Homewood Park

Peter has taken Pierce to the park many times this year and she just loves it! I've gotten to join a few times and one day I snapped some photos... this day featured my favorite. Pigtails. I can't handle the cuteness really. Also please notice the pickle band-aids. She loves them! If anything is ever wrong, she says "pika band aid" and life is healed once the band aid has been placed. Hmmmm, I wonder if that would work for grown-up problems?

Christmas excitement!

That's right! I'm excited about Christmas in July! I've got something in the works for photos/Christmas cards that I think everyone is going to really love. Basically all you'll have left to do is stamp and address your envelopes if you use me for the rest :) I realize it's far too early to really advertise it yet, but keep your eye out. By reading this blog you are SO ahead of the game!

And don't forget to check www.jevoisphotography.blogspot.com occasionally too.

A Thousand and One Pictures

We went to the lake for the Fourth of July and I took a ton of pictures. It's my favorite place in the world. Here's why:

i'm on a BOAT!

She drives the boat.


She's a fish... loves "mimmin" (swimming)



we love Cheetos at the lake!
trying to blow up her own floaties


We were at the 4th of July picnic, wondering WHERE Daddy, George and John Ellis were. We were starting to worry when we looked down the cove and saw them floating down to us. With a tube full of beer. Hilarious.

At the Fiddler's Jamboree they have amazing food. Pictured here are a funnel cake and footlong corndog. I myself had a fried snickers. That's right.

Hagen and Grace enjoyed turkey legs. MMM good.

It's been awhile

There has been so much going on that blogging has NOT been going on. Here is a quick overview...

I returned from Boston Tuesday evening after a 5-day trip with Hagen and John Ellis. He was shooting some of their friends' wedding and asked me to come along! We made a great team. I hope to post some of those photos soon. We toured all around and even got to catch a lunch with our dear cousins Will and Jenny Stegall (who are hard to catch!!) We stayed several nights at our cousins Emalee and Mark Holmes apartment, which I highly recommend. It smells like someone just baked snickerdoodles and the sheets are so soft. It also just happens to be beautiful and the nicest house on the street. It's probably not nice for THEM to brag about their crib, but I can! Here are a few Boston pics that I really liked.






Peter is on the prowl for a PE job in our fair city. He will still lack 2 classes, which he will finish in December, but that's making it a little hard. He's pushing hard and looking for aide positions in good systems until then. He's doing a few soccer camps and generally helping me and taking classes.

Pierce is spunky. I know that people use that word to describe their kids often, but it's really the perfect word. She can be fiesty and have a little temper, but is also the sweetest thing. She hates to make you sad, as soon as she realizes that she has, and will give you a hug. Basically a hug is her leaning her head on you. We have had 2 incidents lately that involved her stomping on animals. We will have to break her of that this week because we head to the lake with FOUR dogs tomorrow!! She love love LOVES her cousin Isaac. Here they are playing while I was off traveling.

I hope you all have a happy Fourth of July. I know we will. War Eagle America.

The beach... again

So we went to the beach again the 1st week of June. It was HOT, but wonderful. Pierce just loves the beach. She loves sprinkling "sugar" on every single sand "cake" she passes. Often these castles end up being crushed, so there was quite a bit of mommy sprinting down the beach before Pierce ruined some family's masterpiece. We discovered several things on this trip: Pierce loves playing the harmonica with Papa. She loves the "hose" that we clean our feet with even more than the ocean. George is an expert and extremely speedy sand castle maker, as well as hole digger. And last, but certainly not least... my new camera rocks my face off. These are the 1st published pics taken with the new baby. Sorry there are so many!

Je Vois Photography

I have added another blog to my repetoire :) Hillaryphotography.blogspot is going to go away and I've started www.jevoisphotography.blogspot.com to replace it. I hope to update it very regularly, and there is a post there now that I'm really excited about. Hope you enjoy! And if you do, tell a friend :)

Our Daughter

Do you know Pierce? If you do, you'll agree that this is her in a picture. If you don't, hi! Here's Pierce. Dirty, playing with water, as n*a*k*e*d as she can be, BUT with a flower in her hair. Or a bow, as the case may be. We sure do have fun!