Today was the day to get Ali’s two year portraits. I was running early, luckily, because when I got in the car it was completely dead. Again.
Now, if you remember the last time that my car battery died, my Mom came and saved the day with a nifty charger thingy that you just plug in the wall and it starts your car? And I advertised that thing, picture and all to all of you and vehemently said that everyone needed to go buy one RIGHT NOW.
Well, guess who never got around to buying one?
Yeah.
Anyway, so I knocked on a couple of neighbor’s doors to see if they had one, and the second one did. But it wasn’t high enough voltage. So then we tried to hook two sets of jumper cables together to reach my car (being that it was in the one car garage, it was unreachable. And unmovable, due to the fact that you can’t take it out of park unless the engine is running – thanks, Honda), but that didn’t work.
When it was getting time for the picture appointment, I texted Chris to tell him to standby on leaving work, and what was going on. Up to that point, I had been trying to be all independent with my car problems again.
He called and told me to simply have the neighbor pull into his carport parking spot, open the door between it and the garage, and do the jumper cables through there.
Why do I have to be so stupid?
Why didn’t I tell my husband 20 minutes earlier what I was trying to do?
That worked perfectly, of course, because my husband is a genius.
Pictures went great (I promise I’ll get to them soon), but after pictures, my battery was D-E-A-D again.
Mom jumped me off (she was at pictures to make Ali smile, of course), and then I went to an auto parts store, had my battery tested and deemed dead, got a new battery, and immediately BOUGHT ONE OF THOSE CHARGER THINGIES.
Phew.
Now, the fun part:
Doggy-Bear just had to make it in one picture:
Prim and proper. . .
Tongue-stuck-out-picture. Wow she’s already a kid.
Propped-knee-up just like Daddy.
True Love:
Total mischievousness:
Hmm. . . who do I give the last rose to. . .?
I think I will enroll her in gymnastics soon. . .
Pigtails!
Big girl chair:
There’s that mischief coming out again:
On second thought, maybe I’ll enroll her in Karate. . .
I’ll upload some more onto B-Sides later today or tomorrow. . . be sure to check back for those!
She is soooo precious. My daughter, Braaten, loves her. Everytime I’m reading your blog and she has the opportunity to view it while standing behind me, she says how cute Ali is. Just wait until tomorrow when she gets up to find these new pics of your precious girl. She’ll love them.
By the way, we have one of the car charger thingies and we LOVE it!! I got one at Sam’s Club a few years ago and used it more times than I want to share.
P.S. I am having a tough time leaving comments here under my regualar google i.d. It’s weird.
OMGosh! Those are adorable!! (sorry about the battery, btw) I kept saying, "that's my favorite", "no, that's my favorite". lol How were you able to pick from them all?
Love the family ones and the one of you & Chris with your noses touching. So cute!
Those are great!!! I kept saying, “That’s my favorite…no wait, that’s my favorite…”! I just looked through them again and I can’t even pick my top 3! BTW, your skin looks flawless in the pictures!
Cute pictures! Ya’ll are such a cute and fun loving family. Sorry that your car didn’t want to cooperate, I have been there so I completely understand the frustration.
Those are some really nice pictures.Ali is just so cute.And I love the family pics.They’re beautiful.
She’s getting so big and pretty.. :) :) I love those pictures especially the mischief one of her in the purple.
We have one of those cool jump off thingies. I wish we would have known and we would have let you broken into our garage!
Those are adorable pics, Rach! And I like the one with just you and Chris, too! I hadn’t thought of having something like that done with just me and Preston, but now I want to!