I Would Like

I would like to walk another mile
And serve another day.
I would like to lift someone's load
And carry it all the way.
I would like to fill my heart with love
And then give it all away.
I would like, I think, most of all
To walk with God this day.

James Fulbright March 3rd, 1989

grandpa

grandpa was my favorite growing up. he always got me toys and gave me candy. what more could a kid want? for christmas each year he would take me to toys r us and tell me to pick out whatever i wanted. when we would come up to visit they would always have chocolate milk and powdered donuts waiting for me. and if i went up to the acu press to visit him, he always had snickers bars in his desk in his office. he also played with me. i can remember playing baseball in his back yard, trips to the zoo, and sitting on him bouncing on his stomach like a trampoline. he also told the best stories. that part was always my favorite. he was a very mischievous little boy and had such personality. he would tell me stories of branding his sister with an iron (and her getting to do it back to him as his punishment), almost cutting her toe off with a shovel because she was kicking dirt into a hole he was digging, tying her to the back of a hog in a wagon (who proceeded to dump her in a cactus patch), convincing her to jump off the roof with an umbrella (telling her it would make her float) and many, many more. he even wrote a book for me called Grandpa's Stories for Hannah because i liked them so much.

he was also my only grandparent that was alive when my kids were born. and he was so cute with them. when they were babies he would drop by unexpectedly all the time. which didn't work so well since i was nursing pretty much all the time. but he would bring random food from united by when he came and he was just so excited to see the kids. they were scared of old people when they were little, but as they got a little older they LOVED grandpa. especially mason. they were always so excited to see him. he ALWAYS played with them and was so sweet to them. and he loved them so much. he told every single person he saw all about them.

we will miss him very much!

The first two are of me and grandpa and the rest are the kids.

at the hospital when the kids were born.

the week he died he was still playing with the kids in his hospital room. you can see him throwing a tiger with sawyer below-

jungle

this week was jungle week. we were all a little under the weather all week and had a lot going on so we didn't do much.

we watched jungle book and tarzan.

we read jungle books.

and we played with jungle stickers.






yep. that's it :)

pirates

pirate week. when i told sawyer that it was pirate week she said, "yo ho let's go." ha! they watched jake and the neverland pirates and papa's apartment last time we were there.

we had a treasure hunt.






we watched peter pan.

we made pirate hats.






we read pirate books.

pretty pics

the last few weeks i have done quite a few photo shoots with the kids. i have been so busy though that i didn't have time to edit them until i caught up. they are so much easier to photograph now (don't get me wrong it is still a headache, but just possible with alot of work) and so i got so many good ones i can't decide which to print! You can view the vendor post on my pro blog if you want any of the vendor info: http://hannahvickersphotography.com/blog/ and you can also see my new logo!







one day while mason was at wee ball i took sawyer out for a girls shoot!


















bloopers:





sawyer always holds her hair like this-

girls weekend

this past weekend i met lauren and rachael in addison for an awesome girls weekend. it was our first time to hang out kid free since m&s were born. it was so much fun. we talked (and finished our conversations), ate great food (while it was still hot), shopped as long as we wanted and slept late. can't get much better than that!

garden week

we planted the flowers in our garden.

the kids quickly grew bored and decided to ride tricycles while i finished though :)


we read garden books.

we made a garden sensory tub.

we made garden stones.

we made leaf prints.