Photo Outtake of the Week: 6.11.11

Ahhh-CHOO!

Photo Outtake of the Week: 6.4.11

She was yelling "Let's go that way!"

Angelica's 3 Year School Portraits

I can hardly believe how grown up she looks...

Tomorrow she'll be three. That means three years ago today...at 6:30 PM...we were headed to the hospital. She was born 25 hours, 1 minute later.

This girl makes me so proud.

(Photos copyright Nationwide Studios. I was provided with a copyright release to share. Please do not copy.)

Angelica's Second Easter

What a great Easter it was! We spent the day before coloring eggs (complete with spilling blue egg dye on our light brown carpet...whoops!), then the next day Angelica woke up, had a "practice" Easter egg hunt at home, opened her Easter basket, and then we headed over to the Lindlaus (my sister's husband's parents...aka my brother-in-law's parents) for some more Easter festivities.

I could recap the whole thing, but pictures speak louder than words. Just for comparison, here are two photos from LAST year:

She was such a baby back then!

Here are a few from this year.

Dying Easter eggs with Daddy:




The blue hand of "doom":


The two eggs she finished (I did the other 9):


One casualty...(notice that 2+9 above does not equal 12!)


Easter morning, opening her Easter basket:


The "practice" Easter egg hunt at home:


Heading over to the Lindlau's house:


Cousin Willy shows her a pinecone:


I just like this one because it shows off her pretty dress:


Heading out on the REAL Easter egg hunt!


Stealing some of Anna's eggs (we stopped her, don't worry!)


Afterward, I did some group pictures for everyone. Here's one that my daughter (kind of) photobombed with a funny face. She's with Anna, Tyler (Willy & Anna's cousin), and Willy:


She did eventually smile though:


Then, my brother in law's mom took a family photo of us! It was nice to get a shot of all of us together for a change, since I'm usually the one behind the camera:


Angelica ate a delicious cookie:


I also took a couple of Anna and Willy:




Angelica got tossed in the air, then had a tantrum when Daddy stopped:




And, my favorite picture of Angelica from the day (and maybe one of my favorites ever):


And that's it for my photo-heavy post. But what a great day!

Wish List Wednesday

Jennifer over at nbjenni.blogspot.com came up with this idea...every Wednesday, list five things that are on your wish list. Because money doesn't grow on trees!

On my wish list this week:

1. To lose ten pounds! Over the past few months I have continued to hover between 5 and 7 pounds lost. I wish I could hit that ten pound mark!

2. A cleaning service. SuperScott and I are pretty good at keeping the place neat and clean, but we'd both have more free time if we could afford to hire someone to do it for us! 

3. A house! Preferably a four bedroom, three bathroom one. We're apartment dwellers at the moment and while I love where we live, I'd love the freedom to invite people to stay over from out of town, and have a big, fenced in yard for Angelica to run around in. 

4. A Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital SLR camera. Every time I look at this camera, I feel like cheating on my Olympus E510. Don't get me wrong, the E510 is great, I love it, but the Canon would be a dream, especially as I plan to progress from being a hobbyist to a professional at some point. 

5. An iPhone. Yes, I'm the last person in America to jump on the iPhone bandwagon.

Interested in playing along? Head on over to Jennifer's blog, get the image code, write your post and then add your name to the wish list!