Halloween

I love Halloween. It's a great holiday because the girls get to have at least 3, sometimes 4 opportunities to get dressed up and get tons and tons of candy. Both Abbi and Reese had school parties, there was the ward trunk or treat,

( My camera struggles with the indoors at night, so sad),

and of coarse Halloween itself. Oh, and the gym.

Brynn was old enough to care this year, and she was so excited to run around with her sisters to trick-or-treat yelling "treat", and "thank"! Abbi couldn't decide whether to be a good witch or a bad one, so she settled for both. She was a bad witch, with the green face and all that fun stuff for school...no pictures of that of coarse. But then being a good witch won out for her because she was able to wear make-up, and the girl loves her some make-up. Reese was set on being a dog again, like last year, and I was completely fine with that. She was dang cute! Brynn will probably want to be that dog someday also. I had two costumes for Brynn, and I thought she made a funny rat, but I LOVED making her a princess, so that won in the end.

I thought she had some tooth problems for a second, but then realized I just caught an awesome shot of half eaten donut.

Getting her to stand still was, well impossible. So I got an action shot instead.

Reese loved getting her face painted, and Abby Judd did a really good job.

Reese!

These last two are my favorite pictures of the girls. Brynn just started cheesing it when I take pictures of her, funny girl.

Family pictures

  It's amazing how fast a tan can fade when you are not in the sun all day everyday.

  Melissa was so nice and took pictures of every family that went to the family reunion. Here are some pictures from our shoot. Thanks Melissa!

  This is my favorite of Reese and Andy. She had a temp of 103 that whole day, and the only person she would smile for was Andy.

Oh, the beach...

This is how she really felt that day.

 Soo sad!

This is for sure my favorite picture of us together! Look at that smokin' hot guy being devoured by large curly hair...or framed by hair I guess you could say. Ha ha. 

Cute Abbsie. Up close you can see her freckles, and I loves her cute freckles. 

Is Brynn laughing or crying, I don't remember, but getting her to look at the camera was pretty much impossible. I thought this might help...nope, guess not.

The Barron's. I love this family, what a lucky girls I am to be able to kick it with this family for a week on the beach!!

My Reese B

   The many faces of Reese! She a passionate kid, and she is constantly using her face and those eyebrows to describe in detail some story. These pictures are from our camp out in August. They were taken by Melissa, and I LOVE this mini photo shoot of just Reese! 

       She has SO much personality crammed in that tiny body...can you tell?

Preschool

Reese actually started preschool on September 1st, but I'm a slacker. It was pretty funny, I took the pictures of her on her first day, way more than Abbi would let me take of her, and then when I went to drop her off on her second day of preschool she stood by the door and waited there. I asked what she was waiting for and she looked at me like I was slow, and responded, "aren't  you going to take my picture?" Luckily I still had my camera with me so I snapped a quick shot of her. So here is Reese's 1st and 2nd day of preschool.    

Just because

Brynny is such a good helper. Who needs a sponge when you have 2 perfectly good hands.

Any excuse these two jokers have to get a swimsuit on, and they are there. I love it!

I had to capture this hair. Reese inherited my hair, the funny faces are all hers though. 

Big 1st Grader

Abbi has Mrs. Hall for 1st grade this year. She has been so excited about starting ALL day school since before kindergarten, and the time has finally arrived. I so did not expect the wave of emotions that gripped me for most of the day. I was on the brink of tears all day long! But she's the first one gone, ALL DAY LONG...I can only imagine how I'll be with the last. 

It's not always easy to get a picture of Abbs, so here are the precious few that I did get. She was not into smiling because she has a bandaid under her nose from a nasty                                                                                                                   scrap, and it hurt to smile.

When asked about her favorite things of the day she told me the lunch room is awesome, she got 3 recesses, and she made a new friend. Then she added, her words not mine, "It was my lucky underwear. I wore it today and I was brave and made a new friend." I had no idea that she had lucky underwear.( Goes to show how well I know my own kid.)

Camping in Cali!!

      We went to Ventura for a week for the annual Barron reunion, and we had so much fun!! I have a hard time widdling down the favorites, so here are about 20 of my favorite pictures from our trip.(I don't know how to do the cute collage thing that I have seen people do) We were extra excited because Andy had work, and wasn't able to come, but last minute plans changed and he was able to go, yeah for us! As a quick recap here are some highlights, and sad times from the week. 

            

Highlights... 

-Going to the beach almost everyday.(i miss the beach!)

-Brynn figuring out how to sleep with tons of noise REALLY quickly!

-Hanging out with family for a week, and having NO serious disagreements.                                   

-Watching the kids chasing after waves, digging for sand crabs, boogie boarding, playing in the sand, climbing the tree, playing just using their imaginations, etc...all the cute things the kids said and did.

-The yummy food, and donut store!( The list could go on)

           

Low points...

-Brynn falling off the rock jetti and punturing the back of her head on a rock!

-Reese waking up with a 103 temp, and being down and out for a day and a half.

-All of my girls getting a nice throaty cough, and keeping them for a whole week!                                              

But all in all, super fun trip, and I LOVE the Barrons!!! 

                                       This was our tree in our camp. Very fun for the kids.
                                              Papa is kid of a magnet for kids...can you tell?
It's great that Kael enjoyed his food enough he had to get every drop. I wish my girls ate that well!
              It was funny how many chairs we had around the campsite. This is only about half.
                                             All of the kiddos got cute sunglasses.
Funny that we are at the beach and bundled up. You gotta love central California, and that marine layer. We really had lots of warm days at the beach, but the kids didn't care either way.
                                                     Cute Aiden and Brynny playing.
                                  The kids had one day when they wanted to bury everyone. 
                        Reese and Emma. These two played together a bunch during the week. 

                                                   Lexi, Audri, Abbi, and Alyssa
This was Brynn's bad day. I love the bandage around her head. I had to get a picture of her with it on because it only lasted for about 10 minutes, it just kept sliding off.
Kiley, Tristan, and Brynn making bags for an easter egg hunt. Eatser egg hunt? Why not, we had tons of fun activities for the kids.
                                       Reese, Abbi, and Emma ready for the hunt to begin.
                                                             All 17 kids that were there.
Melissa was so nice and took family pictures for everyone. We took a few with our camera also, until we get the nice professional ones. 
                                            I LOVE this picture of Brynn! She is one funny girl.
Me trying to play photographer. Melissa usually doesn't get family shots because she is the photographer, so I took some of her family. Andy thought it was funny that even after the family shots I still took all of the individuals of her kids even though she was available. So he took some pictures of me taking pictures of them. 
                                         Nana and Papa, and all the grandkids.