Purple rules the day!

I'm playing with my first editing program~ Lightroom 3 and absolutely love it~ Enjoy the Purple Photo Shoot with my sweet Sophie Rose 
(and Nittany)

I made the purple iris's pink..hmmmm

I made this one black and white, then enhanced the greens...interesting...

Getting tired....just a couple more, Missy!

Love her mouth!

What a "Little Miss"

Goofy Beauty!

Royal Wedding and High Tea

The royal table is set for high tea to honor Prince William and Duchess Kate. We learned proper tea and table etiquette.

I read The Princess and the Kiss to Ari and Sophie Rose.

They colored as the scones baked.

Princess Ari

Princess Sophie

Love those eyes!

Princess Ari tickling the ivories!

Beautiful princesses!

Cherry chocolate chip scones, blueberry muffins, apples and grapes

Sophie praying before our tea party.

Such a sweetie!

Ari, the new bride

My favorite of the day!

Easter

My pretty girl by the tulips at Mom's.

Where oh where is my Sophie girl?

There are those pretty eyes!

The Easter gifts are ready to hide!

The kids wait  together for " I spy a treasure" game~ an 18 year old tradition.

Sophie, aka~ Tinker Bell, can now fly!

Coloring the Easter eggs!

Another Bentzel tradition~ we hit the eggs together end to end until a winner has been determined!Dad won this year!

Sophie's first Easter Egg Hunt at Grammy's house.

The fam minus Matt, Susan and Kristi!

Our fam~ love them!!

Mom, Pap and the kids!

A very happy Pappy and Grammy with their sweet Sophie!

I still can't get over how beautiful she is!

My favorite of the day!

Cousin pics, sentences and stories

A photo shoot of my two favorite girlies! 

Kristi and Sophie are like long lost sisters! 

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My new sis in law showing her new engagement ring to Grammy!

News on the Sohie Front:

OnWednesday of this week, I introduced Sophie to the concept of sentences~ subjects and verbs. I continued to be amazed at how fast she is picking up the English language. She wrote the following sentences on her own from her spelling list words.

I like to play with Katya in the back yard on the swing.
Sophie loves Cocoa and Nittany. ( our dogs)
I jump on the trampoline.
The puff is fuzzy.
The cat is bad.

On Thursday, she excitedly shared that she wanted to write her own story. She sat diligently at the kitchen table for 3 hours while I spelled words on the board that she requested. Below is her story about Cindrelli.

                                                          Cinderelli 3
Cinderelli is sad because the step mother is mean to her. Because the slipper fits Anastasia, the stepmother said that she can not go go the ball. The stepmother made Cinderelli clean the floors and she was tired. All the mice helped Cinderelli. Gus and Jack watched the Prince love Anastasia and Prince gave her a ring. Gus  Gus and Jack Jack Gus went up to the little, dark, yucky room and told Cinderelli. The Fairy God Mother threw the magic wand on the floor and Anastasia picked it up. She told step mother it was real, but the step mother said it was a stick. The End