Hal-LOW- een 2014!!

 Happy Halloween! Pumpkin Time. Luckily I'm allergic to pumpkin innards. I get a rash. All you hon. :) I get stuck with the carving.

Oh Zach. Love you.

The annual pumpkin head picture.

It all started with another of my "last minute" fun mom things. I should really learn to plan! Justin had to go buy white bread...from the gas station(!)...to fulfill my desires to be cool. Store close to early here for my last minute personality. I think we made french toast from these. It was so long ago! But yes, we did. I remember it being a bit tricky to keep the puzzles together! Looks pretty cool though! It was also tricky to make a sandwich from. Ha!

Easy and fun!

And dinner aka appetizer to a candy-ful night. Its supposed to be "Candy Corn" pizza. With different color cheeses and sauce. :) Nice try at least. 

These girls! They LOVE Halloween mostly so they can wear make up and it scares me! They look too grown up and beautiful! Here we have Elsa and Anna...pretty original! Bet no one else thought of that! 

I didn't make their outfits, but I did make her cute little hair piece. :) She really wanted to be the "Coronation Anna."

And Elsa. Addie was so into their roles that for 2 weeks she would run around the house looking for "My Elsa" and "Coronation." She called Kara "Elsa" and Kate "Coronation" (because she had the dress Anna wore to the Coronation Ball) all the time. It was hilarious.

The cold never bothered her anyway!

Cutest little gum-chewing Anna.

Blurry, but this girl loves her "Anna Braids" and her outfit isn't complete without them. She lived in this dress for weeks before and after Halloween. 

The 3 Amigas.

 

The Storm Trooper will protect the princesses. We had AMAZING weather on Halloween! It was still very warm!

He had to do a tough guy pose.

I even dressed up as Super Mom with my backwards cape, feeding a baby, AND passing out candy one-handed! I nursed AND passed out candy. Kinda embarrassing because right after Justin left with the kids 3 teenage boys came to the door and I was nursing. Hopefully they knew I was just in my costume as Super Mom.

 And then there is this cute guy. :) Cutest little pumpkin head. He got to stay with me and pass out candy while Daddy took the kids around.

Getting bigger! He is 8 weeks here.

Are you kidding me?!! Perfect action shot. Clean shirt, spit up coming right out! He got a little to excited. This kid always pukes. LOTS.

Before and after. HA!

Awesomely scary 'vintage' mask Cynthia wore when she answered the door to the kids. HA! Kate wanted to have a try.

 Spooky! Happy Halloween!

(See the glowing hands in the background??! Yikes. I forgot about that and then just remembered one of Kate's glow sticks leaked and got her hands all messy!

Family Pictures!!

On Canadian Thanksgiving we were able to get our family pictures taken! Don't worry...our photographer was not ripped away from her delicious dinner. Canadians RARELY do it on the real holiday! That's when you have to travel home since it is on a Monday! Anyway...I was so excited to get some pictures taken...even though my jeans didn't fit yet and were held together by Justin's belt and my bangs had just been chopped a wee bit too short. I really wanted a nice picture of nice weather that included us all. This also kinda made up for not getting professional pictures of Everett done earlier and I wanted one of each of my kids to hang on the wall. I REALLY wanted those gorgeous fiery trees captured and in my home!!! Loved all the color. And luckily I had just gotten the kids new school clothes so we all had something nice to wear that went together. Yay for that! So thank you so much Ashley for taking our pictures on such short notice! Literally like 24-48 hours!! :)

I was nervous about if we got any keeper pictures because my kids were being so silly! And Everett was crying a bit, I had to nurse him partway through and I couldn't help the girls do their real smiles. And Addie was especially hating the camera and attention on her. She wouldn't even smile! Tough egg to crack that night. So weird because she is such a happy girl, but a bit shy I guess! Anyway, I was SO pleasantly surprised when we got them back! I LOVE the kids pictures! Even Everett finally calmed enough and we got some great ones of him!! So cute! So I suggest Ashley Bennett Photography. She works wonders and is the sweetest girl on the planet! Seriously, after hearing her talk to my kids and comparing to how I talk to them I made some resolutions. :)

Ha ha! Oh Addie.

This was my fave!!! Our Christmas Card.

 Love these sibling shots!

She is such a little dolly. My mom calls her a cream puff. :)

 These girls are getting too old and gorgeous. ALMOST 6 YRS OLD here!

 And I LOVED the sun glare effect in this picture! It was kinda a scattered cloudy day so it was hard for her to kept he right settings Ashley said, but I love this! So beautiful! She looks so sweet and angelic. I need a picture of that! ;) She is a sweetheart and a good girl, with a HUGE personality. 

This girl has GREAT hair.

 Another reason I really wanted pictures when we got them was because of this adorable toothless grin. I love it! It had to be documented.

I love this one too. One to remember my tiny soft fuzzy boy by.

I LOVE this brother shot. I am so glad Zach finally has a brother!! 

AND I love that my labor of love blanket made it in. I crocheted that blankie throughout the summer for Everett. :)

And these beauties. Wish Addie would have joined for a sisters picture, but we had to leave it as a twin picture because she was being 2 and refusing to join in.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU ASHLEY!