Fall Fotos

Yep.... that time of year again. Instead of school pictures each year, I've taken my kids pictures. This year Elizabeth said, " Mom, why can't we just get the school pictures like everyone else?".  Wonder if they'll resent me for it. Ha! So..... here are this year's:

Liz:

 Caroline:

Cooper:

Isabelle:

Charlotte:

And a few "outtakes" :

Film makers in the making

One Sunday we didn't have family dinner with the rest of the clan so the kids wanted to make a movie. They decided upon Cinderella. They did pretty much everything, I just videoed it for them. I thought it was so clever and cute. They will love watching it when they get older, well, the love it now.

Elizabeth was the evil step mother-

Caroline was Cinderella-

Cooper, was of course, the handsome prince-

 Bella and Charlotte were the evil step sisters-

Quite  the cute cast if I do say so myself!

School

Well school did start, even though it seemed like this day would never come. Cooper was a little excited and a little nervous. He said he didn't want to leave me, so for the last few weeks before it started I kept telling him how fun it was going to be.
The girls were excited and ready. Elizabeth asked if she could kiss me before we got to the school. I guess we're reaching that point, but I was just glad she would kiss me at all.

 Cooper had half day Kindergarten so he didn't start until after lunch.

We took him into the school and waited while they talked to them about a few things, then they got up to walk to their classes. He turned around and waved to me and it melted my heart.

 The afternoon was pretty calm with just Charlotte and Bella. We read books, had lunch, took a walk and then went to the end of the street to wait for the kids at the bus. They all came off happy and had a great first day!

Jumpoline

Charlotte calls the trampoline the "jumpoline".  She loves when Brian jumps her high on there so I had to capture a few shots. Love her expressions.

The rest of summer

Here is the rest of summer in no particular order:


Time at the playground at Grandma and GranChud's:

 A ride on the horses at the farm (aka Grandma and GranChud's):

 A lot of trampoline time. Love this one:

Cousin sleepovers:

Outside time with chalk:

An FHE lessons prepared by Liz and the cousins:

 

Good ol' just being outside together:

Reading

A little naked reading time? Sure. Why not?!

A little heaven on earth

Summer can be a little overwhelming with all my sweet little stinkers. They all want to go do fun things and I do to, but by myself it just sounds like too much work. We've gone to the park a bunch and played with cousins a lot, but we haven't made many day trips. Today I was ready to head out and I looked up online trying to find a place we could go play for a few hours. I came across Merli-Sarnoski Park.

 This speaks summer to me. I love it!

The first time we went, there were only 5 other people there. It was like we had the whole place to ourselves. The kids were in heaven and I was enjoying myself too, so it was a win win. Before the season was over, we went 2 more time. Unfortunately I didn't find out about it sooner, so our time was limited. We did make the most of it and made sure we got Brian up there too. I feel like it was a little secret that we found. Beautiful!

This is probably one of my favorite pictures of my kids together. Love the fun of summer through a child's eyes.

Picture Fun

So I had this picture idea in my head for a while of one I wanted to do of Bella. She was actually pretty excited about it and it worked out pretty much how I had envisioned it, and that's always nice.
Here are a few of my favorites:

 Then I figured since it was boy stuff, I better get some of my boy. Loved ho these turned out too:

 Elizabeth wanted to jump in on the action which I was more than happy to do. Hers were a little more pop and playful:

Then I had to get a few more of just her cuteness and not her silliness. I love both sides, so I had to capture both.

Always fun for me to take my kiddos pictures. Maybe one day they'll appreciate it.

Summer Rain

 Oh how I love a good summer rain! As do the kids. This day the older three ventured out. It was fun to watch them enjoy being kids and just playing in the rain.

Some played in it......

Some of us just watched them play.....

Bella had fun riding her scooter on the porch. How I love a porch too!

And Charlotte drew with chalk and I caught some of the cutest faces. Love her big brown eyes and round little cheeks!

 Gotta love this one! Good times!

August- Lake House

August started off great with a trip to the Seneca Lake house again. We had such a great time last year that we had to go again this year. We didn't have the Bells with us this year, but we did have Patrick join us so that was fun. It was basically more of the same. Swimming, food, games, bubbles, tag, canoeing, movies, talking, just good fun! This was such a fun weekend and great people to spend it with!