It's Hot!!!

After a long cold gloomy summer... it's HOT! We did this today...

My girls are waking up from their naps like this! Soaking wet heads!

Photoshoot in front of the fan... It's not so fun when it's super hot since we don't have AC, but at least we finally get to use our pool! I'm excited!

Babysitting Brynlee...

We were so lucky we got to babysit one of our favorite little friends Brynlee last week! It was so neat to see Maddy finally be more social and want to play with other kids. They were so cute together..

We played in the bath...

Took naps in the same room even! Until I found them doing this...

We made cookies..

Maddy had so much fun having a friend to play with. And I had fun getting stuff done for once! We love having friends over!

Ashley and Peter's Wedding...

More of this beautiful wedding on my Photography Blog...

Enjoy!

Big Girl Bed!

So we've been working on this for awhile now... Getting Maddy in her big girl bed so we can give her crib to Mika. Well, Mikas now 6months and has still been sleeping right next to me in her pack n play which barely fits between my bed and the window in our room. It's really time for her to join her sister...

We've had this cute bed for awhile. My mom got Maddy the cutest bedding, and Maddy LOVED it! But wouldn't sleep in it!

Here is Maddy's rendition of the 5 little monkeys jumping on the bed...

She loves to jump off and bonk her head. Yea... I know...
Mika warming up to her knew bed...

Anyways, we finally got Maddy to sleep in her "Big Girl Bed" at night time, but we would catch her in the middle of the night with her lights on, Pjs off, trying on her clothes. After nights of her fashion escapades, she was no longer sweet, happy little Maddy, but grumpy tired Maddy.

We finally got her to stay in bed at night.. ( I think!), but she still surprises us most mornings with her own choice of outfit for the day. She always says "I'm ready!"

Here are just a few samples of her outfits of choice...

Long story short... Last night Mika finally slept in the crib! WOo hoo! Maddy slept all night and didn't even wake up when I went in to get Mika in the morning to give her her bottle, which she ate and went right back to sleep... until 8:45 when they both finally woke up!

Hope this lasts!!!

VOTE!

Once again I'm so excited to have been nominated for the Just Spotted OC Blog Awards for my Photography Blog. Please check out Just Spotted! It's such a great site for fun stuff to do in the OC, and be sure to VOTE for Michelle Photography! Voting ends this Sunday, so if you want to show some love for me do it before then! You can also vote for my sister's blog Sandy Toes and Popsicles under the "Favorite Local Blog" category. Thanks so much!!

Come on Over!

This has been along time coming, but FINALLY my new photography blog is up and running! It's still a work in progess, a logo revamt and more are all coming soon! But I couldn't wait any longer!

Be sure to add my new link to your blogs to keep updated on all the fun shoot features coming your way!

And Maybe, just Maybe a you'll find a PORTRAIT GIVEAWAY coming soon!

You might also get a little bit of this...

And a little bit of that...Visit me now at http://momentsbymichelle.com/blog!

Shout out to my sis for finding these cute monkey hats on Etsy...

See you on the other side!!

Minnie Cooper

So our little Minnie Cooper has been missing for 2 nights now. Her collar was returned to us after being found in the street, but no Minnie in sight. She may be gone for good, but I thought we would at least put out fliers to see if anyone has any info on her. I told Maddy we were going to put up fliers to help find Minnie and we have the cutest converstion...

"Mommy are you sad?" -Maddy

"No, I just miss our Minnie cat." -Me

"Do you need a kiss?" -Maddy

"Yes!" (kisses) -Me

"YAY! I made Mommy happy! Mommy's Happy!" -Maddy

"We still have Mungo mommy." -Maddy

How cute that at only 2 Maddy can already rationalize that at least we still have Mungo (her bff white kitty)...

Mungo actually came with us on our walk today to tape up fliers. He follows Maddy everywhere. So cute! Hopefully his sister Minnie will show up soon!

Forget the Cookie Jar...

Who stole the tomato from the fruit bowl?
This little girl cannot get enough of tomatoes! It's good I guess... except when you find a bite out of every tomato in the bowl, or when your neighbors complain of bites out of every tomato on their tomato vines, or when she's running through the house with this...

Yea, that's always fun!

We can't keep enough tomatoes stocked up in this household! Donations are always welcome! (Thanks grandma!)

Where my peeps at?...

Last night while playing with Mika's hair I realized that I could pinch together little pony tails with my fingers! I was so excited that I dreamt about putting actual pony-tails in her hair! It was like Christmas morning when I woke up and was able to tame her big lioness hair into these cute little peeps! Isn't she adorable? I couldn't quite tame the back as you can see, but my little girls are all about big pokey hair! Now we just need some bows or mini hair flowers and we are set!

How many 4 month olds can have peeps? Seriously cute!

Sneak Peak of Baby Bruce...

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Puddin'!

What do you do on a hot summer day? Put your suits on and paint with pudding! Maddy and her BFF Brynlee loved it, what could be better than being able to be as messy as you want to without getting in trouble!

Brynlee discovered that it was better to slurp up the pudding than to paint with it early on...

Brnlee's creation...
Maddy's Masterpiece...
And then came the body painting...

Brynlee's face seemed to be a great canvas for Maddy...

But Bryn didn't mind at all..

Such a fun day we will definitely be doing this again! Best thing of all is hosing off the kids and the mess in just a couple minutes. Love it!

Happy Summer Time!