Kai's Reward Party

We promised all the kids they could have a party if they were good while we were gone on our cruise. The bribe included things like doing homework, not crying and whining, and being happy at other people's houses. Well the reports were all good, so this week we threw Kai and the girls their parties.

Kai wanted a Star wars Party; he invited friends over after school for pizza and a Star Wars movie. They didn't know a surprise guest was coming though...

  We also invited a special stormtrooper to the party. wink wink It was awesome, the kids loved it! I don't know how we'll ever top this at another party, but it was sure fun. Yes, his vest is on backwards, we think he was just in a big hurry to get to the party before it was over! ; )

Wallace and Grommit

These two are such knuckleheads! They have such a special bond even though they are 3 years apart.  Most days they are best friends, they do everything together, and are so cute and kind to each other,  but the have their moments. Some days I have to keep them separated all day because if they get within 5 ft of each other they will start to fight. Can you tell what day this was?!

At Long Last....

Pictures of Kai! It's been a long time since I've done Kai's pictures, he is such a handful. He is my poser, which is nice considering the other option is him moving 100 million miles/hr! Yet, I have to work so hard to get anything natural out of him. I can photograph any kids in the world, but he is my ultimate challenge! Today went well though, he did really good and we all had fun!

Coming next...Pics of all 3! We did that today too, I thought I was going to cry! haha

Halloween

Since I already had a sitting at the pumpkin patch I told Jeremy to dress the kids up in their costumes and bring them on over. My kids lasted about 5 minutes in front of the camera before  they couldn't wait to go pick out their own pumpkins! We had a fun day carving pumpkins with Jeremy's siblings; I'll post pictures of our carved pumpkins later.  

Meet: Iron Man and Cinderella!

Look at those muscles!


Isn't she the cutest princess ever?

Nikon Babies

Kai has been asking me lately if he can take pictures and since our simple point and shoot is broken I thought I'd let them have a go with my back- up camera. They had so much fun. I can just see future photographers in the making! : - )

This is my favorite of Natalie; she never figured out how to look through the viewfinder, but she knew she was supposed to have her face on there somehow. Look closely and you can see both her eyes looking at me!

Kai concentrating hard to get a picture of a grasshoper!

Say Cheese!

Natalie working the flowers.

Looks pretty good!

And... one quick shot I grabbed when they were done: Natalie "niffing" the flowers.

Natalie's First Haircut

I think Natalie liked her first haircut, although she is making silly faces in all the pictures. She was pretty excited about it when she was all done though!

Her hair was filthy so we had to wash it first. She did better with that part than I thought she would, she just had this cute, little scared smile the whole time. It took 2 booster chairs to get her high enough to reach the sink.

I never actually got pictures of Kai's first haircut, so I figured I would do some of him too while we were there. He's a pro now; I actually had him go first so Natalie could see what would happen.