Fast paced Fall

I don't even know why I'm typing this right now, because I should definitely either be in bed or editing some images, but I hate being behind on our own family's pictures and and blog, so here it is.

I was just confirming a session for next Friday when I realized that next Friday was Nov.1st!  seriously?  It's no secret that our Fall has been busy and I was admittedly pretty melancholy when I realized that it's almost over.  But then - I pulled up my cell phone pictures and opened up my "October" family photo on our computer and realized just how much we have done!

We've been to a Yale Football game and had pumpkin beer.

 I flew with Eloise to TX to be a bridesmaid in a dear friend's wedding:

Andrew showed this to Adalyn and she said Mommy was a princess....awwwww

We started Eloise on Baby Lead Weaning since she won't take purees:

I packaged a million  bajillion prints for clients in our living room.

Went to our church Fall picnic (in the rain, but hey) where Adalyn had her first pony ride. (by the way, these 2 images are from Andrew's iPhone which takes waaaaay better quality images than my Andriod in case you're in the market)

And found the time to take images of my big girl after a playdate at the park one day.  We have a giant wall space above our couch in the playroom and I cannot make up my mind what to do with it, but I think I'm going to make one of these BIG  :)

"Adalyn, you can't have ice cream if you don't sit still for one minute and let me take your picture".  For real. 

ahhh the "cheese" face makes it's appearance.  hehe

But then I got this:

And just this Sunday, we had out "Fall family fun day".  We were supposed to go real pumpkin and apple picking at a local farm, but a conspiracy by our 2 little girls in which they were both up one after the other ALL Saturday night, lead us to just choose the easy Stew Leonards pumpkin patch and hay ride.  It was enough.  Definitely enough.

And the light was SO beautiful Sunday evening and since it was my day off and I didn't have a session, we stopped at the local park to take a few of the girls and went on a family run.  It was just about 3 miles and I realized that whoah, I can't run like I used to.

 


I took the cutest pictures of Eloise IN a carved pumpkin.  You'll have to wait for those, but here are the cell phone pic "before"s.

Yesterday, as part of a Newcomer's group in our town, we went to an outdoor Halloween party.  Yes, the girls are mermaids, though I kind of slacked on putting the costumes really together.  Oh well.  Still cute.

Don't think any words are necessary here, except that I am so, so proud of how brave she is.

And then just this morning, we went to an Enchanted Castle with our other playgroup.  This of course meant missing CBS, but man, she had such a good time.  I only wish she was more familiar with the Disney movies...will have to work on that.  ;)

Oh, and how I forget this gem:  On our way home from the Enchanted Castle, we were stopped at light right in front of Wendy's.  Without hesitation, Adalyn said,

"I need to go to the chicken nugget house pleeeeeease!".  How could I deny her?