Archive for the ‘Children’ Category

It was a beautiful morning in August when Katie turned 2. Her parents took the day off of work to spend with her, and we played at the park. I’ve had the honor to watch little Katie grow through her photo sessions with me. I love her little wispy curls and her sweet voice. She has her parent wrapped around her little finger just as it should be.

This morning I was cleaning the floors in my house. It takes hours and hours, and I put it off because, well, I hate to clean. It is my trial in life to have to try to keep my house clean. As I was walking through the newly cleaned wet floors I was reminded of when my mom used to clean her floors. She would wash her entire floor on hands and knees. Mops just swished the dirty water around the floor she would say. Sometimes if we were really lucky she would keep the floor wet long enough for us to slip and slide across the floor a few times before she dried it on hands and knees again. It was the funnest thing ever, especially on cold winter days when we were stuck inside (we lived in Utah at the time).

I remember we always had music on at our house. My mom was a big children’s music fan, and I will never forget the Captain Kangaroo record she played where he said my name in his songs. That was the best thing ever. So, this morning as I was cleaning the floors I opened Spotify and found some of the old Neil Diamond songs my parents always had on. Man, that was good stuff. I can’t believe I haven’t listened to that in years. It brought back so  many memories from my childhood. We had so much fun with each other as kids. Oh I hope my kids have those same kind of memories.

Last July Tim’s sister came to visit from Texas. All of my in-law’s grandchildren were together. They have so much fun together during these summer visits. It’s like they are on a Campbell vacation. This year Tim and I picked all 8 of them up in our 2 cars and took them to a local park for pictures. We didn’t dress them or even do their hair. This is how they were on that day, and I hope these photos will remind them how much fun they had playing, laughing, running, and being LOUD. That’s what being a kid is all about. It’s over much too soon.

this is a recreation of one just like it done 3 or 4 years ago. I need to dig that one up.

I love this one taken by Tim.