there was this one time...

came across this

the other night when chris and i had gone out, left the oldest sis in charge of the little kids:
i love this age of artistry! and free babysitting, haha! :)

 

waiting patiently

last week i did a quick shoot at dots cupcakes.

normally i wouldn't bring her along but it's one of her favorite hangouts! :)

my favorite treats, to eat, drink, lotion and perfume and really great company too... my amazing friend and my patient daughter, my kind of shoot! :)

hope everyone had a great easter! we were busy busy but i think it was one of our best easters ever! xoxo

little desert flower

a morning walk in palm springs:

she noticed she matched the flowers. :)

flair for the dramatic :)

at starbucks, our breakfast destination. so glad that when i aimed the camera at us, this is what i got back :)

then chris got these of us:

my lovebug. i could get all mushy about how she's five and how we spend our days together... but i won't. i think anyone who reads this blog knows my love for my family. just wanted to share this series of pics of us because they make me so happy :) total happiness and warm comfort captured here! :)

pretty packaging

i had 2 pretty packaging instances the other day and they made me smile.

one of my favorite stores, dots cupcakes, started carrying some love and toast goodies! mmmm :)

prettying up client disc files with cute supplies.

and i made a layout that i can't share yet, but here's some of my latest from 2peas!

yes that is a page of everyone in my family. yay me! :)

palm springs, spring break

we wanted to go on a little getaway while the kids were on spring break. we looked at the local weather and chose palm springs because it was the warmest temperature wise than the rest :) i had shot a wedding there just a year ago during the same time and thought the hotels were rather pleasant! and then we shot a wedding at the viceroy in santa monica and remembered there was one in palm springs as well! score!

happy the bigs carved out some family time from their busy social lives :)

our bookworm relaxes:

hotel room card:

stunning!

my love for stripes appeared all over the hotel :)

mandarin season makes us very happy:

eating out usually makes me very happy but i got homesick for my own kitchen on this trip. weird!

i am aware that time together is so refreshing and rewarding. and that our time together as a whole family is slowly coming to an end as the big kids get older. already now, every weekend the big kids are scarcely around as their social lives expand. i want to keep these little getaways in my heart as it's focused time where we are in each other's faces 24 hours a day. it seems like it was just yesterday when i was a mother with 3 under five. when my days seemed so long and i couldn't fill them with enough activities. now we are trying to please all 4 who are sooo entirely different.. trying to keep their attention for a bit longer before they are off on their own little getaways.

my crew. spring break 2011. xooxoxox