my girls

I love this photograph. Her hair matches the tree behind her. So pretty!

During the winter a very heavy, wet snow broke this branch off a tree in our backyard. It bloomed even thought it was hanging- snapped in half! It made the prettiest little spot for pictures. I am going to print this one of Simone on canvas! Love.

A happy day in March

We played in this yard last year. I think we may have missed the crocus this year. There were so few compared to last time. We still got a few good pictures though.

Guess what? Spring is here! I took a million pictures last week! I will try to post more.

As soon as I check one client off my list I will blog. That means if I get my act together there will be 15 posts this week! Yep. That is a lot of people. Three of those aren't clients though....but that doesn't mean they aren't waiting...it just means they are at the bottom of the list.

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(That's the necklace Lincoln bought me when she was born.)

"I not a baby anymore. I growed up when I at Penny's house you in Hawaii."


It's true.

We arrived in Baltimore early in the morning on her third birthday.

Three years. How has that much time passed?


She is my little buddy.
She is my calm.
My Mone-si.
My strength.
My take a deep breath, everything is okay.
My silly.
My little pirate.
My tiny ballerina.
My future star of Annie on Broadway.
My hold me Mommy.
My dishwasher unloader.
My little song bird.
My hold my cheeks when she gives me a kiss.
My cuddler.
My doesn't want to hold hands in the parking lot.
My curly girl.
My short shadow.
My scream her head off when she wakes up.
My good listener.
My errand partner.
My princess of many dresses ( about 6 in an hour).
My velcro.
My ipad navigator.
My sunrise and sunset. (usually)
My Simone Clara.

She's three.

A quick visit...

While we were at the Polynesian Cultural Center (more on that later) we hopped on the tour bus and saw BYU Hawaii and The Hawaii Temple. It was a short visit, but I am glad we made the trip to go see it. It was beautiful. I got to see a very new missionary from Japan bearing her testimony to someone that was on our tour. Hearing the love she has for the temple and the gospel in her voice as she tried her best to speak English was really touching, and of course.....it made me cry a little. =)

We look so weird in this picture. We seem shorter, - or something. Maybe it's because we had just been soaked in a rain storm 30 minutes prior? I can't put my finger on it.



(I have to do a lot of catch up blogging. I am swamped with photography work. My to do list is daunting. I just need to hire another me.

The kids are home for spring break and today the weather was heavenly. The cherry blossoms are out!!! Tomorrow had better be beautiful, because even though I have no time to process them...I am taking tons of pictures. =)

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Lincoln's step sister (Sarah) is going to the University of Hawaii, so she was our guide. She was the best!

We hiked Diamond Head.

These two were taken on the way down.

Yes, I am totally saying "You shall not pass!" in this one. =)

In Utah they call it a Sno-cone
In Maryland they call it a Snoball
In Hawaii it's Shave Ice

They are huge! So yummy!

Here's Sarah! <3

Then Sara took us to this "locals only" spot. There was a place to jump into the ocean off the lava cliffs. It was heavenly! The water was calm and it wasn't cold. I swam around for a long time before I got out to jump back in again. While I was on the log the second time the wind really picked up and I thought it was going to blow me right off (to my demise) before I got to the end. The end is where the water was, before that it was all rocks! Obviously I made it. It was such a nice spot, my favorite of the trip.

We were the only people here. I want to live there!

That's me.

Another double rainbow.


We drove back to the hotel and ate dinner right on the beach at a nice restaurant. Then we went to Bubbies and got Mochi. Have you had Mochi before? We love it! We usually get it at our favorite sushi restaurant here, and I recently found it at Trader Joe's! HEAVEN!