Can't help but share these

While my Grandma was visiting for Thanksgiving, I decided to spend my Grandma's Christmas money on matching shirts for a family picture. My Grandma was able to help me pick out the shirts and be with us for the picture taking.

I know Brett wants to play with the pictures in his photo software, clean them up and enhance colors and stuff, but I am SO excited with how well they turned out that I want to share a couple now. As you've seen before it is really challenging to get a good picture of our kids. And below we managed to get at least three that are pretty good - to include two pictures with our first "child" Barley-dog. Enjoy!!

Thanksgiving

Isabella dressed as a pilgram for her school Thanksgiving Feast. I couldn't convince her that pilgrams didn't have such bright colors.
Brett and my brother, Mike, in the foreground. My grandma and Orioin in the background. We had a huge delicious feast. I made sure everyone helped make the meal.

Hunter, my Mom, Sabrina, Isabella, and my Dad.

Self Portraits

Aren't digital cameras wonderful? No worries about how much film the kids waste. They took about 200 pictures in two days, most of which I have since deleted.

Random November Pictures

Trick or Treating

Isabella as Ariel the mermaid, Hunter as a power ranger and our neighbor as Ironman. I don't think Hunter even knows who or what a power ranger is.


Sabrina as Tigger. She really enjoyed trick-or-treating this year. Because the weather was so warm we were out for a long time. After awhile, I was tired of walking up to every house with her, so I offered her a tootsie pop from her basket. She didn't go to a single house after that; she just wanted to eat her sucker.

Mommey with Tigger and the Power Ranger.

Tigger, Ariel and G.I. Joe

In typical Hunter-fashion, he took his costume off when we got home and refused to put it back on. I took a picture of him anyway.

Tigger was fascinated with all of her "loot".

The Finished Products

Pumkpin Carving, Wilson-style

Isabella and her friend carved this pumpin all by themselves. Brett enjoys carving pumpins a lot. He pulls his designs off the internet.

I was a bit surprised that Brett let Hunter carve his own pumpkin. I was also surprised that Hunter carved the pumpkin without loosing any fingers.

Orion cleaned out all of the pumpkins. He got way too much fun out of playing in the pumpkin guts.

Sabrina just walked around blowing bubbles and looking cute while everyone else carved pumpkins. She is really good at looking cute.