shipley's

a beautiful evening for family pics. dont you think so? see more here.

honeycutts

is this family beautiful or what?

halloween fun

this picture isnt technically correct but it so speaks to how this past week has been a blur of halloween "fun". tuesday we carved pumpkins and went to garrets school for "halloween halls". the teachers and students decorate the halls and then the kids can come and trick or treat. it is a lot of fun.
here are the kids with their pumpkins
the girls were 80's rock stars

and garret was johnny apple seed.

thursday raelyn had her class halloween party. brenna and i joined her. here she is with her cutie pie little friends.

then on friday morning we did truck or treat with our MOPS group. this is always a ton a fun for the kids.

and then on friday night, us adults had some fun too. we had a party with some of our family friends and all the adults dressed up. dave and i were 80's rock stars too! we had a blast.
then to finish it all off we trick or treated a final time on saturday. some good friends invited up over to their neighborhood. i can say i am officially halloween out! hope you all had a good one.

katie and padre

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wordless wednesday

brennas little birthday party was this past sunday afternoon. we had a lollipops and pinwheels party.
i set up a little "candy shoppe" for the decorations

i found this really cool, make your own pinwheel kit, on oriental trading's website
made a fun fondant cake

brenna looked cute as can be in her polka dots and adidas shoes
showing off her fancy pinwheel

working hard making another one. she loves to color right now and asks to do it all day long

blowing out the candles
getting tired out
one more lollipop

brenna has been so cute this week. she really understood better that it was her birthday. she would sing "happy birthday to brenna" all day for the past week. she makes us laugh everyday.

two year pictures

i loaded up the kids the other afternoon and took them to a spot to take some photos. i got a new lens and have been wanting to practice all the time. i wanted to get some good 2 year old pictures of brenna. the kids did pretty good. half way through i put garret and rae back in the car with a movie and snacks while i finished up with brenna. it is really hard to keep track of everyone with my head in the viewfinder. the leaves were so beautiful, the wind was blowing like crazy and the sun was warm... it was a great afternoon.

she loved throwing the leaves over the fence
then we changed our clothes and put on a new dress from gram. you can check out more of her stuff here.


it got really windy for a few minutes, i dont think she liked it very much but it made for some really cute expressions.

it is hard to believe my "baby" is two. she just seems so grown up all of a sudden.

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