Our Garden

Well folks, Happy Halloween Eve. It’s here. And here is our theme for this year…. (drum roll please)…THE GARDEN. That’s right we have have a “rose”, two sunflowers, and two pretty pink and purple flowers. Well, actually Molly is now considered a weed by Kyla because she refuses to put on the petal part of her costume.

These costumes were a labor of love. We were running out of theme ideas. This was my vision and it turned out only semi how I had envisioned. No one really loves it either. In fact, Kyla is embarrassed of it. She only told me this after I had already constructed all of the costumes. GREAT. Poor Harper’s petals don’t really fit and she hates wearing them as well. Pearson and Kyla compromised and decided to trade their original costumes. Pearson wanted to match Heidi as a sunflower and Kyla wanted to be different….to “be the star.” The rose I had originally pictured was more of an unbloomed rose, a turban of sorts. That idea quickly got vetoed as totally embarrassing.  So here you have it- hours of work, my first real sewing machine project. 

You won’t be able to tell too much the angst for these costumes by these photos (well except poor Harper). The girls were really getting into posing as a garden, which then turned into posing as SUPER HERO FLOWERS. That is now what Kyla is telling people she is.

I love this one of Pearson. I think its my favorite.

Kyla getting into the photoshoot. Ready to run inside at any moment though- if any of the neighbors should come outside.

Super Hero Flowers. I love that even Molly is doing it.

 

As I’m typing this blog post Kyla is in my ear asking me to type, “Kyla is the star of the Super Hero Flowers!!”

Carving Day

We had our annual pumpkin carving night on Saturday. We actually had a perfect day on Saturday. No plans. Super rainy. We skipped soccer and just hung out all day. We had apple cider and pumpkin pie and caramel apples. The girls got the goo out of their pumpkins. I scavenged for the seeds. {I love the seeds. I forgot about them in the oven and burnt them all. So sad.} Dad usually does one carving request per year. It usually is a Disney Princess and takes hours. This year the girls settled on a cat. It turned out super cute. 

Molly was content to watch .

Kyla admiring her own design. 

Kaylee & Jake

I just have to share this. A lot of this. Because I love it. Some of my favorite (non-my family) photos as of lately.

Kaylee is one of our beloved babysitters. We love her. I was set to do a little photo session with her and her long time boyfriend Jake, the day before Jake was to move to Hawaii. But a day before our scheduled shoot I saw the news on facebook, they had gotten engaged! I got right on Pintrest and gathered up some cute ideas for this now “engagement session.” Don’t I sound professional?

Anyways I ended up loving these photos- feeling very creative and inspired, not to mention I had cute subjects. I could post them all but I won’t. One of my most favorite ones is also one of their favorite ones and will not be shared on this post. If you know Kaylee and Jake you’ll see it later.

5ish more months and Kaylee will be starting her new life in the Aloha state.

Mom Photos

So I am all about photo challenges on blogs and facebook right now if you haven't noticed. It's got me thinking outside the box. My new friend Bre, who has her own little photography business right here in town has a new challenge on her facebook page. 30 days of photos...but YOU have to be in the photos with your kids. You don't even have to take the picture, you just have to be in it. There is a prize for anyone who completes the challenge. SO, me and couple a lot of my other friends decided to join in. It's been ten days so far and its been a lot of fun. Casey has taken one photo, the big girls have each taken a few, we've used the camera remote more than its ever been used, and Molly even did one of the photos with my phone (she can fully operate the phone and its camera/video functions). So here are some from the first ten days....

by me

 with remote

with remote

by Kyla

by Heidi

with remote

More to come...

Randoms

There have been no themes to my posts or photos lately. Just randoms. Gonna try to think about something creative to blog about but here are some photos from this last week to hold you over.

I love these three...even when they drive me crazy.

Photo a Day Challenge...

SHE NEVER PLAYS ALONE

Heidi can't stand to play alone. She can't take it if Kyla wants one bit of alone time. This is a little tricky now                     that Kyla is at school all day and Heidi is only there half a day. She usually wants a friend over or for me to play with her or for a snack or to watch TV. But today, was a rare occasion. She went right up to her bedroom and played Lalaloopsy for two whole hours all by her little lonesome.

I mentioned in my last post that I am trying to do a photo a day again. This time there isn't any pressure to journal or put them in a book (but I will do something like that anyways because that's just how I am). I'm practicing my photography skills and capturing an element of our everyday life...everyday.

Kristal, her husband, myself, and a few other are posting them HERE.

I like that each post title is a kind of caption on the photo. I'm going to go back to my last post and update with the titles (and journal a tiny bit about each) so go below for the update.

My Girlies…

I’ve been trying to join Kristal in taking at least one non-phone picture a day. I did this for an entire year in 2009 and for 6 months in 2011. It’s been fun and in these past ten days (I’ve missed one) I’ve ended up with a few pictures that I truly love. Here are a few…

FASHION GLASSES ARE A MUST FOR HER

These glasses. She loves them. Always wants to wear them. I don’t let her wear them to school. She does wear them to kids choir and she wore them to Hailey’s party on Sunday. Roller-skating in fashion glasses. She does not like that Heidi has a pair. It kills the cool apparently.

MY HAIR APPT DATE

Heidi is always up to go anywhere with me.

BABY LOVE

Molly loves baby dolls. Way more than the other girls did. She always is toting one or two around with her wherever she goes.

SHOCKING & HILARIOUS EVERYTIME

This is what she does at every bath time. She likes the water to be running the entire time so that she can fill her cup and pour it on her head and face. She looks shocked and then laughs.

This one wasn’t one of my P.O.D.s but if it were I would call it…

Oh Blueberry!

Isn’t this minivan so cool looking? Just kidding… it isn’t.

Pumpkin Picking

We sure have been enjoying this Indian Summer. Today was no exception. We picked our pumpkins at Mosby’s and we all wore shorts! It’s not just nice and sunny, it’s nice and warm. It was a little odd not be be bundled up or muddy but we’ll take it! Pumpkin Patch pictures are always some of my favorites. This year was a little bright but we got some good ones. Molly loved it. We ended up with one stout pumpkin (Kyla’s), one long tall and skinny one (Heidi’s) and one baby size one (Molly’s). There is already talk of what they want dad to carve them into…sounds like its gonna be tricky.