Better then Sears!

 Of course we had to include "La-La and Sarah"

 "are we done yet Mommy?!""......"NOPE!  Keep walkin!"

 "No.  More.  Mommy. "

I have taken our kids faithfully to Sears every year for portraits since the kids were babies and they always did such a fantastic job.  But they went out of business so I was falling behind on official annual portraits.  Of course I'm always taking pics of the girls but I wanted some good age portraits to capture where they are now.   We got a very warm fall afternoon this year and so I began the walk by promising them gourmet cupcakes if they agreed to tolerate me and my camera for an hour.  They were amazing and we all three had a blast playing up and down our favorite greenway.   I couldn't have been more pleased with how they turned out and we WILL be bribing future portrait sessions with mommy with huge cupcakes in our future.  I only wish I had snapped one picture of them chowing down on their well deserved sugar at the end of this day.   But that will have to be my personal memory.    Love these two!!!!

Happy Hawoween!

 Little Hermione was curled up and ready for school by 7:10 in the morning!  And I spilled my coffee all over the living room trying to pry my eyes open long enough to turn her stick straight hair in the the messy haired heroin of the Harry Potter world!   We got it done.....and Brian made me another cup :)

 Much to her dismay she had finally outgrown the candy corn witch costume from years prior but she found this one pretty close to it.   And she looked so sweet in it!

It was one seriously cold and wet Halloween this year but we didn't let us stop us from hitting the pavement in hunt of some candy.  We met up with some good friends a few streets over to try to make a go of it.   The kids were quite resilient for a while but after about 45 min in the dark wind and rain finally Abigail asked if we could go home.  When she came up to me to hand me her bucket she could barely loosen her frozen grip on her full bucket her hands were so pitiful!   We headed home to a warm fire, hot cocoa and footie jammies to thaw out.  It was good time.   Now what to do with all this candy!?!?

 We rescued little buddy Courtney from her brothers soccer game the next morning.  We just couldn't let that baby girl sit outside for more hours in the cold and rain.  We made do with some silly crafts and another spooky party to keep the kids happy!

 My gift to my unit this season.  Thanks Pinterest!

 Every time I turned around these past couple weeks...this is what I saw!!

 A fun chilly outdoor party in the mountains with some friends.  Too cold to take pictures this was all I got of the night. 

Another Halloween craft this year, again...thanks Pinterest!!