Been awhile since I updated... Oops. Yup I'm a slacker! I've been a busy Momma! My photography is taking off and I've been booked almost every weekend with a photoshoot. I plan to raise my prices in Jan 2012 so hopefully things continue to grow and go well! I purchased 2 new lenses and am learning to use them :)
The first weekend in October Gramma Vicki came up for the weekend so that her, Kinleigh and I could go to Thorp and attend the wedding of a little girl I used to babysit. Guess she's not so little anymore if she's marr ied huh? Makes me feel OLD! It was a beautiful wedding and a great afternoon spent with my Mom and Kinleigh. While we were out and about Steven, Kaeden, Kailer and Riley had the afternoon/evening together alone. It's rare that this happens so they were pretty excited. They rode bikes, went out to dinner and went to the Orange E carnival. All in all it was a great weekend and enjoyed by all! Gramma Vicki brought up a bunch of supplies for Kinleigh's 2nd birthday and made her the most adorable Polka Dot skirt!
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| Kinleigh watching Momma get ready for the wedding. |
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| Gramma Vicki french braided Kinleigh's hair just like she used to french braid mine. Maybe someday I'll learn to make a killer french braid too! |
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| Kinleigh and I headed to the bathroom at the wedding. What a beautiful place for a wedding. |
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| Gramma Vicki with the grandkids! Riley, Kailer, Sydney, Kinleigh, Kaeden and of course we couldn't leave out Jinxi! |
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| Lindsay turned 31! Man she's getting old ;) We had a cake and small get together for her. I must say lighting all those candles was probably a dangerous thing for us to attempt, but we did it and nothing burned down....The cake did melt a bit though LOL |
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| MOPS Was invited out to a local farmers pumpkin patch this year so Kinleigh and I went and gathered some pumpkins for the family to carve. I enjoyed dressing her up in the skirt I made her (Lindsay's great idea, and she made a matching one for Sydney. I call Lindsay my friendspiration cause she inspires me to do some crafty things I wouldn't otherwise do!) |
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| She preferred the dirt over the pumpkin searching! |
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| But she was cooperative enough to give me a few smiles before freaking out when I put her up on the pile of pumpkins! Isn't she gorgeous? |
2nd weekend in October we had all 6 kiddos and did some pumpkin carving! It was fun to get all the kids together to do something fun :) Kids got a little crazy and were eating their pumpkins GROSS but hey whatever floats their boat LOL I am just glad they all got along, had a great weekend and got some quality fun time in! All kids but Kinleigh were able to carve their own pumpkins this year which was cool :) Daddy and Lindsay helped a little but the majority of the carving was done by the kids!
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| yes he is eating his pumpkin top! |
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| Riley and Kinleigh being goof balls. |
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| I guess we see where Riley and Kinleigh get their goofiness? |
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| The completed pumpkins. Left to right.... Kailer, Sydney, Kinleigh, Triniti, Riley, Kaeden and Tatum's pumpkins. |
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| Our great group of kids :) Love that they all posed for me without me asking! |
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| making scary silly Halloween faces! |
Unfortunately the weekend of the 15th we had BIG PLANS and the puke bug hit our house with a vengance and completely ruined our plans :( So Kinleigh and I spent the day in bed puking and other things and Steven and the kids went over to Lindsays house to celebrate Taylor's 12th birthday. MAN were we bummed ... that was some poopy timing. Kaeden ended up having a sleepover Sat night with Taylor and spent most of Sunday hanging over there so I had some nice recovery time. The crazy thing was after I felt better the next week I was the most productive I've been in a long time! I wonder if maybe getting sick and laid out on my butt and sleeping my weekend away got me rejuvinated??? Maybe I need to get sick more often? LOL nah probably not ;)
We had a harvest party at Bethleham Chapel we attended on the 26th and Kinleigh and Kailer dressed up for it. Kaeden decided he didn't want to this year. Party pooper. Kids had fun and it was complete utter chaos and they left with candy galore :)
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| Look at her looking up to her big brother!!! Melts me! |
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| They were kind enough to strike a pose for me while I tested out my new 85mm 1.8 lens. |
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| I just LOVE her hair!!! |
October 28th my baby girl turned 2!!! Happy Birthday Kinleigh ShaeAnn! Gramma Vicki came up Friday morning and went with me to lunch with Kailer and pumpkin painting with Kaeden at Grant Elementary. Auntie Lindsay was kind enough to stay home and babysit Kinleigh which made it much easier on Gramma and I to enjoy the boys! Neither boy knew that Gramma would be with me, so it was great to see the surprise on their faces when they saw she had come along!!! I treasure the moments that they love having us around, all too soon they'll be embarrassed by us I'm sure!
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| Nice to have Gramma Vicki around with her camera to show that Mommy really does exist and attends functions! LOL I'm always behind the camera so never get to be in the pictures! |
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| Gramma Vicki and Kai guy at lunch! |
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| Lined up and heading out for recess and Junior Joggers. |
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| Run Kai Run! My lil junior jogger was being awfully social so we didn't get to see him play on the playground because we had to get going to kaeden's class for pumpkin painting. |
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| Goof |
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| Gramma Vicki had to get in on the painting action and Kaeden resorted to finger painting... |
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| My Mom LOVES The great pumpkin charlie brown and had to have a pic with kaeden in front of this. It was in the hallway at his school. |
Friday night Gramma Vicki treated the whole family to dinner! We went to the new Tequila's for the first time. Food tasted the same as I remember it at the old Tequila's LOL It was such a treat to get treated to dinner! Thank you Mom!!!!!!
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| Kinleigh was the birthday girl and got to wear the hat, have Happy Birthday sang to her and enjoy some dessert! She wasn't too sure about all of this but I think she took it in stride ;) |
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| Gramma Vicki with my kiddos :) |
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| Happy 2nd Birthday Kinleigh |
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| Sharing her new toy with big brother. Funny how most 2yr olds get dolls and stuff and mine gets a Justin Bieber microphone...... LOL |
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| Just enjoying some family time while Gramma Vicki works on cake for the big party :) |
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| Steven got in and helped Gramma Vicki roll some cake balls for the polka dot cake. |
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Pretty sure I have a picture similar to his of Gramma Vicki with Kaeden on his 2nd birthday. And if I don't have it, it's cause it's one of the photos that I lost :( Kinleigh was tuckered out!
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| The obligatory birthday photoshoot |
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| Outfit made courtesy of Gramma Vicki! Lollipop courtesy of Gramma Vicki! I am in love with these pics. |
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| We took many more but I have only edited 3 as of now :p I've been busy busy busy editing so many things that Kinleigh's pics had to take the backseat. As of now this is my favorite so far though! |
Saturday morning we went downtown and got involved with the community pumpkin painting. It was beautiful and sunny and the kids had fun painting their pumkins. That afternoon we celebrated and had a birthday bash for Kinleigh :) The turn out was good and I think everyone had fun! The theme was Lollipops and Polka dots. We played a few games and had gorgeous weather for an Oct 29th birthday party! the kids got to play outside and we didn't have to celebrate cramped into my smal house! Sat night was a halloween party at AJ's and Gramma Vicki was kind enough to babysit for us and for Lindsay so we got to go out and enjoy ourselves for the night without worrying about kids or babysitters!!! Oh how nice it was! We had a great time and got to hang out with some people we haven't really hung with. It was fun fun fun! The witch got sick and the muscle man made her go home early. The whoopie cushion was having a grand old time and made great friends with Officer Canady and The Karate Kid and "Steve" were social butterflies catching up with friends and just mingling. That was the first grown up Halloween party I've been to and really enjoyed myself! The walk home was a little chilly and I was starting to sober up so it wasn't as fun for me as it was for Whoopie and Karate Kid :p The good news is i didn't wake up sick and after some McDonald's and coffee I was ready for a full day of cleaning, saying bye to my Mom :( And doing a photoshoot for a family that Lindsay and I went to school with. They drove 2 hours for me to do their photos. I was VERY honored! She seems pleased with the results so that makes me a happy girl!
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| Pumpkin Painting |
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| My Loves and my Momma |
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| When she was done, outfit was ruined! But she had fun ! |
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| My boys enjoyed climbing on the rocks. |
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| Something about this picture I just love! |
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| Finished pumpkins |
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| Finished Kinleigh! LOL |
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| Party Preparation time! |
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| The lollipops and polka dots birthday set up! |
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| Polka dot cake |
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| Lollipop and candy galore! Kids definitely left with plenty of lollipops ;) |
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| Christina had a puppy at the party that she was selling and it was a huge hit with the kiddos. |
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| Placing the lollipop stick on the lollipop game |
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| blowing out the candles! |
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| Inside of the polka dot cake! the dots kinda sunk to the bottom when it cooked but it still turned out super cute! |
