I am on vacation with my family for the next few days. We are in Florida, and in between rainstorms, we are getting in a little beach time.

Here are a few shots from M & G’s first trip to the beach…

Summer is finally on its way! M spent the weekend at his grandparents’ house in search of tree frogs – his current obsession (I mean interest).

What is it that makes children want to put every small creature they come across in some sort of container? The tiny frog he found spent a terrifying hour in a plastic sandwich box with a handful of grass before we convinced M that his family was probably missing him and that we were pretty sure he didn’t eat grass. He finally agreed to return him to the wilds of Nana & Grandpa’s front yard.

Soon the fields will be twinkling with lightning bugs (those are fireflies for those of you not from the south) and M will spend many happy evenings filling old Mason jars with them. (Don’t call PETA on us though…mommy has a soft spot for all of God’s creatures, and we practice catch and release lightning bug hunting!)

It isn’t quite lightning bug weather yet, so I had a little fun in Photoshop…

So I decided that for G’s 1st birthday party, it would be fun to have a fairy theme. I recently learned how to do fairy photos, and thought I would make one of her for the invitation. She wasn’t too keen on the idea…

The World’s Grumpiest Fairy

She came around though, and I managed to get some good ones for her party..

Happy Birthday baby girl!