Mississippi Summer 2014

Jeffrey's Early Birthday Celebration and Arabelle's "Half" Birthday

Charlotte playing with magnets...her head sweats a lot here due to the humidity.

Communal Candle-blowing

The kids' first beach experience--Orange Beach, Alabama

Running from waves

Contemplating Life

We made Charlotte her own wading pool on the beach.

Arabelle loved her floatie and kept it on most of the time.

Charlotte had lots of fun with Papa

resting on the porch swing.  The grass is so green in Missisippi--with no sprinklers!

The kids also had fun at "The Buffalo Park and Zoo" in Tupelo and at Vacation Bible School at the Aberdeen First Pentecostal Church.

In true pentecostal fashion, VBS included some fun singing and dancing.  Arabelle is in the yellow dress, she was featured during the program on the final day.  She did refuse to wear the official t-shirt.

Early Spring

A great toy or Arabelle:  Playing house with Jeffrey's imaginext castle set provides the perfect mixture of girly and tough for Arabelle.  Strangely she prefers it over the cool Little Tikes dollhouse I have provided her.

Closer look.

Charlotte loves these two guys.

Arabelle was jealous of me taking Charlotte's pictures, so she specifically asked me to take the following sequence of pictures of her  "being a model".

A natural she is not...

But kudos for creativity!

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Beautiful Christmas outfit from Memaw

I was trying to be a bit artistic with these shots, so it's a shame about the plastic bag showing up in all of them...Asi es la vida...

My twins.

I'm a bit behind on blogging.  I believe these pictures are from March.  At first I blamed the lag on recovering from Christmas, but evidently I have just become lazy.