waiting….waiting….
    it wasn't too messy at all this year. they hid them and found them…and hid them and found them…
i think they did that four times.
we had two really nice days to play.
my mom made coconut cake!
sooooo good.
i went to get the kiddos into bed and walked in on this….
 these three working on a word find book TOGETHER…taking turns…and giggling.
and the words were all names of famous artists.
it just cracked me up.
good to see you mom, dad and lorel.
can't wait for next month….
Hi Meg, I think my son has a cruch on Annie. He wanted me to keep it on her picture for a very long time. She is very cute. LOVE your new frog header. I enjoy your visiting your blog…. very inspiring! I love how they hide them over and over! So fun! You always get the best angles on your pictures. so cute! i really missed having a normal easter this year with us on the road, but we were all together and that was priceless! great shots. These are great. Absolutely had a great time with all the grandkids and kids under our roof. Lauren helped me hide the eggs the first time, and Scott was so fast finding his eggs, he was off doing his thing before the camera could find him. Thanks so much for coming! We had a perfect sunny day Saturday! Hi Meg – I found your blog through Etsy – a lady asked me to make her a sign and she wrote that she had found my shop through this blog – so I just wanted to say THANKS!!! – I couldn’t find the exact post – because I got sidetracked looking at your awesome photos of your house – love your kitchen and bathroo, but especially your craft room! 🙂 And now I have to go pick up from preschool! Love the colors of your holiday- glad it was happy! I love the new header! What fun pictures! Looks like a really great time. Awesome colors in your photos! I always loved Easter as a kid. The eggs, the candy, the reason, it’s all good. Love love love the new froggy header! Happy Easter to you and your fam! Happy Easter to you and your family. Thank you for the colors. pictures. and New Life your blog has brought into my own home! Love the Easter pictures. So glad you got to spend it with family! Megan, I am enthralled with the containers you used to put the egg dye in. What are they? It has been a tradition for my husband, son, and I to color Easter eggs every year since Dan was little. The only time we didn’t all three do it together was when he was still away at school He is now 23 and home from CA, so we did it together on Sat. He said it was still fun, so I hope he carries the tradition on when he has his own family some day. Your pictures are beautiful! I love the colors. My pictures don’t seem to capture the vivid color yours does. What great colors! Love it! changing it up with the new season.       ok….annnnnnnnd that's enough of spring.
i am ready for summer!
sun.
bbq…watermelon…ice cream…
watching the kids swim.
gardening.
SUN!
back to my favorite header missy 🙂 i don’t know why it seems that the sun is shining there for you eery single day. but you do make wonderful use of it with your camera 🙂 i’ve missed you! I wish Spring would come over here. You guys should come back for more skiing. I here spring skiing is the best and we keep getting plenty of fresh powder. I think the farmer’s almanac said it would warm up in July. No kidding. Love the new header, love it all! I love the photo of my rabbit-eaten tulip. Those dang guys! Beautiful photos. Man oh man, do I ever love flower photos. you and me both……bring on summer! love your photos and your new header…. I’m loving the spring weather but I want it to be summer so we don’t have to stick to a schedule. Shocker! I want the best of both worlds. Just call me Hannah. My thoughts exactly! Lovely pics — recently had some sweet dandelion moments with my tots. we haven’t really had any spring yet so i will be happy with just a bit of that. we don’t even have any blooms yet. hopefully by the end of the week. ha ha funny post! pretty post but funny 😉 I’m ready for Summer too – we’ve had too much rain this spring!!!! It’s funny – our daffodils were blooming Jan 4th this year – they are long gone – it’s fun to see the seasons at different times across the country!!!! Yes, I am a summer girl too! Lovein’ the new header also!!!! Anytime you feel like perpetual summer, head down to South Florida and I’ll meet you at the beach! Oh..I am so ready too! ditto! Love the new header! Perfect. Loving my new pillows too, hope you got my pictures of them in their new home? Ready for summer too… Oh I’m with you! and also loving the new banner! Happy Monday 🙂 yes yes yes!! come on sun! I still feel like I’m waiting for Spring to get here… ooh! Ooh, love that tulip!! Great new header. The dichotomy between the chipped nail polish & the frog is priceless!! i see you’ve got a new header, and i’d just like to say that it’s perfect. and totally appropriate for spring. Lovely photography as always. And, the header is precious….chipped fingernail polish is the cutest part! That is a great header pic, but I am going to have to scroll down fast now each time I open your blog. I HATE FROGS. I mean hate as in they are worse than snakes, mice, roaches…pretty much anything. Creeps me out a bit just seeing those cute chipped-nail polished hands holding that horrid thing! I’d give anything just to have spring here to stay. We are supposed to get snow on Tuesday. So I’m say bring on spring where ever it is. 🙂 seriously, I love the dandelions … they may be weeds, but they are certainly bright and sunny in our cloudy overcast landscaping here in the pacific northwest. SUN! I agree. This whole spring rainy season is getting me down. I love the flowers in full bloom and I know the rain is all part of God’s big canvas but coommee onnn already, it’s time for summer!
annie changes her clothes at least once in the day. she wears something to school and by mid-afternoon….she's in another outfit.
usually something lovely like this one.
complete with headband!
and she has no problem changing later after that.
things match if they are her favorites…that's WHY they match.
i love that thought.
honestly though…i don't care how she dresses at all.
it just makes me smile when i come into a room and see what she's come up with.
 she is in a drawing phase…with markers.
in less than a month she has gone through an entire pack of computer paper.
500 sheets!
i think 400 of them are houses.
she is working on the perfect house….
where does she get that?
Oh, my. I am nervous now – my 11 year old middle schooler is purposefully dressing mis-matched. Not sure why….shouldn’t she have stopped this a long time ago???? I have always loved seeing Annie’s outfits too. I’ve been reading and watching a year now and am glad she hasn’t lost her ‘style’ yet 🙂 Precious! I LOVE that she changes clothes more than once a day… my 4 yr. old does the same thing! 🙂 Be sure to post a picture of her house drawing -perfected! 🙂 i absolutely love annies sense of style. she will be a designer of some sort in her lifetime – clothes or houses. she’s a doll. Ahhh! she reminds me of my daughter’s little friend…always in sequins and over-accessorized. I say I’d love to see her at 80, walking a poodle, with a feather boa… I love it! I teach preschool and I love when children come to school in their own creations. Some of the parents apologize and I tell them I think it’s great. A definite sign of independence! I’ve had some children come to school with their pants on backwards or even wearing two different shoes! Precious. That is so my life. Every bit of it, except they usually look way crazier. I used to feel so SORRY for children who had mis-matched clothes. Where Were Their Mothers! oh the wardrobe changes…this is my 5 year old to a “T”! I wanted to add that I LOVE what you said about things matching because she loves them…that’s my decorating philosophy. Nothing in my house “matches” except that it’s all stuff I love, so somehow it all goes together because it’s all stuff I love. …the OCD in me gets really irritated when they “waste” paper…I need to ease up and let my boys create!!! Thank you for showing me this! so so sweet. Love all the clothes, hate all the laundry. She’s creative and inventive!! those will be great characteristics for her to have as an adult! I am obsessed with her outfit. She is a DIVA! LOVE IT!!! We have ALWAYS let them come up with their “outfits”- they are ALWAYS fun AND colorful!!! darling! and i totally get that “match because they’re her favorites.” love it. good for her! and good for YOU to not make that a battle! She is too cute.. we have that tank.. and now I’m thinking a funky headband like that might be necessary 🙂 meg, i bought 2 of those headbands & they have been my saving grace. when halle looks a mess, i just throw the headband on!! fixed!! she wore it this morning dying easter eggs in pjs. totally made the pictures 🙂 Calvin has been in a similar phase for over a year now! It cracks me up. He will only wear something that is sports-themed and reluctantly allows me to help him find something a little nicer for church on Sunday. He looks ridiculously cute nearly every day, and I love it, too! yes, yes, yes. so cute!! my zoe (3 years old) is really into picking her own clothes now,lots of very uh…ahem “neat” combos 😉 We call that stuff “printer paper” and next time I buy it I’m getting two reams bc my girls go through it soooooo fast too! I love to see them create… what a treasure! She is so sweet! She’s so fashion forward! But only two outfits a day? I don’t think she’s living up to her full potential there… ;o) cute cute cute Ohhh, Precious Annie 🙂 Both the wardrobe changes and marker obsession remind me SO much of my daughter right now! I posted the first pictures of my room re-do on my blog earlier, which was inspired by your awesome READ room… you’ll notice some familiar Target sheets in there 🙂 You are good….I have one who loves to change a lot but the laundry overload was making me NUTS!!! I finally said no more changing. How adorable! I think the headband is my fav. 🙂 She is so cute. My son will also change after school, for no reason, just because. He has his favorite pieces too. don’t you just love how children see beauty?? and, what a great momma to let her express it her way! Okay..what totally amazed me about this picture…is that she has markers next to the cream couch…you are a brace momma and she is just so cute! I love preschoolers! Such a fun age. Hi, Don’t you just love that age. They are so much fun. If you just didn’t have to wash all those clothes they wear in a day. Oh! who am I kidding they still change a couple times a day at 12 and 18 years old. I guess I am just having a different kind of fun these days. Annie is a cutie!!
talby got to be a flower girl in craig's cousin's wedding.
she was nervous and excited and happy all at the same time.
   there was only a tiny bit of whispering and giggling.
(check out those bouquets…gorgeous!)
   she wore her dress and tiara to church the next day too.
thank you Mr & Mrs Duerksen for asking our little talby.
she felt like a princess.
how sweet. she looks beautiful. she will never forget that. i bet she wants to wear the dress this sunday too. i would, it’s adorable. have a great Easter. Oh so sweet! My daughter was a “flower girl” in my sister’s wedding…at 1 1/2…yeah, not so much. She looks at pictures and can’t believe it’s her. NO memory. This is great, Talby will so remember this forever 🙂 Okay, I know it sounds a little stalker-ish, but I have checked your blog THREE times today to see if you posted. I should get a hobby! What a sweetie! I’d wear the dress and tiara to church too, if i could get away with it 🙂 Check out the video on my blog.. I know you will love it. What a beautiful wedding- and it looks like the flower girl did a lovely job! Awww, she looks so sweet and inocent. The color of the dresses and her sash are yummy. Every girl likes to practice putting on her princess. Glad Talby had the chance too. My advice…let her WEAR THAT DRESS OUT! How sweet. Weddings are so FuN! She looks so beautiful! Aw. 🙂 Have I ever told you I love love love her name? So pretty. Hope you guys have a great Easter weekend. dang cute. What a special day for her!!! So cute! What a beautiful wedding. Love that you got a photo catching them whispering! Aww, she looks so beautiful! How cute is she!?!? She looks so sweet and adorable! so pretty! i loved being a flower girl when I was about her age. Happy Easter! Kelly Lovely. She looks simply precious! Do you know where the bridesmaids got their shoes? ADORABLE! (so is talby :)) Fun! I like how in the kissing picture she looks uninterested!! That’s good! hehe! Meg – catching up on your blog – been away from it for too long. Whenever I got to this post…I just started giggling. I LOVE THIS CLIP!!!!!!!!!!!!! My brother watched this movie a hundred times and find this part the best part ever…each and every time. Too funny. Oh man… that is some good stuff! Thanks for the laugh… it’s one of our favorites too! I loved that part — and the gas station scene with the door falling off… One of the best movies EVER — no doubt. Chris Farley rocked. A classic, for sure. My husband and I just pulled that DVD out last weekend! Can’t beat it for a great laugh. Just saw your comment on my blog and had to say you can totally pull off the pink hair. Who cares what they think?! Go for it, just send me some pictures if you do! This is totally unrelated but am having a hard time finding your shop on etsy-can you help me out? our two older kids love that scene. I feel a kindred spirit with you now. That scene is one of my favorite scenes of all time. The entire movie is in my top five favorites. I love that movie. My fiance hadn’t seen it until a few months ago and now he understands why when I’m shopping and things are too small I dance around singing “Fat guy in a little coat!” My husband has a rotation of about 7 movies he watches (and quotes) regularly. Tommy Boy is one of them. Thank goodness he and I have the same sense of humor. that’s so funny…my favorite line in the movie is when tommy knocked the door off the car at the gas station and when he gets in to drive away…the door comes off and tommy says “What did you do!?” hilarious movie! My husband and I love this movie – I think I can quote the whole thing! I could watch this movie 100 times a week. Love. I love Tommy Boy! We watched it a few weeks ago after not seeing it for at least a couple of years. It is great when you need a good laugh. Love, love, LOVE me some C.F. I still remember the day he died, I was in the car and heard it on the radio. No one can make me laugh to tears like Chris did! The “In a van down by the river” SNL skit…classic!! Oh yes miss Megan we love that movie those two were good together! have a good hump day 🙂 pretty much best movie made. . . ever. |
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Hena Tayeb - great pictures.
patti - i just love this post. my 4 year old anya has been making wishes every day. things like: “i wish for a play date with jackson.” “i wish for cupcakes.” “i wish mommy will be my best friend forever.” that last one brought a tear to my eye. by the way, love the new look with the froggy photo – just awesome!
MGF - The series is so great…….
Sara - So, so sweet. Thank you for sharing.
Also, I got my etsy pillow in the mail a couple of days ago and LOVE it! Yay! Thanks so much.
Genevieve - Gorgeous photos. I wish you were closer to CT! I’d love for you to take pictures of my babies.
Staci - Oh I love this post!!! We made wishes on dandelions just yesterday!!! Only our’s was for a Master Yoda?????!!!!! Great pics!
3 Peas in a Pod - The pictures are so precious.
Wanted to let you know that I made the Baked French Toast. OMG! Both of my boys ate it up. Thanks for the recipe. Your hubby was right, it was so bloggy-worthy.
Much love from NJ,
Sue
xoxo
Christy Lewis - Its amazing how a little thing like that can brighten your day!
Karina - She is SUCH a cutie pie! No wonder so many of your photos are of her.
chas at the wild raspberry - so sweet!
little girl wishes are the bestest kind around!
chasity
Peggy Rice - Hey Meg, I just posted about my pillow, thanks again!
Shannon - Best picture post ever. 🙂 Love it. I’m so jealous of your camera and picture taking abilities!
Ashley - Precious!!!
P.S. Congrats on your win over at TCB!
Amanda Jo - Your blog is so sweet and refreshing! I just love visiting here each day!
Ruth - aw man… precious!!
Jenn Thomas - I am so glad that little Annie is my neighbor!
katherine - so sweet! What a cutie pie!
Mollie - I am new to reading your blog, it is great by the way!! I was wondering what your Etsy shop is? I can not find it on your blog.
Thanks!!
Mollie
pambuller - oh my. she is too much.
i wove her. 😉 tooooo cute.
adrienneK - so sweet!! did the wishes come true?!? everyone needs fwosties and friends!
Amber - Just wanted to say Hi! You have a blog that inspired me to start my own…thanks 🙂
http://amberwabisabi.blogspot.com/
Jamie - Awww! I hope all her wishes come true!
Ashley Ann - Now I want a frosty…great pics!
Laura - soooooo?????????? wish come true??
Jill Jones - Beautiful… just beautiful.
jamie - Absolutely Precious! Thank you
Keri - Ugh, could her little haircut be any cuter?! Those are adorable!
Laurel - Oh, to have the wishes of children and to be so happy with simple things!
mom - Very cute! I see that you won something on the Creative Blog – what did you win?
erica - so sweet! i wouldn’t mind a fwwosty… they have coffee kinds now 🙂
Jess - i wish…
that i had taken more photos of my kiddos when they were this little. so precious.
Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - I don’t blame her. I want a fwwrosty too!!
Christine - so beautiful.
thanks for sharing her sweetness with us Megan.
your daughter kind of reminds me of our little girl Brontë
(hair and age are the same). Every-time B says things like “every-fing,
or 1, 2, free…” my heart melts a little and i dread the day when
she can pronounce things properly…
have a day full of simple sweetness.
robin bird - oh my gosh what a series for printing! i was just watching a photography video and the woman who was teaching was using her home (and photos of her children) as a kind of “gallery” of family photos to show clients. she does this to give them ideas about what they can do with the photos she takes of their children and she had the most wonderful HUGE, HUGE canvases and lots of adorable series like this one of annie. you should consider that for your wonderful home…. and your growing photography business 🙂
Tess S. - gorgeous!
Trish - did her wishes come true? how can you say no to a face like that?
Mary Elizabeth - ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! i miss the days maddie was that little and life was that simple! 🙂
Vera - those are some of my favorite pictures I have EVER seen!!
sandy toe - smile….