Soccer sweet dreams...

So this is kind of a weird season when I am not coaching one of the kiddos but it is fun just to sit back and enjoy the show. I will probably had a ton more pictures since I am actually on the sidelines where I can take pictures. After Jocelyn's first practice of the season where they hand out uniforms she was SO excited. When I told her to put on her jammies she changed into her new uniform because she just couldn't wait to wear it. I am pretty sure she had sweet dreams all night long.

Back to School

So there's this awesome girl who is just starting her photography business. She has taken my kids pictures the last several years just to practice and in August she got a new lens she wanted to try out. Of course I was happy to volunteer my kiddos for the experiment and as always she got some amazing pictures. Since school was starting they all wore their new outfits and we had a back to school photo shoot. Here are some of my faves...

Taryn with her new short hair do. It suits her so well and I love it. More importantly she does too.      

Jocelyn was in some kind of funk and not into smiling but she still looked beautiful and dream like.  

Cami was also looking pretty dreamy.    

All four kids hugging a tree...

Creedy boy just happy to be included and hanging out in the sunshine.

Oh half a smile....the mischievous half...

Taryn with sunlight in her hair and a hint of a smile.

Cami with sunlight in her hair and thinking about a smile...

Man sometimes I look at her and realize she is totally growing up WAY  too fast.

So these are the actual first day of school pictures...The older girls started like the 11th ish and Jocelyn started like the 18th ish....It seemed so early this year. Maybe summer just felt too short. The girls were ready and excited to go back even if I wasn't ready for it all to start. On the first day Cami and Taryn were so excited that they "borrowed" my phone and took each others pictures while I was getting Jocelyn and Creed dressed so we wouldn't be late (from me taking twenty different pictures). Jocelyn's first day had similar excitement until we got to school and then she wasn't sure she wanted me to leave her. Creed and I stayed and played with her until she was good to go and that was that. Now three days a week it is just me and Creed at home for 2 1/2 hours and it feels really strange and quite.

Locks of LOVE and lots of love

Every year before school starts and after summer swimming all the kids get hair trims. For the longest time Taryn's hair didn't grow very fast or thick. I kept it in a short bob hoping that eventually it would thicken up. She hated her short hair and always begged to grow it out like Rapunzel...it got worse after she saw Tangled....So after her prekindergarten cut I let it grow...and grow...and grow with just a few trims when it needed it. This year when we went to get everyone trimmed Cami went first and got it trimmed a very little bit. Jocelyn got hers trimmed a very little bit. And Taryn hopped up on the chair and told our lady I want to go short this time....We discussed it for SEVERAL minutes and as always she knew exactly what she wanted and stuck to her guns...I told her if she was going short she could/should donate it to locks of love. And so she did and she looks soooo cute!

A year ago I let each kiddo choose one thing to grow and Taryn chose sunflowers that were as tall as our house. This year Jocelyn and Taryn wanted to grow sunflowers so we ended up with a ton of them that were very loved and watered. They grew taller than our house...