When you have girls this cute it’s hard to not do photo shoots every day…or at least whenever they’re willing (or easily bribed)…thus another photo shoot.
I also wanted to get some good school pictures of Elna—she makes it easy to get good pictures—now if I could only figure out how to control the blur—that’s something I want to work on! Any tips out there from photographer friends?
The girls and I hiked to Horsetail Falls on one of Elna’s days off. I asked the girls if they wanted to go to the beach, the zoo, or on a hike, and I was surprised, but happy, that they chose the hike. I haven’t really hiked since Harriet was riding on my back—she was Georgia’s age then, and we hiked a ton—but then I got pregnant with Georgia (sick), had a newborn (hadn’t figured out how to juggle 3), and then Georgia grew up and proved to be quite a handful and I never figured out how to juggle three. It felt good to back at it!
It’s a pretty cool hike. You can go behind the waterfall, and there’s almost a cave-like area behind there. That’s were we ate lunch and rested before heading back down.
Elna took this picture!
A nice man took these pictures of us. This one he took just above was of us walking back to where he was, and Elna had just accidentally spilled all of the lunch on the ground, so we were just scrambling to pick it all up.
They were holding hands on the way back down.
The real reason Elna picked a hike today was because she knew it would end with ice cream in Cascade Locks.
After ice cream we went to a nearby park and played for a long time.
Harriet and Georgia ^^ I love it when my kids love each other!
Happy girls at the end of a fun and full day!
While Elna was away at school, we busied ourselves by decorating the house and fixing a spaghetti feast for our back to school feast.
We decided our theme for the year would be “I am a daughter of a King. I am beautiful because I am kind. I am strong and I can do hard things” A got the quote from someone I really admire—and it’s something we felt our girls would be blessed to say it and feel it every day.
I’m obviously struggling with whittling things down lately…but Elna’s first day of school certainly didn’t seem like the appropriate time to start.
She was so excited! When I woke up she already had her outfit on, her backpack packed, and she was ready to go.
That cute headband that she picked out with her outfit, got left home because it kept falling in her face and bugging her.
She’s so ready for this!
Don’t go!
Getting that big backpack on.
This was an attempt at making a “K” for Kindergarten.
She’ll grow into it. These pictures were so hard for her to stand still for, because all she wanted to do was leave!
Walking in to school with the crew.
Elna looks like she’s dying from embarrassment, but I honestly don’t think she is…though she might have been done with pictures and ready to go inside! I included both of these because of Hattie is looking so cute in the one on the right!
I took these as I was leaving.
She was only excited, and you think that would mean I could be only excited, but we will really miss her. On the way home, Harriet said in the saddest voice “We were just going to grab her and not let her go, but she was too fast. Now it’s only me and Georgia.” Sad, right? We all love our Elna girl!
The moment we waited for all day long (and still do, honestly…in November) This girl makes our world go round!
