Happy Halloween!

My handsome Prince Charming and beautiful Snow White!

 Sweet lil Snow

Mr Charming in his most handsome pose

Umm the closest I could get to a butt shot of his adorable little skinny hinny in leggings:)

 The crew: Owen (zombie), Lydia (Snow White), Landon (Prince Charming), Margo (zombie princess), Daphne (a very GRUMPY butterfly princess).

I would like to take this time to share how much I really, REALLY, do not like trick or treaters. Let me just remind folks out there of a few Halloween rules that seem to be looked over these days.

1.) You actually have to SAY 'trick or treat' to get a piece of candy. Don't just look at me with attitude and hold your bag out at me. Also, don't turn your nose up at the tootsie roll I just dropped in your bucket and ask if I have anything better.

2.)  Parents- trick or treating is for children. I totally get wanting to walk up to the door of a stranger with your child, but that does not mean that you, too, get to carry around a plastic bag and hold it out for me to give YOU candy too. Just steal it from your kids after they go to bed like the rest of us.

3.) Ladies- Just because Halloween is a day when it's acceptable to wear costumes out in public without being looked at like a crazy, it is NOT, I repeat NOT, acceptable to dress like a hooker. Especially you, teenage girl in naughty nurse lingerie. Ya you. I did not need to see your teenage nibblets and butt cheeks, nor did people's husbands and sons.

4.) And last, but not least, just a reminder to parents: Please teach your children ettiquette. Our country is going to crap do to disrespectful kids who aren't being taught the basic rules of respect and etiquette. Kids need to know to respect their parents, teachers and elders. They need to know common courtesy and have a respect for other people. They also need to know basic rules passed down through generations, like the fact that if a porch light is turned OFF....YOU DONT RING THE DOORBELL. And then knock because no one answers. Or yell, and then ring it again because you're not sure we heard you. Yes, punk kid, I heard you. So did my baby girl sleeping right next to the front door.

Pumpkin Patch!

Going to the Pumpkin Patch is one my favorite things to do. Maybe its because I am in love with all things Fall. Maybe its because the lighting is always really great for photos of the kiddos. Or maybe its because I LOVE tradition, and this is a tradition that is never skipped!

It seems like October weekends fill up so fast! With photography, it was crazy family photo season. This year, I didn't have the photography to fill up the calendar, but with having OSU football season tickets, that takes up 3 Saturdays in and of itself. So, the pumpkin patch is something that I put on the calendar around the the middle of September, to make SURE we get there. This year it landed on the 23rd....the day after we got home from Disneyland. I knew when I wrote it on there that it was going to be pretty exhausting, but I had NO idea HOW exhausted it would be. Sigh. We were all tired, ready to not be going going going. But surprisingly it was a fun, but short, trip. We got some good photos and ended up with perfect pumpkins. Even got some apple cider.

You can see photos HERE if you would like:) Here are a few fun comparison pics (cause Im a sucker for these). Tip: In the top right corner of the slideshow you can click on Fast so it doesnt take you as long. Also it seems to start repeating like half way through for some reason. Hoping to find a better way to show photos, but this is the best I can do for now!

Warning: Several Posts to Come

Well this little family has been busy busy busy! Last week we went to Disneyland (post to come), got home and went to the pumpkin patch yesterday (post to come), and God has been stirring in me in some deep ways (post to come).

In the meantime, I wanted to post this fun little collage. Also, can anyone with more recent Blogger experience give me any tips of how to share numerous photos via blogging? The Blogger upload takes forever and I dont want to make people scroll through pages of pictures! And yet, for those of you that know me, I take many-a-photo of just about everything and without facebook, I wanted a way to be able to share them on here. Is there a slideshow sort of thing you can input? A link, maybe like Photobucket or something? Just wondering if anyone else has does any research and have a good answer for this?

Thanks follower(s)! ;)

Family Pictures!

This morning we had our family pictures taken! I LOVE having family pictures taken. Clearly, Im partial to portrait photography in general, but I really love to have our pictures done, too. My mind thinks in photograph form (may have something to do with my occupation....not sure.) Anyhoo, when I think about my family and dream about what will be, I always think about family pictures. I picture a family photo when my kids are teenagers (there is always 4 kids in the photo I imagine, is that weird?!). I love having pictures done now, knowing I will always look back on them with such warm feelings. Its so fun, too, to capture our little family as it grows. Last year we had pictures done and Lydia was just a few months old. Now miss Sass was working her diva self, walking around (still assisted). Im not gonna lie, they didn't go great. Landon was his cute little self, who seems to think the bigger the smile the better. Lydia was tired, hungry, poppy...who knows. She just wasn't having it. We got a few, which is all you really need.

My friends Jordan and Lianne of Joli Photographie did the pictures for us, and I will be editing them (that is the most time consuming part so I didn't want to burden them.) They did such a great job, as usual, and Im so blessed to have them at my disposal!

 Anyhoo, I thought I would share a picture that explains pretty much how the day went.

This shows that EVERY family has chaos at their shoot. Every family shoot I do parents feel like their kids are being crazy and making it impossible. Rest assured, it happens to all of us.