My kids came in to my room dressed like this….

This photo is of my big girl Emma on her way to a sleep over birthday party.  She recently got this Princess luggage for Christmas and uses it any chance she can get!  She had a wonderful time, we were told, and slept in the longest of all the kids!  Way to sleep, Emma!

Pretty much every day of the week – even multiple times a day – I have princesses visiting my house.  They usually magically appear out of my girls’ bedroom, or all of the sudden Emma will go in to the bathroom & then *BAM* a princess will walk out!  During this photograph I was visited by Ariel & Ariel.  One Ariel was in her mermaid state, and one was in her human state.   As you can see, human Ariel needs to get her color done again.  They also brought their little doggie too.  (who, by the way, ran away for three hours yesterday night during the freezing cold – little punk!)

Photos: Vanessa’s Photography.  Vanessa Ard came to the Professional Photographers of Greater Annapolis meeting this past Tuesday and shared about benchmarks, and pricing, and overhead, and percentages…stuff that I’m pretending I know about…stuff that I WILL understand.  She was a great wealth of information & so helpful in answering all of my questions afterwards.  Thanks Vanessa.  Your honesty & openness & feelings about taking new photographers into the fold inspire me!

*Note to underage viewers:  Prince Phillip is pant-less in this photograph.  And he is only wearing one shoe.  We’ve lost his clothes, poor fella*

We are currently hosting our second sleepover of the week.  On Friday we had a big girls sleepover & now we are having a little girls sleepover.  I love that my girls are old enough to have friends over for fun events like this.  Cousin Mackinzie is sleeping over while her mommy & daddy celebrate their birthdays in sunny Florida.  She’s spending the night with us tonight because Emma wanted to return the sleepover favor that she showed us a few weeks ago.  Right now as I type they are upstairs playing with all of our princess paraphernalia.  As you can see by the photo of Brooke, we’ve misplaced some clothing, but that doesn’t derail the fun!

This photo is of Brooke with Belle, baby Belle, & Prince Phillip.  She put their clothes on very meticulously, got Phillip’s one boot on, and now they are a family.  It’s so cool to see their imagination during these games.  You also hear a lot of what you’ve said to them throughout the day come flying back out.  Like when Emma says, “What the?” And when Brooke says, “Actually…..”  Don’t know where they get these things!?!?!

Well, I’m off to get some little girls ready for bed.  We don’t have school tomorrow so they’re getting a treat by staying up late.  Night!