"Best Girl"

I'm back for just a quick little post here.  Life is just SO busy right now trying to get the house painting finished up, etc.  I think I need a vacation...

While cleaning out some cabinets, etc., we ran across some cute little photos of our youngest, our daughter, who is now 22. Now we have scads of photo albums, but I guess these were loose in a packet or something. Princess told me I never do a post on her, so I'm going to show  you these sweet little things - please indulge me.... they're in no particular order.... (you know, she used to cringe whenever I wanted to put her on my blog! Go figure!)

Above - At the beach in Florida...

Above - our new puppy Cookie...

Above - Soccer days - I designed their shirts as well as some of my son, Josh's shirts.  My husband always coached, so we let the kids make up the team name and mascot.  Josh's team was the "Lizards" cuz that's what he was into.  Princess was into anything "horsey".  Little girls...

Our cat had kittens, and our kitties got to take many a ride in the doll buggy...

Her bestest friend (to this day) Kelly...

I always loved this picture of her in her little yellow bumblebee bubble suit that I smocked!!! I even made her a hairbow with a bumblebee on it!

See why Josh's soccer team was called the "Lizards"?  We had two iguanas, several snakes, a king scorpion, and a tarantula as pets.  I was voted 'MOM OF THE YEAR' by all my church friends...We kept frozen pinky mice in the freezer to feed the snakes and mealworms in the fridge... See how Princess is sidling away from the iguana???

Trying on big brother's boots...

She fell asleep on the way home from church, and I just let her sleep without changing her clothes... kept those bows in her hair, rather on her head, with a dab of school glue - it just washed right off.  'Course, then she started pulling them out and left little bald spots on her head. I switched to headbands with bows on them then...

This was six weeks after she was born and I had our pictures made.  I made all Josh's smocked outfits and button-on knickers and shorts, too...

What's that grimace for?  Think she's getting squeezed??  Brothers were SO proud of baby sister!

This photo of my husband with our daughter makes me cry every time I see it.  He wanted a little girl SO badly!  The photographer used this picture as one of his ads... Princess was and still IS her Daddy's Baby Gal.  He still calls her that. She's had him wrapped around her little finger all these years and probably always will.  I know I think MY daddy still hung the moon and will do anything for me...

This is the face you get when  you say "SMILE"!

My sister's lovebird perched on her shoulder.

Princess and Kelly again in their ballet recital.  Can you guess their song?

Why, "Rubber Ducky", of course!

Rememer Pound Puppies?  This one had babies in its tummy.

Duh, these photos are not in order, told you.  Princess had fun dressing our kittens up in her doll clothes. Don't know if the kittens had fun or not!

And last, but certainly not least, my daddy and his catch!  That fish was pert near big as the Princess!

You know, when she was little I always called her "my best girl in the whole wide world", and she called me "the best mom in the whole wide world".  It gradually shortened to "best girl" and "best mom".  It's so sweet to hear her say or write on a card even now that she's grown, "best mom"!!!

Thanks for lookin'!

Keep your dress down!