THE STORY BEHIND THESE IMAGES COMING SOON...
EDITED: TO INCLUDE THE INFORMATION THAT GOES ALONG WITH THESE IMAGES (3.29.08) ONE WEEK AFTER THIS DAY (agian better late than never, uh?)
Okay, here I am few days later making time for this. No, I am still not caught up, but I have already had a portrait session this morning and before I get started working on a birth annoucement and birthday invitation, I want to complete this post and maybe the other two that I started.
The above images is Dalton (or Daltin as Natalie says it...she loves her cousin, Dalton. It's so sweet.) and Natalie getting ready to outside to find the Easter Eggs that Aunt Cari and her cousin, Brooke, hit for them. We did the Saturday afternoon after we arrived at my mom's. This wasn't Dalton's weekend with his daddy (my brother), but his mommy let him spend some time over at my mom's so that he could find eggs with his cousin, Natalie.
BELOW IMAGE: one of Natalie's first eggs to find...it was very frustrating trying to photograph Natalie and Dalton find eggs with the harsh backlighting and those LEGS (LOL). Almost every image had someone's or several someones legs in the background.
Dalton's little fake smile and pose with the egg he just found (and of course, more legs).
"Dirty, dirty", that's what Natalie was saying here. She really doesn't like getting dirty and wants to clean up as soon as she does especially if it is something like leaves in your shoes that feels funny...I love it!
Aunt Cari helping with Papaw (my dad looking on)
Posing with their recently found eggs
Another image of Natalie complaining about being dirty, dirty...She had bubbles "juice" on her from playing bubbles earlier with her Aunt Maria. This is her using a paper towel to clean up.
Dalton posing with his Easter gift from Aunt Jami (and the rest of my family). I love that little boy. He is my only nephew (on my side of the family).
Natalie posing with our "goofy" looking Easter Bunny cake. I had plans of wanting to make this for Natalie for Easter, but I forgot about it until that day when we were on our way to my mom's (the day after prom). I was a little sleep deprived from the events of the day before so I am not too organized any more about planning things like this in advance. So while we were buying some last minute items at Wal-mart in Winnsboro to take to Mom's, I remembered the cake idea. I made this when I was in high school for my baby brother (aka Dalton's dad), then I made it again when my kids were little and then I remembered the idea last Easter, but I wanted to wait until this year when Natalie was a little older too. I think I was also think life wouldn't be quite as hectic and that I would have more time (I was very wrong about that). I am glad I did it. Natalie wanted to help when I showed her what I was doing, but I think she mostly just wanted to eat the icing. She had little white spots of icing all over her new top...oh, well. We had fun. I forgot the bow of the bunny was suppose to be a different color...I think I used to do it a green color...when I remembered it I added the pink on top to give it another color. I couldn't remember what I used for each item to decorate the bunny's face...I knew I needed some licorice for his whiskers that I could not find. So I just go the malted eggs for everything. Natalie saw the speckling of the malted eggs (that are made to look like bird eggs) and she said the bunny had booger in his nose. She made everyone watching laugh outloud very loudly. It was quite funny!
Finally it was time for coloring Easter Eggs as we had discussed with Natalie for a few days. Don't you love that look of concentration?
Poppa helping Natalie.
She was so proud of her colored eggs!
Mimi helping with Eden and Chloe looking on. Eden and Chloe are Natalie's "almost" cousins. Their mommy is marrying Uncle Quincy (aka Dalton's daddy...Mimi's baby brother).
Natalie and her Gigi (great-great grandmother...my mom) and their GiGi egg and nice big cheezy smile from Natalie
Chloe and her mom, Darlene
Natalie and Mimi with the "Mimi" egg
Eden and her mommy, Darlene
All three girls after we finished coloring the eggs. As you can see, Natalie isn't too modest. She got some dye-water on her tee shirt (that she was wearing over her good clothes) wet so she too it off. This is a little habit she has developed especially at breakfast. If she spills ceral milk on her top (usually p.j. top), she takes it off. OftenI look over there (toward her hight chair) after I have been working here on the computer as usual and notice she has taken her shirt off. And now I know, she had a wet shirt and she took it off. I guess she thinks it is much better to wear no shirt than a wet shirt.
Okay, that's if for last Saturday. Please forgive any typos. I don't really have time to proof read this right now. I need to get a quick shower. Cari want to go to the boys baseball game. Randy and I are picking up Natalie to take her to the little Circus that has come to Vidalia this weekend. Before we go to the circus we are going to wal-mart to pick up some flowers for Randy and Natalie to plan one day next week.
~~Natalie's Mimi~~
ABOVE: NATALIE AND CARLIE
(The image that inspired the title.)
