Vale celebrates the 4th of July

I uploaded these pictures on July 6th but didn't publish the post because I hadn't written anything, I thought to myself--when Vale goes to sleep I'll do it--. Then Vale went to sleep and to be honest I can't remember what I did, I either made her food for the week, took a long shower, did my nails, vacuumed, read, made quesadillas, or a handful of other useless but oh so fun and baby free shenanigans. The point is, I didn't complete the blog post. Then the next day went by, than the next week and I kept on thinking--well, I already did the hardest part, upload all the pictures, so I'll just do it soon--. wrong again. Ya see, I feel like I owe it to you guys to have something clever to say or at least something entertaining, and most days I don't, so I keep my virtual mouth shut, but I know all ya'll really want are Vale pics, so I have nothing funny or witty or clever to write but since all you really want is the cuteness, here it is--sorry to keep you waiting!



This is my favorite picture of the three of us ever! there's a story to it too- it's long but I'll make it short. My dad ran the coronado 4th of JUly 15K, we dropped him off at the start line at 6:30, found a spot on the beach an hour or so later. At this point it was still just the three of us. While walking back from one of many trips to the water I said to Kevin, "I wish we had a private photographer if only to catch a picture of us right now." And then Vale's angel jabbed our beach neighbor in the ribs and forced her to yell out.." Do you guys have a camera so I can take a picture of you, cause that is just too dang cute?" and we did, so she took our picture. I want it printed on a canvas, wait, I want wallpaper made, no no, a mural on our ceiling, ugh, I loooooove it!


She couldn't wait, COULDN'T wait to get in!






And then she did, and must have wondered what her big rush was..that water was COLD






I like to shoot in the no flash mode, it's easy, pictures turn out great, and I rarely miss the shot, but sometimes I venture into the manual mode and I always regret it, the pictures are overexposed, blurry, too dark, or I miss the shot entirely cause I'm trying to figure out my ISO...bah, rarely do I overexpose and still love the results. The beach may be completely missing but my two favorite girls are still there :)



It was a perfect 4th of July on the beach! The only bummer was that we woke up so early and spent so much time in the sun that by 8pm we were asleep and missed the fireworks. Oh well, next year!