Brothers

Here they are together - these were the hardest to get (only way 2 turned out!).  They would just start goofing off and not pay attention to us and just to each other.  Athough it would have been pretty cute in other situations - it was a little frustrating that night!

Borne

Borne did pretty good the entire time we were there although he was more interested in the fish in the pond than anything.  And we often would get a big cheeese with teeth tightly clinched - still working on a natural smile from this one too!

Can you tell this is ornery face.  About 2 seconds after she took this he fell backwards into the flowers.  Good call on her part to put him in front of the flowers and not in front of the fish pond.

Ian

Here are some of the fun pictures she got of Ian.  You would think that it would be harder to control Borne at a setting like this but Ian was our challenging kid this night.  Lucky Becky the photographer was able to use her skills and get him to look natural (in a few!).

Family Pictures

We took some family pictures at the beginning of August for a couple of reasons.  1) One of our favorite photographers is moving to Denver so we wanted one last session with her. 2)  I thought it would be nice to have some family pictures before this baby comes in February.  3) Because I like to have a night of stress, anxiety, and 2 boys that do not like to cooperate - so a wonderful night for Chris (ha ha!).

We got some great pictures - even if there were two parents trying with all their power to make their sons sit, smile, no not fake smile, stop touching him, etc, etc!!

I look a little shell shocked in this picture - I must have been ready for the night to be over with!

Watch for more to come of just the boys!!

My nightly view

Almost every night for the last week or week and a half has been spend outside for us. The weather has been absolutely beautiful. I love the cool breeze. Being able to sleep with my windows open is my favorite part of fall. I'd love for this weather to stay around for the next three months!

I Love Sharpies!

So for the couple of weeks I have fallen in love with using the ultra fine sharpies. I've always used sharpies but the fatter ones. I got an ultra fine black and loved it. Then the following night we went into hobby lobby and you can buy individual colors (and they were 30% off!). And there are a.ton of them - all kinds of colors! I got five colors but I'm really wanting to go back and get more!

Fun at Allison & Brad's mini-farm.  You can read more about their mini-farm here.

Borne had fun playing in the yard.  This picture is so true to Borne's personality.  It's like to turned at the last moment to look at Chris and say "What do you want?  I'm playing!"

Kael also enjoying the little outdoor playset that Willa very nicely let all the kids play on.  Such a sweet boy.

And a little fun would not be complete without Chris doing something.  He thought he would try and help Allison and Brad get some basic cable.  He's on his way down in this pictures.