Miss Charlie & Miss Marley

While we were in Phoenix, Chantae was kind enough to humor me (thank you Chantae) & go take pictures of Charlie & Marley in their cute pettiskirts at the Mesa Temple (I know I have sooo many pictures of Marley in this pettiskirt but I just loooove it so very much & one day she won't be able to wear it anymore!) And, of course, I have the hardest time picking out pictures, so I posted quite a few of them. I must admit that I can't take all the credit for these photos as I managed to get Chantae to let me have some of the really cute ones she took! The weather was so perfectly wonderful & the girls looked like little gems! In fact, we had a few people mistake them for twins! Mostly likely because they were wearing the same outfit, but still what compliment for Marley! Charlie must have left a wonderful impression of Marley because she still talks about Charlie, even though it's almost been a month since she's seen Charlie!

Per usual, it was very hard to get Marley to cooperate. She rarely looked at the camera, & if she did, it wasn't with a smile! I'm hoping that if I take enough pictures, that one day she'll learn to smile (or maybe because I'm taking so many pictures she'll resent me & never want to smile!)

Love this profile of Charlie. She's so beautiful!

One thing the girls did really well was lean in to give each other "hugs & kisses" which turned out so cute! It looks like they are sharing sweet little girl secrets!

I really like this one Chantae took.

I love the top middle on of Charlie...she has the most perfectly precious smile! SO CUTE! Chantae managed to get pictures of Charlie in a tree, but Marley wouldn't even think about sitting up there! She freaked out about it!

I love the one Chantae took of Marley sitting down & the one with the railing & Charlie at the top of the stairs.

These, again, are a Chantae special. Just love these!

I like the one of Marley sitting on the ground looking up & the one where she's holding the lamp post...I just wish she would crack a bit of a smile!

I don't know why, but I love Charlie's body movement in this one. The shoes she was wearing were insanely adorable!

As a way to "bribe" the girls to cooperate, I gave them Lifesaver mints. I tried to get them to look at me by asking me where there mints were. This technique got them to look at me, but with their mouths wide open. I wish I would've gotten a picture of both of them with their mouths open in the same picture!

I tried to get some action shots of Marley doing her twirl that she calls a "circle" but they didn't turn out as well as I would've liked (but when do they ever?)

The only time during this whole photo shoot I got Marley to smile was to let her play in the water.

It stinks because the one's where she is actually smiling, the light wasn't very accommodating & so my pictures didn't look as good as they could have.

I love the one that shows the back of Charlie & Marley's skirts! They just look so cute!

I ended up taking Marley's pettiskirt off because it was getting soaked from the water. Charlie's pettiskirt was too far behind in coming off!

Chantae tried to get them to pose together, but by this time, no amount of bribery or mints was working & they both started to turn for the worse! But I thought it was fun & I will forever be attempting to find that smile of Marley's!