Family Picture Day!

This morning I corralled the family for a fun morning of family pictures! haha! sounds fun, right? Well, it wasn't so bad. Especially since the kids took most of the pictures. We had to start early since Eric had to leave for work and I wanted the sunlight to be just so (to be able to use the location in our field I had scouted out. ) It was the first time I got to test out my new wireless remote for my camera so we all got to take turns with it. I think the kids got a kick out of that! Here are a couple from this morning...and when you get our Christmas card you'll get to see another ;)

Weekend with Jacob

This last weekend was a fun time for the kids. Taylor got to spend two nights with Jojo & Daddy Jack and that meant Jacob got some much needed one on one time with us! I know Taylor had a blast making cookies with Jojo, watching movies and having tea parties. Jacob and I got to play (a lot!), he learned how to swing on his tummy, and on Sunday Eric and I took him to the farm to do some fishing. Here are some pictures from Jacob's weekend...

Happy Halloween

We had a great time trick or treating this year for Halloween. We loaded the trailer up with hay and invited some friends in the neighborhood for a trick or treating hayride. It's the only way to do it in our neighborhood! The kids had a blast and were so cute in their costumes. Taylor was Angelina Ballerina this year and Jacob decided to go as a "2 year old boy" this year after refusing to wear the dinosaur costume HE picked out! Oh well, he had lots of fun once he figured out that he was getting candy at each stop!!

Jacob...and one of Tay

Dewberry Farms

We took a little family trip to Dewberry Farms last weekend. If you have not been there, you should definitely put it on your list of 'things to do'! I had wanted to go for several years, but they are only open to the public on weekends and, until this year, Eric was working on the weekends. Now that he's home with us Saturday and Sunday I get to plan fun family outings for us!
So, we packed up and went to the farm. The kids got to feed goats, visit with animals in the barn, go on a "corn train", walk through the corn maze, visit the pumpkin patch and much more! We had as much fun as we could until they were worn out and it was time to go :)

Some Fall Field Pictures

If you follow my 365 blog you're getting this twice, but I wanted to post the kids here too...since this is our"official" family blog :) haha! Anyway, here are the kiddos from today.

Sweet boy!

Taylor's first day!

Taylor had her first day of pre-k today. She was very excited to go and has been asking me all summer when it would be fall so she could go to school. Today was a "gradual entry" day so the parents got to hang out in the class for a bit and then have a parent meeting before picking the kids back up and having an early dismissal. So, we were only there for an hour and a half but I know that she will really enjoy it this year!

They also just started a MDO program at her school so Jacob may get to start going once a week, too!

Happy Birthday Jacob!

Bedtime stories

Realized that I haven't posted anything on this blog in many months since I've been posting everything over at my 365 blog. http://sweettea365.blogspot.com So here's one of the kiddos getting ready to read Peter Pan for their bedtime story. I love how they'll just sit and listen to a story, even without pictures :)

Favorite January Face

This is my favorite face photo out of my 365 project for January. Enjoy!

365 Project

I may be a little more delinquent in posting here (as Becky likes to say :) ) this year. I am going to attempt...or should I just say, "I am going to DO," a 365 project. This basically involves me taking pictures every day of the year and posting at least one. I started the blog sweettea365.blogspot.com to post these pictures to. I wanted a clean slate to start with and a place that I know needs a blog post every.single.day.

Okay, I am scaring myself now. But I really want to do this and I know that it could tremendously improve my photography skills just by being behind the camera every day. I'm also interested to see just what I capture each day and what ridiculously high percentage of them are my children. So, tune in to the 365 blog and hopefully you will get more frequent updates from our family than you would over here.

I will still be blogging here by the way, to give more in depth updates on the Magnolia Alarids. Here's to a great year!!