i{heart}faces: Smile

Well, it's safe to say that

a loooooong time has passed

since i posted.

i abandoned my 2010 resolution. 

i still took a picture a day

i just never posted it

SURPRISE!

adding a child and maintaining a somewhat-sane life

means

no blogging as of late

but

SMILE! 

because the Cuties are still at it

here's our newest

(or not so new)

Cutie

with her daddy on the beach.

they're a great pair

and they always

make me smile

for more smiles

and to celebrate i{heart}faces being

TWO

click on over here:

10/365 (2011)

oh my golly!

who can believe?

it snowed in Atlanta!

Really snowed!

09/365 (2011)

Mimi

plays games

and isn't afraid to be a kid again

and the real kiddos can't get enough of it

08/365 (2011)

Watch Out!

this driving course

is not meant for a

2-year old driver

with a less-than 1-year old passenger!

7/365

Sunny Days

chasing those clouds away

can't get enough of this crisp wintry weather!

6/365 (2011)

Like Mother,

Like Daughter

Cutie Face takes a picture of her artwork

5/365 (2011)

Meeting friends

in the Target toy aisle

the best impromptu playdate!

04/365 (2011)

One-car family

need to exercise

=

a run to the aquarium

the girls loved it

and so did this mama!

03/365 (2011)

hey there,

Cutie Cakes

Happy Face!

{i promise

one day i'll start 

using my Lumix again

too many iPhone photos!}

2/365 (2011)

Back Home!

Lots of Laundry!

Little Miss No-Sleep

loves to help

thanks, kiddo

1/365 (2011)

celebrating the new year

with a long drive back home

and a stop at

what has to be

THE most popular

Cracker Barrel on I-75

Following a BCS Bowl game, that is!

365:365

and the sun sets on 2010

here's to a new year!

i{heart}faces: Surprise!

It's time, once again, for another iheartfaces entry! Truthfully, iheartfaces was the last thing on my mind this week--we hosted lots of family and friends for Cutie Face's 2nd birthday party and Cutie Cakes' baptism.

While going through alllllllllll the photos from this weekend's festivities, I decided to see what the iheartfaces theme was for this week--Surprise!

I'm not really sure what is going on in this picture but I thought it was hilarious when I stumbled upon it.

Make sure you visit more surprising photos on iheartfaces website this week!

i ❤ faces: purple!

Clearly this blog now functions as my "iheartfaces" entry headquarters. But at least i'm back to posting once a week!

Yesterday we visited the local natural history museum, Fernbank. It's pretty dark in the exhibits but I saw Cutie Face playing with this hands-on exhibit and thought it'd be a fun entry for this week's purple theme. I tweaked it just a bit--it really was this purple!

there are a ton of fun things going on at iheartfaces right now 

but the purple entries alone are worth a visit!

i{heart}faces: OVER my head

Yup. it's been more than a month. So much for my resolution to upload one picture a day (seriously? how hard is that?)

Regardless of this blog's activity, i thought forcing myself to participate in this week's iheartfaces contest would encourage me to get back into the swing of things. We shall see.

Anyway, this week's theme was a "gimme" because i have soooo many thousands of pictures of things on my kids' heads--hats, bows, water, sprinklers, their dad (!), balloons, bubbles, you name it, i have a picture of it. Regardless, i was thinking about having my oldest take a bucket of water and dump it over her head while i snapped away. But she had an ear infection so...that was out. Bummer.

So i polled my facebook friends and this is the one they chose. 

Thanks friends! 

Pressure's off :)

please hop on over to iheartfaces for some very creative "over" pictures! i've been inspired already!

153/365

she's too much i tell ya

147/365

Loving that sprinkler

146/365

GiGi with #2

145/365

future track star?

144/365

...hi cutie cakes...

143/365

just call her CRAZY face :)

i ❤ faces: yellow

So I thought that last week's assignment was tricky because of all the flower headband photos i've taken (literally, thousands upon thousands). 

But YELLOW? 

Well, we might not always have a flower in our hair but you can bet your bottom dollar we'll have that yellow blanket right next to us AT ALL TIMES, and, therefore for nearly all pictures.

So you'd think i'd choose a yellow-blanket-photo. 

WRONG.

I chose one taken today of Cutie Cakes.

Yellow makes me happy.

I'm SO happy we have so much yellow in our house.

I'm SO happy we have girls that like yellow.

I'm SO happy that yellow was this week's theme!

For more happy-yellow photos, visit i ❤ faces!

Happy week to you!

142/365

baby shower for our sweet friend!

141/365

lunch at Ikea...

delish

140/365

somebody finally came home!

139/365

New playground fun!

138/365

anyone have any strawberries? i ate all of mine...

137/365

perhaps my new all-time fave photo

i ❤ faces: flowers

you'd think since i dress at least one girl up in a flower headband/day that i'd have thousands of photos to choose from.

Actually, therein lies the problem. I have SOOOO many flower headband photos to choose from that i couldn't handle it and only looked at photos from this month. Oh yeah--Much easier. Then I only had 572 photos to choose from (no lie).

So then i just looked at yesterday's photos. And here you have it. It's tough being a flower day-in and day-out...

Now i know you have pictures of people + flowers...

why not enter them today or view more at i ❤ faces?

136/365

yeah...been slacking...but i've also been snapping...just not sharing...

thanks for letting me indulge in a little alliteration :(|)

135/365

Cutie Face + Churchill

a...err...growing relationship

134/365

Post-dinner fun with daddy

133/365

too many captions running through my head for this one :)

132/365

She's a toddler! supposedly this is the "climbing stage". And i believe it

131/365

Today was...

funny...

two out of the three of us girls were sick and tired...

and the baby was just happy and alert and most definitely NOT tired. 

Such is life :)

thankfully, the toddler was content to watch LOTS of Sesame Street videos (the demanded ones: elmo POTTY, elmo SUN, elmo DUCKS, elmo SLEEPHY), the babe was happy to just get some face time with her mommy and big sister, and I was happy to let them do both :)

130/365

Happy Mother's Day...to me?

Thanks to J, I finally have a decent photo of the three of us gals.

129/365

we'd promised her a "party & a cupcake" the night before

so we had to follow through, right...?

Happy 21-month birthday, Cutie Face! 

We cannot believe you'll be 2 in 3 months...sniff sniff

128/365

91 degrees today = watering more of Cutie Face than the plants

Good times

127/365

Seriously? 

How are you 3 months old today?!?!

PS Let it be known that J declared this picture "not the best" of the ones from today but I thought Cutie Cakes HAD to be featured here on her 3-month birthday...stay tuned for a blog post about today on the Cutie Faces blog!

126/365

 

today was a scorcher

hence the need for fountains

125/365

today we breakfasted outside

Cutie Face was quite fearful of the leaf blower man that we watched from our porch

though she convinced herself that it was "like mommy's vack-oom"

so, in the end, after the tears, it was alright

the fig newton for breakfast had her worried for a bit, too...

124/365

today, on a super saturated rain soaked deluge of a day, Cutie Face asked to join the Cakes in her crib--she spent nearly 30 minutes in there while I caught up with friends on the phone...(hence the reason this picture is blurred and edited--shooting one handed while refereeing and chatting on the phone is not always the best way to get a decent picture of the day)

I think that Cutie Face will be a great mom. When she isn't in a toddler funk, she's one step ahead of me, fetching passers (read: pacifiers), burp cloths, nursing covers, and rattles for Cutie Cakes. She's attentive, sweet, and loving (if not smothering). And Cutie Cakes certainly lights up when she's around...

123/365

Well, believe it or not, I failed to take even one picture today. Whoa. Unprecedented. Not even one on my iPhone. Seriously--how did that happen?

Despite my failings in the still camera department, i found a great replacement for today's post (at least for this doting parent ;-o)...a video. It appears that Cutie Cakes' favorite song is currently, "Head & Shoulders, Knees & Toes"--sure to elicit a squeal and big smiles, especially if done with enough gusto. I'd been performing for her for quite a while by the time i busted out the Flip...meaning she was a bit  over it by the time we finished singing. 

Regardless, i know i'll enjoy looking back and seeing how much she's grown and how cute she was!

oh!

a fancy thing about the Flip--you can take a still shot!:

PS: excuse the girls' {lack of} attire--
it's 80℉ in our house but we, for some unknown reason, refuse to turn on our AC unit.

122/365

Cutie Cakes meets my cousin (in-law)!