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Today I am thankful that it is the beginning of Lent and that I am going to start improving my health. I have a confession. Ever since Annie has been home, I have become addicted, and I do mean truly addicted, to sweets. I find myself eating candy, cookies, cupcakes, chocolate, really anything full of sugar all day long. I would rather have dessert for dinner any time. It is not pretty. At all. I am lucky for some reason that my body has not revolted and gained a zillion pounds, but I have definitely gained some lbs. I am not making changes to lose weight, but because I have no reason to be eating so much junk. I need to get healthier. I am sure my teeth can't handle it either! So, I have cut out all processed sugar and enriched flour for all of Lent. If any of you have ever done the Sugar Busters diet, that is what I am doing. I never break my Lent promises, so I sure hope I don't this time either. And no, I am not Catholic but I have always liked to give something up for Lent. I like to challenge myself, and this is going to be the most challenged I have probably ever been. I couldn't have tested myself any more than I did tonight - we ate Mexican. I didn't eat a single chip or tortilla or drink the mango margarita that I wanted so very badly. I had a taco salad and the good news is - I am not disgustingly stuffed like I am any other time we eat Mexican.

Today was a beautiful day here. The girls were in short sleeved dresses and sandals. The sun was shining and we got to eat dinner outside without being hot or cold, just perfect. I took Lucy to school this morning and took Anners with me so that Justin got a morning to rest as well. Annie and I went to the bookstore. I swear my favorite thing in the world is sitting in Barnes and Noble with a cup of coffee and read through photography books. Annie is so good that I can give her a few toys/books and she will sit right next to me and keep herself content for a while. After that, we went to the mall to exchange a pair of Lucy's shoes. Annie fell asleep in the Ergo so I just walked around with her sleeping. I went through every baby store that I love. All of the new Juicy swimsuits are out and I wanted them all, but I was so good and bought nothing. There were also these Juicy dresses that I REALLY wanted, but again, I used self control and didn't get them. Now that I want two of everything it is extra bad. I need this photography business to take off so that I can indulge in all of my baby girl fashion wants!!

After naps we spent the entire rest of the day outside. Love that. Love it. I am really trying to take advantage of our weather before it is blistering hot and the mosquitoes have returned. We have a busy day planned tomorrow with lots of outside activities. Yippee!

The girls were so cute for their pics today. And just in case you are wondering, Lucy puts herself in the "hands under chin" pose all of the time. I find her sitting like that all of the time. I promise I don't ask her to get in this position since it seems to be popping up in my pictures so often recently. I must admit, it is cute though.







She thought everything was hilarious today.


















She is totally Miss America waving at passing cars here.


I adore this picture.


I love this picture because she is breaking her neck to see my neighbor coming out of his house with a girl. We have two single guys next door to us and there is always a constant stream of girls coming and going. It was about 11 am and I am pretty sure that one of them was just getting rounded around for work with one of his ladies in tow. We are kind of hidden on our front porch by all of our landscaping so Annie really wanted to see what was going on. I kind of did too!