Beautiful Butterflies for Grandma

I wanted to take some pictures of the kids for our walls. I have only edited the girls so far but they turned out better then I hoped, so for Grandma Buttons birthday I am sharing them before they are even on my walls. We love you grandma!!!

 

The poor girl was freezing to death. And so was I since my jacket was on Makay!

Ok, so this is actually my favorite black and white. There's something about her eyes!!

I love this expression. She uses it all the time and I'm so happy I got it in a picture!

Sisters! It was hard getting Parker to sit next to Makay let alone act like they were bff's!

It took some time to loosen them up but it worked. Then one of mom's crazy stories and the giggles came out. Oh ya!

More Butterfly Pictures

Just a few more...

 

It was freezing on the day I took these. Makays' teeth were chattering almost the whole time so that's my jacket around her shoulders.

Normally it's all sand and weeds behind our house but it's the rainy season so it's nice and  green out there.

When I was editing the pictures there was a comic book setting . I liked how it made the butterfly on the girls faces look hand drawn onto the picture.

Parker picked out my longest and most dangely earings for this little photo shoot. She was in heaven wearing them!

I love the colors on some of these but the black and white ones are amazing.

This one is Parkers favorite!

I think this one is my favorite!

This is the comic book setting again.

This is my favorite black and white of Makay.

Teeth and Tanks

I forgot to post pictures of Tuesdays blessing! Papa and Calvin came up to pick up my mom after being here for a month. Luckily we were able to bless Tuesday that weekend so my dad and Calvin could stand in for the blessing. It was really cool.

 

L.A. traffic on a Sunday is crazy so my parents and Calvin were going to leave after sacrament meeting and try to make it home to San Diego in a reasonable amount of time.  We went out to the back of our church building and took a few pictures just before they left. How in the world could we get all the kids smiling and looking nice in an impromptu photo shoot!?!  We decided that maybe we should do that with our family pictures next time.

 

 Makay has been dying to lose some teeth. She has watched as her older siblings get rich off the Tooth Fairy while she sits with a mouth full of potential dough.  Finally it happened.  She lost a tooth and the money flowed in, two whole dollars (the Tooth Fairy pays more for the first tooth and then gets cheap)!! She can join her siblings in the lap of luxury!



 

Tuesday has started to smile!!  The great pay off for all those sleepless nights and fussy days. The kids love it! Today we were eating lunch after church and Ryan was making her smile.  He turned Tuesday so the kids could see her smile and they would clap and cheere every time she smiled.

 

I can't help but take pictures every time I can. "Look she's holding her head up! Let me get the camera." "Look she's smiling, let me get the camera."  "Look, she moved her pinky, let me get the camera!" I can't help myself.

Ryan took the older five to see some ancient Indian pictographs that are a little south from here. The kids loved it. Anything to do with Indians, they love!

 

They have this tank sitting in a lot across from the Burger King here on base. 

 



Look, Tuesday is breathing, let me get the camera!!!