Thursday, November 14, 2013

Christmas card pictures, 2013 edition

This weekend, Anna and I took the kids to the trail so I could take their pictures for our Christmas card. (I always ask Anna to come if she's able, because she is SO good at making the kids laugh and smile!) I had a vision of what I wanted the pictures to look like, but . . . that didn't quite work out, ha ha.  And as usual, we got some silly pictures, but we also got some really, really good ones this year! Here are some of my favorites. Enjoy! :-) 




















Friday, November 8, 2013

Happy (belated!) Halloween

Last week was Halloween, and the kids had a lot of fun deciding what they wanted to dress up as this year. Thankfully, we spent less than $10 on costumes this year! Oliver wanted to be a spy, which was easy since he already had camouflage pants, Buttercup wanted to be a cowgirl, and Theodore ended up wearing two costumes that we already had from previous years. :-)

At some point, we realized that this was the first year that Buttercup chose to dress in a girl-specific costume -- in previous years, she was a lion, a robot, Thomas the Tank Engine, and Luigi (from Super Mario Brothers).  Ha ha!  




The kids decorated foam pumpkins with Halloween stickers and glitter this year, and I love all of them, but I think my favorite is this eyeball-covered pumpkin that Theodore decorated! He loved the googly eyes and he even found an eyeball sticker to add to his decorations! 

 We also decorated more mini pumpkins. This one of Buttercup's is my favorite -- it reminds me of a globe. :-)


And we also made mummies out of mini pumpkins. I think they came out really cute!