Laura Vegas

promised a few pictures of haley … i’m only a day late. lol! i’m not sure why i don’t get that many pictures of her … the one time she won’t look at me is when i have the camera out!

i took these pictures back in july. i think everyone else was taking a nap at the time … she’s on a whole different schedule than the bigger little ones. anytime i have the camera out she just looks away … or comes right at me. when i took these i decided to just give her my lens cap to play with to distract her. i swear she played with that thing for like 20 minutes. lol! she would play with it and then crawl over to me with it. so i would toss it a few feet away … and she would crawl off after it and i would scoot back really quick to get a better view through my lens. i know … you’d think i was treating her like a dog or something … playing fetch. lol! but it worked for quite a few pictures.

although this is my normal view of haley! here i am laying on the floor and she’s climbing right up on me. she definately likes my attention … and she likes to be right up on me. preferably me holding her in fact. lol! she does have her moments where she gets busy playing with toys and stuff. when that happens i try and stay out of her line of sight … because as soon as she sees me it’s as if she realizes that i’m not holding her. lol!

and just a total sidenote. see that frame hanging on the wall on the left side? i find it super funny that i have frames that have been on my walls for over a year now … and there are no pictures in them. lol! the one on the other side of that arch has a picture … just never got around to ordering one for this frame. and above the couch in the family room (right off to the left of this picure) i have 2 super large frames … and only 1 of them has a picture! how sad is that?!?! and those 3 shelves at the end of my kitchen island (on the right side of this picture) … totally empty. i used to have things there … but then we’d have a baby around that would start getting around … and we’d have to empty things off to make in easier. now it’s just been totally empty for a few years. how boring does that look?!?!

this was a picture i took this week. once again … not looking at me. and she’s chomping on a piece of grass … which she later gagged on and then proceeded to throw up a little on the grass. but we got a few good pictures in the process. lol! that sounds terrible … and belive me … i felt terrible. the things i put these kids through just for a few pictures!

and sharing this one because i’m missing my adyson. and because after posting that picture of haley … i remember this picture from back in mine and ady’s self-protrait days. this was way back in january. i always thought this was the funniest picture. and yes … i did take that myself. lol!

we’re just doing too much missing around here. so nice to have spent a few days with wes … but missing him already (and he only left a few hours ago. lol!). missing ady and ashlen … seems like i havn’t seen them in ages (darn school breaks jenn!). missing james … how could i forget talkative, inquisitive james.

but most of all … we’re really missing alyssa! she’s more than halfway done with her hawaiian vacation … and she’s having a blast. but we miss her so much. sarah’s been doing good … keeping busy and not really thinking about it too much. but tonight after she got in bed … she just broke down crying and saying that she missed her sister so much and couldn’t stop thinking about her. broke my heart. 5 more days … we can make it! within a matter of minutes … they’ll be back to fighting and bickering … and this house will sound normal again!