Fall pictures

Recently I begged and pleaded for a couple of friends of mine to take some pictures of my growing boys. My super awesome friends have much better picture taking skills then I do on my little ipod. Thank you amazing ladies!!

I inherited a whole bunch of large frames from a neighbor, that I wanted to use for the pictures and we went and bought A LOT of pumpkins for it. The largest pumpkin weighed in at 43 pounds and it was a BUGGER to get around. That is why I have boys though, I haven't had to life anything that heavy in a long time.

I am trying to create a Christmas card that I will pretend to mail out. I have the last 2 years of Christmas cards in my drawer collecting dust. In all of the cleaning for selling the house, you would think that I would have tossed them out, but nope, I still have them. Maybe I'll mail all three this year and everyone can see them grow up all at once.

Mark was fussy unless I let him hold my cell phone. I should have known that it would have caused a few problems.

But anyway...

Here are a few of the cute moments caught during our photo shoot.


I wonder if mom will notice if I answer just this one call...


James kinda looks like he should be on a psycho thriller movie...scary!


What do you want us to do with these frames Mom? You're weird!


Maybe this pumpkin will keep me warm!



Just let me answer this last text!


I've GOT to tell Brynlee about that bug on Ben's nose that he's trying to get off with his mouth. Some people are so immature.



James! Don't touch my phone!

What? We're going the wrong way?


Muuah!! For the cute girl across the room. Yeah I'm talking to you!

It was so much fun to get their pictures taken! I am so greatful to those who have more picture taking skills who share them with me!!

I need picture help!!!

I have loved everyone's beautiful fall pictures with their kids. I just love the fall leaves. So, being greatly inspired, I took the kids out to try to take some pictures.


















It started out semi-bad....


















and just progressively got worse.....




































And I gave up.























































Maybe we will try again....someday.

Happy Halloween...and stuff

Happy Halloween everyone! I am a couple of days late but here are a few pictures from halloween and such.
To start our Halloween fun we always go to the corn maze. The kids and Cory love going and getting lost. I, however, like it for the first 1o minutes and then I don't like being lost! I really like knowing where I am all the time. We went with the homeschool group and had a great time!


I was made for the farm life. :-) Well, in my dreams anyway. I love the atmosphere of the georgic lifestyle. The open spaces...the animals...the gardens.....in my dreams I can do it all! Not so much in reality, but I like to think that someday I will have the self mastery to do all of that.

For Halloween we partied with the ward trunk or treat and then came back and watched Ghostbusters. The kids had never seen it before and thought it was a hoot. It scared the bageebees out of me when I was younger, but I found it mostly amusing now.

Luke dressed up like a Jedi again, his costume I think has finally been outgrown. James was King Arthor, Ben was a horsee (not a horse, but a horsee, I guess there is a big difference.) Mark was a giraffe but I forgot to get a picture of him. -so here is one just as fun.


All in all, I love fall! It gets me excited to start on Christmas. I know Thanksgiving is in the middle, but really, Christmas is the season that I LOVE. I am already making gifts and trying to find new Christmas music for my ipod(any suggestions for some great Christmas music??)