Mary Liz // dressing up and looking a little too old

 I am a huge Shirley Temple fan, so I had her do the classic "oh my goodness" pose from all the movies. She doesn't like this photo, but i think it is darling. :)

Mary Liz (aka Liz) sweetly agreed to pose for portraits last week, and we had so much fun. She is pretty good at posing herself so I could focus on making my camera do what I wanted, and she was running around the property telling me to take a photo of her here and do one there. It was pretty cute actually.  :)

           I curled her hair and fixed it cute, and that was just a little mistake, because she looks too old in these photos. But it’s darling, so it’s okay. For a nine-year-old having your hair fixed isn’t most fun thing they can think of, so it is always a bit of a struggle to make her sit still long enough to fix it cute, but when we do it is so pretty. She is gorgeous. We even put on clip earrings and some lip color and blush, (Which made her feel extremely old, btw. :)

           Liz is just a little tomboyish, so climbing trees and playing legos with her brothers  are pretty high ‘fun’ things on her list. But she can dress up and have a mean tea party too. And play dolls. and sew things. and play piano. And read books. She’s kinda like me where she enjoys doing a lot of  ‘boyish’ things but then can turn around a moment later and be a total girly-girl (Although I think that I was way more of a tom-boy when I was little.)

She’s cute, yes?

xx,

103 in 2013 // #98. read emma

     Last week I  finally completed something off my 103 in 2013 list. I have to admit that I am not amazing at completing things off  lists like that… :)  But I have completed two things on my list (#69. Host a cookie exchange) and now I have finally completed 98. Read Emma. This book is so cute and sweet and I love it, and I love her. The end...    

      Emma is my very favorite Jane Austin heroine. I don't really know why exactly, but  just think that she is so sweet and lovely. Plus she gets Mr. Knightley. :)

      I have watched many different versions of Emma, but my very favorite is the 2009 version, (it was my favorite even before I read the book,) and as I read I was so glad that they followed the book almost exactly.  Having watched the movie, I had Romola Garai in mind, and how she looked for the movie. She is the way I will always picture Emma. And I especially love the dresses in that version. They are so sweet and beautiful, and all throughout the book I was imagining Emma in those dresses. And Mr. Knightley. Need I say more? I love him so much. He is the perfect gentleman and I have loved his character in every version I watched because it's Mr.  Knightley. :)  

Anyway, have you read Emma (or watched any of the movies?) and what are your opinions on them both? :)

xx,

they made funny faces

 This is such a typical expression for Julia. I manage to get this photo all the time from her, and we think it's too adorable.

Mom occasionally asks me to help the kiddos with school, while she runs errands. Sometimes it’s a chore, and other times I find it so fun, and entertaining. Some days they are photogenic, other days they run the other direction when I pull out my camera. One day last week was one of those fun times. I realized how cute my siblings are, and what fun they have. That day they goofed off and made funny faces in in the camera together. They made school time fun, and it was lovely. 

     I don't always appreciate how amazing/cute/wonderful/adorable my little sibling really are. It's mostly when I capture  photos like these ^  that I take the time to notice how much I  love them all. Sometimes, life takes over and I don't slow down. But when I do it always hits me right between the eyes: They's all so cute!! :) 

Presh, yes?

xx,

the day I went out in the cold to catch the sunrise

^^ these two were in the sunset two days ago. The frozen fog had finally melted off for the day, and the pine-trees 
were covered in water-drops  so I found a place that I could backdrop the pine-needle/Water-drops, with some brilliant colors, and I fell in love with the results.

 My world has been covered in a layer of glistening lovely white stuff for days, and I think it’s beautiful! It’s called frozen fog, which basically is super wet fog that settled in the area and then the temperatures plummeted to earth and all the fog froze onto everything in sight. It happens every winter here, and is so pretty. :) Mama came in to my room a couple days ago, at 7:30 am, and announced“There’s a beautiful sunrise and I think you should go take pictures of it.” I grumbled a little, but did throw a coat over my pajamas and go out for a few shots. I ended up walking all the way back to the very back of our property to get these photos, so that there weren't too many trees in the way. I loved the shots that I captured. It almost makes me wish that I got up to see the sunrise every day. Almost! :)

     I love the way the frost turns an ordinarily"black and white" day into a beautiful gorgeous landscape that I can't stop looking at.  Frozen fog makes winter beautiful, especially when we don't have snow, and everything would otherwise be brown and muddy. It gives inspiration to ordinary days. That's probably the main reason why I like it. On days that I just can't think of something to do, to write, to photograph, the frozen fog is lovely and inspiring. 

     Anyway, I'll stop rambling about ice. :) Sometimes, I ramble on and on about nothing during a post, and I'm afraid to go back and read it and realize that it didn't  make any sense. :) I'm afraid that that is what this post is, but that's okay, rambling is what i do.

     Tell me about your weekend, yes?

xx,